Congratulations to our Director, Sara Wells, who has received an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024 for services to medical research! har.mrc.ac.uk/news/dr-sara-w…

The MRC National Mouse Genetics Network is sponsoring 2 fully-funded MRes studentships, working with Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell to develop new data analysis pipelines to analyse datasets in disease models of obesity! 📅Closing date: 10th July 2024 👉Find out more and apply here: generationresearch.ac.uk/mres-studentsh…

***NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR POSTGRAD RESEARCH*** 4 fully funded 1 year Masters by Research opportunities 2 x Chemistry 2 x Data Science in Disease Models GenerationResearch provides funds to widen access to careers in science across all STEM disciplines. generationresearch.ac.uk/phd-and-master…

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre Professor Cathy Fernandes MRC National Mouse Genetics Network Anthony Isles Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging kcl.ac.uk/jobs/091046-po…

A great chance to work with Cathy and join the Network with all its opportunities. Apply now!

Only 5 days left to apply for these funded #masterbyresearch #studenships from Generation Research to work on biomedical dataset in collaboration with the Network and SoniaBains at Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell. Apply today! generationresearch.ac.uk/mres-studentsh…

Improving laboratory animal genetic reporting: Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell's head of Molecular Cell Biology, Lydia Teboul, is a corresponding author on the publication of the LAG-R guidelines, which aim to bolster reproducibility, reliability and scientific rigour. nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/improving…

🎤A great keynote lecture from Ashi_W from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who told us about her team’s exciting work on the ageing tumour microenvironment Thanks to MRC National Mouse Genetics Network for sponsoring this talk!

Great to have the opportunity to talk to the #CNGG Summer School in Brain Disorders attendees about preclinical genetic mouse models, the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network and all things #MURIDAE 🧠🐭🧬

Many congratulations to our Director Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈 for being elected to the EMBO Membership in their 60th anniversary year! nmgn.mrc.ukri.org/news/our-direc…

A new paper in LabAnimal from Dr Ben Davies describes a method to reduce and refine the use of mice when producing genetically modified mouse models, using sterile hybrid male mice generated by breeding two wild-type mouse strains: nature.com/articles/s4168…

Applications for our Spatial Biology Data Challenge, in partnership with MRC National Mouse Genetics Network, are now open! Collaborate with and compete against teams of data and cancer experts to overcome the challenges of using large-scale spatial biology data. Apply by 16 September.

🚨RTs please🚨 Apply to join our spatial hackathon, full details below and the call is looking for applicants across a range of computational, biological and clinical disciplines. 👇👇

We are seeking a Data Steward to join a new team within the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network. This is a fantastic opportunity to build a strong skill set in data interoperability and data modelling required to link diverse datasets at scale. Apply by 18th August: mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/…

MRC National Mouse Genetics Network and Cancer Research UK are inviting multidisciplinary data and cancer experts to join their data challenge and use large-scale spatial biology data to further cancer research. Express your interest for the free residential event t.ly/SrOO4

Traditional short-read sequencers have limited our ability to fully characterize how GWAS variants exert their effects on gene expression regulation or alternative splicing in response to pathology, particularly by inaccurate detection of splicing 1/8

Emil Gustavsson Orjona Stella Taso Hannah Macpherson Prof Richard Unwin Juan A. Botía Carlo SF S.Wells UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UK Dementia Research Institute Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell MRC National Mouse Genetics Network Preprint is here: Long-read transcriptomic identification of synaptic adaptation to amyloid pathology in the App(NL-G-F) knock-in mouse model of the earliest phase of Alzheimer’s disease biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ICYMI check out this #RareDisease special issue of DMM edited by MRC NMGN Congenital Anomalies co-lead Karen Liu:

Check out our editorial on the value of sharing unpublished data with the community journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17… S.Wells Dr Debora Bogani (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 Owen Sansom 🏳️‍🌈 The Company of Biologists DMM Journal Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell

The Network's hub developing new advanced technologies for deep phenotyping of mouse models. Exciting new development for all of us!