A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS)

@niranjantw.bsky.social

📢GENOME: THE GIS SPEAKER SERIES

Join us at our next seminar by Prof. Willem van Schaik, Chair of Microbiology and Infection, Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, University of Birmingham, on 14 August, 1:30PM (SGT) at GIS, Level 2 Seminar Room

#GISSPEAKERSERIES

🎯Come Tackle the Big Questions in Genomics with @astar-gis.bsky.social and some of the leading voices from APAC, US and beyond, at our Genome Innovation & Precision Medicine Conference this September!

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#GIS25 #Genomics #PrecisionMedicine #Innovation

Singapore RNA Seminar Series🧬

Join us at our next seminar by Dr. Kate Chiappinelli on 19 Aug 2025, 9AM (SGT, GMT+8).
Host: Associate Professor Polly Chen, NUS

Link: zoom.us/j/9416340856...
Webinar ID: 941 6340 8561
Passcode: 466019

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#Genomics #spatialbiology #AIinHealthcare

Spatial gene expression map in a colorectal tumour sample (Source: Yurike Laurensia, Li Bo, and Grace Yeo, Prabhakar Lab, A*STAR’s GIS)

@astar-gis.bsky.social teams up with 10x Genomics to revolutionize drug discovery for #TISHUMAP! Using AI & spatial biology, this project will analyze thousands of tissue samples to fast-track drug target discovery in cancer & inflammatory diseases. A major step toward precision medicine!
#Genomics

Singapore researchers get $25m grant to screen, treat lung cancer in Asian patients They want to gain a deeper understanding of why the disease behaves differently in these patients. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

👨‍🔬S'pore researchers received a $25M grant for Clarion, to target lung cancer in Asians—from risk prediction and early detection to personalized treatment. Led by National Cancer Centre Singapore, A*STAR & National University Cancer Institute, it builds on over a decade of multidisciplinary research.

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

Congratulations to @yue-wan.bsky.social who has been elected as #EMBO Associate member, in recognition of her research excellence and outstanding achievements in the field of RNA! She is the only researcher from Singapore amongst 69 global life scientists honored this year.
#WomeninSTEM #RNAResearch

📢 GENOME: THE GIS SPEAKER SERIES🧬

Join us at our next seminar by Dr. Junyue Cao, Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University, hosted by Dr Yue Wan

📅 Date: 14 July 2025
⏲️ Time: 2:00 PM (SGT, GMT +8)
📍 Venue: GIS, Level 2 Seminar Room
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Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize contaminants.

Studying low-biomass environments in microbiome research? The struggle is real when it comes to contamination! Even the tiniest sprinkle of external microbes can throw off your results, making traditional methods a no-go. Details in link below:
@niranjantw.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Updates to the schedule!

Please note this seminar has been rescheduled as follows:

Date: Friday 11 Jul 2025
Time: 9.30am – 10.15am
Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9967962035...
Meeting ID: 996 7962 0353
Passcode: 888004

See you then! 👋

🚨 Updates to the schedule!

Please note this seminar has been rescheduled as follows:

Date: Friday 11 Jul 2025
Time: 9.30am – 10.15am
Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9967962035...
Meeting ID: 996 7962 0353
Passcode: 888004

See you then! 👋

NEW AI METHOD MAKES CANCER TRACKING FASTER AND EASIER USING BLOOD TESTS

🔬 @astar-gis.bsky.social Researchers - @skandlab.bsky.social unveils Fragle, a novel AI-driven method that significantly enhances the speed, accessibility, and affordability of cancer tracking — by analyzing DNA fragment sizes from a blood test.

📄Read more 👉 www.a-star.edu.sg/gis/home/pre...

