Chris Wells
@stemcellsystems.bsky.social
Curiosity fuelled biomedical researcher, I build computational and stem cell models of human innate immune cells | Professor of Stem Cell Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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We are celebrating 5 years of the Australia stem cell conversation! Hosted by @unimelb.bsky.social and @asscr.bsky.social the stem cell conversation is a weekly 30min virtual seminar series organised by EMCR for EMCR.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
@asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 conference has been great - terrific science, networking and location. Join us for #ASSCR2026 in Melbourne, 9-11 November, 2026. See you there!
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
@asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 conference has been great - terrific science, networking and location. Join us for #ASSCR2026 in Melbourne, 9-11 November, 2026. See you there!
The final keynote of #ASSCR2025 from @shuibingchen.bsky.social on building pancreatic islet with beta cells, blood vessels and macrophages. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The final keynote of #ASSCR2025 from @shuibingchen.bsky.social on building pancreatic islet with beta cells, blood vessels and macrophages. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
Drew Neavin #ASSCR2025 using 'village in a dish' models to study the genetics underpinning cardiotoxicity Unpublisjed data so reference is to the village in a dish model. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
A village in a dish model system for population-scale hiPSC studies
The mechanisms by which DNA alleles contribute to disease risk, drug response, and other human phenotypes are highly context-specific, varying across cell types and different conditions. Human induced pluripotent stem cells are uniquely suited to ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Drew Neavin #ASSCR2025 using 'village in a dish' models to study the genetics underpinning cardiotoxicity Unpublisjed data so reference is to the village in a dish model. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Ralph Patrick is looking for dosage-sensitive transcription factors that may impact ageing #ASSCR2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.cm...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Ralph Patrick is looking for dosage-sensitive transcription factors that may impact ageing #ASSCR2025 doi.org/10.1016/j.cm...
Luke Isbel exploring chromatin codes in pluripotency #ASSCR2025 doi: 10.1126/science.abb0074
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Luke Isbel exploring chromatin codes in pluripotency #ASSCR2025 doi: 10.1126/science.abb0074
Kathrine Zyner presents 'ReFate' #ASSCR2025 which combines gene regulatory networks with compounds that impact on these regulatory pathways to improve cell reprogramming @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Refate identifies chemical compounds to target trans-regulatory networks for cellular conversion
Identifying chemical compounds that target trans-regulatory networks (TRNs) underlying molecular programs of cells for directed cellular conversion (i.e. differentiation, reprogramming, transdifferent...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Kathrine Zyner presents 'ReFate' #ASSCR2025 which combines gene regulatory networks with compounds that impact on these regulatory pathways to improve cell reprogramming @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Chris Wells
Meet the winners of our 2025 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research: stemcellfoundation.net.au/2025_metcalf...
🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social
They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social
They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Meet the winners of our 2025 Metcalf Prizes for Stem Cell Research: stemcellfoundation.net.au/2025_metcalf...
🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social
They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Maria Di Biase @unimelb.bsky.social
🧠 Dr Lachlan Harris @qimrb.bsky.social
They're already making headlines ahead of the award ceremony on the Gold Coast today. @asscr.bsky.social
Reposted by Chris Wells
Hear from our 2025 #MetcalfPrizes winners – Dr Maria Di Biase and Dr Lachlan Harris – on ABC Radio Gold Coast Drive with Bern Young. Listen from 43.51 on yesterday’s show: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@qimrb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social
@qimrb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hear from our 2025 #MetcalfPrizes winners – Dr Maria Di Biase and Dr Lachlan Harris – on ABC Radio Gold Coast Drive with Bern Young. Listen from 43.51 on yesterday’s show: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@qimrb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social
@qimrb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social @asscr.bsky.social
Day 3 #ASSCR2025 opens with Fernando Rossello benchmarking PSC-derived organoids using spatial profiling platforms. Lovely to see careful QC associated with this study.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 3 #ASSCR2025 opens with Fernando Rossello benchmarking PSC-derived organoids using spatial profiling platforms. Lovely to see careful QC associated with this study.
Reposted by Chris Wells
How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem?
We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct.
If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct.
If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
PhD Research Projects
Learn how to use the tools you need to apply bioinformatics techniques in your own research.
mdhs.unimelb.edu.au
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem?
We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct.
If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct.
If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
Inspiring #ASSCR2025 talk from Siok Tey @qimrb.bsky.social about home-grown clinical trials and manufacturing processes for new CART therapies.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Inspiring #ASSCR2025 talk from Siok Tey @qimrb.bsky.social about home-grown clinical trials and manufacturing processes for new CART therapies.
Reposted by Chris Wells
Great first day of stem cell science on the beach at #ASSCR2025! Here is our @asscr.bsky.social president opening the conference. Highlights include keynote from @josh-brickman.bsky.social and presentation of @ausstemcell.bsky.social 2025 Metcalf awards. Congratulations to the worthy recipients!
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Great first day of stem cell science on the beach at #ASSCR2025! Here is our @asscr.bsky.social president opening the conference. Highlights include keynote from @josh-brickman.bsky.social and presentation of @ausstemcell.bsky.social 2025 Metcalf awards. Congratulations to the worthy recipients!
