Mike Morgan
@mdmorgan.bsky.social
Lecturer (assistant professor) University of Aberdeen. Immunology, computational biology, genetics and single cells. Runner, climber and connoisseur of Yorkshire tea. Views expressed are my own. https://www.morganlab.co.uk/
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Mike Morgan
@mdmorgan.bsky.social
· Nov 23
www.findaphd.com
I'm looking for top-notch candidate for a fully-funded PhD working on role of somatic mutations in ageing immune decline. Ideal for wet-lab or quantitative candidates. Fantastic collaboration with Prof Martin Taylor in Edinburgh THE UK expert in mutations.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Job links for those posts with our team:
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December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Job links for those posts with our team:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School
Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy
24-29 May 2026
csama2026.bioconductor.eu
Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.
Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy
24-29 May 2026
csama2026.bioconductor.eu
Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School
Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy
24-29 May 2026
csama2026.bioconductor.eu
Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.
Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy
24-29 May 2026
csama2026.bioconductor.eu
Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.
CSAMA back in 2014 was a formative experience for me as a budding computational biologist. The instructors are world class, the workshops are pitched at a level for a range of expertise, and the location is second-to-none. Highly recommended.
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
CSAMA back in 2014 was a formative experience for me as a budding computational biologist. The instructors are world class, the workshops are pitched at a level for a range of expertise, and the location is second-to-none. Highly recommended.
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MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back.
missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
MIT's famous 'Missing Semester' course (for the Independent Activities Period in January is back.
missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
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🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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👉 Save the date!
SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works.
🎙️Expert talks
💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session
✍️ More details coming soon!
SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works.
🎙️Expert talks
💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session
✍️ More details coming soon!
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
👉 Save the date!
SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works.
🎙️Expert talks
💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session
✍️ More details coming soon!
SIICA announces the Virtual School of Immunology 2026, an online event open to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how the immune system works.
🎙️Expert talks
💼 A dedicated career-development workshop session
✍️ More details coming soon!
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
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Applications for the Genetics Society Summer Studentship Grants are open! If you’re an undergrad itching to dive into real research, this is your doorway into the lab.
More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...
More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Applications for the Genetics Society Summer Studentship Grants are open! If you’re an undergrad itching to dive into real research, this is your doorway into the lab.
More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...
More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...
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🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 Multiple #PhD opportunities for lab or computational applicants. Do you want to understand the molecular basis of #epigenetic dysfunction in human disease?
Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Come work with our group at the fantastic, collaborative @uoe-igc.bsky.social in a beautiful, liveable city.
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Please repost 🙏
I'm looking for top-notch candidate for a fully-funded PhD working on role of somatic mutations in ageing immune decline. Ideal for wet-lab or quantitative candidates. Fantastic collaboration with Prof Martin Taylor in Edinburgh THE UK expert in mutations.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm looking for top-notch candidate for a fully-funded PhD working on role of somatic mutations in ageing immune decline. Ideal for wet-lab or quantitative candidates. Fantastic collaboration with Prof Martin Taylor in Edinburgh THE UK expert in mutations.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Small update from AllTheBacteria (allthebacteria.org). Assemblies can be bulk downloaded from OSF as before, or you can now get individual assemblies from AWS. We now also have a LexicMap index on AWS, so you can align your favourite gene against 2.4million bacteria (next post for price estimates)
AllTheBacteria
allthebacteria.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Small update from AllTheBacteria (allthebacteria.org). Assemblies can be bulk downloaded from OSF as before, or you can now get individual assemblies from AWS. We now also have a LexicMap index on AWS, so you can align your favourite gene against 2.4million bacteria (next post for price estimates)
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Celebrate International #DayofImmunology by treating yourself to one of our events or training courses! 🎉
Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1
Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1
April 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Celebrate International #DayofImmunology by treating yourself to one of our events or training courses! 🎉
Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1
Whether its our Diversity in Immunology event, next week’s Flow Cytometry training, or the BSI Immunology Awards - there's something for you 👀 bit.ly/3v2aAi1
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👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease?
🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!
Here we review…
💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID
💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS
🌈 Future challenges, opportunities
#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!
