Feargal Ryan
@feargalr.bsky.social
Head, computational multi-omics at Flinders University. Sci-fi, history and video games nerd 🤓👾
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Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025!
Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025!
Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
🚀 TaxSEA v1.2 is now live in #Bioconductor release 3.22!
TaxSEA brings enrichment testing to #metagenomics data. Just like GSEA does for transcriptomics making #microbiome & #microbiota results biologically interpretable, fast, and reproducible. We've added new DBs & features in 1.2 👇 🧵
TaxSEA brings enrichment testing to #metagenomics data. Just like GSEA does for transcriptomics making #microbiome & #microbiota results biologically interpretable, fast, and reproducible. We've added new DBs & features in 1.2 👇 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚀 TaxSEA v1.2 is now live in #Bioconductor release 3.22!
TaxSEA brings enrichment testing to #metagenomics data. Just like GSEA does for transcriptomics making #microbiome & #microbiota results biologically interpretable, fast, and reproducible. We've added new DBs & features in 1.2 👇 🧵
TaxSEA brings enrichment testing to #metagenomics data. Just like GSEA does for transcriptomics making #microbiome & #microbiota results biologically interpretable, fast, and reproducible. We've added new DBs & features in 1.2 👇 🧵
We've rescued two former racers. Not ideal when your vet is on the news www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Vet sent greyhounds home with 'open wounds', SA parliament told
Staff at Greyhound Racing SA accuse the organisation of suppressing complaints about its preferred vet, according to documents and graphic photos tabled in state parliament.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
We've rescued two former racers. Not ideal when your vet is on the news www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
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Carefully reading the papers you cite is like a superpower. You might be surprised what you actually find! 😜
October 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Carefully reading the papers you cite is like a superpower. You might be surprised what you actually find! 😜
Fascinating! Genetic risk factors for disease susceptibility show little association with disease progression/mortality. Important as most individuals only approach the health care system after developing symptoms. #genomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and disease survival - Nature Genetics
Systematic comparison of genome-wide association results for disease risk and disease-specific mortality for nine common diseases across seven biobanks finds limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and survival.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Fascinating! Genetic risk factors for disease susceptibility show little association with disease progression/mortality. Important as most individuals only approach the health care system after developing symptoms. #genomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#MVIF Season 5!
#MVIF Season 5 has started!
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#MVIF Season 5!
Caught the lunar eclipse up in the Flinders Ranges!
September 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Caught the lunar eclipse up in the Flinders Ranges!
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ECRs, join us on Sept 30th 2025, 3-4:30pm for our online Career Panel Q&A Session on bioinformatics career pathways within academia and industry. Check out our invited speakers below! Register at shorturl.at/Lerzw
September 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ECRs, join us on Sept 30th 2025, 3-4:30pm for our online Career Panel Q&A Session on bioinformatics career pathways within academia and industry. Check out our invited speakers below! Register at shorturl.at/Lerzw
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🚨 Less than 48 hours left! 🚨
Abstract submissions for #ABACBS2025 close midnight Friday, Aug 15 — no extensions.
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
Abstract submissions for #ABACBS2025 close midnight Friday, Aug 15 — no extensions.
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
🚨 Less than 48 hours left! 🚨
Abstract submissions for #ABACBS2025 close midnight Friday, Aug 15 — no extensions.
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
Abstract submissions for #ABACBS2025 close midnight Friday, Aug 15 — no extensions.
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
Just about to push a big update to our R package TaxSEA where we've spent a lot of time collating data from the BacDive database so it's readily usable in a metagenomics analysis. See example below from the HMP IBD data. #metagenomics #bioinformatics #microbiome #microbiota
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Just about to push a big update to our R package TaxSEA where we've spent a lot of time collating data from the BacDive database so it's readily usable in a metagenomics analysis. See example below from the HMP IBD data. #metagenomics #bioinformatics #microbiome #microbiota
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🚨 Abstract deadline extended! 🚨
You’ve now got until August 15 to submit for #ABACBS2025 — one-time extension only!
Join us in Adelaide for world-class #bioinformatics, workshops, student & EMCR events, and more.
🔗 www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
You’ve now got until August 15 to submit for #ABACBS2025 — one-time extension only!
Join us in Adelaide for world-class #bioinformatics, workshops, student & EMCR events, and more.
🔗 www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🚨 Abstract deadline extended! 🚨
You’ve now got until August 15 to submit for #ABACBS2025 — one-time extension only!
Join us in Adelaide for world-class #bioinformatics, workshops, student & EMCR events, and more.
🔗 www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
You’ve now got until August 15 to submit for #ABACBS2025 — one-time extension only!
Join us in Adelaide for world-class #bioinformatics, workshops, student & EMCR events, and more.
