Li Chuin Chong

Ph.D. (Biomedical Data Science) candidate of MHH | Doctoral researcher of TWINCORE GmbH

Life science | Bioinformatics | Biomedical sciences

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Thanks to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) and #COVIPA for supporting this trip. I also wrote a short reflection for OBF, which you can read here: https://t.co/fE1V7wK6nR

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

A long-overdue post, but still grateful for the opportunity to attend #ECCB2024 in Finland last November. It was a fantastic experience to engage with the computational biology community and share insights from our work in virology.

Better late than never! 😅

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Grateful for the opportunity to share our work on PREDICTORix in Lisbon. It was a rewarding experience to connect with researchers at both conferences #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025 — two back-to-back conferences.

Many thanks to #ISME and #COVIPA for supporting this trip.

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Honoured to present our work on PREDICTORix, a tool to assess viral spillover risk, at #RdRpSummit2025 in Lisbon!
Grateful for the opportunity, insightful discussions, and great company.
Thanks to the organizers & ISME for the travel grant!
#PandemicPreparedness

[RdRp Summit @RdRp_Summit]

Introducing PREDICTORix to predict spillover risk to cause potential pandemics.
#RdRpSummit2025

[RdRp Summit @RdRp_Summit]

The abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌
Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the @EVirusBioinfC #ViBioM2025 in Portugal?
Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions!
More info: https://t.co/p03iTyXkGa

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Finally witnessed the magic of the northern lights—missed it once before after falling asleep too early, but not this time! Grateful for the second chance and to the kind soul who led me to the perfect spot to capture this stunning view.
#northernlights #AuroraBorealis #极光

[Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg]

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Biology
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Biology
Nobel Prize in Physics: Sounds like Biology

#NobelPrize

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

HAPPENING NOW
ABioNETTalks: Dynamic modelling of chromosomal instability in somatic genomes
Speaker: Dr. Bingxin Lu, University of Surrey, UK

Join us now at the link below: https://t.co/8SekrqdpdH

#bioinformatics

[APBioNet.org @APBioNetorg]

HAPPENING NOW!
ABioNETTalks: Dynamic modelling of chromosomal instability in somatic genomes
Speaker: Dr. Bingxin Lu, University of Surrey, UK

Join us now at the link below: https://t.co/Shn2sDkO4i

[ECCB2026 Geneva, Switzerland @ECCBinfo]

Have you already made your travel plans to Turku, Finland? 🇫🇮☀️

🔝 #ECCB2024 registration is open with early-bird discounts available until 1 July 👉 https://t.co/ZjQHNJmBYR

#ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Hi all, I am happy to share our latest publication:
A Systematic Bioinformatics Approach for Mapping the Minimal Set of a Viral Peptidome

Enjoy reading!

#virus #alignmentfree #sequencediversity

https://t.co/eGweukoh3s

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Join Dr. @lubingxin as she shares her work on modelling experimental and real data by linking alterations detected from cancer genomics data with stochastic modelling and Bayesian inference to better understand cancer evolution and cancer treatment. More: https://t.co/ebWVBCCcEX

[APBioNet.org @APBioNetorg]

Join Dr. Bingxin as she shares her work on modelling experimental and real data with linking alterations detected from cancer genomics data with stochastic modelling and Bayesian inference to better understand cancer evolution and cancer treatment.
More: https://t.co/0d27yrlJmC

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Indeed!

[vitoninigo.bsky.social @Viton_Inigo]

Yes, I confirm
#PhDLife

[Kaidi Wu, Ph.D. @kaidi_wu]

⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry:

Industry isn't necessarily better than academia.

I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

From 2003 to 2024, there have been 889 reported cases of H5N1 worldwide, resulting in 463 deaths across 23 countries (CFR = ~52%), indicating that this variant poses an "extraordinarily high" mortality risk to humans.

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

🚨WHO has sounded the alarm on the spread of H5N1 bird flu.

https://t.co/nutnSC4TmV

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Our perspective article from the 1st RdRp Summit is now available on @FrontVirology. This comprehensive piece addresses the pressing needs and challenges within the realm of RNA viruses.

Grateful to the team for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important work.

[Guillermo Domínguez Huerta @g_dom_huerta]

Our perspective article from the 1st RdRp Summit (May 2023; València) out in @FrontVirology.
It collects the current needs and challenges of the field of RNA viruses.
https://t.co/cVzN9HNI0O

[Li Chuin Chong @lichuin_chong]

Delighted to have participated in the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Virology #GfV2024 in Vienna, Austria. Attending as a computational virologist amidst a congregation of virologists was an interesting experience.

Gratitude extends to #COVIPA for the financial support.

[Chikwe Ihekweazu @Chikwe_I]

Today, #WHOPandemicHub launched the #IPSN catalytic grant fund to support countries maximize the innovation opportunities in pathogen genomic surveillance for public health surveillance.

Let’s build stronger #PublicHealth systems, together!

Read more: https://t.co/TQqcyViz0e

[Richard Van Noorden @Richvn]

Milestone: 2023 is the first year with more than 10,000 research paper retractions -- smashing previous records.
More than 8,000 of these came from Hindawi (mostly from 'special issues').
Total retractions now >50,000.
My analysis for @Nature 🧵
https://t.co/o26V1bQovQ

[nature @Nature]

CRISPR 2.0: a new wave of gene editors heads for clinical trials https://t.co/yV1FAeOue1