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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 1d

I am looking forward to attending Lorne I&I next year. To my friends and colleagues overseas, this is the excuse you were looking for to come visit Australia!!!! 🦘🐨🧫🧬🧪🦠

Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 1d

‼️Deadline approaching - Don't miss your chance to submit an oral abstract for 16th Annual Lorne Infection & Immunity Conference
📍Held 18-20 of February 2026 at the Mantra Lorne

📝 Career Development Awards also available

Apply at www.lorneinfectionimmunity.org

Deadline: Friday, 10th of October

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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 1d

PSA, deadline for the 16th Annual Lorne Infection & Immunity Conference this Friday!🏃‍♂️💨
Don't miss your chance to submit an oral abstract and apply for a Career Development Award

Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 1d

‼️Deadline approaching - Don't miss your chance to submit an oral abstract for 16th Annual Lorne Infection & Immunity Conference
📍Held 18-20 of February 2026 at the Mantra Lorne

📝 Career Development Awards also available

Apply at www.lorneinfectionimmunity.org

Deadline: Friday, 10th of October

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Join us for our annual VIIN Young Investigator Symposium!

🗓️ Fri 14th Nov 8:00am-7:30pm
📍Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Parkville

Abstract submissions close next Fri 29th Aug!

Register now! 👇
bit.ly/471WFK0
#VIINYIS

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Aug 14

📝 Working on a manuscript? Not sure on how to navigate the submission process?

Join our next workshop “Manuscript Mastery” for all the tips and tricks on how to prepare your work for publication!

🕰️ Wed 10th Sept 10am - 12pm

Register by 5pm Friday 5th September
bit.ly/45gWCst

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thor: a platform for cell-level investigation of spatial transcriptomics and histology. #SpatialTranscriptomics @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thor: a platform for cell-level investigation of spatial transcriptomics and histology - Nature Communications

Zhang, Chen, and colleagues present Thor, a platform that turns spot-level spatial transcriptomics into single-cell gene maps using the paired histology image, without using single-cell RNA-seq data.…

www.nature.com

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · Aug 8

taxburst v0.3.0 is now released - this is an update of the Krona visualization system for microbiome/metagenome taxonomy analyses. Enjoy!

Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration

Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!

ivory.idyll.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 7

What is the mechanism of food-induced anaphylaxis?
Today @science.org unravelled
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Gut mast cell leukotriene release
@rmedzhitov.bsky.social

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saligramalab.bsky.social @saligramalab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thoroughly #enjoyed #reading this #paper. #Genetics here is amazing. Cysteinyl leukotrienes stimulate gut absorption of food allergens to promote anaphylaxis in mice | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cysteinyl leukotrienes stimulate gut absorption of food allergens to promote anaphylaxis in mice

Food-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) triggers life-threatening anaphylaxis; however, for unclear reasons, some people with food-specific IgE are asymptomatic upon allergen consumption. We studied stra...

www.science.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 4

"Current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal cause disease, disability, and death at every stage of the plastic lifecycle." @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 4

One in 4 people carry one copy of the APOE4 allele, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. We've just learned how that risk is mediated—the immune system
erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...

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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · Jul 30

The future of multi-omics?
🔍 A supervised deep neural network trained on longitudinal multi-omic data (BioMapAI) enabled identification of disease and symptom specific biomarkers in ME/CFS and construction of a connectivity map of the microbiome, immune system and plasma metabolome

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 25

Multi-omics with A.I. analytics demonstrates critical role of the gut microbiome and immune response and enables accurate diagnosis of ME/CFS, may also be applicable to Long Covid.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.ft.com/content/9cdf...

AI-driven multi-omics modeling of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Nature Medicine

Analysis of a deeply phenotyped, longitudinal cohort of 249 participants elucidates the network of concurrent molecular and macroscopic patterns related to insurgence and course of ME/CFS.

www.nature.com

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells. #TranslationEfficiency #TranslationalControl @natbiotech.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Combined single-cell profiling of chromatin–transcriptome and splicing across brain cell types, regions and disease state. #SingleCellProfiling #RNAsplicing #Chromatin #Transcriptome @natbiotech.nature.com 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Great to hear about Dr Halina Pietrzak’s work as a clinical trials coordinator. Highlighting the direct impact she sees on patients through their work, and how important communication and problem solving are for her position!

