#ScientistSpotlight 🧪

This week we’re featuring Hans Ng, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anne Goriely Lab at the #MRCWIMM.

@sciencehans.bsky.social @agoriely.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk

In-person tickets open: The Shape of Shells 🐚

https://gres.hm/shape-shells

Seashells, built by molluscs layer by layer, follow simple mathematical rules that create beautiful self-similar forms. Prof Alain Goriely* explains how we get various shapes, spines & wrinkles

*also of Oxford Mathematics

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We are trying to set standards -

Challenge of the best kind. Many thanks to my co-lead Dr Minna Jeffery & fellow grant holders @agoriely.bsky.social @lisahinton.bsky.social and our integral co-production panel: Marysia Price-Nowak, Arti Patel, Francesca Wicks, Jon Wells, Dr Shwetha Ramachandrappa, Alexa Gummow & others who helped!

Congratulations to @agoriely.bsky.social on being awarded the Spinoza chair by @amsterdamumc.bsky.social 🎉

In June, Prof Goriely will give her Spinoza lecture on how new genetic mutations arise in the testes, their increase in frequency as men age, and how they can lead to serious genetic diseases.

International Women's Day at the MRC WIMM YouTube video by MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

For International Women's Day tomorrow, we asked some of our female scientists, including @agoriely.bsky.social & @sumanasharma.bsky.social, to reflect on why this day is so important, the barriers and biases women can face in their careers, and which women have inspired them.

#IWD2025

A fantastic trip to King George V college in Southport for #RareDiseaseDay for our "We are all Mutants" workshop! Students discussed the criteria for inclusion of diseases in the newborn screening program & assessed the ethical dilemmas with whole genome sequencing. #Genomics @cpmoxford.bsky.social

Learning to catch a wave between sessions #lornegenome #lornegenome2025

Nature should have a bluesky button!

Official lab account @gorielylab.bsky.social
Follow us there if you want to know what we are up to!! 🧬

Funding awarded for new theatre-based community engagement project Alison Kay and Anne Goriely, together with Minna Jeffery (St. Anne’s College) and Lisa Hinton (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences), have won an award from the University of Oxford’s PCER F...

NEW: @genomics-ali.bsky.social & @agoriely.bsky.social have been awarded funding for a new community engagement project, which will use theatre to explore public perception of a new form of genetic testing.

Read more: buff.ly/4jkEens

This project is also supported by @cpmoxford.bsky.social

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📣 Big news! Our tag-team effort on common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out in Nature 📣

Co-first authoring with the brilliant Qinqin Huang🌟—proof that teamwork does make the dream work. 💪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Somatic mutation and selection at epidemiological scale As we age, many tissues become colonised by microscopic clones carrying somatic driver mutations ([1][1]–[10][2]. Some of these clones represent a first step towards cancer whereas others may contribu...

Resharing here a recent X post. In this preprint, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Inspired by the other amazing starter packs - here's one for cancer researchers!

I tried to make this broad - from immunology to genomics to cell biology and so much more..

This list also includes organizations & institutes supporting cancer researchers 🧪🔬⚕️🩺

Hope its useful!

go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc

I couldn't spot a starter pack for rare disease / clinical genomics, so I started one: go.bsky.app/SUWZ9Hw

Very much a work in progress, and biased by who I have already found here, so please suggest people to add! Self-nominations encouraged.

#ClinicalInformatics #genomics #bioinformatics 🖥️🧬