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Chris Wells

@stemcellsystems.bsky.social
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Curiosity fuelled biomedical researcher, I build computational and stem cell models of human innate immune cells | Professor of Stem Cell Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Beautiful study of conserved gene essentialness by Brenda Andrews - the yeast cell map thecellmap.org @lornegenome.bsky.social
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TheCellMap - Landing
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Lorne Genome Conference, Australia @lornegenome.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Brenda Andrews: yeast 🥪 a fantastic systemic genetics, all viable deletion mutants are available. Using to map genetic interactions ➡️ link phenotype to genotype
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Title was the preprint, but talk an absolute tour de force of ocular genetics. Alex asks - are we ready for genetic risk scores informing early intervention for glaucoma.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Alex Hewitt @utas.edu.au speaking about spatial transcriptome analysis of glaucoma @lornegenome.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Link to Odom lab (not the talk series linked above) www.dkfz.de/en/regulator...
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Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution - German Cancer Research Center
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A complex story - deeper computational dive from Martin Taylor's team Strand resolved mutagenesis of DNA damage and repair. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @lornegenome.bsky.social
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Strand-resolved mutagenicity of DNA damage and repair - Nature
How strand-asymmetric processes such as replication and transcription interact with DNA damage to drive mechanisms of repair and mutagenesis is explored.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Choose your own adventure @lornegenome.bsky.social Duncan Odom www.lifepi-hd.com/duncan-odom asks if we want greatest hits or new hot stuff - role on hot stuff!
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Congratulations Hannah Coughlin @wehi-research.bsky.social winner of the 2026 Millennium Science @lornegenome.bsky.social mid career prize, for her work on the 3D-genome.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hamid speaking to new tool: SemanticST to analyse spatial transcriptomics and preprinted @arxiv.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2506.11491
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SemanticST: Spatially Informed Semantic Graph Learning for Clustering, Integration, and Scalable Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies enable gene expression profiling with spatial resolution, offering unprecedented insights into tissue organization and disease heterogeneity. However, current...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny heads the UNSW biomedical machine learning laboratory and is applying generative AI to spatial transcriptomics www.unsw.edu.au/staff/hamid-... #LorneGenome
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Dr Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The @lornegenome.bsky.social 2026 Millennium Science award to mid career researchers to acknowledge outstanding contributions to Australian genomic research, including novel analytical concepts. #LorneGenome Congratulations Hamid Alinejad-Rokny (UNSW) and Hannah Coughlan (WEHI)
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Lorne Genome 2026 @lornegenome.bsky.social kicking off with the e-for-evil/e-for-effector pathogen ORF screen @miketilapia.bsky.social - preprint @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
@asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 conference has been great - terrific science, networking and location. Join us for #ASSCR2026 in Melbourne, 9-11 November, 2026. See you there!
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
ChatGTP empowered Chemical screening platform www.chemperturbdb.com
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The final keynote of #ASSCR2025 from @shuibingchen.bsky.social on building pancreatic islet with beta cells, blood vessels and macrophages. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Drew Neavin #ASSCR2025 using 'village in a dish' models to study the genetics underpinning cardiotoxicity Unpublisjed data so reference is to the village in a dish model. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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A village in a dish model system for population-scale hiPSC studies
The mechanisms by which DNA alleles contribute to disease risk, drug response, and other human phenotypes are highly context-specific, varying across cell types and different conditions. Human induced pluripotent stem cells are uniquely suited to ...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ralph Patrick is looking for dosage-sensitive transcription factors that may impact ageing #ASSCR2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.cm...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Luke and collaborators takes it further by exploring TF/chromatin structures to identify cofactors of P53 #ASSCR2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Try doi.org/10.1126/scie... Luke Isbel #ASSCR2025
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Mechanisms of OCT4-SOX2 motif readout on nucleosomes
Site-specific nucleosome engagement by pluripotency factors reveals how transcription factors distort nucleosomes at chromatinized motifs.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Luke Isbel exploring chromatin codes in pluripotency #ASSCR2025 doi: 10.1126/science.abb0074
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Kathrine Zyner presents 'ReFate' #ASSCR2025 which combines gene regulatory networks with compounds that impact on these regulatory pathways to improve cell reprogramming @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Refate identifies chemical compounds to target trans-regulatory networks for cellular conversion
Identifying chemical compounds that target trans-regulatory networks (TRNs) underlying molecular programs of cells for directed cellular conversion (i.e. differentiation, reprogramming, transdifferent...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi: doi.org/10.1101/2023... #ASSCR2025
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Automated Integration of Multi-Slice Spatial Transcriptomics Data in 2D and 3D
The field of spatial transcriptomics is rapidly evolving, with increasing sample complexity, resolution, and tissue size. Yet the field lacks comprehensive solutions for automated integration and anal...
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National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia @ausstemcell.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Meet the winners of our 2025 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research: stemcellfoundation.net.au/2025_metcalf... 🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social 🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social
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National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia @ausstemcell.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hear from our 2025 #MetcalfPrizes winners – Dr Maria Di Biase and Dr Lachlan Harris – on ABC Radio Gold Coast Drive with Bern Young. Listen from 43.51 on yesterday’s show: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @qimrb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Day 3 #ASSCR2025 opens with Fernando Rossello benchmarking PSC-derived organoids using spatial profiling platforms. Lovely to see careful QC associated with this study.
