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📣 Abstract deadline extended!
Submit your poster or rapid fire talk by Friday, Sept 12 for the GSC Collaborator Forum. 🧬
Poster prizes awarded at our evening networking session!

✉️ collabforum@bcgsc.ca
🔗 Register: www.bcgsc.ca/events/gsc-c...

#GSCForum2025

👤 Meet Dr. Samuel Aparicio from UBC, @bccancerfdn.bsky.social — speaking at #GSCForum2025 on 'The origins and consequences of gene dosage mutations in cancer.'

📅 Oct 24 | 📍 Vancouver
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/gsc-collab...

We were honored to welcome BC’s Deputy Minister of Health, Cynthia Johansen, for a tour of the GSC. She met with researchers to learn how genomics is advancing medicine, supporting sustainability in agri/environmental systems, and driving innovation.

#Genomics #BCHealth

🏆 Gold Sponsor Spotlight – 2025 GSC Collaborator Forum

We are excited to welcome Illumina and Mena Farag, National Applications and Technical Specialist Leader for Illumina Canada to the GSC Collaborator Forum. He will be speaking on “Illumina Technology Updates: Fall 2025”

More info🔽

🏆 Bronze Sponsor Spotlight – 2025 GSC Collaborator Forum

We’re so grateful to Nanopore for their generous support of the GSC Collaborator Forum. @nanoporetech.com is proud to partner with BCGSC to deliver real-time, multi-omic data through our novel DNA/RNA sequencing technologies.

More info🔽

🏆 Gold Sponsor Spotlight – 2025 GSC Collaborator Forum

We are excited to welcome 10x Genomics and Adriana Suarez-Gonzalez, Senior Science and Technology Advisor, to the GSC Collaborator Forum. She will be speaking on “More impactful research with high-performance single call at any scale.”

The @bcgsc.ca mandate has expanded beyond health to include forestry, marine science, agriculture, biodiversity & climate change—showcasing genomics’ growing impact across BC.

Learn more: www.bcgsc.ca/news/gsc-expands-mandate-advance-genomic-innovation-across-health-environment-and-indu…

#Genomics

The first session of the GSC Collaborator Forum 2025 is underway! 🧬

We're welcoming to the stage now Dr. Marco Marra, speaking on "Single cell approaches to characterize pediatric malignancies"

💫The GSC is expanding our mandate!

For more than 2 decades, the GSC has been recognized internationally as a leader in genomics, bioinformatics, and genome technology innovation – find out what else in store for us in the future.

Read more: bcgsc.ca/news/gsc-exp...

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Anti-science. Censorship. Authoritarian. Orwellian. Etc.

Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history.

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

How powerful is doubtmongering & misinformation? This powerful...👇

Despite a large body of evidence on safety & efficacy (showing benefits for both mom & baby), huge amount of uncertainty around routine vaccines during pregnancy. via @asc.upenn.edu

#Vaccineswork #ScienceMatters

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com:
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
#ScienceUnderSiege

🪩 @genomebc.bsky.social announced funding for 4 new UBC & SFU research projects associated with Canada’s Immuno-Engineering and Biomanufacturing Hub, a UBC-led national initiative to accelerate the development of lifesaving medicines for Canada.

Congrats to all project leads! https://bit.ly/3VClPId

Birdwatchers rally behind endemic hummingbird, spurring conservation movement in Mexico Nestled in the thorny shrubs of the dry forests of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, a small bird lights a spark for a promising future. After flying under scientists’ radar for many years, the Mexican sheartail (Doricha eliza) is now fighting for its survival with the help of an improbable ally: the expanding birdwatching […]

The power of collaboration!

Birdwatchers, landowners and conservationists join forces in Veracruz, Mexico, to protect a habitat and ecosystem important for many endemic species, notably a little hummingbird.

Read more with @mongabay.com :

A new #ClinicalTrials unit at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver will allow B.C. life sciences companies to test early-stage drugs locally.

