Andy B

PhD student at ANU & CSIRO.
Interested in all things pangenomics, moths (specifically Helicoverpa armigera) and bioinformatics!

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@endo_haruka Slowly but surely, one day it'll be clear how Vip really works!

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@lessrof2weevils

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@Genetics2023 @CoralWarr Thank you so much @intetics committee for the opportunity to present!

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@Dr_AnnaM @SoleilleM Wish I could have gotten into this session! Looks like a cool talk

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@erin_e_hahn @CSIRO

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@dr_alphalyrae This is incredible

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@pangenomepapers ... geno-pheno relationships they just aren't good enough! The cases where it does work are often the exception and not the rule!

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@pangenomepapers "Nearly half of the SVs display low to moderate linkage disequilibrium with surrounding single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and most SVs cannot be tagged by SNP probes from the widely used ovine 50K SNP chip."
Yes! SNP chips are great for things like ancestry but for...

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@theamberyang Canberra!

[Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito]

Hey Science Twitter - does anyone know what these are? I found these in a jelly-like goo. They come up to breathe out of the jelly. I think it’s a kind of fly? Super cool. Mashpi, Ecuador taken today. I have videos too.

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@RichardConniff Heck yeah, @BrytheFlyGuy wrote a great kids book focused on flies! https://t.co/ZM0spsggyW

[Dr Erin Hahn (she/her) @erin_e_hahn]

📢 Come join my team at @CSIRO and help build tools for sampling DNA from the air!

We're looking for an enthusiastic technician with experience with DNA extractions, sequencing and qPCR. 🧬

Location: Canberra, AUS
Open to AUS/NZ citizens/PR
Apply: https://t.co/WVWnCizi3n

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@ShashankPathour @Dr_Akito @JainLaboratory @DavidPlotkin @Starlitknight_ @Lily8ng @C_Couch17 @LongNgu84547407 ... textbook to be released next year but please get in touch and I can look to provide an early copy! [email protected] :-)

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@ShashankPathour @Dr_Akito @JainLaboratory @DavidPlotkin @Starlitknight_ @Lily8ng @C_Couch17 @LongNgu84547407 Thank you so much for the reply! I worked on a project for sex ID of lizards and evaluated a 1-step extraction for amplification with RPA. Not sure if it would work for your moths samples (lizard blood is very DNA rich!), but might work! The protocol is being included in a...

[Black Soldier Fly Conference @BSFCON]

🐛 Insects can save the world - join us at BSFCON this September to learn how! 👇 (1/3)

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@lessrof2weevils

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@lessrof2weevils Holy crap, Erik Garrison! He's a big name!

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@CharJWright Totally going to classify the chromosomes in the H. armigera assemblies to their Merian elements! Will be so nice to have a more consistent/empirical numbering sets for Lepidotera rather than just largest to smallest...

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@CharJWright This is fascinating, such cool work! I found something a bit funny when looking at my H armigera (Noctuidae) chromosome assemblies. The repeat density is higher in smaller chromosomes, but the absolute amount of repeats is pretty stable among autosomes? Could I get your thoughts?