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CGEBM Aberdeen

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Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine. Providing next generation sequencing, bioinformatic training and analysis at the University of Aberdeen

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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our next bioinformatics support clinics will be on Tuesday 13th October and Tuesday 10th November, always at 11 am in the IMS atrium. Pop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions you may have. We also now have dates for our 2026/27 CPD courses, check them out below
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Last Thursday, Ines Hahn visited the IMS from York and gave a seminar on "Targeted peptides for GSK-3β inhibition reveal distinct subcellular roles in neurons". Check out Tilly's visual notes below:
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Agilent will deliver training on our newly installed Seahorse XFe24 on 21st - 24th July. This instrument allows real-time cell metabolic analysis, providing measures of metabolic function in live cells and ex vivo samples. Email cgebm@abdn.ac.uk if you would like to attend the training
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A big thank you to Illumina for a stimulating lunch & learn session this week on Illumina’s expansion into multiple new omics directions: whole-genome sequencing, methylome, single-cell and spatial transcriptome, and proteome technologies. Drop us an email if you are interested in using any of these
A seminar room full of people with a slide about Illumina technologies displayed.
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Join us for lunch and explore how Illumina's Multiomics solutions, including the Illumina Single Cell 3' RNA Prep, 5-base methylation, Proteomics and Spatial solutions, are advancing biological discovery at scale. We look forward to welcoming you at midday on 16th June in the IMS
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our next two bioinformatics support clinics are on Tuesday 9th June and Tuesday 14th July, both at 11 am in the IMS atrium. No question is too big or too small. We can help you plan or visualise your analysis and troubleshoot code.
A yellow and blue flyer advertising a bioinformatics support clinic. The top banner reads "CGEBM Bioinformatics Support". The text on the flyer says the dates of the clinics, Tuesday 9th June at 11am in the IMS atrium and Tuesday 14th July 11am in the IMS atrium. Text in the centre of the flyer says "Do you need help with your coding? Are you wondering how to present your bioinformatics work at a conference? Drop by and we can support your bioninformatics research." At the bottom of the flyer are two graphs: one is a barchart and the other is a gene map.
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A great SBS seminar yesterday from Norman Ratcliffe, who works for @bas.ac.uk Zavodovski Island was described as "Mordor, but all the orcs are penguins"! Drone imagery, tracking info, and metabarcoding of faecal samples to look at diet were used to track population decline in chinstrap penguins.
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Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · 03/12/2025
Learn more about adaptive sampling in our latest Nanopore Know-How: nanoporetech.com/blog/guided-by-dat…
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Sam Horsfield @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our pangenome graph-based Nanopore Adaptive Sampling (NAS) tool, GNASTy, is available now in Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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Optimizing nanopore adaptive sampling for pneumococcal serotype surveillance in complex samples using the graph-based GNASTy algorithm
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
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Fabien Naneix @fabnaneix.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
it was a real pleasure to have @katepeters3.bsky.social from @sussexneuro.bsky.social giving a very engaging talk on the effect of environmental enrichment on food seeking at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social. Thanks to the @royalsoced.bsky.social to fund our project allowing her to be here.
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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Can peer review make our writing more readable? Colleagues at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social have a paper in Frontiers for Young Minds, where papers are reviewed for understanding by 8-15 year old students. Read about their experience (UoA only link) abdn.site/qDqoA Paper: doi.org/10.3389/frym...
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Why is Eating Healthy More Difficult for Some People?
In 2025, around one in seven UK households struggled to afford nutritious foods like fruits, vegetables, and lean meat. This is called food insecurity. Families living on a low income are often forced...
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
CGEBM are running another drop-in bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (13th January) in the IMS building atrium on the Foresterhill campus from 11:00 to 12:00. Pop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on.
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Today's IMS PI seminar from Prof Alasdair MacKenzie focused on the role of cis-regulatory enhancers in anxiety, how these are affected by and interact with sex and early life stress, and the effects of disruption of enhancers (either by methylation or experiments) doi.org/10.1111/febs... #Aberdeen
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We are running our first bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (9th December) in the IMS atrium on the Foresterhill campus. Drop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on. We will be available from 12:30 to 13:30, after the Carol Concert.
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Jonathan Coxhead @4130chromo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Recommendations for bioinformatics in clinical practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Recommendations for bioinformatics in clinical practice - Genome Medicine
Background Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is well established in clinical diagnostics, and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly becoming the method of choice, as a result of lower prices an...
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Bento Bio 🧬 @bento.bio · 27/11/2025
Interested in how portable sequencing could improve patient care in remote & under-resourced hospitals? Here's a case report from Tanzania in which a mobile setup (Bento Lab + ONT MinION) helped to diagnose a child’s infection when routine tests failed! Read more here: www.cell.com/heliyon/full...
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Nanopore sequencing technology for clinical diagnosis of infectious diseases where laboratory capacity is meager: A case report
In resource-limited settings, patients are often first presented to clinical settings when seriously ill and access to proper clinical microbial diagnostics is often very limited or non-existing. On F...
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Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism | PNAS
Experimental organisms such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans are fundamental to biological discovery. The success of C. elegans research has ...
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I didn't manage to summarise all of @rorylcooper.bsky.social 's seminar today, but here we have sonic hedgehog inhibition pausing chicken embryo feather development at stage E9, and halting chicken embryo feather development at stage E11. Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It was great to hear about Dr Peng (Alex) Liu's research today, finding out how black carbon pollution affects developing fetuses. Many methods were featured, including proteomics to identify potential reactionary metabolites, single cell transcriptome sequencing (done by our CGEBM team) and more.
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the SBS seminar from @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social , looking at over 20 years of butterfly data. In Spanish mountain ranges, cold specialised species are going locally extinct and are being replaced by warmer habitat species #UniofAberdeen #Biology #SciArt
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our bioinformatics workshops are fast approaching. More details and booking information on our training page: tinyurl.com/c5n9n6p4
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CGEBM Aberdeen @cgebm-aberdeen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thank you for the great seminar yesterday @yorkyeast.bsky.social We heard about the systems and regulatory mechanisms involved in endosome recycling in yeast. A wide range of techniques were used for this work: membrane visualisations, genetic screenings, qPCR & more
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