Amazing work unravelling the complex genomic landscape of Plasmodium knowlesi!
Big effort by Jacob and Matt Griggs and the larger team at Menzies. Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Super excited to share our work on #celiac disease. We discovered T cells carrying somatic mutations which may explain chronic autoimmune disease
medrxiv.org/content/10.110… . Great team work led by Manu Singh. Thank you to all authors!

Tour de force by Ira Cooke and Jia Zhang who found inversions in coral harbour excess mutational load! Just the tip of the iceberg with structural variants I suspect.....

Four projects led by Garvan researchers Dr Kishore Kumar, Prof Stuart Tangye, Prof Joseph Powell and Dr Ira Deveson have been awarded grants totalling $11.6 million from the Medical Research Future Fund Genomics Health Futures Mission.

Learn more: ow.ly/HU9q50Qaag8

👇Nice work by Rhys Gillman, PhD student JCU: CPHMVS

His review discusses tools for driver gene prioritization in individual cancer patients (n=1)

It introduces key methodologies and their limitations, in contrast to tools working with cohort-level data

tinyurl.com/45csvteb

Check this pawsome assembly (cN50=42Mb sN50=66Mb) for New Guinea Signing Dog, an ancient dog lineage with a unique howl. Collab w University of Melbourne Georgia Tech Univ. of Delaware Bill_Ballard Ben Rosen et al. Thx Melody and keepers North Georgia Wildlife Park for the sample!
dnazoo.org/post/a-fetchin…

Who knew coral could be so cool?! 🪸🌊🏖️ Ira Cooke, one of our invited speakers, will share his latest research at the @ABACBS conference on the bioinformatics of marine organisms. Ira will be speaking in the Agricultural & Environmental Omis session. 2023.abacbs.org James Cook Uni

Reminder of NHMRC grant workshop for bioinformaticians Mon 11am.
Overview of schemes and panel discussion with Matt Ritchie, Nadia Davison,Feargal Ryan, Anna Trigos Feargal Ryan Jimmy Breen Anna Trigos Nadia Davidson Matt Ritchie ABACBS
Register here:
jcu.zoom.us/j/82695777603?…

Back by popular demand, we're running our 2nd annual NHMRC Investigator grant workshop for Bioinformatics on September 11th at 11am-1pm AEDT. Big thanks to Matt Field for organising once again. Please register -> jcu.zoom.us/j/82695777603?…. Feel free to also submit questions

The ABACBS national seminar series is returning Aug 31st.
Featuring Clara Jiang on potential anti-depressive mechanisms of statins & James Ferguson on nanopore analysis with SLOW5

Register -> sahmri.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

More info -> mailchi.mp/a59746e8a1fc/a…

Amazing work by PhD student Doris Pearce running the first ever clinical trial looking at the effect of experimental hookworm infection in people at risk of T2D.
Found hookworm infection is safe and associated with improved insulin resistance.
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Registration is now open for Australia's biggest bioinformatics event of the year. With amazing support from ISCB News, our incredible organising committee has been working hard to ensure this year's ABACBS conference will be exceptionally fun & useful. Stay tuned for more updates!

We are looking for a postdoc bioinformatician to work on cutting edge spatial omics analysis and methods development. This is a joint role with my lab in Bioinformatics and Advanced Technology at WEHI. There will be really cool spatial data to play with! wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/det…

Closes June 5th! #Bioinformatics #postdoc #tropics #Australia

Just to confirm this job is open to international candidates. Posting closes on June 5th!

Come enjoy the lifestyle in tropical Cairns!

Bioinformatics postdoc / Contract until Dec 2026 / Level A or B

Looking for a technically strong bioinformatician to develop software/workflows in support of several large genomics projects. Please RT!

See myhronline.jcu.edu.au/ords/hrprodord….

Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology | GigaScience | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…

Looking for a software engineer to join me and the talented team at AusTrakka - Australia's national pathogen genomics surveillance system. Based in Melbourne, Australia at Doherty Institute @ University of Melbourne . 🇦🇺🦠🧫🧬🖥️ 🌴
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/912211/…

Great opportunity for aspiring bioinformatics group leaders!