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Reposted by Chris Wells
Meet our Early Career Editor at #ASSCR2025! Pengyi Yang is attending the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, 10-12 November 2025. Connect with Dr. Yang to discuss whether your research is a fit for publishing in Stem Cell Reports!
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Meet our Early Career Editor at #ASSCR2025! Pengyi Yang is attending the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research (ASSCR) Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, 10-12 November 2025. Connect with Dr. Yang to discuss whether your research is a fit for publishing in Stem Cell Reports!
Reposted by Chris Wells
🌟 Congratulations to our 2025 #ASSCR Rising Star Award winners – Dr Ana Núñez Nescolarde (Harry Perkins Institute) & Dr Kevin Law (Universty of Sydney)! 👏
Honoured for excellence in stem cell research & leadership.
Thanks to NSCFA for their support! 🧬✨
#StemCells #RisingStars
Honoured for excellence in stem cell research & leadership.
Thanks to NSCFA for their support! 🧬✨
#StemCells #RisingStars
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🌟 Congratulations to our 2025 #ASSCR Rising Star Award winners – Dr Ana Núñez Nescolarde (Harry Perkins Institute) & Dr Kevin Law (Universty of Sydney)! 👏
Honoured for excellence in stem cell research & leadership.
Thanks to NSCFA for their support! 🧬✨
#StemCells #RisingStars
Honoured for excellence in stem cell research & leadership.
Thanks to NSCFA for their support! 🧬✨
#StemCells #RisingStars
Day 2 @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 opens with my favourite cell type (thanks Ed Stanley!) -iPSC derived macrophages. Ed is creating the cell types needed for a type1 diabetes model
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Day 2 @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 opens with my favourite cell type (thanks Ed Stanley!) -iPSC derived macrophages. Ed is creating the cell types needed for a type1 diabetes model
Shalin Naik @shalinhnaik.bsky.social starting with a quick ad for their recently published LoxCode mouse, before discussion of clonal hematopoiesis - introducing the concept of lineage-primed HSC. #ASSCR #CloneOfDestiny
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Shalin Naik @shalinhnaik.bsky.social starting with a quick ad for their recently published LoxCode mouse, before discussion of clonal hematopoiesis - introducing the concept of lineage-primed HSC. #ASSCR #CloneOfDestiny
Ritika Saxena @ritikasxn.bsky.social speaking about hPSC-derived blood. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
Long-term engrafting multilineage hematopoietic cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) have important biomedical applications. We identified differentiation conditions that generate HSCs defined by robust long-term multilineage engraftment in ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ritika Saxena @ritikasxn.bsky.social speaking about hPSC-derived blood. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
Can't get more Australian than a talk on marsupial pluripotent stem cells from Gerard Tarulli from the TIGGR labs @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 - describing iPSC from the fat tailed Dunnart. tigrrlab.science.unimelb.edu.au
Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research Lab | TIGRR LAB
Our mission: Marsupial conservation and de-extinction of the thylacine Over the past decade, the concept of de-extinction has transitioned out of the realm
tigrrlab.science.unimelb.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Can't get more Australian than a talk on marsupial pluripotent stem cells from Gerard Tarulli from the TIGGR labs @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025 - describing iPSC from the fat tailed Dunnart. tigrrlab.science.unimelb.edu.au
Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social opens ASSCR with a provocative talk on transcription factor residency in early development.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social opens ASSCR with a provocative talk on transcription factor residency in early development.
The annual scientific meeting of Australian and NZ StemCell scientists is kicking off this week @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The annual scientific meeting of Australian and NZ StemCell scientists is kicking off this week @asscr.bsky.social #ASSCR2025
We are celebrating 5 years of the Australia stem cell conversation! Hosted by @unimelb.bsky.social and @asscr.bsky.social the stem cell conversation is a weekly 30min virtual seminar series organised by EMCR for EMCR.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We are celebrating 5 years of the Australia stem cell conversation! Hosted by @unimelb.bsky.social and @asscr.bsky.social the stem cell conversation is a weekly 30min virtual seminar series organised by EMCR for EMCR.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
Join the first 'transitions' episode Leadership through Service: 11am AEST Wed.
New from the lab - How FAIR is metadata for human pluripotent stem cells? Registered cell lines are more likely to be cited, shared and reused across different studies - but most lines are difficult to find or lack key information. Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
How FAIR is metadata for human pluripotent stem cells?
In this article, Wells and colleagues present the first systematic FAIR evaluation
of stem cell data infrastructures. Case studies from, but not limited to, the United
States, Japan, Europe, and Austr...
www.cell.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
New from the lab - How FAIR is metadata for human pluripotent stem cells? Registered cell lines are more likely to be cited, shared and reused across different studies - but most lines are difficult to find or lack key information. Stem Cell Reports www.cell.com/stem-cell-re...
Day 2 #HCA2025GM day two demonstrates the power of global representation in genome and cell maps. @patriciasevero.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Day 2 #HCA2025GM day two demonstrates the power of global representation in genome and cell maps. @patriciasevero.bsky.social
Reposted by Chris Wells
Virtual attendees can use their registration email to watch the livestream at: buff.ly/Jlsw8X6
Session Details
Keynote Day 2 Session Chair: Shyam Prabhakar Speaker:
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June 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Virtual attendees can use their registration email to watch the livestream at: buff.ly/Jlsw8X6