Join us on March 10, 2026 at Kyoto University 🇯🇵 for a day celebrating my long-time friend and collaborator Prof. Ryohei Terauchi.

"Kyoto Mini-Symposium on Plant–Microbe Interactions"

Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Long-Read Sequencing Uppsala, November 2–4, 2026 #LRUA26: Empower your research with long-read sequencing technologies and connect with experts, peers, and industry leaders in Uppsala this November.

Save the date! The Long‑Read Sequencing Uppsala Meeting (#LRUA26) is happening Nov 2–4, with a great lineup of invited and selected speakers

Stay tuned — registration and abstract submission will open soon🧬🖥️

lrua.se

Gif was splendide and the campus in a beautiful setup, I did my PhD there and have very fond memories of what was the Populations Genetique et Evolution Unit.

the exhibits at the museum are stunning, I saw the one dedicated to Hokusai that was amazing. They can be quite crowded though

The Assyrian section of the museum is one of my favourite, it is splendid

Front cover of The Plant Cell journal showing a spatial visualisation of wheat spike tips, with multi-coloured dots indicating gene expression patterns across the spike.

Great to see our recent study with @johninnescentre.bsky.social make the cover of January's @theplantcell.bsky.social! 🌟

Well done to Ashleigh Lister, Katie Long, and the whole research team from Earlham Institute, JIC, and @vizgen.bsky.social!

Check out the paper here: buff.ly/QN57HXG

A great resource to help you pick responsible journals to publish in.

How does it taste?

No strings: we don’t ask to be authors in future pubs.
Rather, we make the @decodemestudy.bsky.social data available so that its value is enhanced, & #MEcfs research is accelerated. #openscience

Researcher Access | DecodeME : The world's largest ME/CFS study | Institute of Genetics and Cancer To accelerate research towards possible diagnostic tests and treatments for ME/CFS, DecodeME has built the world’s largest data set on ME/CFS, as a managed access resource for future research projects...

Reminder, #MEcfs researchers: all consented data from @decodemestudy.bsky.social is available to researchers, including individual-level genotypes and symptom questionnaire responses

institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/decodeme-the...
Summary stats & questionnaires available: osf.io/rgqs3/files/...

MetaPointFinder:
A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads.
Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss.

github.com/aldertzomer/...

Genetics | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility | Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility The Genetics Core is staffed and equipped to provide secure receipt, processing, archiving and analysis of biological samples. Our team can provide support for your clinical research from sample colle...

📢 Edinburgh Genomics will be closing at the end of this year🧬🖥️
🙏 It's been a great privilege to support and contribute to so many brilliant research projects
🧬 Sequencing services at the University will now be provided through the Genetics Core:
🔗 clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/core-service...

Identification of Novel Reproducible Combinatorial Genetic Risk Factors for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in the DecodeME Patient Cohort and Commonalities with Long COVID Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as ME/CFS or simply ME) has severely impacted the lives of tens of millions of people globally, but the disease currently has no accurate diagnostic t...

Delighted how @precisionlife.bsky.social and @actionforme.bsky.social et al used consented @decodemestudy.bsky.social data to
-replicate #MEcfs genetic signal &
-show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid.
Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

9️⃣0️⃣ Yvonne Barr (1932–2016) 🇮🇪 #womeninSTEM Everyone has heard of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis. But did you know that the virus was discovered in 1964 by Yvonne Barr, an irish virologist, and Michael Epstein ?

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/o...

Research Programme Manager

We're recruiting a highly motivated Research Programme Manager to join our #CellularGenomics programme at Earlham Institute.

This is diverse role offers an excellent opportunity for someone looking to transition into #projectmanagement within a cutting-edge research environment.

This is a very exciting opportunity to connect researchers working on RNA data analysis issues. I can´t wait to see this community growing!!! @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.es @hitseq.bsky.social @conesalab.bsky.social

Publication spotlight:Capturing the full picture of genome editing with custom PureTarget panels - PacBio Genetic mosaicism can occur within genome editing. Accurately characterize every edit within a model with PureTarget.

Excited to see our work featured! We evaluated PureTarget for verification of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing outcomes, with great results. Read more in the publication spotlight by @pacbio.bsky.social and in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.pacb.com/blog/publica...

Accelerating AI in Biology With Community-Driven Benchmarks CZI’s benchmarking suite helps researchers evaluate AI models in biology with standardized tools.

Take a look at this feature from @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social featuring Earlham Institute #PhDstudent Rafaela Merika on a collaboration to create reproducible benchmarks for #AI #cell models.
buff.ly/Vrmruac

@daniorecode.bsky.social #datascience

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Congratulations to Aykut Shen, one of my first PhD students, who has successfully passed his viva yesterday. Many thanks to examiners @conradn.bsky.social and @adamcribbs.bsky.social and co-supervisor/collaborator. @whaerty.bsky.social. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Registration for The Festival of Genomics and Biodata is now open! The UK’s largest life sciences event gives you access to the latest research updates and provides you with unmissable networking opportunities. More info: hubs.la/Q03JMxrd0

#FOG2026

Making Galaxy workflows sustainable and FAIR

Nicola Soranzo presented 'Making Galaxy workflows sustainable and FAIR' on Day 2 of European Galaxy Days.
Read more: https://www.earlham.ac.uk/research-project/elixir-uk

#EGD2025 #galaxy_workflows #sustainable #galaxyproject #workflows #eosc #fair #open_science

This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.economist.com/science-and-...

Looking forward to this presentation, Kit's work is truly inspiring

The Festival of Genomics and Biodata London is not just another event, it's the UK’s largest life sciences event, celebrating its 11th year!

8300+ Registrations, 360+ Speakers, 200+ Exhibitors, free for 90% of attendees.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST - places are limited festivalofgenomics.com/london

Initial findings from the DecodeME genome-wide association study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

this is a great read: www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”

For #ME/CFS, genomics assessed in >15,000 indviduals
with 8 genomic loci identified.
"Validation of ME/CFS as a biomedical condition and an important corrective to psychologizing ‘all in the mind’ perspectives on the disease”
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Just back from our 4 day Grand Challenges Skills School!

@ukri.org BBSRC #PhD students from across the UK joined AI-driven health tech start-ups to tackle real-word challenges

Many skills learned in the innovation + commercialisation sphere - ending with pitching their ideas Dragon den stylee

I vividly remember the coelacanth, when I was doing my DEA there (then Jussieu Pierre et Marie Curie).

I agree being on the Seine river just by l'Institut du Monde Arabe" was amazing.