Happy Mid Autumn moon festival to all who celebrated. You can not work for #NEB and not have a butterfly lantern for the kiddos!

We're #hiring a #postdoc to join our lab 🧪 in Melbourne 🇦🇺🦘 in #StemCell and #Cancer #Epigenetics. Great opportunity to lead a research project within the broader vision of the lab, with plenty of scope to develop as an independent leader 👩‍🔬🔬

Apply by 27 Feb

careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...

Happy Chinese New Year/lunar new year to all celebrating! Here is our Malaysian tradition of low sang salad to usher in a great 2025!

As our ability to make new proteins in a high throughput manner increases, there is a need to create a platform that allows for rapid characterization of these proteins.
NEB recently published our HIKER platform (on Opentrons OT-2) to showcase 1500 time pts of misincorporations of our polymerases.

The # of states in the USDA milk testing program(H5N1)⬆️. Improve testing & iiMS-PCR was born:

*Indexing @ cDNA syn
*Opt annealing temps for full length/homo regions of primers.
*iiMS-PCR used for H5N1 response in Cambodia:
🐥https://shorturl.at/5blvl 🐓

A Peter Thielen (John Hopkins) & NEB collab

Health officials in Louisiana say a person there has died after catching bird flu. This marks the first reported death in the U.S. from the virus during the current outbreak.

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole.

Kia Ora from Takaka!

Email away message activated! Spending Christmas back in Christchurch. See you all in 2025!

As we rush around towards the 2024 work finish line before the holidays, here's your blood donation reminder.
We are in need of all types, so please consider donating. Centres normally see a drop off in donations due to the chaotic festive season.

Bacteriophages never stop giving: a new enzyme used in human methylome analysis (discovered from Metagenomics from bacteriophages found in sewage)

Jenny Molloy from University of Cambridge talks about the significant disparity for African countries to advance in scientific research. Factors such as access to reagents, cost burden of cold chain logistics, lack of manufacturing capabilities severely slows down progress.

Ekkkk! Free science tattoos from the Centre of Excellence Syn Bio conference !

Jaffrey lab's recent publication on CROWN-seq which allows for identification of transcription start nucleotides and quantifies m6Am modification.
m6Am modification has diverse cellular context but effect of m6Am on mRNA is hugely unclear.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a tough one. For me, I have sentimental ties with real trees as this is what we got every year in the states. For me, its all sensory: picking the tree in a cold parking lot, strapping it to our car, windows down and holding on tight to the rope, the smell of pine etc.

Sometimes getting an idea across with words can be difficult. Mark Dawson @mafdawson.bsky.social used this simple but effective image to get the EMBO students thinking about the definition of Epigenetics.

Story telling is so important in science.

Australia's META GP program has made strides in developing their own pipelines in each different nodes. This recent Charles Chiu paper highlights their clinical metagenomics NGS results for over 1100 patient samples & their diagnosis. A possible look into our future:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When we come together, we can do great things!
Afrigen's main goal is to close the gap on vaccine inequality by manufacturing mRNA vaccines for low income countries. This is achieved by partnerships w/ different entities like mRNA Victoria, New England Biolabs & many more.

tinyurl.com/fhxxxmdw

My first blue sky post is about what I saw on X.... My eyes so tuned to science , I thought Ruggable ad was a PCR post first thing in the morning...