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Prof Gina RavenscroftπŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social

Rare & neuromuscular disease researcher at UWA & the Harry Perkins Institute, Perth πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Passionate about #sciencefunding, #womeninSTEM, #EMCRs Mum of πŸ‘¦πŸ‘§πŸΆ Posting about genomics, rare disease, PI life & wine https://www.ravenscroftlab.com

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Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025
Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting

10.08.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....

30.07.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ) reply:

23.07.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 2

Sapphire has been down a large part of the day *sigh* #NHMRC #hungergames

23.07.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Master 11’s starter word on worldle is sigma

23.07.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lab curry potluck #teamsthateattogether

21.07.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to all involved with this study associating mono-allelic POLR3A variants with #peripheralneuropathy.

So good to catch up with some of the key players at #ESHG2025 Milan where Jevin Parmar presented the study on behalf of the collaborative team #raredisease #CMT

20.07.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Writing #NHMRC #investigatorgrant during school holidays #momademia #womeninSTEM

16.07.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*carrels

15.07.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A hive of activity in the cartels today #teamwork #raredisease #genomics

15.07.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#naturescapes #outofoffice

12.07.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, check out the News & Views summarizing our findings, written by Youjia Guo & @themodzlab.bsky.social 🀩🀩
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.07.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Out of office
#LSmerchants #hoipolloiorange #margaretriverregion #naturescapes

10.07.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures Running alongside the Archibald prize, the Young Archie competition invites artists aged between five and 18 years to submit portraits of people who are special to them and who play a significant role in their lives. This year more than 3,200 entries were received. All 70 finalists are on show at the Art Gallery of NSW until 17 August * Archibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in pictures Continue reading...

Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures

05.07.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear academics: you can’t take your H-index with you.

04.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The dystonin gene encodes three major isoforms: DST-a, -b, and -e. Jacob et al. report that variants exclusively affecting DST-b cause an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, while variants that also affect DST-a cause a lethal contracture syndrome. tinyurl.com/3p99pu9j

03.07.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revisiting sacred Wednesdays (just for a few hours this morning) - we both needed it today #womeninSTEM #puttingoutfires #leadingishard

02.07.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some nights require brandy #wiseestate #beautifulstranger

30.06.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even stunning in winter #Perth #thinkingtime #NHMRC #grantwriting

29.06.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Dr Mridul Johari on this important study, huge thanks to the many collaborators and the patients and their families. We describe a large cohort of patients with mono- or bi-allergic variants in TUBA4A and myopathies, some presenting at birth. #myopathy #raredisease

29.06.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They come like that from the shop, they are sweet and sour pairs

27.06.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sharing my love of DNA and genomics with a cohort of yr6 kids.

Knackered after 3 classes back to back and hats off to teachers everywhere.

We extracted 🧬 from πŸ“ and made 🧬 helices from haribo base-paired bears. Great questions from all the kids and so much engagement

27.06.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy Abstract. Cofilin-2, encoded by CFL2, is an actin-binding protein essential for regulating actin filament dynamics in skeletal muscle. Biallelic variants i

New #hmg_journal paper: Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/2xusbna7

24.06.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonderful to finally have Dr Sanam Mustafa back in Perth with the @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social seminar. Talking about applying GPCR-based tools to Toll receptors to better understand pathways involved in #chronicpain
Sanam was a postdoc in the Pfleger lab at WAIMR/Perkins 2009-11

26.06.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This arrived today, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. #jacindaardern #kindness #leadingwithvunreability

23.06.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My interview with @mothersinsci.bsky.social is out!

www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...

19.06.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I met Atul once, after a phenomenal talk in Perth some 10-15 years ago. He left such an impression on me, I still recall much of what he said that day - about the need to down pipettes and mine data already generated.

Tonight I am sad and I didn't even know the man.

He sounds truly remarkable.

17.06.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My #careerdisruptions are officially over, I've been F/T since 2021. Calculated total career disruptions one last time, only 1054 days = 2.9 years (2 x mat leave and 0.6-0.8 for a number of years). Can't believe that is all it was. I should have given us more time #NHMRC #grantwriting #momademia

13.06.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#NHMRC Investigator Grant guidelines include details on increased flexibility! Able to extend grants by up to 2 years if one experiences career disruptions! A great step forward for equity and #womeninSTEM

05.06.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Once had someone send me a poem they’d written as part of their journal club, about one of our papers.

04.06.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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