🌙 Sleep isn’t the brain “switching off”, it’s active reorganisation.
For #SleepAwarenessMonth, Sophia Wilhelm postdoc with @charlotteboccara.bsky.social shares how researchers map brain activity to understand cognitive development.
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🌙 Sleep Awareness Month – Myth vs Fact
What we think we know about sleep isn’t always right.
Alessandro Arena from @charlotteboccara.bsky.social separate myths from evidence and improve sleep health across the lifespan.
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💡Find out more about the work of ESRS 👉 esrs.eu
Follow along this month as we explore why sleep matters, from developing brains to lifelong health. 🌙
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🌙 March is Sleep Awareness Month!
We’re spotlighting the European Sleep Research Society and @charlotteboccara.bsky.social group at @ncmbm.bsky.social.
@esrs.bsky.social connects Europe’s sleep community.
🧠 Boccara’s team studies how sleep shapes brain & metabolic development.
📢 Hiring! Our group @ncmbm.bsky.social seeks a Research Scientist contributing to:
• Reproducible pipelines for large-scale genomics
• cisreg signature analysis in breast cancer
• Continued development of JASPAR
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Apply now 👉
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
👩🔬 We are celebrating International Girls and Women in STEM Day 🎉!
Charlotte Boccara, group leader @ncmbm.bsky.social has been sharing her story and research on sleep in an article in Apollon.
💡To all girls and women in STEM: Let your curiosity lead the way!
tinyurl.com/3m7bz7su
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We are delighted to announce that Janna Saarela, Director of @ncmbm.bsky.social, has been appointed as the new Speaker of the @nordicembl.bsky.social!
Read about her priorities and vision here👉https://tinyurl.com/yc3ytvez
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@amathelier.bsky.social from NCMBM, says: “ I am very proud to see JASPAR officially recognised as a Core Data Resource by ELIXIR and it is wonderful to see JASPAR join the ranks of other well-established European resources."
Read more about this achievement: tinyurl.com/4r6zntvw
Picture of Anthony Mathelier on a blue background. The logos for JASPAR and for ELIXIR Cor Data Resource have been added. The text title states "JASPAR recognised as an ELIXIR Core Resource".
📣JASPAR has been added to ELIXIR Core Data Resources! hashtag#ELIXIRCDRs are European hashtag#lifescience data resources that are fundamentally important 🙌 to biological and biomedical research and long-term preservation of biological data.
Check @ELIXIREurope ’s news release: tinyurl.com/ypjnfuum
Interested in rare disease clinical trials? Check out the announcement below from @realised-ihi.bsky.social ! They have a great programme in store for you!
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Together, these approaches create a uniquely powerful platform for exploring how transcription factors interpret the genome.”
📰 Read the full story: www.med.uio.no/ncmbm/englis...
Congrats to the entire JASPAR community for driving this resource forward to shape the future of regulatory genomics!
💬 Joint first authors @ievarau.bsky.social and @damlaob.bsky.social remark:
“This release marks a major milestone for JASPAR. Deep learning models now sit alongside the classical collections, letting researchers build on two decades of curated knowledge while harnessing modern computational power.”
🔍 What’s new?
For the first time, JASPAR now hosts a Deep Learning Collection running alongside its trusted classical PFM-based motif collections. This marks a transformative step in how researchers can explore transcription factor (TF) binding and gene regulation.
🚀 JASPAR goes Deep Learning! A major milestone for regulatory genomics.
Excited to share the newest JASPAR 2026 update, led by @amathelier.bsky.social from @ncmbm.bsky.social and supported by an international network of contributors across ten countries!
📄Publication: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Picture of Anthony with the purple Clarivate banner stating "Highly Cited Researcher 2025.
🎉 Congratulations to @amathelier.bsky.social for being recognised as being in the top 1% on the world's most highly cited researchers by @clarivate.com!
This highlights the contribution he has made to Biology and Biochemistry over the past 11 years!
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Beehive-like structure with the hexagons being different shades of blue. It states "Newsletter October 2025" in yellow on the right-hand side.
📜 It's @ncmbm.bsky.social Newsletter time! You can now find out what we have been up to this past month; enjoy the read!
🧷 You can read it here 👉pub.dialogapi.no/v/c08f518b-1810-4084-848...
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📣 On the look out for a postdoctoral position in the Nordics? Fascinated by behavioural and systems neuroscience?
Charlotte Boccara from @ncmbm.bsky.social is recruiting.
Details of the 3-year postdoctoral position can be found 👉 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
NCMBM marking Black History Month as part of its Tuesday Seminar series with Melaku Tadesse.
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Welcome Charlene!
Now accepting workshop proposals for Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2025, hosted by @uio.no Dec 8–12, 2025. Explore last year's program: www.mn.uio.no/bils/english....
Submit your proposal here: nettskjema.no/a/539526
Supported by @uio.no, UiO: Life Science, @ncmbm.bsky.social, @ocbe.bsky.social
📢Last chance today! We are looking forward to receiving your applications👇!
This week at the RealiseD workshop, we explored how playbooks can drive innovation in #ClinicalTrial design for rare & ultra- #RareDiseases.
EATRIS co-leads WP9 with SANOFI, developing tools, workflows & decision trees for smarter, more efficient trials.
👉 More here: https://loom.ly/fpIZ7uI
Katalin Ferenc presenting how to improve bioinformatics software quality through teamwork.
Great talk by Kata Ferenc on improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork, sharing how we’ve approached this at @ncmbm.bsky.social
It sparked discussion on taking action within our Bioinformatics in Life Science initiative at @uio.no @biovitenskap.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
📅 Deadline: 8 September 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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⏰ One week left to apply!
@ncmbm.bsky.social is recruiting 1–2 early-career EMBL-style Group Leaders!
💡“We need group leaders who can bridge research and innovation to advance Norway’s life science sector – this is a rare opportunity to do just that.” Jens Petter Berg, UiO.
📜 It's @ncmbm.bsky.social Newsletter time! You can now find out what we have been up to since our last edition in June - we are delighted to celebrate our research and the great people that make it happen!
🧷 You can read it here 👉pub.dialogapi.no/v/6eaa352c-6740-4a14-bd4...
The findings not only help patients with this rare immune disorder, but may also provide insights relevant to autoimmunity, common inflammatory diseases and cancer immunotherapy.
📜 Read more about the study 👉 tinyurl.com/mrhkm4fu
This @nordicembl.bsky.social collaboration led by Saarela Janna and Meri Kaustio combined genomic analysis, functional immunology and CRISPR-based validation to uncover how HPK1, the gene product of MAP4K1, acts as a brake on T cell activation and function.
📣 Publication alert!
🔬 New genetic discovery from @FIMM and NCMBM: MAP4K1 as a key regulator of immune balance
👩🔬 Researchers from the @fimm-uh.bsky.social and @ncmbm.bsky.social have identified MAP4K1 as a novel gene behind immune dysregulation.
📄 Read the full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
⌛Less than 2 weeks left to apply!
We are looking for 1-2 new Group Leaders to launch ambitious, internationally recognised research programmes!
All the info can be found 👉 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
📅Deadline Sept 8th, 2025!
