Agilent will deliver training on our newly installed Seahorse XFe24 on 21st - 24th July. This instrument allows real-time cell metabolic analysis, providing measures of metabolic function in live cells and ex vivo samples. Email cgebm@abdn.ac.uk if you would like to attend the training

A big thank you to Illumina for a stimulating lunch & learn session this week on Illumina’s expansion into multiple new omics directions: whole-genome sequencing, methylome, single-cell and spatial transcriptome, and proteome technologies. Drop us an email if you are interested in using any of these

Join us for lunch and explore how Illumina's Multiomics solutions, including the Illumina Single Cell 3' RNA Prep, 5-base methylation, Proteomics and Spatial solutions, are advancing biological discovery at scale. We look forward to welcoming you at midday on 16th June in the IMS

Our next two bioinformatics support clinics are on Tuesday 9th June and Tuesday 14th July, both at 11 am in the IMS atrium. No question is too big or too small. We can help you plan or visualise your analysis and troubleshoot code.

A great SBS seminar yesterday from Norman Ratcliffe, who works for @bas.ac.uk Zavodovski Island was described as "Mordor, but all the orcs are penguins"! Drone imagery, tracking info, and metabarcoding of faecal samples to look at diet were used to track population decline in chinstrap penguins.

Learn more about adaptive sampling in our latest Nanopore Know-How: https://nanoporetech.com/blog/guided-by-data-adaptive-sampling-for-targeted-sequencing?utm_campaign=OmicsTech+25&utm_content=1764775021&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Our pangenome graph-based Nanopore Adaptive Sampling (NAS) tool, GNASTy, is available now in Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

it was a real pleasure to have @katepeters3.bsky.social from @sussexneuro.bsky.social giving a very engaging talk on the effect of environmental enrichment on food seeking at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social. Thanks to the @royalsoced.bsky.social to fund our project allowing her to be here.

Can peer review make our writing more readable? Colleagues at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social have a paper in Frontiers for Young Minds, where papers are reviewed for understanding by 8-15 year old students. Read about their experience (UoA only link) abdn.site/qDqoA Paper: doi.org/10.3389/frym...

Why is Eating Healthy More Difficult for Some People?

In 2025, around one in seven UK households struggled to afford nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, and lean meat. This is called food insecurity. Families living on a low income are often forced...

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CGEBM are running another drop-in bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (13th January) in the IMS building atrium on the Foresterhill campus from 11:00 to 12:00. Pop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on.

Today's IMS PI seminar from Prof Alasdair MacKenzie focused on the role of cis-regulatory enhancers in anxiety, how these are affected by and interact with sex and early life stress, and the effects of disruption of enhancers (either by methylation or experiments) doi.org/10.1111/febs... #Aberdeen

We are running our first bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (9th December) in the IMS atrium on the Foresterhill campus. Drop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on. We will be available from 12:30 to 13:30, after the Carol Concert.

Recommendations for bioinformatics in clinical practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Recommendations for bioinformatics in clinical practice - Genome Medicine

Background Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is well established in clinical diagnostics, and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly becoming the method of choice, as a result of lower prices an...

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Interested in how portable sequencing could improve patient care in remote & under-resourced hospitals? Here's a case report from Tanzania in which a mobile setup (Bento Lab + ONT MinION) helped to diagnose a child’s infection when routine tests failed! Read more here: www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

Nanopore sequencing technology for clinical diagnosis of infectious diseases where laboratory capacity is meager: A case report

In resource-limited settings, patients are often first presented to clinical settings when seriously ill and access to proper clinical microbial diagnostics is often very limited or non-existing. On F...

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C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS

Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...

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I didn't manage to summarise all of @rorylcooper.bsky.social 's seminar today, but here we have sonic hedgehog inhibition pausing chicken embryo feather development at stage E9, and halting chicken embryo feather development at stage E11. Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.

It was great to hear about Dr Peng (Alex) Liu's research today, finding out how black carbon pollution affects developing fetuses. Many methods were featured, including proteomics to identify potential reactionary metabolites, single cell transcriptome sequencing (done by our CGEBM team) and more.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the SBS seminar from @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social , looking at over 20 years of butterfly data. In Spanish mountain ranges, cold specialised species are going locally extinct and are being replaced by warmer habitat species #UniofAberdeen #Biology #SciArt

Our bioinformatics workshops are fast approaching. More details and booking information on our training page: tinyurl.com/c5n9n6p4

Thank you for the great seminar yesterday @yorkyeast.bsky.social We heard about the systems and regulatory mechanisms involved in endosome recycling in yeast. A wide range of techniques were used for this work: membrane visualisations, genetic screenings, qPCR & more