Ali Oghabian
@gacatag.bsky.social
PostDoc at Myofin lab at Folkhälhsan RC & Uni of Helsinki. Interested in RNA splicing, Bioinformatics & Machine Learning.
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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆
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Check out our recap videos from #EMC2025 and #WMS2025 on our Instagram 📹 :
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Check out our recap videos from #EMC2025 and #WMS2025 on our Instagram 📹 :
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...)
World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)
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A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever
go.nature.com/4hd7MCU
go.nature.com/4hd7MCU
‘Am I redundant?’: how AI changed my career in bioinformatics
A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever.
go.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever
go.nature.com/4hd7MCU
go.nature.com/4hd7MCU
October 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Heading back to Helsinki after an inspiring #WMS2025. Grateful for an excellent meeting, a beautiful host city, and the chance to connect with brilliant colleagues and scientists
October 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Heading back to Helsinki after an inspiring #WMS2025. Grateful for an excellent meeting, a beautiful host city, and the chance to connect with brilliant colleagues and scientists
Great times with the Myofin team (@myofinlab.bsky.social) at #WMS2025 In Vienna !😂
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Great times with the Myofin team (@myofinlab.bsky.social) at #WMS2025 In Vienna !😂
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@jaakkosarparanta.bsky.social presenting in the poster highlights session! 👏
#WMS2025
@worldmusclesociety.org
#WMS2025
@worldmusclesociety.org
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
@jaakkosarparanta.bsky.social presenting in the poster highlights session! 👏
#WMS2025
@worldmusclesociety.org
#WMS2025
@worldmusclesociety.org
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Two years from today #Helsinki and #Finlandiahall will welcome #WMS2027, the annual congress of @worldmusclesociety.org. Save the date!
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Two years from today #Helsinki and #Finlandiahall will welcome #WMS2027, the annual congress of @worldmusclesociety.org. Save the date!
Interested in the regulation of RNA splicing in skeletal muscle development and function? Come by my poster (442P) this evening from 17:15 to 18:15 at #WMS2025.
October 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Interested in the regulation of RNA splicing in skeletal muscle development and function? Come by my poster (442P) this evening from 17:15 to 18:15 at #WMS2025.
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Our team is excited to connect - come find us at the @worldmusclesociety.org congress. 🇦🇹 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#WMS2025
#WMS2025
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Our team is excited to connect - come find us at the @worldmusclesociety.org congress. 🇦🇹 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡
#WMS2025
#WMS2025
"Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling provide novel insight into the pathogenesis of monogenic SGMS2-related osteoporosis." Our manuscript in accepted format (by JBMR Plus) is now online: academic.oup.com/jbmrplus/art... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling provide novel insight into the pathogenesis of monogenic SGMS2-related osteoporosis
Abstract. Heterozygous pathogenic variants in the SGMS2 gene, encoding the sphingomyelin-synthesizing enzyme sphingomyelin synthase 2, cause a rare monogen
academic.oup.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling provide novel insight into the pathogenesis of monogenic SGMS2-related osteoporosis." Our manuscript in accepted format (by JBMR Plus) is now online: academic.oup.com/jbmrplus/art... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Registration for the @myofinlab.bsky.social - organized course, ILS144: "Genetic and genomic technologies in health care" is open. Link: tinyurl.com/43n2ydwu @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
Studies
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August 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Registration for the @myofinlab.bsky.social - organized course, ILS144: "Genetic and genomic technologies in health care" is open. Link: tinyurl.com/43n2ydwu @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi
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🚨Publication alert!🚨
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
May 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
🚨Publication alert!🚨
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
doi.org/10.1177/2214...
First author Milla’s summary of the article:
”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6)
#MyoBlue
"A homozygous single-nucleotide variant in TNNT1 causes abnormal troponin T isoform expression in a patient with severe nemaline myopathy: A case report" - by Milla Laarne, et al. (Myofin lab)- just got published in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"A homozygous single-nucleotide variant in TNNT1 causes abnormal troponin T isoform expression in a patient with severe nemaline myopathy: A case report" - by Milla Laarne, et al. (Myofin lab)- just got published in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our team is excited to connect – come find us at #ESHG2025, or reach out to set up a meeting. Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas!
@eshg.bsky.social
#ESHG #Networking #ResearchCollaboration #Myofin
@eshg.bsky.social
#ESHG #Networking #ResearchCollaboration #Myofin
May 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Our team is excited to connect – come find us at #ESHG2025, or reach out to set up a meeting. Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas!
@eshg.bsky.social
#ESHG #Networking #ResearchCollaboration #Myofin
@eshg.bsky.social
#ESHG #Networking #ResearchCollaboration #Myofin
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Our senior researcher @laitilajenni.bsky.social has published her final project from her postdoc in Copenhagen. Jenni's passion is elucidating the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying nemaline myopathy.
