Huge congratulations to the new Dr Cosmin Tudose for an excellent PhD achievement. And many thanks to the examiners LJ Russell Lab David MacHugh and chair David Gomez for putting him through his paces Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT

Gratz to UCD College of Health & Agricultural Science UCD School Ag & Food #AnimalScience student Dermot Kelly for 1st Prize in the TCD TCD Genetics & Microbiology #GenomicsMedicine MSc 2023-24 class. This follows Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT PhD student John Francis O' Grady who won in 2020-21 🧬😀🏆👍🧬

The day has arrived! We are thrilled to kick off our research symposium “Irelands Future Food Systems”. Delighted to welcome UCD VP for UCD Research Kate Robson Brown to deliver our keynote address.

Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

🧵1/2 The Guardian columnist who wrote yesterday's op-ed about Trump's executive order reached out to me Friday morning for some "expert commentary." TLDR: I provided her with plenty of scientific evidence/argument/detailed commentary in answer to her questions about Trump's

I’ve seen my share of anti-science activists. But few are as dangerous as Vandana Shiva. She brands herself as a "food sovereignty" advocate. In reality? She’s an activist spreading misinformation about GMOs, pesticides, and modern agriculture. Here’s the real story 🧵: 1/

Gratz to #KevinDaly UCD School Ag & Food, UCD College of Health & Agricultural Science, and UCD Conway Institute for this exciting Science Magazine #paleogenomics and #PopulationGenomics study on the origins and dispersal of domestic sheep. This work was led by Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social TCD Genetics & Microbiology. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Great to see the Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (#FarmGTEx) Project perspective article published in Nature Genetics. A fantastic #livestock #FunctionalGenomics project led by Lingzhao Fang at Aarhus University. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled to share that The Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project perspective paper is out ⁦Nature Genetics⁩. Thank all the authors for the efforts and supports. Looking forward to seeing amazing science coming from this initiative. nature.com/articles/s4158…

1/ A study by Dr. Peter Hotez and colleagues estimates that over 200,000 Americans died needlessly during the COVID-19 pandemic—due to vaccine refusal fueled by disinformation. This thread breaks it down.

Fantastic work John Francis O' Grady - and thanks to our collaborators Lingzhao Fang, Animal Genomics ETH Zurich, Claire Gormley, and #SteveGordon

Structural variants are important! However, genotyping them accurately remains a challenge. We've sequenced 120 bulls with HiFi reads to investigate the contribution of structural variants to complex traits. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thread: Multi-omics sounds cool—until you actually try it. Here's are the nuances. 1/ You’ve got RNA-seq. Methylation. Proteomics. Time to “integrate” the data. But how? And why? Let’s break it down.

Excited to share #AlphaGenome, a start of our AlphaGenome named journey to decipher the regulatory genome! The model matches or exceeds top-performing external models on 24 out of 26 variant evaluations, across a wide range of biological modalities.1/6

1/ Tucker Carlson: “Do you think overall the COVID vaccine killed more people than it saved?” RFK Jr: “The truth is, I don’t know.” This is outrageous. I do know. The answer is: unequivocally no. 🧵

⚡️Thrilled that #VirtualLab is published in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… We created a team of AI agents to mirror my Stanford lab🤖. Led by a PI agent, the AI scientists ran their own group meetings and discovered effective binders to new CoVID variants that we validated.

Our new #FunctionalGenomics study of #trypantolerance in African cattle. Great work Gillian McHugo & collabs inc. Séamus Mac an Bháird Kieran Meade, Emmeline Hill Tom Support: We are now Research Ireland UCD School Ag & Food UCD Research One Health Research Genomics Data Science - SFI CRT UCD Conway Institute doi.org/10.1371/journa…