
Dr Alex Butters
@alexbutters25
Lab Manager, Clinical Genomics Laboratory @GarvanInstitute | MPH PhD | Health Disparities in Genetic Heart Disease and SCD
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05-10-2017 01:15:14
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TNNT2 c.571-1G>A is exactly the type of variant which has so often been mistaken for a genetic cause of HCM. For more, check out this deep dive into its population frequency in Oceania (preprint) from A/Prof Jodie Ingles and Dr Alex Butters Garvan Institute of Medical Research. bit.ly/Butters-Ingles

A really great piece on our recent preprint out in STAT Thanks to Andy Joseph 🙏 Daniel MacArthur Kate Thomson Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox Dr Alex Butters Garvan Institute of Medical Research x.com/statnews/statu…

Updated preprint is now up. A bit more data and some new authors! Thread below if you haven't seen this work yet 👊 Kathryn McGurk James Ware medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited that James Ware will be visiting us in Sydney (ahead of ICCG conference, Brisbane) in a few wks! Huge thanks to the UNSW Medicine & Health CVMM for funding this. Register to join in person or online, Mon May 6, 3-4pm at Garvan Institute of Medical Research unsw.edu.au/medicine-healt… Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute


Who else is excited about #ICCG24 in Brisbane in a few weeks? We have some brilliant sessions planned. Inherited arrhythmia syndromes? Got you covered - Elijah Behr Rachael Stiles Chai Ng Elizabeth Paratz CSANZ Not too late to join us! iccgconference.com/program/thursd…


Excited is the most inadequate word right now, but EXCITED to say that 4th time lucky - NHMRC Investigator L1 was successful!! 😭 So happy to be doing research in the right place, with my amazing team and collabs who are so fiercely supportive 💜 Garvan Institute of Medical Research UNSW Medicine & Health


So fun to have James Ware hang out and present at Garvan Institute of Medical Research (generously supported by the UNSW Medicine & Health CVMM) 🧬🫀


Rolling celebrations here at the moment - huge congrats to Dr Alex Butters graduating from PhD (ahem, no corrections) and SophieHespe from a masters (our newest PhD student!). I am the proudest supervisor watching these legends smash it… maybe some happy tears 🥹🥂 👊



WE ARE HIRING! A program manager to join our Genomics & Inherited Disease Program Garvan Institute of Medical Research, working with many awesome faculty labs Owen Siggs Genomic Technologies Group and our rare disease registryCould suit a GC, or someone interested in genomics/project mgnt garvan.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/garvan_i…

Australia needs MBS item numbers for genetic counselling! This will increase access for those currently on very long waiting lists! Hope the meetings went well Human Genetics Society of Australasia thanks for your work!


Reminder that WE ARE HIRING! Come join our super fun team at Garvan Institute of Medical Research We are looking for a postdoc to work on our MRFF-funded Elusive Hearts study aimed at identify novel causes of monogenic heart diseases. Plz RT Garvan Institute of Medical Research #cardiogen seek.com.au/GARVAN-jobs?jo…



Nice talk by Katie Ellis from Illumina on uptake of MBS genomic testing items for FH and Inherited Cardiomyopathies in Australia - clearly many barriers we need to better understand… #csanz2024 Prof Zornitza Stark Ilias Goranitis KidGen