May is the official #NMAwarenessMonth – take a look at buildingstrength.org for more information 💙
May is the official #NMAwarenessMonth – take a look at buildingstrength.org for more information 💙
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Our senior researcher @laitilajenni.bsky.social has published her final project from her postdoc in Copenhagen. Jenni's passion is elucidating the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying nemaline myopathy.
May is the official #NMAwarenessMonth – take a look at buildingstrength.org for more information 💙
May is the official #NMAwarenessMonth – take a look at buildingstrength.org for more information 💙
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We had the pleasure to attend the Scientific Days organized by @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social at Haikko. Fanny (single-fibre studies) and Milla (nanopore-sequencing) took part in the poster pitching session and had posters on display … (1/3)
April 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We had the pleasure to attend the Scientific Days organized by @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social at Haikko. Fanny (single-fibre studies) and Milla (nanopore-sequencing) took part in the poster pitching session and had posters on display … (1/3)
Cherry on top of the first of the Folkhälsan Scientific days; presentation by Finnish psychotherapist, actor and screen writer Kari Ketonen (the star of the popular Luottomies TV shows and movie) on how to stress less. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @folkhalsan.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cherry on top of the first of the Folkhälsan Scientific days; presentation by Finnish psychotherapist, actor and screen writer Kari Ketonen (the star of the popular Luottomies TV shows and movie) on how to stress less. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @folkhalsan.bsky.social
Running aggregate() on wide matrices takes loooong; better to use nested apply or data tables instead ! gacatag.blogspot.com/2025/04/runn... #Rprogramming #gacatag
Running aggregate on wide matrices takes loooong; use nested apply or data tables instead !
The aggregate function can be very useful in R, allowing one to run a function (e.g. mean ) within groups of rows, in each column in a matr...
gacatag.blogspot.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Running aggregate() on wide matrices takes loooong; better to use nested apply or data tables instead ! gacatag.blogspot.com/2025/04/runn... #Rprogramming #gacatag
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🚨Publication alert!🚨
First author Victoria’s summary of the paper:
”Genetic testing can leave many rare muscle disease patients without answers.” (1/4)
First author Victoria’s summary of the paper:
”Genetic testing can leave many rare muscle disease patients without answers.” (1/4)
Gene prioritisation for enhancing molecular diagnosis in rare skeletal muscle disease cohort
Background Inherited rare skeletal muscle diseases cause muscle weakness and wasting of variable severity. Without a molecular diagnosis, patients often endure prolonged diagnostic journeys, leading t...
jmg.bmj.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨Publication alert!🚨
First author Victoria’s summary of the paper:
”Genetic testing can leave many rare muscle disease patients without answers.” (1/4)
First author Victoria’s summary of the paper:
”Genetic testing can leave many rare muscle disease patients without answers.” (1/4)
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🚨Publication alert!🚨
First author Ali’s summary of the paper:
skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
(1/6)
First author Ali’s summary of the paper:
skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
(1/6)
OBSCN undergoes extensive alternative splicing during human cardiac and skeletal muscle development - Skeletal Muscle
Background Highly expressed in skeletal muscles, the gene Obscurin (i.e. OBSCN) has 121 non-overlapping exons and codes for some of the largest known mRNAs in the human genome. Furthermore, it plays a...
skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
🚨Publication alert!🚨
First author Ali’s summary of the paper:
skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
(1/6)
First author Ali’s summary of the paper:
skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
(1/6)
Our paper about the alternative splicing of #OBSCN during skeletal #muscle and #cardiac muscle development, was just published in BMC #SkeletalMuscle, doi.org/10.1186/s133...
OBSCN undergoes extensive alternative splicing during human cardiac and skeletal muscle development - Skeletal Muscle
Background Highly expressed in skeletal muscles, the gene Obscurin (i.e. OBSCN) has 121 non-overlapping exons and codes for some of the largest known mRNAs in the human genome. Furthermore, it plays a...
doi.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Our paper about the alternative splicing of #OBSCN during skeletal #muscle and #cardiac muscle development, was just published in BMC #SkeletalMuscle, doi.org/10.1186/s133...
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#RareDiseaseDay is on the last day of February (28th or 29th).
Approximately 5% of the world's population is affected by a rare disease. Rare Disease Day is an important initiative for us, as nearly 90% of neuromuscular disorders are classified as rare diseases. (1/5)
Approximately 5% of the world's population is affected by a rare disease. Rare Disease Day is an important initiative for us, as nearly 90% of neuromuscular disorders are classified as rare diseases. (1/5)
February 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#RareDiseaseDay is on the last day of February (28th or 29th).
Approximately 5% of the world's population is affected by a rare disease. Rare Disease Day is an important initiative for us, as nearly 90% of neuromuscular disorders are classified as rare diseases. (1/5)
Approximately 5% of the world's population is affected by a rare disease. Rare Disease Day is an important initiative for us, as nearly 90% of neuromuscular disorders are classified as rare diseases. (1/5)