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Melbourne Bioinformatics @melbioinf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem? We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
mdhs.unimelb.edu.au
PhD Research Projects
Learn how to use the tools you need to apply bioinformatics techniques in your own research.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Inspiring #ASSCR2025 talk from Siok Tey @qimrb.bsky.social about home-grown clinical trials and manufacturing processes for new CART therapies.
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Mel Eckersley-Maslin @meleckmas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Great first day of stem cell science on the beach at #ASSCR2025! Here is our @asscr.bsky.social president opening the conference. Highlights include keynote from @josh-brickman.bsky.social and presentation of @ausstemcell.bsky.social 2025 Metcalf awards. Congratulations to the worthy recipients!
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Stem cell selfie #ASSCR2025 #miltenyibiotec @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social
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Stem Cell Reports @stemcellreports.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Meet our Early Career Editor at #ASSCR2025! Pengyi Yang is attending the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, 10-12 November 2025. Connect with Dr. Yang to discuss whether your research is a fit for publishing in Stem Cell Reports!
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Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) @asscr.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
🌟 Congratulations to our 2025 #ASSCR Rising Star Award winners – Dr Ana Núñez Nescolarde (Harry Perkins Institute) & Dr Kevin Law (Universty of Sydney)! 👏 Honoured for excellence in stem cell research & leadership. Thanks to NSCFA for their support! 🧬✨ #StemCells #RisingStars
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Day 2 @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 opens with my favourite cell type (thanks Ed Stanley!) -iPSC derived macrophages. Ed is creating the cell types needed for a type1 diabetes model
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Shalin Naik @shalinhnaik.bsky.social starting with a quick ad for their recently published LoxCode mouse, before discussion of clonal hematopoiesis - introducing the concept of lineage-primed HSC. #ASSCR #CloneOfDestiny
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Ritika Saxena @ritikasxn.bsky.social speaking about hPSC-derived blood. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
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Long-term engrafting multilineage hematopoietic cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) have important biomedical applications. We identified differentiation conditions that generate HSCs defined by robust long-term multilineage engraftment in ...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Can't get more Australian than a talk on marsupial pluripotent stem cells from Gerard Tarulli from the TIGGR labs @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 - describing iPSC from the fat tailed Dunnart. tigrrlab.science.unimelb.edu.au
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Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research Lab | TIGRR LAB
Our mission: Marsupial conservation and de-extinction of the thylacine Over the past decade, the concept of de-extinction has transitioned out of the realm
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Deep learning / autoencoder models of early development, recently published in @natmethods.nature.com pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #ASSCR2025
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Deep learning-based models for preimplantation mouse and human embryos based on single-cell RNA sequencing
The rapid growth of single-cell transcriptomic technology has produced an increasing number of datasets for both embryonic development and in vitro pluripotent stem cell-derived models. This avalanche of data surrounding pluripotency and the process ...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social opens ASSCR with a provocative talk on transcription factor residency in early development.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The annual scientific meeting of Australian and NZ StemCell scientists is kicking off this week @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Transitions is the newest in our series of stem cell conversations. Launched by Ritika Saxena, Jarmon Lees and @osvaldoics.bsky.social we explore project and career transitions. All the parts needed for successful science that don't make it to the bench. For Aussie scientists, but all welcome.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We are celebrating 5 years of the Australia stem cell conversation! Hosted by @unimelb.bsky.social and @asscr.bsky.social the stem cell conversation is a weekly 30min virtual seminar series organised by EMCR for EMCR. Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New from the lab - How FAIR is metadata for human pluripotent stem cells? Registered cell lines are more likely to be cited, shared and reused across different studies - but most lines are difficult to find or lack key information. Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
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How FAIR is metadata for human pluripotent stem cells?
In this article, Wells and colleagues present the first systematic FAIR evaluation of stem cell data infrastructures. Case studies from, but not limited to, the United States, Japan, Europe, and Austr...
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Day 2 #HCA2025GM day two demonstrates the power of global representation in genome and cell maps. @patriciasevero.bsky.social
A woman speaks to an audience about the importance of leveraging local experts in global science missions
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Human Cell Atlas @humancellatlas.org · 10/06/2025
Virtual attendees can use their registration email to watch the livestream at: buff.ly/Jlsw8X6
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Session Details
Keynote Day 2 Session Chair: Shyam Prabhakar Speaker:
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Consortium priorities - integrate the atlases into a whole body view; create 2D/3/D spatially resolved atlases and 3/ build global representation including for disease networks to benefit global health.
A slide describing global representation of the HCA for health benefit for all.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It will be interesting to see how researchers use generative AI to explore these data. It will certainly open up equitable access to the data.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Human Cell Atlas data now hosted on @amazonaws.bsky.social OpenData servers - aws.amazon.com/marketplace/...
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AWS Marketplace: Human Cell Atlas
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The human cell atlas #HCA2025GM really showcases descriptive science at scale - an atlas of human cells that engages globally. It's an exciting grass roots project. Equity and capability building are a core principle - as are coordinated networks focused on tissue specific atlases.
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The room is buzzing in Singapore #HCA2025GM
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Very happy to be in Singapore for #HCA2025GM
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Chris Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Congratulations Irene!
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