Wow. This is cool. Maybe the could use same system to automatically alert NZTA about where all the potholes are on the roads are as well. - NZ, Greece first countries to get Google system that turns Android phones into earthquake sensors nzherald.co.nz/business/news/…

If the vaccine was dangerous they would've given it to poor people first, not politicians and billionaires.

Great list of new fellows including recognition for sustained excellence in signal transduction research for Debbie Hay Congrats to all

Queenstown Research Week has the green light for 2022 facebook.com/264741532187/p…

If Canada can do this why can’t our govt do it. Science has gone many extra miles to support the govt Covid efforts and at the moment the govt is ghosting NZ science.

Peter Shepherd's team conducted a study in indigenous peoples of the Pacific islands, examining the role of a genetic variant of CREBRF, known to have an impact on #BMI. They find that the variant results in lower #myostatin levels. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau ➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Well done Waruni’s for new paper showing new mechanism regulating insulin secretion that’s now online - β-cells retain a pool of insulin-containing secretory vesicles regulated by adherens junctions and the cadherin binding protein p120 catenin jbc.org/article/S0021-…

Big congrats to Hannah Burden who passed her PhD viva. Great project with ⁦Troy Merry⁩ looking at how CREBRF gene variant affects glucose metabolism. Need to plan big party for the lab esp as 2 more PhD exams coming up in next few weeks.

Dr Vahid Seyfoddin finally graduating from lab today after several ceremonies delayed by COVID. His thesis studies provided great new insights into the genetic drivers of glioblastoma.

And Karla (from Brazil as he is showing on the map for those of you not good at geography) also finally gets to graduate today. Congratulations on all you great work in our lab and with Jo Perrys group looking at the role of Growth Hormone in melanoma.

Honor to be present at very impressive professorial inaugural lecture of ⁦Rinki Murphy⁩ at ⁦Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences UoA⁩ last night. Definition of tour de force. ⁦@athattersley⁩ ⁦Dave Grattan⁩ ⁦Troy Merry⁩

Please RT. Senior Lecture/Associate Professor position Auckland Nutrition Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences UoA . Would suit a wide range of reseach expertise broadly within the nutritional sciences/metabolic signalling/metabolic disease space. Happy to talk about the opportunity (DM me) jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityO…

Today at opening by Gary Evans @mbiesci of fantastic new R&D facility at visionary Douglas Pharmaceuticals. Amazing facility tour & to meet highly skilled workforce incl fully hazmat suited guy operating-multimillion dollar medicines production machine while photo bombing me

Great to present our labs genetics studies ⁦⁦Malaghan Institute⁩ today. So stimulating to talk with so many highly motivated staff and students, it’s an awesome research center doing cutting edge stuff in so many areas.

Our paper out now in Mol Cancer Therapeutics describes some novel combinations of old drugs that look promising to treat BRAF mutant colorectal cancer. Great work from Khanh Tran and great to see some media coverage. Now to find funds for clinical trial. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

It’s been a long time coming but our paper showing long term beneficial effects of inhibitors targeting PIK3CA is out today. Awesome effort by Chris Hedges ⁦who did most of work and lead by ⁦Troy Merry⁩ with input from many other NZ researchers. nature.com/articles/s4358…

I’ve read a lot about this place, excited to visit for the first time.

Great meetings in Samoa this week with Prof Satu Viali from Oceania University of medicine and Health Minister Luapitofanua Toogamaga Tafito Selesele to progress collaborative research programmes to deliver better metabolic health outcomes using precision medicine approaches

LLMs now write lots of science. Good economist.com/leaders/2024/0… from The Economist This is not good economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Our report published today finds a variant unique to but common in (MAF 0.15) Polynesian people in SLC22A3 associates with low plasma lipoprotein(a). Highlights importance of genetics in diverse populations to achieve equity in #precisionmedicine. portlandpress.com/bioscirep/arti…