Almost literally too late, but here is a feed for BlueSky to collate #LorneGenome posts that blends mentions of Lorne + Genome along with posts from @lornegenome.bsky.social
Should still work next year though!
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Last day of #Lornegenome. A great venue, cool talks and discussions. Learnt about diversification of mammalian genomes, inheritance of mutations and impact of mutagens, how TFs direct chromatin organisation and so much more. New collaborations, new projects, can’t wait til next year
Emotional rollercoaster at #LorneGenome today:
- adipose tissue remembers being overweight in the transcriptome, nudging you back to weight gain after a loss
- Meerkats reproductive success correlates with higher body mass
I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere
Can only tag @antobeck.bsky.social here on BlueSky to say that the #Illumina coffee cart is once again the quiet hero of #LorneGenome
Seven ARMI researchers stand outdoors on a lawn at the Lorne Genome Conference, wearing conference lanyards. From left to right: Masoud Baghi, Jennifer Zenker, Nir Eynon, Bernadette Jones-Freeman, Elizabeth Reisman, Rushali Kullachanda Aiyanna and Yonghui Wang. Trees and navy umbrellas are behind them on a sunny day.
We’re at #LorneGenome this week. Jenny Zenker presents tomorrow on how microtubule organisation shapes stem cell fate. Our posters are covering limb development, muscle adaptation, ageing transcriptomics and exercise proteomics. At Lorne? Come say hello.
Up now Hongpei Li @singmolsci.bsky.social, winner of #lornegenome best student abstract! Telling us how p16 and polycomb interact to cause irreversible growth arrest and cell cycle exit.
Alex Hewitt @utas.edu.au takes #lornegenome through genetic drivers of glaucoma, making use of large biobanks, showing high predictive rates for glaucoma polygenic risk scores compared to other common diseases.
Duncan Odom takes #lornegenome on a wild ride through lesion segregation showing repair of DNA damage can be strand resolved.
Up now @hannah-coughlan.bsky.social Hannah Coughlan of @wehi-research.bsky.social #Lornegenome Millenium Prize Winner talking about her work on the 3D organisation of the genome in immune cells
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny heads the UNSW biomedical machine learning laboratory and is applying generative AI to spatial transcriptomics www.unsw.edu.au/staff/hamid-... #LorneGenome
The @lornegenome.bsky.social 2026 Millennium Science award to mid career researchers to acknowledge outstanding contributions to Australian genomic research, including novel analytical concepts. #LorneGenome Congratulations Hamid Alinejad-Rokny (UNSW) and Hannah Coughlan (WEHI)
Congratulations to Hamid Alinejad Rokny from UNSW for his #lornegenome Millenium Prize! He shares with us his work on AI in Biology, especially transcriptomics.
Up next #Lornegenome @lornegenome.bsky.social Millenium Prize Awards for Mid Career Investigators!! 2026 winners are @hannah-coughlan.bsky.social Hannah Coughlan @wehi-research.bsky.social and Hamid Alinejad Rokny! Congratulations and on to their talks!
Next up @lornegenome.bsky.social 2026 is Jose Polo! He’s going to tell us about an unpublished study! 🤫 Luck us! #lornegenome
Submitting abstracts with my PhD students to 2026 meetings & hitting home that I still need a lot more of 2025 to achieve that long academic list!! #LorneCancer (www.lornecancer.org) #LorneGenome (www.lornegenome.org)
@janstrugnell.bsky.social past breeding history is kept in genomes of animals alive today, so using octopus genomes to test for historic Antarctic ice sheet collapse. Showed that last time global temp was 1.5 deg higher than today the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed #lornegenome #lornegenome25
Effector domains? KLFS?! Come on by poster 218 tonight for transcription factor intrigue! There may be chocolate and 3D proteins. #Lornegenome #Transcriptionfactors
Maddy Comerford using massively parallel reporter assay to characterise activity of Denisovan and Neanderthal sequences in the modern genome identifying a denisovan snp with immune specific expression. #lornegenome #lornegenome2025
Introducing the PacBio Vega system – HiFi sequencing within reach. Come by our #LorneGenome2025 booth (#4) to learn more!
#LorneGenome #Sequencing @pacbio.bsky.social
Ira Deveson - Millenium Prize Winner #lornegenome2025 Assembling a genome with “cornetto” for "no boring bits". Use Oxford Nanopore “read until” to focus extra reads on poorly sequenced parts of the genome to get complete contigs #lornegenome
BS: From the control experiment there was good evidence for genotype specific accessible chromatin variation #LorneGenome
BS: Discussing testing to determine whether scATAC-seq would work in plants - in maize - answer - yes! #LorneGenome
BS: Genome size is not correlated with the number of regions - rather the number of genes #LorneGenome
BS: Distal accessible chromatin is abundant in plants with larger genomes (outside the core 1kb promotor) #LorneGenome
BS: They noted in ATAC-Seq experiments there were differences in regions of accessible chromatin between different sample types e.g. leaf versus ear #LorneGenome
BS: ~11kb region upstream of the tb1 CDS. Functional reporter assays showed the Hopscotch transposon to be the main distal regulator #LorneGenome
