The #RaiseTheStipend petition 👇 has passed 5,000 signatures! But how will it get to 20,000 in the last week? By you sharing it with friends & family (not just other academics & students) by word of mouth, email, WhatsApp groups etc. Get to it! ▶️ aph.gov.au/e-petitions/pe…

A Great Opportunity Awaits! Join the ALIGN team and work alongside Senior Manager Louise Lyons. If you're passionate about making a difference in Indigenous genomics research and keen to contribute to impactful projects, this is the perfect role for you. seek.com.au/job/77596531

Forty years ago I showed that genes on the inactive X in female mammals are silenced because they are not transcribed into RNA. Sniffy Nature reviewers bounced my paper because "what else could it be?" Well, read our new paper that documents the "else" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out our new paper released today in PNAS. We show that incomplete sex chromosome dosage compensation in the transcriptome is corrected in the proteome! Congrats Nicholas Lister .... Years in the pipeline! UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

ANU's Shine-Dalgarno Centre for RNA Innovation was granted $4M by Australian Department of Health and Aged Care’s MRFF National Critical Infrastructure Initiative to build a National Platform for Therapeutic mRNA Development. #MedicalResearch #mRNAInnovation #ourANU Read: bit.ly/46rfBPW

Support Aboriginal families with MJD – Join MJD Foundation! 🌟 Help families living with Machado Joseph Disease and Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7. Apply now for roles in Darwin and make a real difference. Great benefits included! More info: mjd.org.au/work-for-us/

Reflecting on the 2024 ALIGN Symposium at SAHMRI: Over the last two days, vibrant discussions on genomics and its impact on Indigenous communities inspired us all. Thanks to the Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics and everyone who guided our ACT Node! Azure Hermes

I'm very chuffed that the libretto for "Origins" (oratorio that tells the creation story from science) that I wrote, with poet Leigh Hay, was chosen for the 2024 Anthology of Australia's best science writing!

Meet Teresa Bonello, a 'poppy' in the field of cancer research, exploring the crucial yet often overlooked tumour microenvironment. On this #DaffodilDay, she honours the community's support that fuels her work. Read: bit.ly/46UtRRo 🌼#CancerResearch Cancer Council ACT

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🎉 Congrats to Mr Simon Costello, Deputy CEO of Winnunga Nimmityjah AHCS 🖤💛❤️, on his appointment as the inaugural Chair of the NIGC for the ALIGN! A major step for First Nations leadership in genomics. Azure Hermes linkedin.com/posts/anu-nati…

For those who use NCI Australia Gadi supercomputer for long read analysis tasks in Australia, here are some example scripts github.com/hasindu2008/nc… These scripts use the shared if89 software repo by Biocommons, so no tool installation required. A great suggestion by Hardip Patel

The ARC welcomes the commencement of the ARC Indigenous Forum, which will work with the ARC Board to build Indigenous leadership in the research sector, strengthen Indigenous-led and focused research, and support emerging Indigenous researchers. More: arc.gov.au/news-publicati…

V. proud to share this new work from Ashley Weir in my group. A new gene expression based classifier for HDR in Ovarian Cancer. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New research led by UNSW geneticists has studied the testes of the tammar wallaby to discover how fathers silence their X chromosome in their daughters. The findings advance knowledge in evolutionary biology and human physiology. Read the full paper here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Delighted to have our paper out today in PNAS looking at the imprint for marsupial X inactivation. Congrats Ash! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Nicholas Lister Laia Marín Gual Aurora Ruiz-Herrera Andrew Pask Donna Bond Rachel O'Neill Lab Marilyn Renfree UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences

Today ANU Indigenous Genomics is delighted to welcome Dr. Amitava Roy for a one-day workshop on Protein Structure and Modelling! As a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Montana, Dr. Roy is pioneering new physics-based methods to advance computational biology. #EMCRs Hardip Patel