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Sarah Ashley

@sarah-ashley.bsky.social
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Computational biologist @MCRI | Naarm Melbourne Center for Food Allergy Research | National Allergy Centre of Excellence | #WomenInSTEM 🧑🏻‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow working on treatments for food allergies 🥜 #scRNAseq #systemsbiology #VIIN Emerging Leaders ELC

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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Long-term outcomes following Probiotic and Peanut Oral Immunotherapy out now 📣 Online at Allergy, read open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Paxton summarises our findings in the YouTube video below 👇
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Three‐Year Post‐Treatment Outcomes Following Cessation of Peanut Oral Immunotherapy: Comparisons by Clinical Allergy Status and Treatment Group
Click on the article title to read more.
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The VIIN Emerging Leaders Committee is delighted to invite you to our first workshop for 2026! Join us online for How to Get a Grant: Building Your Toolkit for Funding Success, to be held on Wednesday 13 May from 10am - 12pm. Register here: forms.gle/MBkiDutL1cwE...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
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InFLAMES Research Flagship @inflames-flagship.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢Are you a postdoctoral researcher with an excellent track record in #immunology and/or related field? We are hiring, but hurry, call closes 27 November! Apply and join us in Finland! Read more 👉 bit.ly/4r83ktP #ImmunoSky #MedSky #LifeScience
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Had an absolute blast attending my first #VIINYIS! Such a great day of exciting science hearing from our young investigators in the VIIN community. Thanks for a fab conference #youngVIIN2025 Until next time!
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Inspiring Keynote from Nancy Wang Ruth Bishop Fellow and new Team Leader at MCRI. She took us through her research harnessing CD4T cell-mediated immunity against Salmonella working to develop candidate protein vaccines and on immune-based assays for enteric fever surveillance #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Fantastic talk "A high-dimensional flow cytometry profiling on peripheral blood mononuclear cells of transitioning transgender individuals" by Den Celesta from @mcri.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Our first Keynote speaker group leader Marcel Doerflinger from @wehi-research.bsky.social giving an overview of his career trajectory to becoming a lab head, including 6 key tips on how to succeed #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
An excellent talk from @therealmonocyte.bsky.social from MCRI about the Determinants of innate immune cytokine responses in pre-school children! #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here bright and early for #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS 🧪🧫🧬
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
By popular demand, oral abstract submissions for Lorne Infection and Immunity 2026 have been extended to Friday 17th October! Join our exciting 2026 program alongside a fantastic line-up of International and National Invited Speakers. ⏰Only three days left, so don't miss out!
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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I am looking forward to attending Lorne I&I next year. To my friends and colleagues overseas, this is the excuse you were looking for to come visit Australia!!!! 🦘🐨🧫🧬🧪🦠
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
PSA, deadline for the 16th Annual Lorne Infection & Immunity Conference this Friday!🏃‍♂️💨 Don't miss your chance to submit an oral abstract and apply for a Career Development Award
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Join us for our annual VIIN Young Investigator Symposium! 🗓️ Fri 14th Nov 8:00am-7:30pm 📍Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Parkville Abstract submissions close next Fri 29th Aug! Register now! 👇 bit.ly/471WFK0 #VIINYIS
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📝 Working on a manuscript? Not sure on how to navigate the submission process? Join our next workshop “Manuscript Mastery” for all the tips and tricks on how to prepare your work for publication! 🕰️ Wed 10th Sept 10am - 12pm Register by 5pm Friday 5th September bit.ly/45gWCst
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Thor: a platform for cell-level investigation of spatial transcriptomics and histology. #SpatialTranscriptomics @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thor: a platform for cell-level investigation of spatial transcriptomics and histology - Nature Communications
Zhang, Chen, and colleagues present Thor, a platform that turns spot-level spatial transcriptomics into single-cell gene maps using the paired histology image, without using single-cell RNA-seq data.…
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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 08/08/2025
taxburst v0.3.0 is now released - this is an update of the Krona visualization system for microbiome/metagenome taxonomy analyses. Enjoy!
