Fun fact: DNA is like the instructions inside all living things that say how to grow, develop & function. It's made of genes, which are like individual directions & determine the colour of your eyes & how your body fights off illnesses. So, DNA is basically what makes you, you!

Great talk by Sean Zheng presenting our DCM GWAS at the #ESCCongress2024 Young Investigator Award Session in Population Science, Genetics, and Epidemiology! No need to squint your eyes to see the slide as we have a preprint available on: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… (ms in press)

FRESH OFF THE PRESS - New study in European Society of Cardiology European Society of Cardiology Journals Prediction of incident atrial fibrillation using deep learning, clinical models and polygenic scores shows #AI can predict new-onset atrial fibrillation from ECGs with high accuracy, outperforming clinical and genetic

One year ago we were fortunate to publish The Lancet Commission on SCD. Presenting an update today at European Society of Cardiology #ESC2024…using our publication as our roadmap to move forward to reduce the burden. Much work ahead but proud to continue with such dynamic and synergic group !

If you had 5-10 minutes to collect broad health information from a research participant, what info would you collect? Is there a pre-existing health survey you'd recommend that would fit into this time frame? This is not a lot of time, so the trade-offs are tough...

12 months since we rode out a storm signal 10 typhoon in Hong Kong for APHRS. A fairly terrifying night from the 34th floor of my swaying hotel... (very lucky it fizzled)

Many congratulations to Cristina Basso for her excellent European Society of Cardiology William Harvey Lecture in Basic Science Beautiful overview of her seminal work on sudden cardiac death and autopsy in ❤️mitral valve prolapse ❤️arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy #ESCCongress #ESCBasicScience

Such an amazing opportunity to improve outcomes through targeting the early links and response to OHCA in our country. Can’t wait to share what we have planned and opportunities to join and collaborate with this exciting CRE. Monash Public Health ILCOR Australian Resuscitation Council Ambulance Victoria Research PRECRU

Are you a good communicator, interested in empowering patients to participate in research and contribute to the research agenda, and wanting to have an impact? Come and join us... The Heart Hive Cardiomyopathy UK MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) NHLI

Does elevated LDL cause aortic stenosis? 🥓🫀🩺 Excited to share our study linking rare LDL-associated genetic variants to aortic stenosis 🧬 Published in @Circulation and presented at #ESCCongress2024 today Broad Institute UCSF Health Link: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Great talk by Kathryn McGurk dissecting (figuratively speaking) the genetic and phenotypic architecture of left ventricle trabeculae in UK Biobank at #ESCCongress2024 Sneak peek: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

📣 📣 📣 Our new paper out today in Genetics in Medicine on Genetic Counselling in rapid genomic testing Link 👉 gimopen.org/article/S2949-…

Super proud to receive the Australian Museum Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Scientific Research tonight. What an honour. Congrats to all finalists and winners. Aust does amazing science. Great to see it on display.

We are hosting a Long Read Research Symposium at Garvan Institute of Medical Research ! Our talented speakers will cover the advantages of both Oxford Nanopore and PacBio data. Join us to find out what long reads could do for you 🧬 eventbrite.com.au/e/garvan-long-…

Clinicians are increasingly being recommended to try to change our patient’s lifestyle. But is our advice helping people change behavior? Is this an effective & feasible approach to improve public health? Check out our paper in Annals of Int Med Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare (1/5) acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

Australia to completely ban the use of genetic information in life and disability insurance. A huge win for the genetic disease community, for research participants and researchers, and for Dr Jane Tiller and others who tirelessly campaigned for this change! abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

Swifties: With your help, we’re gonna defeat the smallest man who ever lived.

Postdoc job with Rebecca Kozor & me in Sydney 😎🇦🇺 ✅Apply by Sept 22 ✅Cardiac imaging clin research, no clin role ✅Req: MD, and PhD or mult 1st author papers ✅Paid ✅Intl applicants welcome seek.com.au/job/78018570 #WhyCMR #EchoFirst #YeSCCT #ECG

What a delight to be kicking off our inaugural OurDNA symposium in Melbourne with a keynote from Heidi Rehm discussing global collaborative networks underpinning genomic medicine. Thanks to Australian Genomics and GA4GH for making this day possible!

Stay tuned for more updates from our inaugural symposium. Speakers include Daniel MacArthur Heidi Rehm FECCA's Mary Ann Geronimo & Prof Alex Brown of ANU Indigenous Genomics ourANU