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Dr Jenny Lord

@drjennylord.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Systems Biology at the University of Sheffield. Interested in bioinformatics, RNA, splicing, big data, rare disease diagnostics and neuroscience. Also dogs.

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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our new preprint exploring blood-based RNA-Seq for rare disorder diagnostics in the 100,000 Genomes Project is out! doi.org/10.64898/202... Here are some key findings…
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Blood-based RNA-Seq of 5412 individuals with rare disease identifies new candidate diagnoses in the National Genomic Research Library
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is increasingly used alongside exome and genome sequencing to identify causal variants underlying rare Mendelian disorders. We present short-read RNA-Seq data from 5,412 indiv...
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Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚨 New preprint led by amazing duo @rociorius.bsky.social and @alexblakes.bsky.social in collaboration with @cassimons.bsky.social, @dgmacarthur.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! ❤️ We describe the clinical phenotype of a recessive NDD associated with biallelic variants in RNU4-2 🧬 See 🧵👇
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just over a week until our postdoc recruitment closes. If you want to use big datasets and computational methods to understand how the genome works and how that goes wrong in disease, apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR261/r...
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Research Associate - SITraN at University of Sheffield
Apply for the Research Associate - SITraN role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We're hiring! We're looking for a computational postdoc to join an exciting new project looking for splicing and non-coding regulatory elements using large 'omics datasets, and investigating how their disruption might lead to common and rare disease www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR261/r...
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Research Associate - SITraN at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate - SITraN is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Alex Geary @alextremophile.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am delighted to share with you the news that our shiny new paper has hit the shelves in Genome Medicine!! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Key points (A 🧵):
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Systematic identification of disease-causing promoter and untranslated region variants in 8040 undiagnosed individuals with rare disease - Genome Medicine
Background Both promoters and untranslated regions (UTRs) have critical regulatory roles, yet variants in these regions are largely excluded from clinical genetic testing due to difficulty in interpre...
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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
📢 We're making our largest ever investment in early-career researchers Through #Springboard25, we’re investing £7.6m in 62 researchers to drive innovations that improve health and wellbeing 🔬 Congrats to all 2025 awardees! 🎉 👉 bit.ly/springboard2... @thebhf.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Three people wearing lab coats and talking to each other while writing on a whiteboard
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thrilled to have been awarded one of the @acmedsci.bsky.social #Springboard25 awards to support my work using big datasets to investigate splicing and gene regulatory elements and how variants in them cause disease. I will be recruiting a postdoc soon!
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Fully funded PhD studentship at Sheffield Uni - investigating novel causes of rare disease using bioinformatics and big data sets! Application deadline 28th March. @sheffielduni.bsky.social @fohsheffield.bsky.social @scypherofficial.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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SCYPHeR: Rare Disease and Health Inequalities Theme: Improving diagnosis and treatment options for children in South Yorkshire with rare, undiagnosed diseases by mining genomics data and correlating w...
PhD Project - SCYPHeR: Rare Disease and Health Inequalities Theme: Improving diagnosis and treatment options for children in South Yorkshire with rare, undiagnosed diseases by mining genomics data and...
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New paper out in EJHG making new diagnoses and identifying candidate disease genes in individuals with congenital heart disease t.co/9A4IFSABzU - fab collaboration to be a part of - led by Verity Hartill using data from the 100,000 Genomes Project
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Dr Jenny Lord @drjennylord.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Snow!
Snowy garden inc. small dog
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Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I couldn't spot a starter pack for rare disease / clinical genomics, so I started one: go.bsky.app/SUWZ9Hw Very much a work in progress, and biased by who I have already found here, so please suggest people to add! Self-nominations encouraged. #ClinicalInformatics #genomics #bioinformatics 🖥️🧬
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/11/2024
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