Exciting opportunities at UK Biobank! Are you passionate about making a difference in public health research? Join our expanding team of talented individuals within the prestigious NDPH. Check out the current openings below! #Hiring

Australian Indigenous genomes have an impressive genetic diversity! Check out this important work by MIG's group leader Prof Leslie, published nature last week:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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We have a Bioinformatics Research Assistant / Research Officer opening in my team WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/broadbean_exte…. If interested, feel free to say hi👋 at #abacbs2023 during a break or at my poster (EL-15) on long-read RNA-seq today (full story at rdcu.be/dnyy8)

Kudos to our four PhD students who have received CSL Translational #DataScience Scholarships!
This funding program is a collaborative effort between WEHI and CSL, with the primary goal of nurturing research in the realm of #drugdiscovery .

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We are hiring! We have an exciting opportunity for a bioinformatics post doc to join our ataxia genetics project here at WEHI. Melanie Bahlo

More info: seek.com.au/job/70361914

⭐New data are available on the Allen Brain Cell (ABC) Atlas

The ABC Atlas provides a platform for visualizing multimodal single cell data across multiple whole-brain datasets simultaneously. #OpenScienceWeek . Visit: portal.brain-map.org/atlases-and-da…

We are recruiting people who have ever experienced stuttering or stammering, for our Genetics of stuttering study. Head to website to learn more!

Epilepsy Genomics / Epi25 steering committee team dinner at #IEC2023

ILAE yesILAE Remi Stevelink Melanie Bahlo Bobby Koeleman FutureNeuro Centre

Important new findings on the genetics of #epilepsy , with promising implications for better treatments, by an international team involving WEHI's Melanie Bahlo and Karen Oliver PhD

Read the story 👇wehi.edu.au/news/new-insig…

Super interesting and challenging analysis. N is limited!
Most rare kākāpō parrots have had their genome sequenced nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our new preprint on multi-omic AI-enabled retinal thickness analysis is up. Exciting work with Aaron Lee. Analysis co-led by Vicki Jackson, Roberto Bonelli Yue Wu (UWA) & co-authors. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tandem Repeats (TRs): The ‘dark matter’ of the genome! It was wonderful to be able to co-chair this Symposium at #ICG2023 in Melbourne, with Melanie Bahlo. Outstanding talks by Melissa Gymrek, Egor Dolzhenko, Harriet Dashnow, Paul Lockhart, Mark Bennett & Stidevi Sureshkumar!

It was an absolute pleasure to speak in the #ICG2023 Tandem-Repeat Genomics session. Kudos to Melanie Bahlo and Anthony Hannan for putting together this powerhouse of speakers: Melissa Gymrek Egor Dolzhenko Paul Lockhart, Mark Bennet, Sridevi Sureshkumar

Please consider this special edition in
Communications Biology and pass on to colleagues. We look forward to some exciting submissions!

A packed room for Prof Zornitza Stark for the Human Genetics Society of Australasia Sutherland lecture. Spectacular advances in #genomic diagnostics particularly in acute care implementation including some awesome effort in #education also. Seb Lunke Stephanie Best Sophie Bouffler #ICG2023

Our statement recognises that a “yes” vote is an important step towards First Nations Peoples having a greater say in the decisions that affect their lives.

To read the full statement visit wehi.edu.au/wehi-statement…

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Latest research with Melanie Bahlo Roberto Bonelli finds 1000s of RNA editing events in human retina, which could change the function of genes essential for vision. A big step in understanding sight-threatening diseases! NEI Tigem Telethon tinyurl.com/275p28m3

This #ThankyouDay we want to thank our fantastic 500k #UKBiobank participants, who are helping us to achieve the world's biggest whole-body #Imaging study to prevent & treat life-changing diseases – we couldn’t do it without you! ow.ly/WXha50P1z8A

I'm thrilled!! Congrats to Misty & Kelly. Great to be amongst them!

Thrilled Melanie Bahlo Melanie Bahlo from WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Melbourne is speaking Fri 12N UC San Diego Health MET204, on repeat expansions in human neuro dz. Melanie is a pioneer computational human biologist in simple/complex genetics, #MacTel , #epilepsy .