
Dr Sam Washer
@samwasher2
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute developing CRISPR Screens for Alzheimer’s Disease 🧬 Part time jazz-man/baker/gamer. Views my own.
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15-12-2012 21:12:05
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Position available at Exeter Med School to work with on alternative splicing and epigenetic modifications in models of Alzheimer's disease pathology. Exeter Neuroscience jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui… Please RT!

#DataScience #PhD opportunity for quantitative student looking to apply their skills to big biological datasets. Be part of the @GW4BioMedDTP Exeter Med School and Jonathan Mill exploring methods to computationally derive cell-type specific epigenetic profiles to understand



1 in 3 names are missing on the #Lionesses shirts tonight, representing the 1 in 3 of us born in the UK today who will develop dementia. Tonight’s match was dedicated to Alzheimer's Society, raising vital funds to those devastated by dementia. Donate now: alzheimers.org.uk 👈



Come hear Marta Pérez Alcántara presenting on how we're mapping sceQTLs in iPSC-derived microglia to interpret neurodegeneration GWAS variants. Starting soon: 11:45am Ballroom A. A collaboration with Open Targets #ASHG2023

Microglia NLRP3 inflammasome 'DUBbed' by UCH-L1 zhu liang Andreas Damianou Frederik Heymann Lassen Oxford Discovery Proteomics Tao Dong Group Ricardo A. Fernandes Ed Tate Centre for Medicines Discovery CAMS Oxford Institute Oxford Drug Discovery Institute Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Big Data Institute Centre for Human Genetics Dunn_School (now @DunnSchool.bsky.social) Nuffield Department of Medicine biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to see this work from my Postdoc in Andrew Bassett's lab at Wellcome Sanger Institute finally out in the world! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… we found an AD-associated variant in PTK2B that actually has a causal effect on chromatin accessibility, gene expression and microglial function


If you are at #ADPD2024 in Lisbon come see our posters of our studies of DNA methylation meta-analyses in Lewy body disease led by Josh Harvey and Jennifer Imm, and spatial transcriptomics in the J20 amyloid model led by Millie Sander



We're back in the studio today, recording a podcast with Alexi Nott 🏳️🌈 Josh Harvey Sarah Marzi Dr Sam Washer & hosted by Fiona McLean. Can you guess the topic?

