Alejandra Medina-Rivera

I didn't realize it was possible but those weird impersonal marketing spam e-mails have somehow gotten even more depressing now that they're being written by LLMs. At least before it was an actual human pretending to be interested in my work!

TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.

Laura Olmos patient with Parkinson's shares her path after receiving her diagnosis to becoming an embassador for the PD community
#LARGEPD

Teams across Chile joined data association between pesticides and risk to PD in the Chilean population. Collaboration makes science stronger

El Salvador team is leading research to assess access to specialized diagnosis tools for PD in LATAM
#LARGEPD

The Peruvian team is one of the first to join #LARGEPD, they have worked for over 10 years on the study of Parkinson's in the region. The have impelented an inclusive and social justice based strategy.

#AlejandraRuizContreras sharing the experience in #MexPD for the recruitment of patients and controls across México
First round table for the #LARGEPD annual meeting

Exposure accumulation drives age-dependent disease architectures and polygenic risk scores www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/Xilin-Jiang/...

Is there any financial support for LMICS?

Stop losing your analysis files.
The difference between chaos and clarity in computational biology is one habit:
How you name your files/folders 🧵

Bioinformaticians are impatient👇
Conda is notorious slow...
then I found mamba github.com/mamba-org/m...,
then I found
pixi prefix.dev/blog/pixi_a... : Blazing fast cross-platform package management for teams.

By the creators of the mamba package manager. #bioinformatics

There is no ethical way to consume Harry Potter. None.

📢 We're seeking a postdoc to work on a project funded by HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social at the intersection of bacterial physiology, ecology and evolution. You can find more details about the project, the position, and how to apply here www.dalbellolab.com/hfsp-project! #bacteria #ecosky #MevoSky #microSky

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...

Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

It was a pleasure to be part of this summer school. Students were amazing, it was a great experience getting the chance to discuss one on one without hierarchy for three days with them. They taught me so much.

What a fantastic #ISMBECCB2025 conference it has been, with an outstanding #RegSys @iscb-regsys.bsky.social COSI track!

Thanks, everyone, for submitting, attending, presenting, and organizing @iscb.bsky.social @eccb-europe.bsky.social

We are done … #ISMBECCB2025 is finished … Safe travel home!

📢🌎 A big step forward for inclusive genomics
Announcing a major collaboration between @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @pacbio.bsky.social to map the hidden language of genes in the immune system at single-cell resolution.

👇Why this matters, especially for underrepresented populations:

Julio Collado starts his keynote on "Quality of Knowledge Representation" acknowledging @iscb.bsky.social mission to advance computational biology for all, taking a minute to reflect on the current challenges around the world to achieve this
#ismbeccb2025

Going back to Paris after four days of awesome science! Really happy to have contributed to #ISMBECCB2025 with a keynote talk in the @netbio.bsky.social.

Thanks again @anaisbaudot.bsky.social and all #NetBio commitee for the invitation!

@institutpasteur.bsky.social #singlecell #AI #netbio

Proud of #RegRNALab 's student Xingyu Yan, who presented preliminary results on her PhD project. Well done Xingyu! 🌱

Also, she's been an incredible host, helping me an others sort out paying issues and providing Beijing recommendations 谢谢

#SMBE2025 @unswbabs.bsky.social

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Bonus #SMBE2025 perks:

Finally got to meet @roliroberts.bsky.social! We correspond often as part of the work we do for @plosbiology.org, but nothing beats meeting in person.

Also caught up with lots of 🇲🇽 folks. Such a great meeting!

RegSys Day 2!
Starting the day with a keynote by Roser Vento-Tormo on the cellular components of the placenta and uterus interaction
#ismbeccb2025

Closing RegSys Day 1 we have Mafalda Días sharing her work on how evolution can be used to understand disease
#ismbeccb2025

Next in RegSys day 1, Laura Gunsalus on how to reduce promoters
#ismbecc2025

First talk of the last session of RegSys day 1 at #ismb2025 is from Jacob Schreiber on how we read the book of DNA

Spoiler: regulation is key

Laura Rumpf talks about the MetaFR pipeline to learn gene regulation models from unpaired and paired scATAC and scRNA data #ismbeccb2025 #regsys #schulzlab @dzhk.de @sfb1531.bsky.social

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

#regsys session is overflowing at #ismbeccb2025 consider to go to rooms 6 and 7 for video broadcast if full