Mae Woods

The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

#compchem #compbio Happy to be part of this new paper just published in @commsbio.nature.com : "Targeting RNA with Small Molecules using State-of-the-Art Methods Provides Highly Predictive Affinities of Riboswitch Inhibitors."
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@qubit-pharma.bsky.social

Long overdue, thank you

Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Yes! That’s a good point & thanks for the links. Long read technology is driving a new wave of discovery for genetic mutations. Any software like this requires an incredible amount of energy, innovation and precision in the backend

If your criteria is coding output, there are loads in the comp bio space. the folks who wrote scvi, pseudotime, kallisto, alevin fry, loompy…, alpha fold..

FAIRNESS & PROGRESS Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.

Why am I doing this? Simon Sinek says that all good stories start with "Why" so... I had a go at starting with "Why", and it changed the way I think about #fairness and #progress.

#PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #Values #Ethics #WellBeing #Humanity #Collective #Individual #nonzero

Science Seminar on Oct 2nd, 1pm with Prof. Michael Heneka (University of Luxembourg): Innate Immunity entitled Innate Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease. Please register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/cardiff-un... @uni.lu

Virtualization and the Cost of Indirection | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture Some types of virtualization, such as virtual memory, are implemented by providing a layer of indirection between what the program sees and what the system implements. This layer of indirection is typ...

Join us next Tuesday!

simons.berkeley.edu/events/virtu...

The Effects of a Place-Based Intervention on Resident Reporting of Crime and Service Needs: A Frontier Matching Approach Prior research has found that reporting of crime incidents and service needs remain low in many U.S. cities. This study employs a matching strategy using observational data from a large public repo...

A new paper I worked on is out in Justice Quarterly! I won't speak on the substantive nature of the paper as I worked solely as the methodologist, but I developed a new matching method not otherwise described in the literature, and I want to tell you about it!

#statssky #casualsky

Poster titled ‘Enhancing Small Molecule Binding through Computational Analysis of Water Networks’

Pleasure to present the final project of my PhD research at #ConformationalDesign25!
Thank you to AstraZeneca for hosting and the organising committee for a day of engaging talks 👏

#CompChem #ChemSky

a man wearing suspenders and a watch looks down in front of a machine Alt: Alarn Turing looks down in front of a machine

In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?

We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻

Oh that’s interesting. Sorry to interrupt the thread, that’s amazing software btw!

Gene Therapy Can Restore Myelin in Children with Fatal Brain Disorder MYR-101 gene therapy reduces N-acetylaspartate, increases myelin, and improves development in Canavan disease patients.

AAV related news. Restored enzyme activity in the brain www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/preci...

Alan Turing wrote a paper on imprecision of matrix inversion is this related?

♥️

You can sometimes request more time to review a manuscript

Wouldn’t version control be more informative?

Agree with this point. In my former post, I came across a published paper linking to a data repository link that was broken. I emailed the site hosting the data to explain that the data was not available. My issue was opened for a month and never (to my knowledge) resolved.

Does the term “layoff” accurately describe the end of postdoctoral funding when a postdoc is often a period of research that a scientist chooses to undertake?

Frontiers | Synthetic Biology in Pharmacology: Engineering Circuits and Cells for Therapeutics Synthetic biology, an interdisciplinary field blending principles from molecular biology, organic chemistry, computational modeling, and nanobiotechnology, f...

Excited to be a topic editor for:
Synthetic Biology in Pharmacology: Engineering Circuits and Cells for Therapeutics

We are seeking articles regarding:
- Artificial Cells for Drug Delivery
- Metabolic Engineering for Drug Production
- Synthetic Gene Circuits
tinyurl.com/38j4d6u4

🧪👩‍🔬#Chemsky

This week's selection of articles on #proteostasis thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social -- biomed.news/bims-proteo/...
Highlight: α-Synuclein aggregates inhibit ESCRT-III through sequestration and collateral degradation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On this week, 40 years ago, my friend Ralph Isberg, then a postdoc with Stan Falkow, reported the discovery of the 1st invasin gene in @nature.com "We report here the identification of a single genetic locus from this organism (Y. pseudotuberculosis) that is sufficient to convert the innocuous

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I found this article for some light weekend reading. Healthcare premises cost guides - outdated but interesting nonetheless

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/u...

Next time when buying a flag (~£5) Why not recycle cardboard, make your own & donate the cost?

nhscharitiestogether.co.uk?utm_source=g...

In a new work with Joseph Rich and Conrad Oakes we tackle the problem of how to best organize alluvial plots. We formalize two optimization problems and develop a solution for them based on the neighbornet algorithm, implemented in the program wompwomp: github.com/pachterlab/w...

scVerse conference is at Stanford this year! Encourage folks (especially Bay Area/West coast folks) to sign up and attend. Cool workshops/talks and other events + great community of developers for one of the most widely used open source software for single cell data analysis!

We are excited to host Drs. Amit Sharma and Xiaoyan Xu for our upcoming #GDTcellclub virtual talks.

Date: August 21, 2025
Time: 12pm (New York) | 5pm (London, UK)

nyulangone.zoom.us/j/9589051706...

*Talks will be recorded* for those who are unable to attend live.

Subjects to teach: Information Technology - How to create accessible documents, focusing on how to: Add and write alt text, Structure heading levels, Provide context with links, Clearly layout content, Provide document and page titles, Check a reading order on a PDF, and run accessibility checks.

Subjects to teach: Coding and Web Development - Introduce students to: Ways of testing work with a range of assistive technologies such as a screen reader and keyboard accessibility, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), POUR Design Principles, and Semantic HTML

Subjects to teach: Filmmaking and Media - Raise awareness to students on: The need for captions on videos, Providing transcripts with podcasts and visual media, When to add audio descriptions, and Avoiding using flashing imagery

Subjects to teach: Graphic design - Demonstrate to students how to: Check colour contrast ratios, and create inclusive designs using clear typography; considering font choices, spacing, backgrounds and formatting

A UN survey found that 67% of people believe in a better future with 15 to 17 year-olds being the most optimistic. To achieve this, we share ways that educators can bring #accessibility skills into lessons to help build an inclusive digital world for future generations.

#InternationalYouthDay #A11y

Happy @diffuseproject.bsky.social launch day! Check out our latest effort. We're grappling with how to better understand protein dynamics and capture/share the information that would best allow the community to make use of that data. Take a look!