🦘 Hop to it! Reminder: Oral abstracts for #HCA2026Asia close this Friday. 🎤 30 talks available, including 15 for students and early-career researchers. #SingleCell #SpatialTranscriptomics #HumanCellAtlas events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia/abs...
Alistair Forrest
@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
Building a truly global and inclusive #SingleCell community at #HCA2026Asia. So far: 🌏 Registrants from 25 countries ⚖️ 10 female and 9 male invited speakers 🎓 30 speaking opportunities, including 15 dedicated to students and ECRs Submit your abstract: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia/abs...
Want to give a talk at #HCA2026Asia? 🎤 30 oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts, including 15 for students and early-career researchers. 📅 Oral abstract deadline: 3 July 2026 events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia/abs... #SingleCell #SpatialTranscriptomics #HumanCellAtlas
Welcoming Anunya Opasawatchai from Mahidol Uni to #HCA2026Asia! #SingleCell #Immunology to map why individuals respond differently to vaccines and infectious diseases. Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas #SystemsImmunology Publications: tinyurl.com/ybsj2kyr
Welcoming Yun Xia from Nanyang Technological University to #HCA2026Asia! Advancing #StemCells and #Organoids to model kidney development and disease. Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #RegenerativeMedicine #KidneyResearch #HumanCellAtlas Publications: tinyurl.com/3mue7any
Welcoming Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong from @oucru.bsky.social to #HCA2026Asia! Applying new #single_cell approaches to understand tuberculosis. Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #TB #InfectiousDisease #HumanCellAtlas Publications: tinyurl.com/cjm25w52
Welcoming @aruthak.bsky.social to #HCA2026Asia! Advancing #SpatialBiology and #PrecisionMedicine. See recent whole-transcriptome spatial profiling of lung cancer TMAs. tinyurl.com/4ekx5aep Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia Publications: tinyurl.com/4utxupn9
Welcoming @em6wong.bsky.social from @victorchanginst.bsky.social to #HCA2026Asia @snowmedical.bsky.social fellow #TranscriptionalRegulation #ComparativeGenomics #enhancers #Bioinformatics Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas Publications: tinyurl.com/3nyrj8cv
Welcoming Jian Yang from Westlake University to #HCA2026Asia Leader in #StatisticalGenetics now applying #spatial to mapping of cells for complex traits tinyurl.com/w3yvd2vw Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas Publications: tinyurl.com/bda3cdwx
Hop to it! 🦘 Early bird registration closes June 1 for #HCA2026Asia. 30 talks will be selected from submitted abstracts, including 15 spots for students and early career researchers. events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia/abs... #SingleCell #Genomics #HumanCellAtlas
Welcoming Ruby Huang from @ntu-taiwan.bsky.social to #HCA2026Asia! Advancing #Genomics, #SpatialBiology and #EMT in #Ovarian_cancer. Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia Publications: tinyurl.com/ywtc7kub
Welcoming Ryan Lister from @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social and UWA to #HCA2026Asia! A pioneer in #epigenetics, #genomics, #synthetic_biology Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia Publications: tinyurl.com/kbdjb5x5
This is a numbat. Western Australia’s striped marsupial. Also the namesake of the Kharchenko Lab's single-cell CNV tool “Numbat”. Peter Kharchenko is joining us for #HCA2026Asia in Fremantle this November. events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia REGISTER NOW!! #SingleCell #Genomics #HumanCellAtlas
Welcoming @seyhanyazar.bsky.social from @garvaninstitute.bsky.social to #HCA2026Asia! A leader in #SingleCell #eQTLs to uncover mechanisms of autoimmune disease. Join us in Fremantle: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia Publications: tinyurl.com/t5cbv9d7
Be quick like a quokka. Early bird registration for #HCA2026Asia closes June 1. Don’t miss the discount → events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia Even the little ones know a good deal when they see one (Student & ECR discounts available!!) #quokka www.rottnestisland.com/see-do/wildl...
Welcoming Woong-Yang Park to #HCA2026Asia! Pioneering #SingleCell #Genomics #Spatialtranscriptomics to study the TME. Join us in Fremantle in November: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia All publications: tinyurl.com/yc362aud
Be quick like a quokka. Early bird registration for #HCA2026Asia closes June 1. Don’t miss the discount → events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #quokka www.rottnestisland.com/see-do/wildl...
