Pesticides may wreak havoc on the gut microbiome
Disruption of intestinal ecosystem could contribute to diabetes & other health issues, scientists say
I enjoyed discussing our research on the impact of pesticides on the microbiome with Sanket Jain for @science.org
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Very interesting read. www.asimov.press/p/bioinforma... (Thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for sharing over on the #ABACBS slack)
Join my campaign to properly fund medical research in Australia 🔬
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Well done Anna. I hope the weather wasn’t too bad for her. Not sure how the South Australians would cope 😂
I had hoped there’d be a mention or update on the timeline in the tracker newsletter today but nothing…
We are delighted to announce that #ABACBS2026 will be held at RMIT, Melbourne CBD campus from 16th to 20th November 2026. Big thanks to A/Prof. Sonika Tyagi and team for leading this years organising! More details and official conference launch to follow! #bioinformatics @combine1.bsky.social
"You want me to apply for a fellowship? After what happened to Boromir?"
If anyone waiting for NHMRC to announce investigator grants can tolerate a LOTR joke
@wytamma.bsky.social 's WASM tools have transformed my experience of teaching Python to first year undergraduate biologists this year. Since last year, I've been teaching ~400 undergrads how to code (functions, lists, dictionaries, loops) over (one hour intro lecture +) two 2-hour practicals. 1/n
#nhmrc Investigator grant anticipated outcomes Feb 202…
Also 2pm Friday 27th Feb….waiting….
So it’s not just me then 😐
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New paper out. Great collab with Hannah, Courtney & team bringing multi-omics into supportive care. Faecal and saliva samples show promise for predicting chemo-brain, a common side effect that deserves way more attention.
#MultiOmics #SupportiveCare #Oncology
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🚀 Just launched: GraphBin Visualise (WASM) a browser-based visualisation tool for comparing initial metagenomic binning results vs refined results from GraphBin - all running in your browser, no backend required. (1/n)
#bioinformatics #metagenomics #binning #webapp #pyiodide #webassembly
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
That’s a wrap! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for #ABACBS2025 & a big shout-out to the Adelaide bioinfo community who worked their butts off. Couldn’t have asked for a better crew or a better venue than Adelaide Oval. @wessidepraxis.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social
What an amazing crew!!! #ABACBS2025
I love all Aliens but yeah some are better than others 😅😂
Alien Ressurection fan? 👀
SPECTACULAR first day for #ABACBS2025
Heading to Radelaide for #ABACBS2025 . Looking forward to catch up with old friends and nerd out on bioinformatics!
Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
The view in this room is amazing! #ABACBS2025
@noraliu.bsky.social @mmohenska.bsky.social 🤣
Neglecting the bluesky account lately but that’s going to change with #ABACBS2025 tomorrow! Exciting to see old friends and make new ones! Are you going to be there? Let me know!
A newpaper clipping from the Adelaide Advertiser showing high school students discovering new phages.
I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists!
#phage #ABACBS2025
Swag! #ABACBS2025
Walkthrough of the conference centre ahead of #ABACBS2025 later this month. Bit overcast in Adelaide today but hoping for clear skies at the conference ☀️🕶️
Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025!
Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
What’s next? Happy to take requests for new databases or features. Let me know what would make TaxSEA more useful for your work. I’m also putting together workshop materials & tutorials, so stay tuned if you’d like to learn how to use TaxSEA in your own microbiome analyses.
Automated BugSigDB integration. TaxSEA now talks more directly to the BugSigDB API and returns a table of PubMed IDs for microbiome signatures most similar to your results, instantly linking your findings to published studies.
New curated signature collections from the literature added:
• Urbanisation-associated microbiomes
• Mucin utilisation
• Gut–brain axis relevant taxa
All available as built-in gene sets for enrichment testing.
