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BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Bioinformatics and omics researcher @melyssaminto.bsky.social discusses an alternative use of Rank-Rank Hypergeometric Overlap (RRHO) testing: how it can reveal what sets two conditions apart >>> www.biotechniques.com/computationa... 🧪

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Technique Tales | A nontraditional use of RRHO: finding what doesn’t overlap in omics comparisons

In this article, Melyssa Minto walks us through an alternative use of RRHO testing, which is typically used to identify shared features.

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Really excited for this workshop! 🧬💻🧪

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Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

PLEASE AMPLIFY: We will host our Summer 2025 workshop on #Indigenous #Health & Artificial Intelligence to take place on the lands of the Ak-Chin Maricopa Indian Community in AZ week of June 2-6: indigidata.org Travel & Lodging 100% Covered Deadline to apply: January 31st #AI

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We’re still trying to find all of our #BlackInNeuro fam here 👀 Let @blackinneuro.bsky.social know if you want to be added to this starter pack & use the BIN hashtag on your posts so we can amplify you 🤗❤️ go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe

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Roshonda B Jones, PhD @roshonda.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hey Bluesky! I’m an Assistant Professor at North Carolina A&T State University in the Department of Biology. My lab focuses on how social determinants of food accessibility influences diet and the impact diet, in turn, has on health outcomes via the gut microbiome. Great to connect with you all!

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

🚨 #BlackInNeuro Seminar Alert! 🚨 Join us as Chelesa Fearce, a Yale MD/PhD student, shares her inspiring journey and her work developing groundbreaking treatments for neurological disorders! 🧠✨ 📅 Nov 1 | 9 AM PT | 12 PM ET | 5 PM BST Register today! blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5912598

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Join us for a #BlackInCompBio Seminar featuring Dr. Ariangela Kozik, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan! 🖥️ Dr. Kozik's research focuses on multi-omics, microbe crosstalk, and chronic respiratory disease. 📆 May 10th @ 1 pm ET / 10 am PT / 6 pm GMT / 8 pm EAT RSVP t.co/I1pkR989Cc 🖥️🧬🦠🧶

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#BlackInCompBio Seminar Series: Ariangela Kozik, PhD (University of Michigan) | BlackWomenCompBio

The #BlackInCompBio Seminar Series provides a platform for Black scientists to share their science with our global community.

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Check out the latest episode of the #CompBioCafePod where Dean Lee discusses Figure One Lab, a resource to help you build a Comp Bio portfolio to land you that job! 🖥️🧬🧪🧶

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

One week out! Join in on our next #BlackInCompBio Seminar feat Dr. Leah Guthrie as she delves into "Decoding Diet-Microbiota Interactions Shaping Kidney Biology" RSVP here: www.blackwomencompbio.org/event-detail... 🧪🖥️🧬

#BlackInCompBio Seminar Flyer featuring Dr. Leah Guthrie on March 20, 2024

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Check out the latest episode of the CompBio Cafe Pod 🧬🖥️🧪

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

🎙️ New BlackInCompBio Episode on the CompBioCafePod titled "Which Skills do Bioinformaticians Need to Transition Into Data Science?" Feat. Aneesa Valentine, MS ✨ View the full upisode here: www.blackwomencompbi...

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CompBio Cafe Podcast | Black Women in Computational Biology Network

Serving up fresh perspectives in the computational biology field through stories and insights.

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

📆 Connect Circles - March 25th Registration Deadline Members and Supporters will be placed in dynamic "networking pods", using monthly meetings to go beyond surface-level interaction and use the power of community to grow professional networks. Sign Up: buff.ly/3TiJPQc

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

🧵 Mark your calendars for 5 events happening in March! We're thrilled to host two esteemed speakers for our #BlackInCompBio Seminar Series, Dr. Leah Guthrie and Dr. Ava Amini. We also have two socials planned, on top of registration for our new Connect Circles! Details below ⬇️

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🇲🇽 Leonardo Collado-Torres @lcolladotor.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Are you an #rstats user? Have you heard about the RStudio IDE (interactive dev envir)? Or what about its keyboard shortcuts? @posit.co In this @libdrstats.bsky.social session I went over some basic configuration setup info & useful shortcuts 📔 docs.google.com/document/d/1... youtu.be/_nAfJ-5nkcU

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[2024-01-26] RStudio setup, projects, and shortcuts

For more information on Leonardo Collado-Torres, check https://twitter.com/lcolladotor.For more information about the materials discussed in this video, chec...

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

This will be an excellent opportunity to engage with and learn how to support underrepresented communities like BWCB! 🧬🖥️

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

👩🏾‍💻 Are you a Black woman in computational biology? Now is the perfect time to become a BWCB member to take advantage of all the benefits 2024 has to offer. Join today for free and tap into your new community! Get started now: buff.ly/3Sikeqd 1/3

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

✨In the first of a 4 part series, Ijeoma Meremikwu (UPenn) speaks on the importance of amplifying the stories of Black scientists and how that motivated her to join BWCB's leadership team. We’re excited to share the rest of this conversation soon! youtu.be/1kmfMlaI69w

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#BlackInCompBio Podcast: Reimagining Our Audio Series Through Storytelling, Part 1 - YouTube

✨ In the first of a 4 part series, Ijeoma Meremikwu (UPenn) speaks on the importance of amplifying the stories of Black scientists and how that motivated her...

