Congratulations to @saigenci.bsky.social's Dr Luke Isbel on being named a 2026 South Australian Young Tall Poppy! A well-deserved recognition of his outstanding research in molecular epigenetics and commitment to science communication and community engagement. bit.ly/3TrrnHQ @aipscience.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to @saigenci.bsky.social researchers Dr Yannan Yang, Dr Thanh Loc Nguyen and Dr Min Zhang on being awarded #NHMRC Investigator Grants for 2026. Advancing breakthroughs in cancer and neurodegenerative disease research. 👏 🔗 adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2...

🎉On Monday, Team @saigenci.bsky.social hosted our 2026 The Longest Table morning tea in support of The Hospital Research Foundation Group. Proud to have raised $1,400 for cancer research and patient care at our fifth event. Thanks to everyone who baked, donated, and joined us! 🫖🍵🍰❤️ #forkcancer

📣Congratulations to @saigenci.bsky.social's Professor Lisa Butler and team on securing a Tour de Cure Australia Research Grant to support research aimed at improving outcomes for men with prostate cancer. 🔬🧪👏

📢 New opportunity @acepigenetics.bsky.social and @saigenci.bsky.social! Looking for a Group Leader in Epigenetics to join a leading interdisciplinary research centre and lead a globally competitive research program in epigenomics. Join us and make your mark! jobs.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

Group Leader Epigenetics - Adelaide CBD, SA, Australia

Based in the College of Health, Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences (AHMS) Building Salary per annum: Level B ($117,100-$138,515), Level C ($142,789-$164,207) plus 17% Superannuation 1 Grant Funded R...

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Join us! With a fully funded PhD scholarship. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @saigenci.bsky.social

📢 Fully funded PhD position in AI foundation models for cancer immunology Our lab https://lnkd.in/gmgsXEZt This project will develop and apply artificial intelligence models, including foundation… |...

📢 Fully funded PhD position in AI foundation models for cancer immunology Our lab https://lnkd.in/gmgsXEZt This project will develop and apply artificial intelligence models, including foundation mo...

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📣Congratulations to @saigenci.bsky.social's Dr Mara Zeissig taking out the CMAX Discovery Award at last night's 40 Under 40 award ceremony. Mara is Group Leader of the T cell Immunotherapy Laboratory in the Tumour Inflammation and Immunotherapy program. 👏 www.indailysa.com.au/news/events/...

📢 📃 Finetuning masking challenges narrow-task evaluation of cell foundation models shorturl.at/dcz3l We tested foundation model architectures across extreme reductions in pretraining scale. We found that standard narrow tasks were insensitive to pretraining scale, up tp 128-fold reduction!

Finetuning masking challenges narrow-task evaluation of cell foundation models

Single-cell foundation models are large, self-supervised deep learning networks pretrained on millions of cellular transcriptomes. These models promise to deliver cell representations that are transfe...

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📣Last night we hosted the 2026 @saigenci.bsky.social Annual Public Lecture "Why cancer comes back and how can we stop it?" featuring Program Leads, Lisa Butler and Lan Nguyen. Thanks to our speakers and MC Michael Roy. 👏 Watch the lecture at www.youtube.com/live/QQT61Lj...

📰@saigenci.bsky.social 's own Dr Zeyad Nassar featured in @thetiser.bsky.social article on SA researchers developing life-changing cancer breakthroughs. A 2026 Cancer Council SA Research Fellowship recipient for his work in prostate cancer research. Read the full article here bit.ly/4n19IRV 👏

This work started as an internal resource and has now become public with helpful APIs. It was 3+ years in the making, with a massive Thanks to Mengyuan Shen and the whole Team! We hope you find it useful 🙏 @saigenci.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

📣 Great to see this fabulous group attending the first event for 2026 organised by the @saigenci.bsky.social EMCR Committee and welcoming postdocs, students and RAs. A great opportunity to network and share ideas on supporting our community! ☕👏 @acepigenetics.bsky.social

📣Read about @saigenci.bsky.social Director, @chrissweens1.bsky.social, discussing advancements in treatment options for prostate cancer at @ascocancer.bsky.social GU Cancers Symposium 2026 in @pharmacytimes.bsky.social at www.pharmacytimes.com/view/a-new-t...

A New Therapeutic Era in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer | Pharmacy Times

At 2026 ASCO GU, emerging targets are reshaping how mCRPC is treated.

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Spatial transcriptomics methods can struggle to scale on large datasets, or miss biological structure. Nora Liu @saigenci.bsky.social introduces DOMINO, a diffusion optimised contrastive learning framework for spatial domain detection, an accurate and scalable ST method.

Very pleased to share our latest published work on the role of the innate immune inflammasome adaptor ASC in promoting pancreatic cancer. Thanks to all in our multinational team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41654528/ @saigenci.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com

Cancer cell-intrinsic inflammasome protein ASC links innate immunity with mitochondrial metabolism in driving pancreatic cancer - PubMed

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is driven by genetic alterations in the pancreatic epithelium (e.g., KRAS) coupled with dysregulated innate immunity that triggers tumor-promoting chronic inflammation. However, the identity of innate immune molecular regulators as therapeutic targets in PDAC …

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@saigenci.bsky.social is pleased to be part of the team, led by @petermaccc.bsky.social, awarded $5m from PCFA. @katmorel.bsky.social will bring her expertise to the project team, an extension of "The Daisy Project" led by @chrissweens1.bsky.social See more bit.ly/45PoNyy bit.ly/4alvFW1

📣Welcome to our Ainsworth Fellows in the TII program @saigenci.bsky.social, researching the role of inflammation in lung and upper gastrointestinal cancers. Grateful for the generous support of the Ainsworth Foundation. Drs Tamsin Lannagan, Eun-Jung In, Georgette Radford, Rhynelle Dmello. 🧪🔬👏

As part of the transition to Adelaide University, this page now represents @saigenci.bsky.social at Adelaide University. Thank you for following and supporting us on our journey under the University of Adelaide. Follow @AdelaideUni for university-wide updates and to explore what’s ahead.

📣 The University of Adelaide and @saigenci.bsky.social were proud sponsors of the Australian Ubiquitin Summit 2025, held 16-20 November in Lorne, Victoria bringing together leading scientists, clinicians and industry innovators to explore ubiquitin biology and targeted protein degradation (TPD). 🧪🔬👏

📣Kicking off @saigenci.bsky.social's 2025/26 summer research program with a morning tea celebrating the arrival of this year's students. An event filled with conversation and connection as students met each other, engaged with supervisors and SAiGENCI summer student alumni.🎉

Mechanistic modelling with ODEs and Virtual Cell Models with foundational models this morning at #EMBLAPhD with SAiGENCIs Lan and Anthony - looking forward to more #AI 🦾🤖 @emblaustralia.org @saigenci.bsky.social @acepigenetics.bsky.social

Congratulations to @saigenci.bsky.social's @aachinger.bsky.social awarded 2025 Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship. Dr Achinger-Kawecka leads our 3D Chromatin Organisation Laboratory and receives $1.375m over 5 years to support her work. Read more at bit.ly/3Wva9HH

📣 @saigenci.bsky.social congratulate Professor Jose Polo on his election as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences (AAHMS). Jose is Program Lead for Cancer Epigenetics @SAiGENCI and Director @acepigenetics.bsky.social. Many congratulations Jose! aahms.org/news/29-of-a...

29 of Australia’s leading health and medical researchers elected as AAHMS Fellows - AAHMS

The Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) has announced the election of 29 new Fellows for 2025, recognising the nation’s most outstandi ...

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Luke is a group leader at @saigenci.bsky.social & @acepigenetics.bsky.social, within the University of Adelaide. He has extensive expertise in epigenetic regulation and a strong commitment to fostering creative, inclusive science. A perspective we can’t wait to share with our community!

🧵 1/ 💗 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 💗 We’re spotlighting AEpiA member @aachinger.bsky.social (now at @saigenci.bsky.social) and Prof Susan Clark ( @garvaninstitute.bsky.social) for their research on epigenetic therapy in hormone-driven breast cancer. #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #AEpiA

📣Congratulations to Professor Brendan Jenkins, @saigenci.bsky.social's Program Lead for Tumour Inflammation and Immunotherapy, on being awarded the Japanese Cancer Association (JCA) International Award. The first Australian recipient! @jenkins-lab.bsky.social 👏

Cancer and Immune Signalling Lab (CISL)@jenkins-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Very honoured to be the first Australian recipient of the prestigious Japanese Cancer Association (JCA) International Award, presented at the annual JCA2025 conference in Kanazawa. Special thanks to my JCA colleagues, especially JCA President, Prof Masanobu Oshima. @saigenci.bsky.social

Thank you to the China International Talent Exchange Foundation for hosting our young ACE researchers! We shared our epigenetic research and cutting-edge technologies, whilst learning all about the pioneering research in Harbin, China. A wonderful exchange for ideas!🧪 @saigenci.bsky.social

📣Last night 90+ uni students attended the inaugural "Evening with Cancer Researchers". Hosted by @saigenci.bsky.social with representatives from University of Adelaide, UniSA's CCB and @sahmri.bsky.social. Great to see the enthusiasm of our next gen cancer researchers! @josundstrom.bsky.social 🔬

Welcome new @saigenci.bsky.social PhD students! SAiGENCI student reps Percy Zhang (Polo lab @acepigenetics.bsky.social ) and An Nguen were thrilled to welcome everyone with this warm gathering!

Next in our #AI webinars: Stefano Mangiola @saigenci.bsky.social talks AI models in #SingleCell and if they can uncover biological patterns Anh TN Nguyen @monashuniversity.bsky.social shares how deep learning is accelerating #DrugDiscovery for GPCRs More info www.biocommons.org.au/events/ai-se...