How can cell atlases of human tissues support drug target discovery? In a joint effort between Teichlab @Sanofi and Ensocell we tested whether info on cell type specific expression from scRNA-seq is associated w targets of clinically successful drugs medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).

I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London

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I am excited to share my most recent work from Iain Cheeseman’s lab, in which we harness context-specific genetic requirements to identify a new regulator of cohesin and genome integrity! Please join me for a 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔈 I’m now Interim Head of CellGen programme Wellcome Sanger Institute where Mo Lotfollahi has officially started as group leader 🎊

Join our team to use Human Cell Atlas datasets and ML/AI to create foundation models

Deadline 14/04, pls share tinyurl.com/2p98cz8s

Supermalt Papi is now Dr Supermalt Papi!!!

Really proud to have successfully defended my PhD!

My lab is hiring a postdoc! We use state-of-the-art genomics, single-cell and spatial approaches to explore cancer initiation and evolution. Come join us at MD Anderson Cancer Center! Please share and RT.

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Look how Diane was welcomed. Politically in UK, I would be delighted if independent, deeply community linked candidates, could start to be cultivated.

Academic workplaces are still failing Black women; they must do better: Professor Nicola Rollock nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is the culmination of the decades-long dehumanisation of Diane Abbott in British political-cultural life. To stand up and be completely invisiblised, whilst
her own party discuss death threats against her, knowing they care nothing about her safety, is surreal to witness.

📢WE ARE LIVE! 📢RT

We Wellcome have launched the #AcceleratorAwards ! This is funding to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to advance their careers to the next stage.

Find out more and apply by 18 June 🗓️⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

Representatives of the NIHR Newcastle BRC Skin Disease, Oral Disease & Immunogenomics theme presenting key outcomes including PPIE engagement, fellowship outcomes & research developments in an interactive session at Celebration of Newcastle BRC Research Excellence today. #BRCresearch

📢 Glad to share our piece 'AI and the democratization of knowledge' Scientific Data. Data is the new oil—ripe for reuse. But what does it take to reuse? it's about making data interpretable by all, including AI, the ultimate non-specialist! #OpenScience nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our lab is actively recruiting a #postdoc to work with #zebrafish & sea #lamprey on the #genetics of vertebrate brain cell evolution!
Based at UCLA, collaboration w/UC Berkeley.
Job Description & Application Details available at TorniniLab.org. Reach out w/inquiries!

Starting this #IWD 2024 warmed by this beautiful tapestry illustrating the varied professional talents and achievements of Black British women 😍

Thank you Black Ballad, & happy 10th birthday 🎊

#BBxGoogle #IWD #IWD 24

I love love love love love that Big Manny is out here as a scientist and speaking like he does in Black British English sprinkled with Jamaican Patois!

📢We are hiring 2 #Postdocs to lead new research projects: 1 with expertise in #bioinformatics ( #transcriptomics or image analysis) 1 with expertise in hiPSCs and #organoids Funded for 3-5 years.
More information & instructions for application➡️ shorturl.at/sIQU9

Guys, my mum runs a small food bank in Peckham every last Saturday of the month from 12-3pm. Particularly with west african food, please share for whoever it can reach❤️.

Fantastic feature on the one and only Professor Cassandra Extavour Cassandra Extavour Harvard University HHMI NEWS in Quanta Magazine

'A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity'
quantamagazine.org/a-multitalente…

A big thank you to Haniffa Lab past and present Wellcome Sanger Institute Newcastle University NIHR Newcastle BRC & EFIS British Society for Immunology

I wrote on why we should all be worried about the latest policy updates from Arts Council England.