No wonder BA.2 is causing so much transmissibility trouble — ~175,000 nasopharyngeal samples analyzed for viral load — BA.2 nearly twice as much as BA.1 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are you doing RNA-Seq analysis? Want to use the #Cloud but unsure how to start? Then join our free intro workshop for #Genomics on the #Cloud! Examples drawn from long read RNA-Seq analysis in this iteration. June 22-23, 11am-2pm SGT both days Register at tinyurl.com/genomicsintro

A comparative study of flow cytometry‐sorted communities and shotgun viral metagenomics in a Singapore municipal wastewater treatment plant Wiley Microbiology Xiaoqiong Gu onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Coming together for an Intra-CREATE workshop were researchers from #SCELSE, SMART, NUS & E2S2 for a discussion on sewage-based #surveillance in Singapore on 11 Aug 2022. The event ended on a high with a lab tour at National Environment Agency led by SCELSE alum, Martin Tay. #collaboration

Join our next free intro workshop for #genomics on the #cloud - with #singlecellgenomics examples, which can really benefit from scale and elasticity in the #cloud. Friendly timing for Middle East, E Europe to W Australia! 21-22 Sep 2022 @ 2-5pm SG time tinyurl.com/genomicsintro

First findings of a fun new collaborative research direction for our team, together with MIT's Pete Dedon. This part impressively spearheaded by Wei Lin Lee.

Scientists spend too much time taking “professional selfies”. A paper from PNAS describes what it takes to be a scientist today. Key points (that I always emphasize myself): #AcademicTwitter Academic Chatter™ #research

#SCELSESeminarSeries is back with a bang with Prof Eric Alm from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA as our first speaker. He will be presenting some of his human microbiome research. Mark your calendars for 10.30am, next Thursday! See you there. #talk #science

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it. But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.* Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

Happy to share our publication on #wastewater surveillance for the best recovery workflow of spiked arboviral/murine hepatitis virus RNA signals in wastewater! Great work by Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology SCELSE Wei Lin Lee @m475 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Delivery of therapeutic molecules is a major bottleneck for treating a wide range of diseases. Today we describe a new modality for delivering proteins based on an engineered contractile injection system @nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

We have been renewed for Phase 2, which goes until the end of 2027, and I am hiring. If you are looking for a #postdoc role in #Singapore and interested in + have some skills for developing technology for medical diagnostics, send me your CV! Aiming for papers, patents + products