#VIINcareers

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks to Dr Andrew Foers to showing us what it takes to go from PhD to patent scientist! Andrew shared valuable perspectives on how skills from PhD and post-doc can transfer over to patents but also key differences!

#VIINcareers

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks to Dr Rebecca Smith for starting off our Careers Evening! Giving us insight in her journey from research to development. As Rebecca put it "Be brave, take a few risks, be kind to yourself. Things will evolve as they need to."
#VIINcareers

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Jul 30

A great talk from Dr Jodie Abramovitch accompanied by excellent art and insights into the role of a principal scientist at a contract research organisation. Thanks for reminding us all of to trust ourselves and our guts!

#VIINcareers

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Fantastic insights from Dr Nicholas Liau on challenging yourself, doing things outside of your comfort zone and living beyond the now-- make time to think about your future. Diversifying your experiences can seem intimidating but can lead to great things. #VIINcareers

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Jul 22

How can we find out what’s really going on inside cells when we’re generating so much complex data?

CORNETO is an open-source tool that uses machine learning to turn tangled omics datasets into clear maps of how genes, proteins, and signalling pathways interact.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/r... 🧪

CORNETO: machine learning to decode complex omics data

New tool combines biological knowledge with machine learning to help researchers extract meaningful insights from complex omics data.

www.ebi.ac.uk

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 23

We can predict a person's risk of coronary artery disease better than ever before. Cover of new
@naturemedicine.bsky.social
regarding our @scripps.edu recent paper
nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · Jul 23

📝 So happy to share that the multi-omic mechanisms of peanut OIT 🥜 study I worked on during my postdoc in Berlin is now published and open access. I am excited to share these new findings❗️

Alisa 愛理沙 @alisaiakupova.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new paper is out in Allergy! 🚨

Understanding the Variability of Peanut-Oral Immunotherapy Responses by Multi-Omics Profiling of Immune Cells

I personally like the ILC3 link with OIT :^)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Understanding the Variability of Peanut‐Oral Immunotherapy Responses by Multi‐Omics Profiling of Immune Cells

This study analyzes molecular drivers of OIT responsiveness. Multi-omics profiling of peanut-stimulated PBMCs in a controlled peanut-OIT trial identifies immune, transcriptomic, and epigenetic change...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · Jul 21

Don't miss your opportunity to attend @theviin.bsky.social Careers Evening.
Deadline extended to COB today❗️ So get in quick 🏃‍♀️💨

I Am Dr.Sam @iamdrsam.bsky.social · Jul 14

Not sure what your next science career step will be? or want to learn more about career possibilities?

Join us for the annual @theviin.bsky.social Careers Evening!

📆 Wednesday July 30th
🕐5.30 -8.30pm
📍WEHI

Register via TryBooking by 11.59pm Sunday 20th of July
www.trybooking.com/DDBSU

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I Am Dr.Sam @iamdrsam.bsky.social · Jul 14

Not sure what your next science career step will be? or want to learn more about career possibilities?

Join us for the annual @theviin.bsky.social Careers Evening!

📆 Wednesday July 30th
🕐5.30 -8.30pm
📍WEHI

Register via TryBooking by 11.59pm Sunday 20th of July
www.trybooking.com/DDBSU

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Jul 18

Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rstats #bioinformatics #bioconductor

Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science

This opinion piece discusses the Bioconductor project for open-source bioinformatics and the engineering concepts underlying its effectiveness to date…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jul 7

New notification settings are here! Adjust the types of notifications you get under Settings > Notifications (or by clicking the gear icon on your notifications page)

You can also now get alerts when *individual users* post! Click the bell icon on a profile to subscribe.

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Fine tune which notifications you receive, opt-in to receive push notifications from specific accounts, and receive notifications when someone likes or reposts posts you’ve reposted.

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