Here we review…
💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID
💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS
🌈 Future challenges, opportunities
#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
Vaccination in pregnancy to protect the newborn - Nature Reviews Immunology
In this Review, Male and Jones provide an overview of the current vaccines that are offered during pregnancy and to newborns, explaining the rationale behind the different vaccination programmes and t...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
👶🏼 Many #vaccines are not effective in newborns. So how do we protect them from infectious disease?
🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!
Here we review…
💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID
💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS
🌈 Future challenges, opportunities
#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
🤰🏽 By vaccination in #pregnancy!
Here we review…
💉 Established campaigns vs whooping cough, flu, COVID
💡 New approaches to RSV, GBS
🌈 Future challenges, opportunities
#ReproSky #ImmunoSky #IDSky
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Today marks the start of #WorldImmunisationWeek! ⭐
Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations.
🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ
#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible
Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations.
🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ
#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible
April 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Today marks the start of #WorldImmunisationWeek! ⭐
Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations.
🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ
#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible
Get inspired by reading our latest #CelebrateVaccines blog, which explores how the new RSV vaccine is cutting NHS costs and protecting vulnerable populations.
🔗 bit.ly/42V1NwZ
#VaccinesWork #HumanlyPossible
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Jess read the “dire wolf” preprint so you don’t have to. A long, exasperated and heroic evening thread by someone who knows what they are talking about, which shows the whole thing to be even more flakey than we thought. We salute you, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social!
alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint.
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
Briefly read through this and...hmm. I have thoughts that may merit a deeper dive.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
April 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Jess read the “dire wolf” preprint so you don’t have to. A long, exasperated and heroic evening thread by someone who knows what they are talking about, which shows the whole thing to be even more flakey than we thought. We salute you, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social!
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies arise during affinity maturation of germline antibodies to carbamylated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.22.644346v1
March 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies arise during affinity maturation of germline antibodies to carbamylated proteins in rheumatoid arthritis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.22.644346v1
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📆 Mark your agenda for the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology! It will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 31 August-4 September 2026.
👉 Save the date and stay tuned for more updates as we get ready for #eccb2026
👉 Save the date and stay tuned for more updates as we get ready for #eccb2026
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📆 Mark your agenda for the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology! It will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 31 August-4 September 2026.
👉 Save the date and stay tuned for more updates as we get ready for #eccb2026
👉 Save the date and stay tuned for more updates as we get ready for #eccb2026
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13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
pro.inserm.fr
March 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
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6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab
@ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
@ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
Postdoctoral fellow - Saez-Rodriguez Group
Your group Saez-Rodriguez Research Group Your supervisor Julio Saez-Rodriguez Your role As a postdoctoral fellow in the Saez Rodriguez group, you will develop and apply computational methods and tools...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab
@ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
@ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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We are advertising for a PhD position to study bacterial metabolites in C. elegans, funded by the MRC Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics training programme @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social. Open to UK and international students. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Uncovering bacterial metabolites that can attenuate vitamin B12 deficiency (AKAY_U25MMB) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Uncovering bacterial metabolites that can attenuate vitamin B12 deficiency (AKAY_U25MMB) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We are advertising for a PhD position to study bacterial metabolites in C. elegans, funded by the MRC Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics training programme @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social. Open to UK and international students. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Today I taught about phenylketonuria and eugenics. An important lesson, especially in times of nazis. Blog post:
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...
How I teach the monogenic disorder PKU with a model and some history of eugenics
If you're teaching Mendelian genetics, monogenic disorders are on the cards. But which ones are good examples? The IB has once again decided on PKU (phenylketonuria). In this post, I'll show you how ...
cmooreanderson.wixsite.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Today I taught about phenylketonuria and eugenics. An important lesson, especially in times of nazis. Blog post:
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...
#iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiol...
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Great article from Ewen Callaway in @nature.com about how #SARSCoV2 has helped us better understand viruses - including the areas where we still have much to learn.
“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social
“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Great article from Ewen Callaway in @nature.com about how #SARSCoV2 has helped us better understand viruses - including the areas where we still have much to learn.
“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social
“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social