Kitty Murphy
@kittybmurphy.bsky.social
Postdoc at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 she/her
Interested in the phenotypic effects of archaic DNA present in modern human genomes 🧬
Interested in the phenotypic effects of archaic DNA present in modern human genomes 🧬
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Oof, one of my heroes.
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Oof, one of my heroes.
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🚨 WOPA needs a volunteer website admin! If you know WordPress & want to help keep paleoanthropology accessible, get in touch. DM/email for details. #volunteer #WordPress #Paleoanthropology
September 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🚨 WOPA needs a volunteer website admin! If you know WordPress & want to help keep paleoanthropology accessible, get in touch. DM/email for details. #volunteer #WordPress #Paleoanthropology
As someone who recently moved to Copenhagen to start a postdoc with @lauritsskov.bsky.social, I can highly recommend the city, the supervisor, and the research 🧬
Join us!
Join us!
Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes?
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :)
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
September 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As someone who recently moved to Copenhagen to start a postdoc with @lauritsskov.bsky.social, I can highly recommend the city, the supervisor, and the research 🧬
Join us!
Join us!
Computational biologists, sign up! 👩💻🧑💻
Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August
See you there 🤓
Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August
See you there 🤓
Are you an Early Career Researcher in bioinformatics? Then this symposium is for you 💡
Join us for a day of talks, networking and career discussions. Present your work to get fresh new ideas and the chance to win prizes 💸
Featuring @avsecz.bsky.social of Google DeepMind as our keynote speaker⚡️
Join us for a day of talks, networking and career discussions. Present your work to get fresh new ideas and the chance to win prizes 💸
Featuring @avsecz.bsky.social of Google DeepMind as our keynote speaker⚡️
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Computational biologists, sign up! 👩💻🧑💻
Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August
See you there 🤓
Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August
See you there 🤓
Londonomics is back with its second workshop of the year: computer science for bioinformaticians 💡
4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️
4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️
Join us today for a workshop on computer science for Bioinformaticians! 🧑💻👩💻👨💻
More info and tickets (only a few left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
More info and tickets (only a few left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Londonomics presents: Computer Science for Bioinformaticians
The second in a series of Londonomics workshops for early-career computational researchers in London, with Mithun Srinavaratnarajah.
www.eventbrite.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Londonomics is back with its second workshop of the year: computer science for bioinformaticians 💡
4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️
4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️
Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD has just been published in Nature Communications!
We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬
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We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬
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May 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD has just been published in Nature Communications!
We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬
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We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬
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And just like that, 5 years in the Marzi lab @sj-marzi.bsky.social have come to an end. Couldn’t have asked for a better team ✨
Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And just like that, 5 years in the Marzi lab @sj-marzi.bsky.social have come to an end. Couldn’t have asked for a better team ✨
Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Excited to see a part of my PhD work out in the 🌍
We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀
Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻
We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀
Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻
We are so happy to share our latest paper "CHAS infers cell type-specific signatures in bulk brain acetylation studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders".
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
@ukdri.ac.uk @kingsioppn.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
@ukdri.ac.uk @kingsioppn.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social
CHAS infers cell type-specific signatures in bulk brain histone acetylation studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders
Murphy et al. develop CHAS, a computational tool that uncovers cell type-specific
patterns in bulk tissue histone acetylation data. Applying CHAS to brain disorders
reveals distinct cell type targets ...
www.cell.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Excited to see a part of my PhD work out in the 🌍
We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀
Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻
We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀
Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻
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This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Londonomics is back! ⚡️
Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute.
Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!
Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute.
Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!
We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
Londonomics presents: Single-cell analysis with Dr Kristina Ulicna
The first of a series of Londonomics workshops for early-career computational researchers in London. This month, single-cell analysis!
www.eventbrite.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Londonomics is back! ⚡️
Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute.
Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!
Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute.
Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!
Reposted by Kitty Murphy
We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
Londonomics presents: Single-cell analysis with Dr Kristina Ulicna
The first of a series of Londonomics workshops for early-career computational researchers in London. This month, single-cell analysis!
www.eventbrite.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩💻 🧬
More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...
Talk followed by a networking social 🍕
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📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social
#depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants
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#depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
March 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social
#depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
#depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants
my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
Reposted by Kitty Murphy
Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons [including brain evolution] www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons - Nature
The cis-regulatory functions of human accelerated regions of genomic loci and their potential contribution to human brain evolution are revealed.
