
James Ashcroft
@jamesashcroftmd
Wellcome Sanger Clinical PhD Fellow
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23-09-2017 13:06:53
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Delighted to receive the Levy-Plumb Fund for the Humanities grant from Christ's College to travel to China to explore rich traditions of porcelain En route to Shanghai 🇨🇳



Ever wondered about placental responses to #infections during #pregnancy? SO excited to see our collaborative work with Regina Hoo Iva Kelava on early placental responses to #infections out in Cell Systems! roser Wellcome Sanger Institute A🧵(1/n)👇 cell.com/cell-systems/f…



Check out our new pre-print on genetic and environmental factors influencing DNM rate and spectra! A great collaborative work between me, HwangSeongwon, Hilary Martin, Raheleh Rahbari & Aylwyn Scally biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


Women are born with all their oocytes, which need to stay viable for decades to ensure fertility. How are they maintained for that long? Our latest research in Nature Cell Biology reveals that oocyte maintenance involves exceptional protein longevity. nature.com/articles/s4155… (1/9)


🚨Free for 1 month: Revealing gene function with statistical inference at single-cell resolution go.nature.com/4eMji6A #Review by Cole Trapnell UW Genome Sciences

🚨𝐇𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐛 job opportunity UC San Francisco 🚨: I'm hiring TWO postdocs - an experimentalist and a computational biologist. Join us to use cutting-edge single-cell and spatial technologies to unravel the mysteries of human tissues. opportunities.ucsf.edu/content/open-p…


Excited to share our paper, on efficient variance-component estimation in ARGs, following-up on method developement by Ali Pazoki and Sriram Sankararaman and my PhD work. We introduce ARG-RHE to estimate narrow-sense h2 and perform region-based association testing using an ARG.

Feeling inspired and energised by the ambitious collaborations driving global health advancements and promoting science equity at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Cell Science meeting in beautiful California Deeply grateful for all the support from CZI CZI Science Wellcome Sanger Institute


Arrived at the European Conference on Computational Biology in Turku, Finland! 🇫🇮 Erick Armingol Sarah Teichmann opens on the future of human cell atlases #ECCB2024 #ComputationalBiology Turun yliopisto - University of Turku ECCB2026 Geneva, Switzerland Wellcome Sanger Institute


A step-by-step protocol for cell-cell communication analysis using #CellChat v2 (github.com/jinworks/CellC…) is now available at Nature Protocols. We greatly appreciate the users' support and suggestions that help us to update CellChat since it was published three years ago!



🎬 Os presentamos a Ana Paredes, Ph.D., ganadora de la 25 edición de los #PremiosFundaciónPfizer, en la categoría de investigación básica. 👩🔬💬 “Este premio supone un impulso y refuerza mi motivación para seguir mi carrera científica” youtube.com/watch?v=RZX6-V…

