Dr. Megan Leask

Mum, Kairangahau Māori, Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe, Indigenous Geneticist, Instructor in the Div. Immunology and Rheumatology at UAB

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@OcCaldwell @HenryMcMullan that is stressful to watch

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

its about bloody time!

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

Kia ora e hoa! What is this bug (now in a chrysalis) eating and making holes in my viburnum?

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@aniaczark @ZebrafishRock mpeg?

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@cannibality Ka rawe!!! Ride the high :)

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@TonyMerriman2 @NikkiHaley “This is America where you can be anything you want to be without anyone getting in the way”….. if you are a cis white christian man.

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@Caitlin__Duffy @MicrobiomDigest ewww

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

Translating GWAS loci is still a complex process, most hits have large amounts of LD and we need to test putative causal variants in tissue/cell-specific contexts. Farrow et al. take the MPRA approach to assigning function to Parkinson loci. Nice work @SophieFarrow2

[Sophie L. Farrow @SophieFarrow2]

In agreement with previous studies, the variants that we identified to be acting as regulators (i.e., enhancers) were not typically the tag GWAS variant, indicating the need for deeper exploration of these loci.

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@taramcallister4 If they paid out your leave (and it was a lot) you may have been taxed at higher rate, it’ll come out in the wash when you do your return next year.

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@taramcallister4 Tax?

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@SophieFarrow2 @GilesYeo any chance it was recorded?

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@emilykmay Its in the title!! Parents of boomers (baby boomers) were in World War II. If your parents werent old enough to go to war then you are Gen X

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@SophieFarrow2 @ParkinsonsUK @WadeMartinsLab @OxfordPDCentre @UniofOxford noice! go you!

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@Rob_Lalonde89 man FedEx. They are live animals they will die!!!

[stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) @StephenORahilly]

The work provides the required scientific foundation for the rapid development of safe and effective ways to treat and prevent Hyperemesis Gravidarum @IMS_MRL

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

This will change how we work with zebrafish!

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

pIGLET: Safe harbor landing sites for reproducible and efficient transgenesis in zebrafish https://t.co/aCIheBB8Tf #bioRxiv

[Fleur Kellenbach @FleurKellenbach]

Racism is alive & well in NZ.

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

@seantbres @Merck ahhh haaaa I see you have managed a shift :)

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

David needs a lesson in equity vs equality!

[David Seymour @dbseymour]

New Zealanders elected a government that will treat people equally, regardless of their race. The sooner the Māori Party comes to terms with that – and start providing solutions for Māori instead of divisive theatrics – the better.

[Dr. Megan Leask @LeaskMegan]

Sounds like a super cool project!!!

[Louise Bicknell @bicknell_l]

We have a PhD project available as part of our new @MarsdenFund grant, using zebrafish as a model to explore genetic variants in brain development. Please share! @GeneticsOtago @otago @JuliaHorsfield @OtagoBiochemist @ray_sankalita @NclSteph

https://t.co/5VwC1miBMR