🔗 www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
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@hubertr.bsky.social presented during #bioinfocore about GEO uploader, trying to simplify the upload process for researchers (I kinda hate doing this, so I'll be looking at it) github.com/fgcz/geo-upl... #ISMBECCB2025
GitHub - fgcz/geo-uploader: A Python GUI for the upload of NGS data to GEO
A Python GUI for the upload of NGS data to GEO. Contribute to fgcz/geo-uploader development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
@hubertr.bsky.social presented during #bioinfocore about GEO uploader, trying to simplify the upload process for researchers (I kinda hate doing this, so I'll be looking at it) github.com/fgcz/geo-upl... #ISMBECCB2025
Tomorrow at 9:40am I’ll be speaking at #ISMBECCB2025 about how we can speed up microbiome data interpretation using taxon sets
Paper: academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
R package on #Bioconductor: TaxSEA
#RStats #Microbiome
Come say hi, I flew from Australia for this 🤣
Paper: academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
R package on #Bioconductor: TaxSEA
#RStats #Microbiome
Come say hi, I flew from Australia for this 🤣
TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases
Abstract. Microbial communities are essential regulators of ecosystem function, with their composition commonly assessed through DNA sequencing. Most curre
academic.oup.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Tomorrow at 9:40am I’ll be speaking at #ISMBECCB2025 about how we can speed up microbiome data interpretation using taxon sets
Paper: academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
R package on #Bioconductor: TaxSEA
#RStats #Microbiome
Come say hi, I flew from Australia for this 🤣
Paper: academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
R package on #Bioconductor: TaxSEA
#RStats #Microbiome
Come say hi, I flew from Australia for this 🤣
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Finally joined Bluesky! Follow along to stay connected with ABACBS. Keep an eye out in the coming days, we’ll be releasing more details for 2025 conference, including opening abstract submissions and announcing invited speakers!
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
ABACBS 2025 Conference
Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-
www.abacbs.org
July 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Finally joined Bluesky! Follow along to stay connected with ABACBS. Keep an eye out in the coming days, we’ll be releasing more details for 2025 conference, including opening abstract submissions and announcing invited speakers!
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025
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⭐️Microtalks:
🇺🇸 @michaelwasney.bsky.social
🇯🇵 Yiting Liu
⭐️Keynote:
🇦🇺 Emad El-Omar
⭐️Selected talks:
🇦🇺 Chaoran Yang
🇦🇺 @feargalr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 @vdumeaux.bsky.social
🇺🇸 @michaelwasney.bsky.social
🇯🇵 Yiting Liu
⭐️Keynote:
🇦🇺 Emad El-Omar
⭐️Selected talks:
🇦🇺 Chaoran Yang
🇦🇺 @feargalr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 @vdumeaux.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
⭐️Microtalks:
🇺🇸 @michaelwasney.bsky.social
🇯🇵 Yiting Liu
⭐️Keynote:
🇦🇺 Emad El-Omar
⭐️Selected talks:
🇦🇺 Chaoran Yang
🇦🇺 @feargalr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 @vdumeaux.bsky.social
🇺🇸 @michaelwasney.bsky.social
🇯🇵 Yiting Liu
⭐️Keynote:
🇦🇺 Emad El-Omar
⭐️Selected talks:
🇦🇺 Chaoran Yang
🇦🇺 @feargalr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 @vdumeaux.bsky.social
Manuscript out now in Briefings in Bioinformatics!
TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases. #microbiome #metagenomics
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases. #microbiome #metagenomics
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
My first R package is officially out Bioconductor 3.21 today 🎉
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
TaxSEA
TaxSEA is an R package for Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis, which utilises a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test analyses to investigate differential abundance analysis output for whether there are alternations in ...
bioconductor.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Manuscript out now in Briefings in Bioinformatics!
TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases. #microbiome #metagenomics
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases. #microbiome #metagenomics
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...
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argNorm is published now academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
April 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
argNorm is published now academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
My first R package is officially out Bioconductor 3.21 today 🎉
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
TaxSEA
TaxSEA is an R package for Taxon Set Enrichment Analysis, which utilises a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test analyses to investigate differential abundance analysis output for whether there are alternations in ...
bioconductor.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
My first R package is officially out Bioconductor 3.21 today 🎉
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
TaxSEA adapts GSEA-style methods for metagenomic data— useful for interpreting differential abundance results. Manuscript accepted & in-press. Check it out bioconductor.org/packages/rel...
#Bioinformatics #Metagenomics #RStats
Excellent editorial in Microbiome this week including lots of practical advice for analysis (and lots of what not to do!) #microbiome #bioinformatics
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A blueprint for contemporary studies of microbiomes - Microbiome
This editorial piece co-authored by the Senior Editors at Microbiome aims to highlight current challenges in the field of environmental and host-associated microbiome research. We also take the opport...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Excellent editorial in Microbiome this week including lots of practical advice for analysis (and lots of what not to do!) #microbiome #bioinformatics
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Delighted our study (7+ years in the making) is out today in Nature. In a nutshell, 48 hours of antibiotics in week 1 led to impaired vaccine responses up to 15 months later in infants. We show (in-vivo) a probiotic can fix it #microbiome #science #immunology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses - Nature
Neonatal antibiotic use is shown to reduce immune response to infant vaccines, accompanied by reduced abundance of Bifidobacteria in the gut microbiota, with experiments in mice indicating that probio...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Delighted our study (7+ years in the making) is out today in Nature. In a nutshell, 48 hours of antibiotics in week 1 led to impaired vaccine responses up to 15 months later in infants. We show (in-vivo) a probiotic can fix it #microbiome #science #immunology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We're looking for a postdoc on the Computational Analysis of Environmental #Microbiome Data! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)
In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)
Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Analysis of Environmental Microbiome Data
We are seeking a highly motivated computational biologist to join the research group of Peer Bork within the Molecular Systems Biology Unit as a postdoctoral fellow. This bioinformatics group works on...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're looking for a postdoc on the Computational Analysis of Environmental #Microbiome Data! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)
In the past two years, @embl.org scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment & water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition (1/2)