Welcoming @thewulab to #HCA2026Asia! Angela Wu (HKUST) is advancing #SingleCell #genomics and #microfluidics to build innovative multi-omic platforms. Join us in Fremantle this November: events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas All publications: tinyurl.com/4x7khwbt
1/10 Did you know that molecular phenotypes of human skeletal muscles are vastly different? Meet FANTOMUS, the skeletal muscles promoterome-proteome atlas: doi.org/10.64898/202... made with @andreybuyan.bsky.social @nikitagryzunov.bsky.social @alforrest.bsky.social @sevamakeev.bsky.social
Welcoming @KharchenkoLab to #HCA2026Asia! A leader in #SingleCell #Genomics. Checkout latest on segmentation doublets in #spatial data www.nature.com/articles/s41... Join us in Fremantle in November events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas All publications: tinyurl.com/22vk2uss
Welcoming Hae-Ock Lee to #HCA2026Asia! Applying #SingleCell #Genomics to lung cancer metastasis www.nature.com/articles/s41... and ICT elifesciences.org/articles/98366 Join us in Fremantle in Nov events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas All publications: tinyurl.com/mtj7xms9
Welcoming Fuchou Tang to #HCA2026Asia! A true pioneer in #SingleCell #Genomics. From first scRNA-seq www.nature.com/articles/nme... to scHiC www.nature.com/articles/s41... Join us in Fremantle in November events.humancellatlas.org/2026asia #HumanCellAtlas All publications: tinyurl.com/4jstyd3e
Excited to share currently confirmed speakers for HCA Asia 2026 (lnkd.in/gEQPj3Gk)! #SingleCell #Genomics #SpatialBiology #SpatialOmics #HumanCellAtlas #SingleCell #transcriptomics #multiomics #Spatial_transcriptomics @ozsinglecell.bsky.social @lornegenome.bsky.social
Registration is now open for HCA Asia in Fremantle. Come make friends with our nearby neighbours. Many talking slot for EMCRs! @ozsinglecell.bsky.social @lornegenome.bsky.social #SingleCell #transcriptomics #multiomics #Spatial_transcriptomics
Registration for the HCA Asia Meeting on 2-4 November, 2026 is now open! The #HCA2026Asia meeting will be held in Perth, Australia, and online, and is hosted by @alforrest.bsky.social. Please register at buff.ly/gADDEnC 🖥️ 🧬 #Genomics #SingleCell #Spatial #HumanCellAtlas
Registration for the HCA Asia Meeting on 2-4 November, 2026 is now open! The #HCA2026Asia meeting will be held in Perth, Australia, and online, and is hosted by @alforrest.bsky.social. Please register at buff.ly/gADDEnC 🖥️ 🧬 #Genomics #SingleCell #Spatial #HumanCellAtlas
connectomeDB2025: Quality matters! ✅3,579 ligand-receptor pairs supported by 2,803 papers ✅14 vertebrates ❌ >2,900 unsupported pairs from other DBs excluded connectomedb.org academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... @JARamilowski @sakura_maezono @rui_hou_ @weitao_lin @yen_yeow + team
First ride and ocean swim of the year in the big blue antidepressant. There's beauty out there, fish, seaweed and seagrass.. and so far no stingers!
Australia’s hyper-competitive grant system is harming the very researchers working to improve our nation’s health. Chronic stress, relationship breakdowns, depression, burnout, self-medication, and, tragically, suicide are part of our sector's reality. www.linkedin.com/posts/alforr...
Australia's hyper competitive grant system, and the chronic job insecurity it creates, is harming the very researchers who are working to improve the nation's health. The people striving to fi...
Australia's hyper competitive grant system, and the chronic job insecurity it creates, is harming the very researchers who are working to improve the nation's health. The people striving to find cures...
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Chances are you're about to lose. Science funding in Australia is now a gamble with terrible odds. #NHMRC Ideas success rates have hit 8.1% nationally, <4% in WA. Brilliant colleagues are leaving or quitting. We need change. www.linkedin.com/posts/alforr...
For those outside of Australia this is an anti-gambling advert. I am posting this because funding for science in Australia is at a crisis and for many in the research sector we are gambling with our… ...
For those outside of Australia this is an anti-gambling advert. I am posting this because funding for science in Australia is at a crisis and for many in the research sector we are gambling with our f...
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Australia: Low ARC success rates for early career researchers sparks anger (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
Low success rate in early career grants ‘deeply disappointing’ - Research Professional News
“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate
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