It's the first facility in the province with the capacity to perform non-oncology Phase 1 clinical trials: https://bit.ly/4pzFQNu

🚨 Countdown to Deadline! Apply by FRIDAY 14 July 2025
🧬 Passionate about decoding life through genomics and cutting-edge science?
👉 Apply now🧬 bit.ly/4n9AuqN
💻 If you can't join in-person, there is a hybrid option
📍 Wellcome Genome Campus
Organised by @eventswcs.bsky.social
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🫐 It’s #NationalBlueberryDay BC grows over 90% of Canada’s highbush #Blueberries—worth over $270M in exports.

With support from Genome BC, researchers are using #DNA science to build better tests, helping farmers catch infections early and protect BC’s blueberry bounty.

Exciting news in the #eDNA world!
We’re proud to be part of this milestone—setting the standard with 125 new #eDNA assays that advance #Environmental monitoring and building global trust in this powerful tool.
Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

(1/3) 🌍🐢 Celebrating World Sea Turtle Day with Genomics!
EBP-affiliate, the Vertebrate Genomes Project, is working to protect sea turtles by generating high-quality reference genomes. 🧬💚
#WorldSeaTurtleDay #SeaTurtles #GenomicsForConservation #Biodiversity #OceanConservation

Analysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cuts The secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers.

From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

With testing scaled back and vaccine guidance shifting, many are asking: Are we ready for the next pandemic?

At Scripps Research, we’re advancing solutions—from early detection to universal vaccines, our research is helping to prepare for what’s next. ow.ly/jCxy50W1V46

Baby infected with measles in utero dies in Southwestern Ontario Infant also faced serious medical complications unrelated to virus, province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says

Baby infected with #measles in utero and born prematurely dies in SW Ontario. Infant also faced serious medical complications unrelated to virus, said Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Genome BC's Data Literacy Series - Transforming Health Data Access for Better Outcomes: Health Data Platform BC and PANDA Dive into the world of health data access with our webinar, showcasing two programs that provide streamlined solutions for analysts and researchers. Understand how the Health Data Platform BC (HDPBC) ...

Just a few days left 🔍 Navigating Health Data Access in BC: Part 2
📅 June 9 | 🕤 9:30–10:30 AM PDT
Join our next #DataLiteracy Series webinar to explore @BCGovNews & @PHSAofBC —BC’s secure, integrated health data platforms.
🎤 Speakers from
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Globe editorial: A simple test that saves lives goes unfunded Cervical cancer is easily survivable, if caught early. But provinces are dragging their feet on paying for self-testing

A simple test that saves lives goes unfunded. Only BC and PEI pay for self-tests for #HPV, which causes #CervicalCancer: Globe and Mail editorial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com

Life Sciences Breakfast: How BC is Transforming Healthcare for Global Impact · Luma Life Sciences Web Summit Side Event is an opportunity to learn what is driving BC’s life sciences sector to global impact. From the prolific research being…

🚨 Life Sciences Breakfast: Global Impact from BC
📅 May 27 | 8:30–10:30 AM
📍 UBC Robson Square

Our CSO, @scienceisglobal.bsky.social, joins panel 2 to explore how BC’s life sciences sector is transforming healthcare worldwide.

@innovationubc.bsky.social

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YouTube video by CSHL Leading Strand CSHL Keynote, Dr. Steven McCarroll, Harvard Medical School + Broad Institute

Keynote talk from Steven McCarroll from last weeks Biology of Genomes conf. My favorite talk of the whole meeting! #bog25 youtu.be/BCRAlmFv7ag?...

Conservation genomics of a threatened subtropical Rhododendron species highlights the distinct conservation actions required in marginal and admixed populations Our study provides a comprehensive assessment of basic features of each known population (e.g., genetic diversity, population structure, demographic history, and mutation load, etc.) of Rhododendron ....

Population #genomics, genomic offset analysis, & ecological niche modelling can be integrated to inform targeted conservation efforts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #biodiversity #genomics

The Uncertain Science of Certainty - Conway Hall From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how...

If you’re around in London next Sunday afternoon, I’ll be talking all things Proof at @conwayhall.bsky.social: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

“It is exciting to see funding for multivalent inactivated influenza vaccines, but it will be important to continue funding other promising platforms as well, like mRNA vaccines that can simultaneously deliver dozens of influenza vaccine antigens.”