Singapore RNA Seminar Series 🧬

Join us at our next seminar by Dr. Eric Miska on 7 July 2025, 2:00PM (SGT, GMT+8). Host: Dr Yue Wan

Link: zoom.us/j/9840996078...
Webinar ID: 984 0996 0781
Passcode: 277278

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#RNA #Genomics

Congratulations to our researchers Shyam Prabhakar and @jayshin.bsky.social for successfully hosting the @humancellatlas.org meeting in Singapore this week! 🎉

The team also shared their latest AIDA study which revealed groundbreaking insights into immune differences among Asian populations🧬🌏

🧬 Find out more about AIDA at the Human Cell Atlas Meeting in Singapore from 9 - 11 June!
👉 events.humancellatlas.org/2025GM

🧬 Scientists from 5 Asian nations have built the first Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA), mapping 1.2M+ immune cells to better understand disease risk in Asians. A major leap for precision medicine!

🔗 Read more: www.asianscientist.com/2025/05/heal...

#Genomics #AIDA #HCA

📢 GENOME: THE GIS SPEAKER SERIES🧬

Join us at our next seminar by Dr. Madhura Mukhopadhyay, Senior Editor, Nature Methods
Host: Shyam PRABHAKAR

📅 Date: 5 June 2025
⏲️ Time: 10:00 AM (SGT, GMT +8)
📍 Venue: GIS, Level 2 Seminar Room
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Find out how our researchers—Associate Director @niranjantw.bsky.social, GIS Innovation Fellow Chayaporn Suphavilai and Dr Karrie Ko—discovered a new variation of 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴 (𝘊.𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴)—𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗩𝗜—a drug-resistant yeast that kept infectious disease experts on high alert worldwide.
Full story below👇:

@jayshin.bsky.social

🚨LAST CALL - Don’t miss the 2025 Human Cell Atlas General Meeting!

Be part of the release of the first HCA draft, explore AI + spatial genomics, and shape the future of single-cell science with renowned researchers!

📅 9–11 June |📍Academia, Singapore
🔗 Register now: events.humancellatlas.org/2025GM

Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) A unique scholarship to pursue a PhD in Science and Engineering

Apply at: www.a-star.edu.sg/Scholarships...

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🎓PhD Opportunity: AI x Genomics at @astar-gis.bsky.social 🧬🤖

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of science with cutting-edge technology and the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects:
🔬 AI-driven RNA Therapeutics
🧠 Cancer Genomics with LLMs & GNNs

Contact @msikic.bsky.social!

@msikic.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @jayshin.bsky.social @niranjantw.bsky.social

Narry Kim, Daniel MacArthur, Shi-Jie Chen, K Thangaraj, Ryan Lister, Karen Miga, Arnold Ou, Nikolaus Schultz, Leslie Beh, Koh Woon-Puay, Jingmei Li, PhD, Boxiang Liu, Jinyue Liu, Kristijan Ramadan, Patrick Tan, Yvonne Tay, Sunny Wong

🎉GIS turns 25! Join us in celebrating 25 years of innovation at #GIS25: Genome Innovation and Precision Medicine Conference, happening 11–12 September at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore!

📅 Save the date and register now! Limited seats left!
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#Genomics #PrecisionMedicine

Singapore RNA Seminar Series 🧬

Join us at our next seminar by Dr. Sergiu P. Pașca on 10 June 2025, 2:00PM (SGT, GMT+8). Host: Dr Yue Wan

Link: zoom.us/w/9698098176...
Webinar ID: 969 8098 1762
Passcode: 643820

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#RNA #Genomics

📢GENOME: THE GIS SPEAKER SERIES🧬
Join us at our next seminar by Prof Paul Ross, Director, APC Microbiome Ireland, & Professor of Microbiology, University College Cork
Host: @niranjantw.bsky.social
📅Date: 22 May 2025
⏲️Time: 11:00 AM (SGT)
📍Venue: GIS, Level 2 Seminar Room
#GISSPEAKERSERIES #genomics

Congrats to our team- @msikic.bsky.social, @lvrcek.bsky.social, Martin Schmitz, on GNNome, a groundbreaking AI tool for de novo genome assembly using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).

Check out the paper👉🏻 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/4...

#GNNome #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Research #Innovation

Join us at our GIS Seminar by Dr Marcin Magnus, Harvard University on OpenRNAFold: an end-to-end approach for RNA 3D structure prediction.

Date: 29 April, 2PM
Venue: GIS, Level 2
Host: Ivona MARTINOVIC
@msikic.bsky.social @lvrcek.bsky.social