SquiggleNet, from Emily Bao, Josh Welch & co, a method for classifying Nanopore reads direct from their electrical signal. This is faster than basecalling + alignment, so allows realtime analysis on a laptop. It needs no reference database. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'm looking to hire a full-time Research Assistant for my team at Mater. A broad molecular biology skill set is a must. Happy to answer questions about the role on DM or email. Please RT. tinyurl.com/4tv6vtf7

Had a blast at the Lorne LorneGenomeConferenc Saw heaps of amazing presentations and had some great chats! Also very excited about this😀

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity!

Had a wonderful conversation with Madeleine King MP about various things, including: the importance of relations between Researchers and Policy makers, how to tackle imposter syndrome, and the importance of diversity. Thank you Science & Technology Australia for such a wonderful opportunity #SmP2022

Is L1 retrotransposon activity in the brain specific to only some neuronal lineages? Check out our new preprint👇where we find L1 is activated by the SOX6 transcriptional program of parvalbumin (PV) GABAergic interneuron development. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to be starting my own group as a joint appointment between the mRNA hub @BaseDna and AIBN Research. We'll be focusing on engineering next generation mRNA vaccines and therapeutics!

Working with Oxford Nanopore modified base call data? Consider methylartist: github.com/adamewing/meth…. Appilcations Note online now at academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…. Many thanks to Seth Cheetham and Michaela Kindlova.

Great to contribute to this paper describing Adam Ewing's tool Methylartist. Methylartist enables easy visualisation of modified bases from Oxford Nanopore reads. It can generate a variety of visualisations including ridge, violin, locus and chromosome plots.

Top HiFi, middle Duplex Kit14, bottom ILMN.

Congratulations to Alex Carleton Alex Carleton on a stellar Honours thesis defence! Alex did an incredible amount of work in 10 months in my lab, establishing the basis for an exciting PhD project. #ProudPI #imnotcryingyourecrying Mater Research UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Geoff Faulkner

So proud that my first PhD student Robin-Lee Troskie just passed her thesis defence with flying colours! Robin-Lee was an amazing student who made huge progress in understanding human pseudogene functions. You can read part of her work here: tinyurl.com/yf5nf64j Congrats Dr!

🚨I am recruiting for a fully-funded PhD position to work at the interface of #mRNA and cell therapies. You will join a passionate team at the AIBN Research and Bas Edna mRNA facility. If you are interested send me an email or DM. Please retweet! graduate-school.uq.edu.au/project/mrna-e…

Imprinting in placenta via nanopore. Worth a read if you're into that sort of thing! Gratitude to all involved, foremost the co-lead authors Michalea Kindlova and Hannah Byrne (no twitter afaik). Many thanks to QLD Family Cohort for making this possible. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very nice to show you around 😀 And unexpectedly (and sadly) tricky to talk science in my native tongue !

Ohio cryptic lineage update. We’ve made no progress identifying the individual, but we have learned a few things. 1/

so glad that our endless discussions about the nitty gritty of CRISPR screens resulted in this awesome paper - congrats omer and everyone in The Dawson Lab nature.com/articles/s4159…

If you use a "Random number generator" aka Nanodrop to spec your DNA/RNA, some advice: 🧬Measuring DNA/RNA in H20 = highly inaccurate/variable values. 🧬Purity ratios of samples below 20ng/ul are not reliable. NEB dived deep into when it becomes limiting: neb.com/en-au/-/media/…

Excited to share CpGPT, a new foundation model for DNA methylation, crafted to understand the 'language' of epigenetics! 🧬🤖 What’s CpGPT? CpGPT is a transformer model pre-trained on CpGCorpus, a huge dataset of public DNA methylation info. By integrating sequence, positional,