Alex McAuley

@alexmcauley.bsky.social

Senior Research Scientist and Team Leader in Virology and Vector Biology; Traveller & Wannabe Composer.

A new paper from our project team. This analysis approach should be useful for omics analysis and biomarker ID, amongst other things...! Interpretable Machine Learning for Low-Sample Multi-Omics: A Case Study of Ferret Vaccine Response academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Interpretable Machine Learning for Low-Sample Multi-Omics: A Case Study of Ferret Vaccine Response

AbstractMotivation. Machine Learning approaches continue to be critical to the modelling of complex biological pathways, but many of the most-used models s

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Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article)

The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.

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Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇

What are some of the most under-rated film scores you can think of? One of mine is Homeward Bound by Bruce Broughton. We had the film on VHS when I was a child, and the main theme is still one of my favourites

Cover image from the soundtrack to the Disney film Homeward Bound by Bruce Broughton

Decided to move here from Twitter... I am a Team Leader and Senior Research Scientist a the CSIRO, Australia's National Science Agency 🧪. My research focusses on emerging infectious diseases, vaccine and therapy development, and novel mosquito control strategies