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Well deserved joint Christmas dinner of HighlanderLab and Pocrnic lab 🥳🎄🎉

🎄 Celebrating a great end-of-year party at ILRI.org's Kapiti Ranch with the Mazingira team! 🌿 Big thanks for your dedication in 2023. Here's to impactful work in 2024! 🌏💚🎉✨ #MazingiraTeam #ILRIKapiti #LookingAheadTo2024

New pre-print: “Plant breeding simulations with AlphaSimR” led by Jon Bančič and Philip greenspoon, @ChrisGaynor11, and Gregor Gorjanc. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A short thread with highlights.

We welcome alexander lipka for a sabbatical at our lab at The Roslin Institute . He took an obligatory photo with the founder of our The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies school:)

Data Quality Improvement workshop at ILRI.org going strong on day2. Dr Mwai opened the session and Jennifer Volk CTLGH The Roslin Institute is leading the workshop. Great engagement and positive attitude from AADGG stakeholders across Africa. #rstats #Python #DataScience #SDGs

We just completed Armidale Genetics Summer Course on “Theory and Tools for Designing Breeding Programs of Animals and Plants”. jvanderw.une.edu.au/aabc2024.htm

Ok Tweeple! If you are interested in doing a PhD with me and Prof Mike Coffey Mike Coffey #phenotypeisking https://t.co/1ZZ2FBBs at SRUC and CTLGH Have a read. Fully funded PhD 3 years hosted at Edinburgh, UK. Pls RT. #rstats #python #DigitalTwins PhD opportunity on FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectde…

⏰🧬💻🌾Join us for the next #CGDG seminar on 19/03 at 3PM UK time! Prof Seth Davis (Uni of York) will talk about "Functional data analysis of time-series data; application to QTL mapping of circadian rhythms" 🌗🌱 Email us ([email protected]) to get access.

Great to see #SRUCResearch with partners from ILRI.org and farmers on the ground in Africa featured in this Gates Foundation story on great people doing great things. gatesfoundation.org/ideas/partners… CTLGH Mike Coffey #phenotypeisking https://t.co/1ZZ2FBBs

Dr. Ivan Pocrnic, a Researcher at Roslin Institute, will present a seminar on April 12th, 2024, at 1:30 PM EST on “Making big data small and small data big: the story of genomic dimensionality”. For details check: cgil.uoguelph.ca/events/2024/04…

Today, we are announcing winners of African Biodiversity Fellowship for Emerging Genomics Leaders 2024. Fellows will spend 1 month in an African institution & 3 months at Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA. Genomic Biology University of Illinois

The human chromosomes are numbered incorrectly (The fourth in an irregular series of threads about #Bioinformatics.) As most people know, 22 of our chromosomes are numbered from longest to shortest, plus we have X and Y... 1/6

GENOME TECHNOLOGY ALERT: Today, Inqaba Biotec and the University of South Africa (UNISA) announce the acquisition of Africa's first PacBio Revio sequencing technology. Click to read more about this press release: africanbiogenome.org/2024/07/17/inq… Unisa inqaba biotec

Our recent preprint on "High quality genome assemblies of African cattle breeds " lnkd.in/eFgdmDNM . Using PacBio HiFi sequencing, we generated de novo genome assemblies for five indigenous breeds: Lagune, Gudali, Iringa Red, Singida White, and Mpwapwa.