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Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration
Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
What is the mechanism of food-induced anaphylaxis? Today @science.org unravelled www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Gut mast cell leukotriene release @rmedzhitov.bsky.social
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saligramalab.bsky.social @saligramalab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Thoroughly #enjoyed #reading this #paper. #Genetics here is amazing. Cysteinyl leukotrienes stimulate gut absorption of food allergens to promote anaphylaxis in mice | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cysteinyl leukotrienes stimulate gut absorption of food allergens to promote anaphylaxis in mice
Food-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) triggers life-threatening anaphylaxis; however, for unclear reasons, some people with food-specific IgE are asymptomatic upon allergen consumption. We studied stra...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"Current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal cause disease, disability, and death at every stage of the plastic lifecycle." @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
One in 4 people carry one copy of the APOE4 allele, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. We've just learned how that risk is mediated—the immune system erictopol.substack.com/p/our-braini...
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The future of multi-omics? 🔍 A supervised deep neural network trained on longitudinal multi-omic data (BioMapAI) enabled identification of disease and symptom specific biomarkers in ME/CFS and construction of a connectivity map of the microbiome, immune system and plasma metabolome
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells. #TranslationEfficiency #TranslationalControl @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Combined single-cell profiling of chromatin–transcriptome and splicing across brain cell types, regions and disease state. #SingleCellProfiling #RNAsplicing #Chromatin #Transcriptome @natbiotech.nature.com 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Great to hear about Dr Halina Pietrzak’s work as a clinical trials coordinator. Highlighting the direct impact she sees on patients through their work, and how important communication and problem solving are for her position! #VIINcareers
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thanks to Dr Andrew Foers to showing us what it takes to go from PhD to patent scientist! Andrew shared valuable perspectives on how skills from PhD and post-doc can transfer over to patents but also key differences! #VIINcareers
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thanks to Dr Rebecca Smith for starting off our Careers Evening! Giving us insight in her journey from research to development. As Rebecca put it "Be brave, take a few risks, be kind to yourself. Things will evolve as they need to." #VIINcareers
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A great talk from Dr Jodie Abramovitch accompanied by excellent art and insights into the role of a principal scientist at a contract research organisation. Thanks for reminding us all of to trust ourselves and our guts! #VIINcareers
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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fantastic insights from Dr Nicholas Liau on challenging yourself, doing things outside of your comfort zone and living beyond the now-- make time to think about your future. Diversifying your experiences can seem intimidating but can lead to great things. #VIINcareers
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 22/07/2025
How can we find out what’s really going on inside cells when we’re generating so much complex data? CORNETO is an open-source tool that uses machine learning to turn tangled omics datasets into clear maps of how genes, proteins, and signalling pathways interact. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/r... 🧪
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CORNETO: machine learning to decode complex omics data
New tool combines biological knowledge with machine learning to help researchers extract meaningful insights from complex omics data.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We can predict a person's risk of coronary artery disease better than ever before. Cover of new @naturemedicine.bsky.social regarding our @scripps.edu recent paper nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📝 So happy to share that the multi-omic mechanisms of peanut OIT 🥜 study I worked on during my postdoc in Berlin is now published and open access. I am excited to share these new findings❗️
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Don't miss your opportunity to attend @theviin.bsky.social Careers Evening. Deadline extended to COB today❗️ So get in quick 🏃‍♀️💨
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I Am Dr.Sam @iamdrsam.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Not sure what your next science career step will be? or want to learn more about career possibilities? Join us for the annual @theviin.bsky.social Careers Evening! 📆 Wednesday July 30th 🕐5.30 -8.30pm 📍WEHI Register via TryBooking by 11.59pm Sunday 20th of July www.trybooking.com/DDBSU
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rstats #bioinformatics #bioconductor
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Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science
This opinion piece discusses the Bioconductor project for open-source bioinformatics and the engineering concepts underlying its effectiveness to date…
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025
New notification settings are here! Adjust the types of notifications you get under Settings > Notifications (or by clicking the gear icon on your notifications page) You can also now get alerts when *individual users* post! Click the bell icon on a profile to subscribe. More in this blog entry:
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More Control Over Your Notifications - Bluesky
Fine tune which notifications you receive, opt-in to receive push notifications from specific accounts, and receive notifications when someone likes or reposts posts you’ve reposted.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow? Concern rises among researchers after agency officials ask for a list of projects funded to study the jabs. www.nature.com/artic... 1/6
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NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow?
