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New Snow Fellow: A/Prof Loïc Yengo's expertise in statistical genomics and human genetics is at the cutting edge of understanding how genetic variations influence health, offering new insights into disease prevention and treatment. Read more: tinyurl.com/2j3zckr9 UQ News

Are you interested in developing powerful predictive models from genomic data? Are you Bayesian-friendly? My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to develop polygenic risk scores that generalises better across ancestry groups.

Congratulations to Dr Sonia Shah (@ScientistShah) on receiving the prestigious Australian Academy of Science Ruth Stephens Gani Medal for her contribution to research in cardiovascular genetics 🎉

Abstract deadline closes in under 4 weeks on May 1st. Come and join the over 150 people who have already registered. Please spread the word as widely as you can and check out our list of confirmed speakers: icqg2024.ista.ac.at/contributed-ta… #icqg7

Postdoc position to join my new group Oxford Psychiatry and Big Data Institute. UKRI funded "CHECKPOINT: Finding immune & metabolic pathways to SMI" led by @edbullmore, direct supervision from Mary-Ellen Lynall collaborating with Andrew McIntosh . my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

One of the most prestigious conference in quantitative genetics is happening in Vienna this summer with a superstar-packed invited speaker lineup: icqg2024.ista.ac.at

Our SBayesRC method is now published in Nature Genetics! SBayesRC is a full Bayesian method for polygenic score prediction that can analyse all common variants jointly with functional annotations in a single step. Zhili Zheng Institute for Molecular Bioscience nature.com/articles/s4158…

We had an overwhelming last minute flurry of abstract submissions (>100 just yesterday). So we have extended the deadline to June 2nd. We will begin screening the abstracts we have - so expect notifications and a program soon - but there is time to get your abstract in.

We hope to see you today for a must-attend Members' Meetup with Dr. Zai. Link to attend: ispg.net/members-meetup… #psychiatry #pharmacology

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, Christopher Yau, てん etc, Denmark ads soon

Prof Ian Hickie: busting the myths around depression rnz.co.nz/national/progr… Always a pleasure to talk with a great host - who shares his own (treatment & family) experiences; and asks questions that others wish they could ask! The Mental Elf Beyond Blue Mental Health Australia RANZCP

The amazing Cecilia Lindgren steps down as Director of Big Data Institute. She stays on as a group leader while pursuing exciting new avenues. Big thanks for all she has done (a lot!!) led by Sir Rory Collins and Richard Cornall. Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Nuffield Department of Medicine

The 23rd International Gene Forum 2024 will take place on September 24th – 25th, 2024 in Tartu, Estonia. The keynote speaker will be Stephen Kingsmore, president and CEO of Rady Genomics. Read more about Gene Forum 2024 at geneforum.ee

Super-excited to be leading this new initiative with Preben Bo Mortensen Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @DrEEGabriel14 Cecilia Lindgren Chris Holmes Peter Visscher. Many 🙏to the Danish foundations for the funding vision. 10+ jobs advertised - work with leaders in stats, causal inference & machine learning

Still time to apply for the SMARTbiomed postdoc/assistant prof jobs based in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Oxford - causal inference, risk prediction, machine learning in applications for any common complex disease. At Oxford work with any group leader Big Data Institute, Oxford Statistics .

Attention ISPG #WCPG2024 attendees! Can your research answer our questions for #RDDepression? Connect with #RDDepression Advisory Council member & Plenary Session II Chair Naomi Wray to find out more about the journal and our question-led approach. bit.ly/3Y5lnTI

Excited to share the paper: Huntington's disease is a DNA process for almost all of a cell's life. Inherited HD alleles are innocuous, just unstable – CAG repeats slowy expand throughout life. We call it a "ticking DNA clock". cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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