Rory Johnson

@roryjohnson1.bsky.social

PI at University College Dublin, researches how RNA can be harnessed for better health

👉Please repost! 🧬Directed evolution has worked for proteins and small RNAs what about Long Noncoding RNAs?? 🧠Join us to find out! 👾3 Postdoc opportunities in Directed Evolution, Epistasis, FitnessLandscapes, Genome Editing, Variant Effects, Deep Mutational Scanning. 🧜Details: www.gold-lab.org

GOLDLab | lncRNA and Disease | Dublin

GOLDLab | The aim of our work is to understand the role of long non-coding RNAs in human diseases, using a combination of computational and experimental methods

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Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵

Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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