🚨 New from @acflewis & colleagues
📰 Managing differential performance of polygenic risk scores across groups: Real-world experience of the eMERGE Network
https://t.co/m1pZ5gooIr
Prof. Elizabeth McNally has received the 2023 Walder Award for Research Excellence 👏
@emmcnally, director of @NUgeneticmed, works to uncover the genetic mechanisms that cause inherited cardiovascular & neuromuscular disorders.
https://t.co/qqTNgt7Iqk | @NUFeinbergMed
Attention Chicagoland cardiovascular researchers! Join us for the 2023 CRCRS on July 18th and see:
-Fantastic talks from PIs and trainees from area universities.
-Fabulous prizes for top trainee abstracts.
-Lakefront views @NUgeneticmed.
Submit abstracts by May 15th!
There's still time to register for this hybrid lecture: https://t.co/xOZxnaCKXM
All members of the Northwestern University community and medical school affiliates and alumni, as well as area research and academic institutions are invited to attend.
We hope to see you there!
Work-life balance means different things to different people. For bench scientists, it’s not always uniformly defined by 8 hours of work per day, 5 days a week with time off on the weekends.
https://t.co/rIQHonc7Rr
@UC_CoMResearch
I started my non-academic job a month ago, after successfully defending my dissertation. Here is what I learned about applying, and marketing myself, and what I recommend. @AcademicChatter#phdchat@AltacJobs@AltAcChats A 🧵:
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Polygenic risk scores have demonstrated minimal clinical benefit in predicting long-term coronary #HeartDisease when added to a traditional risk factor model, according to a recent Northwestern study published in @CircAHA. https://t.co/O2dwA49XdF
With support from @NUCATSInstitute and the @ncats_nih_gov Trial Innovation Network, @PassmanRod has received a first-of-its-kind national grant to study wearables and stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation — https://t.co/pGvNRIKDqY
Apply for the second annual Chicagoland Diverse STEM Postdoc Recruitment Initiative. STEM graduate students will explore various postdoctoral programs at Northwestern, UIC, and U Chicago.
Learn more and apply here by September 12 (https://t.co/u9kFPYorJW).
Did you know that you can use the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor to visualise variants on #Alphafold predicted 3D protein structures?
Find out more in our latest blog post:
👉https://t.co/YVcwglzsbr
#genomics#bioinformatics#VEP
I’m going to start writing my lab protocols like online recipes.
“This immunohistochemistry always takes me back to crisp autumn days learning the technique in my grand-adviser’s lab…” for a few paragraphs before I list any reagents.