Wing Yui Ngan

@bramvandijk.bsky.social (and many other)'s new paper covered insights in microbial ecology, evolution and theoretical biology.

Come & join us: Within @phar.cam.ac.uk, we have a a PhD studentship available for an October 2026 start in collaboration with @MaxionTx as part of the BioSCaPe programme www.babraham.ac.uk/work-and-stu.... Project details 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This Wednesday, the naked mole-rat team gathered at Corpus Christi College for a formal dinner.
Thank you @psalmotoxin.bsky.social for the invitation.

Looks interesting.

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A good #PainResearch week for Lanhui Qiu in the lab. After being co-first author on our sphingomyelin paper www.oarsijournal.com/article/S106..., her sole first author paper examining the effects of artemin on mouse vs. naked mole-rat sensory neurons is out 😀 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our #PainResearch paper showing that sphingomyelin 34:1 (⬆️ in 🧍osteoarthritis synovial fluid) sensitises 🐁 sensory neurons in vitro & causes pain behaviours + knee-innervating neuronal hyperexcitability in 🐁 in vivo is now out in @oacjournal.bsky.social: shorturl.at/Yii8H Skytorial 👇 #neuroskyence

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enjoyed the @phar.cam.ac.uk department final year talk last Friday. @psalmotoxin.bsky.social Smith Team delivered 5 talks from IBD & pain (Luke), joint pain (Helen and Monica), ageing (Cherry) to gut barrier functions (Anne). Wow 👏👏👏.

MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 release (initial long-read sequencing support and database update) Announcement We are pleased to share that MetaPhlAn 4.2.2 is now available, which incorporates taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time and includes a new version of the MetaPhl...

The new version of MetaPhlAn v4.2.2 released!

📌taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomes for the first time
📌new version of the MetaPhlAn db (vJan25_202503) containing >21k new SGBs

Try it out & @hutlab.bsky.social and we are looking forward to your feedback!
forum.biobakery.org/t/metaphlan-...

Great to have you on board! If the project runs as smoothly as the punting, we’ll be sorted, exciting ties ahead 😃

Excited to have started my postdoc with @psalmotoxin.bsky.social, working on mole rat research! Got a really warm welcome from the team 😄🙌
Wrapped up the first week with some lab punting on Friday—strong start! (Mole rats weren't invited but we had a blast anyway 🛶)

Thanks for posting this. Indeed, you are fast (or am I too slow😂).
I wrote a short summary. Please feel free to add anything 🙌

Summary: Lavisha found an IS inserted next to a deletion, and I found an IS inserted between two duplication fragments. Interestingly, both have no target site duplications identified.

It suggested 1) IS element inserted in the DNA break, or 2) the Del or Dup was mediated by the IS transposase.

Thanks for creating this. May I ask if you could add me please 🙏

Delighted to contribute to this project and grateful that part of my PhD work builds upon the findings in this paper.
As I near the completion of my PhD journey, stay tuned for the updates and sharing of my research. 🙌