alforrest.bsky.social
Head of the Systems Biology and Genomics Lab at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, University of Western Australia #FANTOM5 #transcriptomics #spatial #cellcommunication #ovariancancer #bioinformatics #singlecell
👤 Joined on 09 December 2023
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@alforrest.bsky.socialIt's genuinely insulting to not have access to my own journal articles.
Show PostGood morning @lornegenome.bsky.social delegates! In case you missed watching the sunrise on the beach this morning (with galahs!), I’m happy to report that today we have a forecast of blue skies, highs of 31 degrees & some great science, kicking off with @odomlab.bsky.social at 9am. #LorneGenome2026
Show PostAlex 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.
Show PostAndrew Lonsdale @petermaccc.bsky.social showcases LemonSplice 🍋 to try to answer the question of what does the mess of splice junctions 🧩 even mean? Shiny interface that visualises, quantifies novelty and links to published findings.
Show PostSpatial transcriptomics methods can struggle to scale on large datasets, or miss biological structure. Nora Liu @saigenci.bsky.social introduces DOMINO, a diffusion optimised contrastive learning framework for spatial domain detection, an accurate and scalable ST method.
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