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Chiara Batini
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Passionate about human diversity, travelling and colours.
GenEpi Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leicester
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training.ebi.embl.org
A huge thank you to everyone that joined us for our annual 'Genome bioinformatics' training course.

Wish you were here? Sign up for alerts for the 2026 edition of the course: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #NextGenerationSequencing
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EMBL-EBI course. Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing. 17 - 21 November 2025. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Hinxton, UK. A group of people sit outside on stone benches in front of a glass fronted office building. They are wearing winter coats and smiling to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Back in Hinxton for our annual @training.ebi.embl.org genome bionformatics course, loving the campus on this sunny morning 😍
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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And that's a wrap on the Respiratory Genomics Conference 2025. Thank you so much to all our attendees for their time, thoughts and inspiration. We'll see you all again in 2027! #RespGen25
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A great line up of speakers for Respiratory Genomics 2025!
Register to join us in Leicester, UK, 4-5th Nov 2025 & submit an abstract by 19th Sept
#RespGen25
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August 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
chiarabatini.bsky.social
Our latest study on the genetics of chronic cough is out!

Here the link to the paper:
publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...
July 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Our latest study uncovers genes linked to chronic cough, shedding light on the role of neuronal signalling and sensory pathways in driving cough reflex hypersensitivity. These findings deepen our biological understanding of chronic cough. Find out more here: le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
Breakthrough genetic study points to neurological mechanisms for chronic cough | News | University of Leicester
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July 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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I am starting a computational lab at LIOS, Riga, Latvia, and going to recruit a few people. Please DM if you are interested in a postdoc or PhD position in my Metabolic Research Group within the TARGETWISE project. I can highly recommend Riga, it is a beautiful city with very good living conditions.
July 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Are you aged 18-80 and from a South Asian or African/Caribbean background living with a long-term health condition?

Share your experiences as part of a #PhD study exploring health within diverse communities.

✉️ Email Zara Kayani: ZK74@LE.AC.UK

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June 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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We are excited to announce that tidypopgen – a new package for rapid population genetic workflows in R – is now available at evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/ 🧬💻 Read more in the preprint describing its features here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #popgen #Rpackage #genetics 1/2
Tidy Population Genetics
We provide a tidy grammar of population genetics, facilitating the manipulation and analysis of data on biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). `tidypopgen` scales to very large genetic data...
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June 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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exceedstudy.bsky.social
The EXCEED team visited the Shama Women's Centre today to launch our new phase of recruitment. Huge thanks to all that attended and supported.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Thank you #ESHG2025 for selecting our poster for the best poster session, and overall for a great few days of excellent science! @exceedstudy.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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training.ebi.embl.org
Join us at our genome bioinformatics training course for a guide to the technology, analysis workflows, tools, & resources for next-generation sequencing data analysis.

Apply by 3 August: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Course at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing. 17 – 21 November 2025. Hinxton, United Kingdom. EMBL-EBI logo.
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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📢 Our new review on #LongCovid: 50 studies, 14M+ people. COVID linked to ↑ risk in 39/40 symptoms.

Top risks (likelihood compared to controls):
👃 Smell loss (4.3x)
👅 Taste loss (3.7x)
🧠 Brain fog (2.7x)
💇 Hair loss (2.4x)
🏥 Hospitalised = higher risk
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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The risk of Long Covid symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies - Nature Communications
Estimating the risk of long COVID is challenging because many of its symptoms are associated with other conditions. Here, the authors conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that esti...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Longstanding followers will know I have consistently tried to unpick concepts of race / ethnicity from genetics. TLDR; Race/Ethnicity - a self identification process about a categorical group is v different from the high dimensional variation in the genome despite a thin connection by visible traits
April 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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opentargets.org
Register for our webinar on 23 April!

We will introduce the capabilities and use cases of the Open Targets Platform, including our new variant, study, and credible set pages released last week 🧬🖥️

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
A graphic advertising a webinar for the Open Targets Platform. The title of the webinar is: From variant to drug target: using the expanded Open Targets Platform to explore the genetics of target discovery. The webinar will run on 23 April, 3-4 pm (UK time). Participants can register at ebi.ac.uk/training
March 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Open Targets Platform 25.03 is finally here! 🌼

This update brings in variant, study, and credible set information, uniting the Open Targets Platform and Open Targets Genetics into a one-stop shop for human genetic and target discovery information.

blog.opentargets.org/open-targets...
March 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This week, EXCEED's lead administrator celebrated 10 years in this role. Despite it being a busy week full of meetings, the EXCEED team can always find time for cake! 🍰Congratulations, Catherine!
A woman stands next to a desk cutting a small carrot cake into slices. Four people, two men and two women, posing for a photo with a carrot cake.
March 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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very proud of Kayesha Coley for leading this effort to its completion!

link to the paper here: academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
February 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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a little less than two weeks to apply to the #EMBOpopgen course - see info below and spread the word!
eegcam.bsky.social Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · Feb 7
EMBO Population Genomics course: Are you a postgrad student or a postdoc starting a population genomics project? This course aims to give you the tools to answer questions for your project. Registration deadline: 24 February 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-pop... #EMBOpopgen
Population genomics: Background and tools, 23-29 June 2025
February 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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JOBS | Research Associate in Genomic Epidemiology of Asthma FT/PT (min 0.8FTE, 30 hrs/wk week) or job share considered. Fixed term contract for 30 mths. Funded by MRC. Closes 18 Feb jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/10...
Research Associate in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team
View details and apply for this Research Associate vacancy in Leicester. The Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Leicester are seeking a Research Associate to join the Gene...
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January 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated!

Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you?

#DataVisualization

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A figure comparing box plot and showing all data points. Group1: normally distributed data. Group2: bimodal data. Group3: Data with 3 modes.
December 10, 2024 at 4:35 PM