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

🖥️🧬🧪 Today is the day! #GivingTuesday Join BWCB in fueling our future today through December 31st at blackwomencompbio.org/donate. No gift is too small to #ActivateYourImpact. Here's a message about our goals and ways to uplift BWCB this season: youtu.be/gLBap2lQEeI

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#ActivateYourImpact | BWCB #GivingTuesday Founder's Message

🙌🏾 Today is the day! Join BWCB in fueling our future today through December 31st at blackwomencompbio.org/donate. No gift is too small to #ActivateYourImpa...

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Consider giving to BWCB this #GivingTuesday to help us reach new milestones in amplifying our members science, skill development, and conference attendance 🧬🖥️

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

It’s always extra special when @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social members are featured in the #BlackInCompBio seminar series 🖤 🧬🖥️ See you there, Monday!

#BlackInCompBio Seminar comp bio flyer for Dr. Tigist Tamir

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Are you an early career scientist interested in the peer review process? Have you been asked to provide critical feedback for a manuscript submission or need more information on how to respond to reviewers? Black In Neuro and Reviewer Zero have you covered! (Post 1 of 2)

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

If you identify as Black In Neuro and are presenting at #SfN2023, please fill out this form with your poster or talk details, so we can share it with the community! Tags: 🧠🟦 #BlackInSTEM forms.gle/7Szrw6avu6m8...

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BIN Member SfN Abstracts

Black In Neuro would like to highlight our members and their work from this year's Society for Neuroscience conference. This information will be shared with other BIN members who are presenting and al...

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Harriet Dashnow @hdashnow.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm looking for talented postdocs and staff scientists/software developers to join my lab at medschool.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi If you're fascinated by #RareDisease genomics, #STRs and computational methods, please get in touch! I'm at #ASHG2023 this week, and happy to chat. #hiring

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Excited to be presenting research on DNA methylation and Alcohol Use Disorder (#PB2327, Nov 2nd, 3-5pm) at #ASHG2023. See the rest of my colleagues presentations here: www.rti.org/event/americ... 🧬🖥️

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Reminder that the Big Ten Academic Alliance Fee Waiver program gives waivers for 15 schools' PhD programs (including OSU astro and OSU physics) for US citizen students w/ 3.0+ GPAs and diverse backgrounds! Easy form to complete due by Nov 15. btaa.org/resources-fo...

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Join us in welcoming the newest additions to BWCB's leadership team: Core Team Associates! Associates will work closely with current Coordinators over the next year, learning about BWCB operations and supporting initiatives along the way. Welcome to the team!

Welcome New Core Team Associates. Khadijah Jack, Sandra DEliard, Sagal Dirie, Latavia Thompson, Aude Ikuzwe Sindikubwabo, Ijeoma Meremikwu.

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Take this 2 min Comp Bio perspective survey to help inform BWCBs strategies for improving inclusivity, diversity, and support within the field 🧬🖥️

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Hey Bluesky, we've entered the chat!

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The Black Women in Computational Biology Network @blkwomencompbio.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

The time has come for our next newsletter release. Newsletters provide key updates for both members and supporters. October's newsletter will be released at 9 am ET / 1:00 pm GMT / 4 pm EAT. Make sure you're signed up to receive emails from info[at]blackwomencompbio[dot]org.

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

EMBL Distinguished Visitor Lecture: Anne Carpenter (Broad Institute) EMBL Heidelberg, Large Operon, Thu 26 Oct 2023, 13:00 Insights from images: microscopy data for functional genomics and drug discovery www.embl.org/seminars/

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Cell images contain a vast amount of quantifiable information about the status of the cell: for example, whether it is diseased, whether it is responding to a drug treatment, or whether a pathway has been disrupted by a genetic mutation. We aim to go beyond measuring individual cell phenotypes that biologists already know are relevant to a particular disease. Instead, in a strategy called image-based profiling, often using the Cell Painting assay, we extract hundreds of features of cells (or other biological samples, such as tissues or whole organisms) from images. Just like transcriptional profiling, the similarities and differences in the patterns of extracted features reveal connections among diseases, drugs, and genes.

About the speaker
Dr. Carpenter is an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Her research group develops algorithms and strategies for large-scale experiments involving images. The team’s open-source CellProfiler software is used by

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Check out BWCB’s latest blog post where we share some lessons about the job hunt from engaging with Genentech, GSK, and BioSkryb Genomics. 🧬🖥️ www.blackwomencompbio.org/post/how-do-... 🤎 BWCB members will haves access to session recordings

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How do you get a computational biology job in biotech?

BWCB hosted a Biotech Career Panel with GSK, Genentech, and BioSkryb. Here's what we learned about landing bioinformatics roles in industry.

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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

If you're headed to Seattle, check out these @prattlab.bsky.social BU BME presentations! Our graduate students will be sharing their latest work throughout the week.

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

We’re looking for a Coordinator for the new, amazing IndigeLab Network, an international group of Indigenous researchers. This is a target hire for an Indigenous gender minority. Based at Memorial U. indigelabnetwork.com/2023/05/09/o...

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Hiring: IndigeLab Network Coordinator!

The Coordinator will oversee the day to day logistics of running an international Indigenous Network.

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Melyssa Minto, PhD @melyssaminto.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

#HiSciSky Melyssa Minto here! I bioinformatics scientist 🧬🖥️ interested in the interplay between exposure, the (epi)genome, and neuro/psychiatric diseases. Also, I’m a leader within the Black Women in Comp Bio Network where we aim to support and uplift our members to foster work force diversity.

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