Generation Scotland (Generation Scotland) are halfway to recruiting their target of 20k new volunteers! Read more here: ed.ac.uk/centre-genomic…

Delighted to share the first paper from Hannah Smith's PhD project. Out today in Clinical Epigenetics, she looked at protein EpiScores in relation to cognitive ability/decline, brain MRI and incident dementia outcomes across Generation Scotland and The Lothian Birth Cohorts

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Congratulations to former Edinburgh Cancer Research PhD student Jasmin Paris on being the first female ever to complete the grueling Barkley Marathon in Tennessee, USA.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

The first EEF1A2 Community Conference was held this month, hosted by Cathy Abbott at Institute of Genetics and Cancer and organised by PhD student Heather 🧠.
Read more here: ed.ac.uk/centre-genomic…

Very excited (and nervous) waiting for the first ever community conference for EEF1A2 #RareEpilepy . Huge amount of work by Heather 🧠

#GettingGenomeMe – Genomics Researcher Profile

Click below to hear from Postdoc Eleanor Conole
who is using genomics and AI to understand chronic inflammation and brain ageing. Read more here: onehealthgenomics.ed.ac.uk/eleanor-conole

The Lothian Birth Cohorts Edinburgh Neuroscience School of PPLS Institute of Genetics and Cancer

📢 Did you know osteoarthritis affects more than 7% of the world's population? That's more than the entire USA!

Join us at OARSI to learn about how zebrafish is innovating the research on Osteoarthritis.
#OARSI #ZebrafishScience #Osteoarthritis
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BLOG: 'I realise that over the years, particularly in the 80s and 90s, women were mostly not considered seriously for senior academic positions.' Read 'Professor Caroline Hayward: An interview celebrating 45 years of service' here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-gene…
#IWD #WomenInSTEM

Vacancy - Research Technician

Sara 💙💛 🇺🇦 is recruiting a research technician to join her team at Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine Institute of Genetics and Cancer. Professor Brown's research group aims to understand the genetic mechanisms leading to atopic eczema.

Read more here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Welcome to Versus Arthritis Fellow Erika Kague, who has recently joined Institute of Genetics and Cancer to start her research group investigating the role of osteocytes in bone diseases using zebrafish and cell culture.

Read more here: ed.ac.uk/centre-genomic…

QuPath powers on with international recognition, awards, workshops and support from Institute of Genetics and Cancer. Read more and watch the latest training workshop recordings here > ed.ac.uk/centre-genomic… Pete Bankhead QuPath

Learning QuPath but can't relate to tutorials where everything goes right?

Join Laura Nicolás-Sáenz PhD for a more realistic experience - where the consequences of one wrong click lead to frustration & suffering... and then on to deeper knowledge

#bioimageanalysis #digitalpathology

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Pre-print alert! Elena Bernabeu finds that a blood-based DNAm EpiScore (trained in over 16,000 volunteers from Generation Scotland) correlates ~0.4-0.5 with self-reported alcohol consumption in four external cohorts.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

As it's #RareDisease Day this week check out this new paper in our #RareDisease Special issue from Cathy Abbott & co Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine SIDB where they developed a mouse model carrying a pathogenic E122K mutation that recapitulated patient phenotype
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17…

We just hit 10k new Generation Scotland volunteers! 🥳

In 2023, our volunteers contributed to research into depression, childhood trauma, diabetes, epigenetics, ethnic inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic and morning sickness!

Help us hit 20k: gen.scot 🧪

#GettingGenomeMe – Genomics Researcher Profile

Click below to hear from PhD Student Barry Ryan who is developing tools to integrate multiple genomic datasets. Read more here: onehealthgenomics.ed.ac.uk/barry-ryan

🧬Ian Simpson👨🏼‍💻💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 MarioniGroup School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Cancer Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine

New paper:

Epigenetic Contributions to Clinical Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine Institute of Genetics and Cancer Usher Institute EdinburghCRF 💙 MarioniGroup Lee Murphy Andrew McIntosh Generation Scotland Aleksandra Chybowska Danni Gadd Elena Bernabeu

Read more here: doi.org/10.1161/circge…