Our 9th podcast is now available on Citizen Sounds: Dr Cathryn Lewis discusses research looking into treatment resistant depression. Leicester's Research University of Leicester NIHR Evidence #CitizensOfChange #NIHRLeicesterBRC UoL Press Office

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Our 8th podcast is now available. Listen to Dr Alex Williams, talking to Prof.Turi King about a pioneering study of over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels: citizen.le.ac.uk/podcast/unders…
Leicester's Research University of Leicester NIHR Evidence #CitizensOfChange #NIHRLeicesterBRC

Exciting opportunity University of Leicester for a project manager to join a great team funded by the Wellcome Trust exploring research culture.
Information/apply ➡️ jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9746…

The next podcast in our series is now live!
G. Andre Ng tells us about the development of the P-STEP app which aims to help those with long term health conditions get the maximum benefit from exercise.
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🚨 #MyScienceJourney Webinar Alert
🎙️ Prof. Dickson Andala (Prof. Dickson Andala).
🏛️ CEO, National Research Fund (NRF) (@nrfkenya)
🎓 Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry,
Multimedia University of Kenya
📆 March 15, 2024
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The 6th podcast in our series is now live! Matt Bown discusses his research into improving the screening process for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and how EXCEED participants contributed towards this research.
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Abstract submission for the SASHG 2024 Conference is now open!!

Join us this year as we get 'Future ready: growing genomics in Africa'.

Click the link in the bio or below to submit your abstract: scatterlings.eventsair.com/sashg2024/abst…
#sashg2024 #sashgcongress2024 #genetics #genomics

Delighted to announce my friends and I are organising a 'Human Pangenome Variability' symposium at the #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta 🇲🇽. We have two excellent invited speakers Arang Rhie and Erik Garrison. Submit your abstract by March 15th! All info at smbe2024.org

Currently advertising for a 3-year, Wellcome Trust-funded post-doc position at UCL: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
aiming to disentangle the interplay between environmental pressures and our epigenome -- please inquire and/or pass along!

Our population genetics PhD summer course Population and Statistical Genetics Group at UCPH Globe Institute is now open for registration! Featuring lectures & talks by Garrett Hellenthal
Martin Sikora, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Cindy Santander, @[email protected], Ida Moltke,Anders Albrechtsen. For more info: website.popgen.dk/summer/

Our 5th podcast is out today, this time from Julian G Barwell. Prof Barwell discusses non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and how data from EXCEED helped with this research. #CitizensOfChange #NIHRLeicesterBRC
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🚨 Webinar Alert
🎙️Speaker: Dr. Oumie Kuyateh(Dr Oumie Kuyateh, PhD)
🔬 Excellence Fellow, Wellcome Sanger Institute
🎓 Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
📆 March 1, 2024
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Still time to enquire/apply for #Lecturer in #statisticalgenetics University of Leicester
Closing date 11 March. SEGEG: South of England Genetic Epidemiology Group #Jobs

#PLOSONE : Frank Dudbridge proposes an objective framework for statistical evidence, including the first logical argument for p<0.05 as a significance threshold dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

We have three positions open in the Tree of Life Assembly team Wellcome Sanger Institute Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme working on biodiversity genome assembly for Darwin Tree of Life, European Reference Genome Atlas, Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), Earth BioGenome Project.

We’ve launched a #podcast series. Prof.Turi King hosts all 10 episodes and talks to a range of researchers who have used EXCEED data in their research. The first three episodes are already live, with a new one landing each week:
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Martin Tobin University of Leicester

Registration and abstract submission for SMBE 2024 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is now open! 🎉 This year we offer discounted rates for LMIC 🌎. Submit your work before the deadline: March 15, and register before May 9 to enjoy Early Bird rates. #SMBE2024 👇smbe2024registration.org

Only a few days left to register to #EMBOpopgen in June - see below! Enza Colonna Andrea Manica

We will be selling delicious cakes, baklava, samosas, onion bhajis and more (including chai!)!
If you're unable to make it but would like to donate to our fundraiser, here is our JustGiving link: justgiving.com/page/medracefu…