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Kitty Murphy

@kittybmurphy.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 she/her Interested in the phenotypic effects of archaic DNA present in modern human genomes 🧬

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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social has officially converted me into a plant person 🌱 #SMBE2026
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sad to have missed the opportunity to present my postdoc work at #SMBE2026, but it you’re interested in archaic introgression and how it has shaped the gene regulatory landscape in modern humans, please do reach out! 🧬
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Dervis Salih @dervissalih1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join us! Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social with me & @sj-marzi.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics & epigenetics in ageing & neurodegeneration using multiomics/bioinformatics. Collaboration with Alexi Nott & @rikeshrajani.bsky.social Closing date: 2nd June
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Oof, one of my heroes.
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 WOPA needs a volunteer website admin! If you know WordPress & want to help keep paleoanthropology accessible, get in touch. DM/email for details. #volunteer #WordPress #Paleoanthropology
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As someone who recently moved to Copenhagen to start a postdoc with @lauritsskov.bsky.social, I can highly recommend the city, the supervisor, and the research 🧬 Join us!
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Computational biologists, sign up! 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August See you there 🤓
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Londonomics is back with its second workshop of the year: computer science for bioinformaticians 💡 4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD has just been published in Nature Communications! We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬 1/n
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
And just like that, 5 years in the Marzi lab @sj-marzi.bsky.social have come to an end. Couldn’t have asked for a better team ✨ Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Excited to see a part of my PhD work out in the 🌍 We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀 Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Londonomics is back! ⚡️ Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute. Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!
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londonomics.bsky.social @londonomics.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥 Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩‍💻 🧬 More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic... Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
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Londonomics presents: Single-cell analysis with Dr Kristina Ulicna
The first of a series of Londonomics workshops for early-career computational researchers in London. This month, single-cell analysis!
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Cathryn Lewis @cathrynlewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social #depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Picture of Cathryn Lewis' research group at the SGDP Centre, waving and smiling.
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openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons [including brain evolution] www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons - Nature
The cis-regulatory functions of human accelerated regions of genomic loci and their potential contribution to human brain evolution are revealed.
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thanks to the discovery of sodium channels and experiments in giant squid 🦑 and much more in between, we now have a non-addictive pain treatment 💊 Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I was part of the Marzi lab for my masters, PhD, and now postdoc. @sj-marzi.bsky.social is an enthusiastic scientist and supportive mentor. The science is cool and the people are even cooler. Can’t recommend enough!!! 🤓 Apply apply apply 👇🏻
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Niklas Kempynck @niklaskemp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Just very happy to have our paper out today! A big thanks to all our co-authors, and to Nikolai and @steinaerts.bsky.social for the teamwork over the past years. If you are interested in using our models for cross-species enhancer studies, check out crested.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mo... 🙂
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Pradeepa Madapura @pradeepmadapura.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc with cell or molecular biology expertise. Excellent #epigenetics, #chromatin training & networking opportunities @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social DM me for inquiries pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Londonomics has made the move over to Bluesky 🦋 We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡 We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀
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Teif lab @teiflab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Here is a growing list of conferences and schools in gene regulation for 2025 generegulation.org/conferences-.... You can order/filter this list by the date, deadline, location. Please reply here to suggest new events* *should be specific to gene regulation
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Conferences & Schools – 2025 – Gene Regulation – Teif Lab
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters. Find out more in the Science news here www.science.org/content/arti... #Consgen
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Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity
The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease? I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
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Sarah Marzi @sj-marzi.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
If you know anyone who's looking for a PhD in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on data science and epidemiology, this scheme looks great. I would be happy to supervise projects in the Global Health Innovation stream. liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
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Open competition - LISS DTP
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Shweta Ramdas @shwetaramdas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
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Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · 17/12/2024
What do GWAS and rare variant burden tests discover, and why? Do these studies find the most IMPORTANT genes? If not, how DO they rank genes? Here we present a surprising result: these studies actually test for SPECIFICITY! A 🧵on what this means... (🧪🧬) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Specificity, length, and luck: How genes are prioritized by rare and common variant association studies
Standard genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant burden tests are essential tools for identifying trait-relevant genes. Although these methods are conceptually similar, we show by anal...
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Exciting projects + brilliant PI + one of the best cities in the 🌎
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Perception of Temperature Even in the Absence of Actual Change is Sufficient to Drive Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Can processes occurring in one individuals nervous system influence the physiology of the descendants? Here we explored the provocative hypothesis that parents sensation or perception of environmental...
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Anybody here moved from the UK to either Barcelona, Copenhagen, or Stockholm to do a Postdoc? I want to chat to you! ✌️
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Samuel Marsh Ph.D. @samuelmarsh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Big day for single cell and neuroscience. Trio of single cell perspective pieces discussing applications, opportunities, challenges, and validation of single cell and spatial genomics in neuroscience are out now in Nature Neuroscience. Links in thread below.👇 1/n
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Kitty Murphy @kittybmurphy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excited to see that the science community is being brought back to life here ✨ I'm Kitty, a postdoc in the lab of @sj-marzi.bsky.social, UK DRI @ King's College London, focused on cell type-specific epigenetic variation in neurodegenerative disorders 🧠 P.S. I will be on the 2025 job market. 1/2
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