Lab News 

2016

• Congratulations to Riti for winning a poster prize at the Science on the Swan conference

• Welcome to  Hamid Alinejad Rokny, new bioinformatics Postdoc

• Welcome to  Alison Testa, new bioinformatics Postdoc

• Welcome to Rui Hou, new bioinformatics PhD student

• Welcome to Ruohan Li, new wet bench Postdoc

• Alistair Forrest has been awarded the Millennium Science Award at Lorne Genome for outstanding contributions to Australian scientific research based on molecular biology methods

2015

• SBGL has been awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant on "Transcription factor-enhancer-promoter based regulatory networks"

• In collaboration with Julian Heng's lab here at the Perkins we have been awarded a grant from the Telethon Perth Children's Hospital Research Fund on “Establishing a functional genomic analysis platform to study how genetic mutations cause childhood brain disorders and intellectual disability"

• Congratulations to Rui Hou who will be joining the SBGL in 2016 on an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) 

• Marina Lizio (Al's RIKEN lab) published an important paper using a combination of siRNA knock-down, CAGE and ChIP-seq to map direct targets of pancreatic transcription factors (see: Frontiers in Genetics).

• Jordan Ramilowski and Bogumil Kaczkowski (postdocs in Al's RIKEN lab) received poster prizes at IMGC2015 for their work on cell-to-cell communication networks (Nature communications) and Pan-cancer biomarkers (Cancer Research).

• FANTOM5 was shortlisted in the EUREKA prizes - see the video here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txxXWTW5pcE

• FANTOM5 phase 2 main paper 'Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells' was published in Science!

• Jordan's paper on cell-to-cell-communication was published in Nature communications!

• Congratulations to Riti. Awarded a scholarship to present at the 2015 IMGC in Yokohama http://www.imgc2015.jp/scholarships.html

• Congratulations to Riti Roy - awarded a SIRF international scholarship, becomes first member of the SBGL team

• January 6th 2015 - SGBL launched

Invited talks

2015:

• International Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology MCCMB'2015 - Moscow, Russia

• Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine - Edinburgh, Scotland

• EMBL Australia PhD Course - Perth

• ABACBS 2015 - Sydney

• AGTA 2015 - Hunter Valley

• Perth Next Generation Sequencing Special Interest Group Meeting - Perth

• Science on the Swan 2015 - Perth

• Indian ocean rim Laboratory Haematology Congress - Fremantle

• UWA research week events. "How long could you live?" and "Future direction and Collaborative oppotunities in Medical Research".

• Rotary club - freshwater bay

In the media

2015:

• http://www.bioworld.com/content/new-cancer-biomarkers-set-improve-diagnosis-and-treatment

• http://www.asianscientist.com/2015/08/in-the-lab/riken-systems-biology-signaling/

• http://www.natureasia.com/ja-jp/ncomms/abstracts/67472

• http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/health-a-medicine/item/3544-forrest-comes-full-circle-to-head-local-genomics-laboratory/3544-forrest-comes-full-circle-to-head-local-genomics-laboratory

• http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201502137346/research/brain-drain-reversed 

• http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/islamabad/29-Mar-2015/genetic-regulators-in-blood-cells-located

2014:

• http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/03/26/scientists-release-first-ever-map-gene-activity-humans

• http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/03/27/3972677.htm

• http://www.riken.jp/en/research/rikenresearch/highlights/7774/

• http://www.riken.jp/en/research/rikenresearch/highlights/7770/

• https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/02/study-offers-clue-how-cells-are-programmed

• http://www.asianscientist.com/2015/02/in-the-lab/enhancers-lead/

• http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/fantom5-releases-comprehensive-atlas-of-human-gene-expression/81249675/

• http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2014/03/26/actualidad/1395847812_513278.html