Thinking about a PhD in medical biology? Keen to use your mathematic/programming/bioinformatic skills to help the humans at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)? Us too! Get in touch! wehi.edu.au/student-resear…

I have up to 2 year contract opportunity for an experienced Bioinformatician at CSL R&D ... Ideal candidate must come with PostDoc experience in omic data analysis and exp design and is located in Melbourne, Australia. If interested, feel free to DM me. #opportunity #iworkforcsl

After nine months of uncertainty I'm extremely happy to say that I have been awarded an Australian Research Council #DECRA #DE22 ! Thank you to everyone who provided feedback, reference material, and moral support 🙏

For all you R peeps that are into the analysis of highly multiplexed cytometry images, I'm excited to share the preprint of lisaClust, our analysis workflow for quantifying tissue microenvironments. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Did we all fell that shake? Geoscience Australia has reported a magnitude 6 earthquake occurred near Mansfield, at a depth of 10 metres. We will have more updates as they become available. Contact VICSES News on 132 500 if you need assistance.

That was a depth of 10 kilometres.

Our new paper is out in RNA! Exciting work led by Brendan Ansell with input from Roberto Bonelli, Jacob Munro & @trashystats (new lab head at WEHI in brain cancer bioinformatics!) and Simon Thomas. 1st time analysis of RNA editing in brain at sc level with insights for PWS.

I'm hiring Research Scientists in DeepMind to work on the intersection of ML, science and healthcare. Apply for the @DeepMind RS role and express interest to work with me here: deepmind.com/careers/jobs/4…. My DMs are open, so feel free to reach out to me if you have questions.

WEHI has partnered with leading science and technology company Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany on a drug discovery campaign to find new cancer therapeutics. (1/2) wehi.edu.au/news/internati…

New Bahlo Lab paper RE detection tool paper describing SuperSTR. Led by Liam Fearnley, with Mark Bennett: Detection of repeat expansions in large next generation DNA and RNA sequencing data without alignment disq.us/t/49jjti2 Hope you find it useful!

Excited to share our new preprint article! We discovered a novel GAA repeat expansion in the gene FGF14 in an Australian cohort and validated in a German cohort. This expansion turns out to be a surprisingly common cause of adult onset ataxia!

New preprint up from our team about our discovery of a novel GAA repeat expansion in FGF14 as a common cause of adult-onset ataxia. Very excited to have this work out there🎉🧬 Haloom Rafehi Melanie Bahlo Liam Fearnley

This was a great project! An amazing team to collaborate and work with, and another great opportunity to bring #bigdata to bear on a medical research question. Coverage Gizmodo here: gizmodo.com/a-person-who-l…

The bioinformatics community in Melbourne has lost an amazing, kind-hearted friend and colleague - Nick Wong AU/MEL. My 💔is broken with the sudden passing of my friend, cell biology/biochem lab partner, + GigaByteJournal Editorial Board member. Rest in peace, Nick ❤️😔

Dr Nicholas Wong Memorial service. Thur 16 Feb, 2pm - 4pm. Glasshouse, Olympic Park Oval, Olympic Blvd, Melbourne VIC 3001. There will be light refreshments after the service. Pls spread the word. #notonlyabioinformatician.

We are informed of an interesting seminar at Stanford: hai.stanford.edu/events/yoav-sh… The title: "Understanding understanding" would probably trigger sparks of curiosity among readers who subscribe to our formal definition of "understanding" (capability to climb all 3 rungs of ladder).

Yep. We felt it too. More information coming shortly #earthquake

In an #Earthquake (and any aftershocks) remember to ‘Drop, Cover and Hold On’ More info here ses.vic.gov.au/plan-and-stay-…

“Library size confounds biology in spatial transcriptomics data” finally out in Genome biology! TL;DR - LS normalisation is bad for domain identification. - Exercise caution in adapting scRNA-seq methods to ST - New normalisation methods needed for ST rdcu.be/dE93v