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons [including brain evolution] www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to the discovery of sodium channels and experiments in giant squid 🦑 and much more in between, we now have a non-addictive pain treatment 💊
Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.
Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.
I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science.
This helps me remember what this is all about.
Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.
This helps me remember what this is all about.
Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.
the word irony is written on a white background
ALT: the word irony is written on a white background
media.tenor.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thanks to the discovery of sodium channels and experiments in giant squid 🦑 and much more in between, we now have a non-addictive pain treatment 💊
Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.
Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.
I was part of the Marzi lab for my masters, PhD, and now postdoc. @sj-marzi.bsky.social is an enthusiastic scientist and supportive mentor. The science is cool and the people are even cooler. Can’t recommend enough!!! 🤓
Apply apply apply 👇🏻
Apply apply apply 👇🏻
February 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I was part of the Marzi lab for my masters, PhD, and now postdoc. @sj-marzi.bsky.social is an enthusiastic scientist and supportive mentor. The science is cool and the people are even cooler. Can’t recommend enough!!! 🤓
Apply apply apply 👇🏻
Apply apply apply 👇🏻
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Just very happy to have our paper out today! A big thanks to all our co-authors, and to Nikolai and @steinaerts.bsky.social for the teamwork over the past years. If you are interested in using our models for cross-species enhancer studies, check out crested.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mo... 🙂
In a new study, Nikolai Hecker, Niklas Kempynck et al. in the team of @steinaerts.bsky.social explore 300 million years of brain evolution through the lens of enhancer codes.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Enhancer-driven cell type comparison reveals similarities between the mammalian and bird pallium
Combinations of transcription factors govern the identity of cell types, which is reflected by genomic enhancer codes. We used deep learning to characterize these enhancer codes and devised three metr...
www.science.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Just very happy to have our paper out today! A big thanks to all our co-authors, and to Nikolai and @steinaerts.bsky.social for the teamwork over the past years. If you are interested in using our models for cross-species enhancer studies, check out crested.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mo... 🙂
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We are looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc with cell or molecular biology expertise. Excellent #epigenetics, #chromatin training & networking opportunities @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social
DM me for inquiries
pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5
DM me for inquiries
pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5
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February 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc with cell or molecular biology expertise. Excellent #epigenetics, #chromatin training & networking opportunities @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social
DM me for inquiries
pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5
DM me for inquiries
pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5
Londonomics has made the move over to Bluesky 🦋
We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡
We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀
We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡
We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀
Hi! We’re the Londonomics Network - a network for early career computational researchers (ECCRs) based in London 🇬🇧
We host monthly events including co-working sessions, socials, and workshops 🧑💻👩💻
Register for free to be a member: www.londonomics.co.uk
Stay tuned for our next event in March 💡
We host monthly events including co-working sessions, socials, and workshops 🧑💻👩💻
Register for free to be a member: www.londonomics.co.uk
Stay tuned for our next event in March 💡
February 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Londonomics has made the move over to Bluesky 🦋
We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡
We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀
We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡
We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀
Reposted by Kitty Murphy
Here is a growing list of conferences and schools in gene regulation for 2025 generegulation.org/conferences-.... You can order/filter this list by the date, deadline, location. Please reply here to suggest new events*
*should be specific to gene regulation
*should be specific to gene regulation
Conferences & Schools – 2025 – Gene Regulation – Teif Lab
generegulation.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Here is a growing list of conferences and schools in gene regulation for 2025 generegulation.org/conferences-.... You can order/filter this list by the date, deadline, location. Please reply here to suggest new events*
*should be specific to gene regulation
*should be specific to gene regulation
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Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters.
Find out more in the Science news here
www.science.org/content/arti...
#Consgen
Find out more in the Science news here
www.science.org/content/arti...
#Consgen
Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity
The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors
www.science.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters.
Find out more in the Science news here
www.science.org/content/arti...
#Consgen
Find out more in the Science news here
www.science.org/content/arti...
#Consgen
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Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease?
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
January 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease?
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵
Reposted by Kitty Murphy
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
January 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
Reposted by Kitty Murphy
If you know anyone who's looking for a PhD in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on data science and epidemiology, this scheme looks great. I would be happy to supervise projects in the Global Health Innovation stream.
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
Open competition - LISS DTP
liss-dtp.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you know anyone who's looking for a PhD in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on data science and epidemiology, this scheme looks great. I would be happy to supervise projects in the Global Health Innovation stream.
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...
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Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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January 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S