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Neil Hall
@neilhall.bsky.social
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Science, Genomics, FAIR data, a bit of politics, Liverpool FC #YNWA
Director of the Earlham Institute
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
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A social card with an illustration of DNA and the text "Research Scientist, to develop new experimental methods to better understand horizontal gene transfer in the gut microbiome, salary: £37,500 to £43,350, Contract length: 2 years, Apply by 30 November 2025."
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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earlhaminst.bsky.social
A fantastic talk from @andrewmillar.bsky.social for our Dame Janet Thornton Lecture - some fascinating considerations and insights across science and societal impact, refocusing research questions, and the urgent pull factors beyond the lab presented by global threats.

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Prof Andrew Millar introducing his talk, focusing on Prof Dame Janet Thornton's impact in bioinformatics and data science.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📣 Applications have just opened for our 2026 #PhD programme as part of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social and @aries-dtp.bsky.social!

Begin your academic career with the expert scientists, technology, and facilities at the Earlham Institute in Norwich.

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#genomics #findaphd #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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🚀 The BioFAIR Fellowship launched today!

Leaders in data & workflows, working together to advance FAIR practices for the life sciences.

👉 full details: biofair.uk/updates/2025...

#FAIR #OpenScience
BioFAIR Fellowship Launches to Empower the Next Generation of FAIR Leaders - BioFAIR
We are delighted to announce the official launch of the BioFAIR Fellowship, starting on 1 October 2025. This new programme is designed to build a vibrant and skilled community of researchers and profe...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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The BBC are usually so keen to give us Reform news. Can’t imagine why this isn’t featuring prominently on their website…
September 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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earlhaminst.bsky.social
Scientists at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social are part of a new collaboration looking at how different land uses impact #soil #microbes and their contribution to carbon storage.

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#microbial #genomics
New project explores potential of soil microbes to achieve UK net zero goals
Researchers are combining the latest science in climate forecasting and soil science to understand how land use management could enable soil carbon storage.
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September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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It was a delight to have Guillaume Delhaye and Torda Varga (@rbgkew.bsky.social) at @earlhaminst.bsky.social last week, talking to a packed Norwich Research Park audience about mushroom-forming and mycorrhizal fungi from molecule to ecosystem! 🍄🧬🌳

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August 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️

Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader:
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#EngBio #Biotech #SynBio
Group Leader - Engineering Biology
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July 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️

Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader:
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#EngBio #Biotech #SynBio
Group Leader - Engineering Biology
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June 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Our paper on phylogenetics of fungal Starship TEs is now on the cover of the June issue of Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🙂
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Cover for the June issue of the journal Genetics, with an abstract illustration in the background showing starships flying through space trailing DNA sequences that meet in the bottom right corner to form a circular phylogenetic tree
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Register to join our #singlecell and #spatial symposium next month! We're bringing the community together to discover the last science and technologies in:
🦠 Environmental microbes
🧠 Healthy human development and ageing
🌱 Plant development
🧬 Human pathology
↔️ Cell dynamics

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Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium
Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…
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May 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A great morning of talks at our Scientific Advisory Board Symposium, exploring key research outputs from our #Cellular #Genomics research programme, as well as the expertise and research applications of our technology platforms.

#genomics #datascience #engbio 🧬🖥️

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Colleagues networking during the lunch time poster session. Dr Wilfried Haerty introduces the CellGen research programme, with a slide explaining the aim of exploring genomic variation within cell type. Dr Karim Gharbi, Head of Technical Genomics, with a sresentation screen explaining the capabilities of the high-performance sequencing platforms at the Earlham Institute, including automated DNA and RNA pipelines, long and short-read sequencing, deployment of new technologies, and integrated project management and bioinformatics analysis. Drs Sonia Fonseca and James Wilsenach present their research bringing together imaging techniques and transcriptomics to study megakaryocyte cells.
May 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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📃 A new publication from @mcmullan0.bsky.social and the Hall Group studies pathogen genetic diversity to uncover how #crop #pathogens may be evolving in wild reservoirs. 🌱

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Developing a crop- wild-reservoir pathogen system to understand pathogen evolution and emergence
Evidence for those pathogen genes selected specifically for success on crops.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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April 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Applications are open for an exciting new PhD project with @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social in collaboration with the Earlham Biofoundry.

The project will focus on #engineeringbiology and the plant root #microbiome developing applications for sustainable #agriculture.
Sentinel bacteria: engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health
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April 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/GaetanBenoit...
April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Applications are open for a #Postdoc Researcher to join @whaerty.bsky.social at the Earlham Institute.

As part of a HorizonEU funded consortium, you'll undertake analysis of functional implications of variation within #noncoding #sequences in relation to cardiovascular disorders.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
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April 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Buy Now, Pay Later services are typically used on large purchases, like furniture. But now one service is branching out into fast food.
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March 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🆕 Fully funded #PhD with @neilhall.bsky.social and @mcmullan0.bsky.social analysing genetic diversity in the genomes of potential crop invasion pathogens and plant hosts associated with resistance.

📆 Apply by: 21 April
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#plantscience #agritech
Host-pathogen environmental genetic surveillance: pathogen emergence and crop protection
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March 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social

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New Career Development Fellows enhance data-driven bioscience at the Earlham Institute
The Earlham Institute has appointed two new Career Development Fellows, supporting their journey towards establishing independent research groups.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Great to welcome collaborators to the Earlham Institute today for a meeting of the National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics. The NBRI unites specialist facilities and expertise in scalable genomics, #longread sequencing, and #singlecell. @drkarimgharbi.bsky.social
Dr Karim Gharbi, Head of Technical Genomics and NBRI Lead introduces the day's talks. Presentation screen demonstrating the key strands of EI's high-performance sequencing platforms, including ultra-long reads, high-quality genomes assembly and annotation, and low-cost library preparation. A presentation screen describing what a National Bioscience Research Infrastructure is: "A National Bioscience Research Infrastructure (NBRI) is an essential component of the Institute's core capability (e.g. facilities, biological collections, or databases, and associated expertise), which enhances its role as a National Capability, underpins wider UK research capability, and supports wider bioscience research and user communities."
March 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The final version of our paper on genomics of understudied fungal root pathogens/endophytes of wheat is now out! The result of close ongoing collab between @earlhaminst.bsky.social (@mcmullan0.bsky.social @greymj.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social et al) and @rothamsted.bsky.social
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Evolutionary genomics reveals variation in structure and genetic content implicated in virulence and lifestyle in the genus Gaeumannomyces
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March 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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💬 “LITE2 really shines when coupled with ultra-high-throughput #sequencing on the #Illumina #NovaSeqX, this has brought affordable whole-#genome sequencing to a new level.” 🧬 🖥️
LITE2 takes affordable genome sequencing to a new level
The Earlham Institute's improved Low Input, Transposase Enabled (LITE) protocol is a low-cost method for high-throughput whole genome sequencing with reduced DNA input.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🔬 Discover how #SpatialTranscriptomics is unlocking insights into the ageing brain with @parker-aim.bsky.social (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) at the NBRI Transformative Genomics User Meeting.

📅 Register:
NBRI Transformative Genomics - Annual User Meeting
A one-day meeting of the bioscience community to hear the latest updates and applications from the BBSRC-funded National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics at the Earlham…
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March 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM