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Is there a future for Mendelian randomization? 10th March 11.00 Canadian time, online and in person McGill University, I'll discuss this and why, if I had been better read, I would have used the term "meiotic randomization" rather than "Mendelian randomization" in the initial papers

Hear from experts at EMBL about the latest cryo-CLEM techniques, Cryo-EM, sub-tomogram averaging, 3D volume imaging & applications in research. Learn more in our free on-demand webinar, "From Bench to Beam." Watch now: fcld.ly/hefi6t9 #CryoCLEM #StructuralBiology #EMBL

🧠🌍 It’s #BrainAwarenessWeek! 🌍🧠 This week, we celebrate the incredible work being done by neuroscientists at EMBL Rome. Their groundbreaking research is unraveling how the brain develops and how its circuits are formed and maintained. Read more ⬇️

Say hi to Dr Mikhail Savistki Savitski Lab joining our SAB. 📍Senior Scientist EMBL 👨‍🔬Thermal Proteome Profiling 🏆2024 Proteomics Scientific Discovery Award Human Proteome 💡Supported by Mikhail, we will push the limits of pharma #proteomics! #Biotechnology #TeamMassSpec

Jo McEntyre will step into the role of Interim Director of EMBL-EBI, as Ewan Birney transitions to a new position as Executive Director of EMBL following Edith Heard’s upcoming departure. ebi.ac.uk/about/news/ann…

Did you know that EMBL Hamburg’s Sample Preparation and Characterisation Facility SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @EMBL Hamburg @EMBL offers scientists access to almost all available biophysics technologies? Find out more at: embl.org/groups/sample-…

We’re thrilled to announce that the EMBL-EBI Thornton Building has been officially opened by Lord Vallance of Balham, the UK’s Minister for Science, Research and Innovation. We hope it will be a space where collaboration, translation, and science can thrive! 🌱

We announce changes in EMBL leadership as Edith Heard steps down as Director General. EMBL will be led jointly by Peer Bork as Interim Director General and Ewan Birney in a new role of Executive Director until the appointment of EMBL’s next DG. embl.org/news/embl-anno…

Our Highlights report is out! Explore major milestones & upcoming projects: 🩺New tools for understanding genetic variants linked to disease 🌽How ancient DNA can provide solutions for food security 🎒Why the AI revolution hinges on accessible training s.embl.org/2024-EMBL-EBI-…

This Het Parool interview came out on the same day my new son was born :) It's about our new Nature Human Behaviour paper on SES and genetics, summarized in the thread quoted below. Here is an English translation of the interview: drive.google.com/file/d/11mrYHg…

🤔 How do genes & environment interact to shape complex traits? Our preprint explores this using a powerful model: medaka! 👉 full story: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Work led by @SaulPierotti&me, from Ewan Birney& WittbrodtLab labs together with Naruse& Loosli groups! 1/4

The latest version of Kasumi is now published in Nature Comms nature.com/articles/s4146… Kasumi identifies patterns in tissue patches enabling analysis of disease progression and treatment response while providing insights into spatial coordination at cell-type or marker level

We are pleased to present a position paper outlining EMBL’s recommendations for European Commission’s upcoming Strategy for European Life Sciences. Our recommendations span several interconnected areas, such as research infrastructures, data resources, & AI. embl.org/news/embl-anno…

Heart disease is the world’s leading killer, and tackling it demands decoding the gene networks driving disease progression 🫀 Learn how researchers used Medaka fish plus high-throughput heartbeat imaging to build a biomarker toolkit for early screening. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congratulations, Jan Korbel! As Peer Bork and Ewan Birney step up to lead EMBL until a permanent EMBL Director General is selected, we are pleased to announce that Jan Korbel will take on responsibility as Interim Director of EMBL Heidelberg. embl.org/news/embl-anno…

Looking forward to being educated in Quantum Physics by one of the leading Quantum Physicists in Europe/the world (and a Quantum Computing expert) ... but in an accessible manner ... at the Royal Institution 5th June

The end of the coal era in Ireland, as the country ends coal use at its last coal power plant! Coal phase-out has been accompanied by a growth in wind power, which currently amounts to 33% of Ireland’s electricity, second in Europe only to Denmark. irishtimes.com/environment/20…

New preprint - collab with the groups of Matt Hurles and Abdel Abdellaoui. We imputed missing fluid intelligence test scores into ~170k UK Biobank individuals & showed how this increases power for rare+common variant analyses. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nanopore duplex sequencing reveals patterns of asymmetric states of 5hmC and 5mC in the medaka brain genome. #AsymetricMethylation #5hmC #5mC #MedakaGenome #Nanopore #LongRead #Sequencing bioRxiv Genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…