Nature - Concern rises among researchers after agency officials ask for a list of projects funded to study the jabs.
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A new way to conduct GWAS meta-analysis? Preprint shows Genomic Network Analysis can be used to identify conditionally independent associations between traits, controlling for shared genetic signals. Also enables multi-level biological analysis within the framework to probe underlying aetiology🧬🖥️
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How can B cells rapidly proliferate and have mutations suppressed? A longstanding mystery solved involving transient mutation suppression capability of germinal centers nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Regulated somatic hypermutation enhances antibody affinity maturation - Nature
Germinal centre B cells modify their mutation rate to preserve high-affinity receptors, thereby safeguarding high-affinity B cell lineages and enhancing the outcomes of antibody affinity maturation.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Virax Biolabs found that repeated viral exposure drives T-cell exhaustion, weakening immunity. Their WIRM 2025 study links this dysfunction to post-viral syndromes like Long COVID. ir.viraxbiolabs.com/news-events/...
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Carlos Talavera-López @cartalop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Super excited to see NicheCompass out! Want to take a closer look at what those cells in your spatial data are doing? Go and play with NicheCompass and its interpretable framework to understand cellular collectives and dynamics: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sebastianbirk.bsky.social
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Quantitative characterization of cell niches in spatially resolved omics data - Nature Genetics
NicheCompass is a graph variational autoencoder approach for identifying cellular niches defined by cell–cell communication and other interactions, applicable to a broad variety of spatial multi-omic ...
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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Postdoctoral fellow - Saez-Rodriguez Group
Your group Saez-Rodriguez Research Group Your supervisor Julio Saez-Rodriguez Your role As a postdoctoral fellow in the Saez Rodriguez group, you will develop and apply computational methods and tools...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 15/03/2025
A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that brain inflammation in COVID-19 correlates with viral load, systemic inflammation and virus-sensing pattern recognition receptors. Microglial dysfunction occurs at sites of vascular inflammation with myelin injury and synapse loss. 🧪
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Microglia dysfunction, neurovascular inflammation and focal neuropathologies are linked to IL-1- and IL-6-related systemic inflammation in COVID-19 - Nature Neuroscience
The authors show that brain inflammation in COVID-19 correlates with viral load, systemic inflammation and virus-sensing pattern recognition receptors. Microglial dysfunction occurs at sites of vascular inflammation with myelin injury and synapse loss.
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Ben Hogan @benjhogan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We are recruiting a group leader in laboratory research at Peter Mac Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia 🔬🦘💥 Work in a cutting edge research environment in a vibrant world city! We value research excellence, creativity and diversity. Join us! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...
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Group Leader
Group Leader
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 14/03/2025
Beyond the Hype: The Complexity of Automated Cell Type Annotations with GPT-4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/soulbio/cell...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 13/03/2025
Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.
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Vienna Airway Lab @viennaairwaylab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Interesting - murine data shows that TSLP can also act on Tregs and thereby limit T2 inflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ImmunoSky #Immunology
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TSLP acts on regulatory T cells to maintain their identity and limit allergic inflammation
TSLP acts on Tregs to control allergic airway inflammation.
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Dr Shane Huntington OAM @drshanerrr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
ANNOUNCEMENT: It is that time of the year when I start filling the guest list for @einstein_agogo on @3RRRFM. Last year we had some 150 guests from all areas of research. So if you are interested, DM me the details! PhD students and ECR/MCRs most welcome! Must be Melbourne based.
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Sarah Ashley @sarah-ashley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
What immune (gene) pathways and cells are involved in retraining the body from active food allergy to remission (clinical unresponsiveness to allergen) during oral immunotherapy? For your reading pleasure, I present a review of the literature answering this question in patient derived samples:
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Transcriptomic changes associated with oral immunotherapy for food allergy
In this review we summarise current understanding of immune changes associated with oral immunotherapy (OIT), as established through molecular profiling of the transcriptome. Changes observed during ...
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