Magdalena Armas
@magdaarmas.bsky.social
PhD student - Genome Function lab @TheCrick 👩🏻🔬 Studying variant effects 🧬 in human T cells 🧫
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Excited to be presenting our work on "Saturation mutagenesis of 37 human splicing factor genes using pooled prime editing" later today at #ASHG2025 during the Platform Session "RNA Functions Beyond Coding Sequences" (1:30-2:30PM, Room 205ABC).
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Excited to be presenting our work on "Saturation mutagenesis of 37 human splicing factor genes using pooled prime editing" later today at #ASHG2025 during the Platform Session "RNA Functions Beyond Coding Sequences" (1:30-2:30PM, Room 205ABC).
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
Tomorrow, October 16 at 2:00 pm,
@magdaarmas.bsky.social presents a new method:
"Modulating gene expression in human cells via high-throughput prime editing of regulatory elements"
[Rm210AB]
@magdaarmas.bsky.social presents a new method:
"Modulating gene expression in human cells via high-throughput prime editing of regulatory elements"
[Rm210AB]
October 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tomorrow, October 16 at 2:00 pm,
@magdaarmas.bsky.social presents a new method:
"Modulating gene expression in human cells via high-throughput prime editing of regulatory elements"
[Rm210AB]
@magdaarmas.bsky.social presents a new method:
"Modulating gene expression in human cells via high-throughput prime editing of regulatory elements"
[Rm210AB]
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
Congratulations to @gregfindlay.bsky.social on being awarded a €1.5 million Starting Grant from the @erc.europa.eu to take a closer look at possible disease variants hiding in the dark genome.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
€1.5 million to uncover disease risk hiding in non-coding DNA
Greg Findlay, Group Leader of the Genome Function Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for €1.5 million to take a deep dive i...
www.crick.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Congratulations to @gregfindlay.bsky.social on being awarded a €1.5 million Starting Grant from the @erc.europa.eu to take a closer look at possible disease variants hiding in the dark genome.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
Coming up!
ℹ️ www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
ℹ️ www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
August 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Coming up!
ℹ️ www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
ℹ️ www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
Thrilled to have been selected as a speaker at #ASHG2025 🧬 Annual Meeting in Boston.
If you are interested in the development of high-throughput assays to test non-coding variant effects come join us at Session 53 on Thursday, October 16th!
If you are interested in the development of high-throughput assays to test non-coding variant effects come join us at Session 53 on Thursday, October 16th!
August 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thrilled to have been selected as a speaker at #ASHG2025 🧬 Annual Meeting in Boston.
If you are interested in the development of high-throughput assays to test non-coding variant effects come join us at Session 53 on Thursday, October 16th!
If you are interested in the development of high-throughput assays to test non-coding variant effects come join us at Session 53 on Thursday, October 16th!
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
Our latest research is out today on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk.
Led by the amazing Phoebe Dace. This one’s packed full of data, so check out the paper. Quick highlights… 🧵 1/n
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk.
Led by the amazing Phoebe Dace. This one’s packed full of data, so check out the paper. Quick highlights… 🧵 1/n
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk
Germline pathogenic BRCA1 variants predispose women to breast and ovarian cancer. Despite accumulation of functional evidence for variants in BRCA1 , over half of reported single-nucleotide variants (...
www.medrxiv.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our latest research is out today on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk.
Led by the amazing Phoebe Dace. This one’s packed full of data, so check out the paper. Quick highlights… 🧵 1/n
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk.
Led by the amazing Phoebe Dace. This one’s packed full of data, so check out the paper. Quick highlights… 🧵 1/n
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
We're hiring again! Now looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us on our mission to improve methods for testing human variants at scale. 🔎🧬🧪
Many potential projects to tackle, all in the top-tier research environment of the @crick.ac.uk.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Many potential projects to tackle, all in the top-tier research environment of the @crick.ac.uk.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We're hiring again! Now looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us on our mission to improve methods for testing human variants at scale. 🔎🧬🧪
Many potential projects to tackle, all in the top-tier research environment of the @crick.ac.uk.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Many potential projects to tackle, all in the top-tier research environment of the @crick.ac.uk.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Thank you @gregfindlay.bsky.social !
It was an honour to receive this award in the Houses of Parliament, a huge recognition to the work we do in the lab!
It was an honour to receive this award in the Houses of Parliament, a huge recognition to the work we do in the lab!
Huge congratulations to Magdalena Armas @magdaarmas.bsky.social (PhD Student @crick.ac.uk) for winning the Silver Award at the STEM for Britain competition!
March 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thank you @gregfindlay.bsky.social !
It was an honour to receive this award in the Houses of Parliament, a huge recognition to the work we do in the lab!
It was an honour to receive this award in the Houses of Parliament, a huge recognition to the work we do in the lab!
Reposted by Magdalena Armas
We're recruiting a senior scientist. Great opportunity for somebody interested in building a career in the wonderfully supportive research environment that is the Crick. 🧪
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Senior Laboratory Research Scientist - Findlay Lab
Salary for this Role: Between £39,950 and £45,825 dependent on skills and experience Job Title: Senior Laboratory Research Scientist - Findlay Lab Reports to: Greg Findlay Closing Date: 23/Mar/2025 23...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We're recruiting a senior scientist. Great opportunity for somebody interested in building a career in the wonderfully supportive research environment that is the Crick. 🧪
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...