Lorne Genome 2027 will be held 14 to 17th February in Lorne Australia. Our invited speakers will include Karen Arndt, Neil Brockdorff, Laura Banaszynski and Fides Zenk.
Lorne Genome Conference, Australia
@lornegenome.bsky.social
The preeminent Australian conference on the organisation and expression of the genome www.lornegenome.org 14 - 17th February 2027
Honoured to have a member of our Intl Scientific Advisory Board in Australia this week. Prof Brenda Andrews from the Univ of Toronto (pictured right) delivered an invited talk at the Lorne Genome Conference and caught up with our Chief Investigator Traude Beilharz, president of the Conference Board.
That's a wrap for Lorne Genome 2026! Thanks to all the speakers for fascinating talks, poster presenters for hot of the press science, trade for making the experiments possible and of course all the attendees for great discussion. See you next year!
Congratulations to winners of the Lorne Genome Best Student Poster Prizes: Jessica Hawes, Sarah Berent, David Neville, Sandeep Kum and Andrea Daner!
Last day of #Lornegenome. A great venue, cool talks and discussions. Learnt about diversification of mammalian genomes, inheritance of mutations and impact of mutagens, how TFs direct chromatin organisation and so much more. New collaborations, new projects, can’t wait til next year
2026 Winner of the Lorne Genome Julian Wells Medal: Christine Wells (no relation!) @stemcellsystems.bsky.social congratulations, well deserved!!
Almost literally too late, but here is a feed for BlueSky to collate #LorneGenome posts that blends mentions of Lorne + Genome along with posts from @lornegenome.bsky.social Should still work next year though! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Journeying back in time with Liran Carmel: reconstructing Neanderthal methylation. Found regions with different methylation to humans: genes that affect the face and voice.
Jennifer Zenker showing how pluripotent cells have unique microtubule organisation and its asymmetries direct fate decisions
We’ve been spoiled with lovely weather & quality science at @lornegenome.bsky.social this year, continuing this morning with Session 11 (Novel Approaches to Study the Genome) & then the Julian Wells Medallist presentation. Hope everyone has rested up after the dinner! See you 9am! #LorneGenome2026
Lorne Genome Conference dinner with a few party crashers
Jenny Tung: Marrying evolutionary ecology and evolutionary genetics to link traits leading to differential survival with changes in allele frequency across generations using the cutest model organism: the meerkat
a group of meerkats are standing next to each other and looking at the camera
ALT: a group of meerkats are standing next to each other and looking at the camera
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Hazuki Takahashi: are RNA DNA 🧬 interactions cell type specific in humans? Develop RADICL-seq to map RNA-DNA interactions. Capture both cis and trans interactions, showing cell type specific interactions
Transposable elements move DNA around genome, creating new genes BUT also a mutagen causing disease ☯️ Keith Slotkin has harnessed this mechanism to target DNA inserts to 🌿🫛 genomes. Have used synthetic biology to improve targeting from industry standard of 1% to >99% while reducing off target sites
90% Small Cell Lung Cancer🫁 is immune silent and evades immunotherapy , but there is plasticity between immune active / silent types. Marian Burr seeks to regulate this transition for improved SCLC survival.
Austen Ganley does a random genome project: puts A.thaliana DNA into human cells. Gets transcription that is independent of A. Thailana genes.
Can only tag @antobeck.bsky.social here on BlueSky to say that the #Illumina coffee cart is once again the quiet hero of #LorneGenome
@jennbrophy.bsky.social gives a beautiful talk uncovering the regulation of lateral root development, creating tools to engineer root branches 🌱
Brenda Andrews: yeast 🥪 a fantastic systemic genetics, all viable deletion mutants are available. Using to map genetic interactions ➡️ link phenotype to genotype
Thanks to Roche for bringing out @joepdel.bsky.social from Hartwig Medical to share his work using Roche-SBX for Paired Tumour–Normal Whole Genome Sequencing on their cohorts.
Up now Hongpei Li @singmolsci.bsky.social, winner of #lornegenome best student abstract! Telling us how p16 and polycomb interact to cause irreversible growth arrest and cell cycle exit.
Peter Cockerill's first Lorne Genome talk was in 1993! Back telling us about how chromatin priming allows faster reactivation of immune response genes in Memory T Cells.
Alexey Terskikh @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social shows us how epigentic change in the inner hair cells of the cochlear occur in a spatial fashion and is predictive of age.
Petra Hajkova @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social germ cells are depleted for lamins compared to somatic cells but pericentric heterochromatin still anchors to the periphery via H3K9me, in a similar fashion to ancestral 3D organisation that occurs in c. elegans.
Ferdinand von Meyenn @imps-ethzurich.bsky.social is there metabolic memory im adipose tissue? Sampling from patients post bariatric surgery retain an obesity signature in their adipose cells post weight loss.
Bing Zhu kicking off today by taking us through the mysteries of heterochromatin.
Good morning Lorne! Hope you are enjoying another beautiful morning before we begin with our Epigentics and Chromatin session at 9am
It’s another beautiful morning in Lorne, with blue skies & kangaroos. Highs of 33 degrees & afternoon rain/thunderstorms are predicted, but it will be cool & dry in the @lornegenome.bsky.social Heritage Ballroom for Session 7: Epigenetics & Chromatin at 9am. Looking forward to it! #LorneGenome2026
