Selene FeRNAndez
Genomics, bioinformatics & non-coding RNA
PI of the #RegRNALab @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
Board member @iscb.bsky.social
Visited #Antarctica in 2025 as part of #HBTransform
ARC Future Fellow
🇲🇽/🇭🇲 #Latina
Opinions == mine
- The #RegRNALab is now LEAF certified! LEAF, is an internationally recognised green lab accreditation that aims to build a culture of sustainable practice in laboratories around the 🌎♻️ We are currently just 🥉 but we have our eyes on🥇! Props to Billi Ilkovski & the whole team for getting this done!
- Last Friday, Irving Jair García López became the latest PhD graduate of the #RegRNALab. His work focused on characterising lncRNAs in response to light stress in Arabidopsis 🌓🌱 and was jointly advised by Stewart Gillmor. Huge congratulations Dr García López!!! 🎉🎓
- Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Sperm whale Spider monkey Bull shark Weddell seal Adelie penguin
- Early departure to Melbourne to the Advances in mRNA Sciences (AIMS) conference ✈️ #RNASky
- And we wrapped up the first edition of #AsiaRNA2025 yesterday - too many awesome talks to post. Thanks everyone for sharing mostly unpublished and rather exciting results. Posting a few highlights 👇 #RNASky
- The Asia RNA Club Symposium at Seoul National University 🇰🇷 started yesterday! The Club begun as a remote meeting to connect with other #RNA researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting aims to boost and share the RNA research taking place in the Asia-Pacific region 🌏 #AsiaRNA2025
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- The Asia RNA Club Symposium at Seoul National University 🇰🇷 started yesterday! The Club begun as a remote meeting to connect with other #RNA researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting aims to boost and share the RNA research taking place in the Asia-Pacific region 🌏 #AsiaRNA2025
- Tagging the right hashtag - #AsiaRNA2025
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- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndez🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
- We visited Sculptures by the Sea today from Bondi to Tamarama 🌊🏖️ - nice way to recover from all that writing. Thanks for taking the time to catch up on a weekend and for the lovely hang out. #RegRNALab @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
- Wrapping up this year's #RegRNALab writing retreat with some pasta 🍝. We advanced on many drafts that should be out the door soon🤞🏽 Thanks everyone for your hard work! @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
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- Y si se lo perdieron, aquí está el link de Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/19mM...
- Si les interesa saber de la Antártida 🇦🇶🐧, y el trabajo que realizamos en el #RegRNALab @unswbabs.bsky.social @unswrna.bsky.social, los invito a escuchar Mutante 🧬 en Radio UAEM 📻 📅 Lunes 29 de Sept, 4 pm 🇲🇽, martes 30 de Sept, 8 am, AEST 🇦🇺 Gracias @elagusdekomodo.bsky.social! radio.uaem.mx/en-vivo
- Si les interesa saber de la Antártida 🇦🇶🐧, y el trabajo que realizamos en el #RegRNALab @unswbabs.bsky.social @unswrna.bsky.social, los invito a escuchar Mutante 🧬 en Radio UAEM 📻 📅 Lunes 29 de Sept, 4 pm 🇲🇽, martes 30 de Sept, 8 am, AEST 🇦🇺 Gracias @elagusdekomodo.bsky.social! radio.uaem.mx/en-vivo
- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndezJoin this year's CSH Asia Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing meeting in beautiful Suzhou, China, Oct 20-24. Let's bring the international communities together! Abstract deadline Sept 19! Infos and registration at csh-asia.org?content/2767. Please repost!
- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndezA BLAST update adding support for compressed files and csv output with headers is a Good Friday night surprise! blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/doc/blast-ne...
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- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndezProf Cecile King finishing her #ARNASydney2025 talk on biomolecular condensates by promoting the upcoming (free) symposium on the topic in November
- Things are happening 🌱 #RegRNALab @unswbabs.bsky.social
- We are now listening to our Keynote speaker, Matt Disney, from The Scripps Research Institute 🇺🇸, who due to unforseen circumstances could not join us in-person. Matt's presentation was generously sponsored by the UNSW RNA Institute (@unswrna.bsky.social) #ARNASydney2025 #RNASky 🧵👇🏼
- Starting the last day of #ARNASydney2025 with the RNA Processing and Modifications session. First, @edueyras.bsky.social, who is developing pipelines to identify #RNA modifications in using @nanoporetech.com 👀 this preprint on the conservation of RNA modifications: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Yesterday, after our 2nd poster session and a stunning sunset seen from the Aerial UTS, we closed the day at our Evening Social at the Old Clare Hotel 🥂 Glad Sydney weather has been cooperating 🌤️ #ARNASydney2025
- We are now in the non-coding #RNA session at #ARNASydney2025. We heard a fascinating story on other functions of the TERRA #lncRNA, which binds ATRX and gene promoters. It also is more abundant in the aging brain. A great talk by Hsueh-Ping Chu from the National Taiwan University. #RNASky
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- We had a set of amazing talks in the #RNA in immunity session at #ARNASydney2025. Presentations by Stacey Horner, @drnatsampaio.bsky.social, Elizabeth Chan and Kitty McCaffrey. From viral infections to bacterial toxins, a really great session. #RNASky
- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndezProf Nils Walter from U.Michigan back in Sydney, mentions it's his favourite place! Opening up the #ARNASydney2025 structure, chemistry and dynamics session.
- Day 2 of #ARNASydney2025 started with the #RNA in disease session, sponsored by RNA Australia, with talks by Sandra Cooper, Glen Reid, Lachlan Jolly & Agin Ravindran. Now focusing on Nucleic Acids Structure, Chemistry & Dynamics with @nilswalterlab.bsky.social, Jacob Munro & Vincent Corbin. #RNASky
- Yesterday we had a brilliant start to #ARNASydney2025. We kicked off with the #RNA in neuroscience & RNA tech, AI & Bioinformatics sessions. Speakers included @sergiuppasca.bsky.social, Mike Clark, @sabaaltaf.bsky.social, Nicole Green and several others #RNASky @unswrna.bsky.social
- We continued with our first #RNA in plants 🌱 session, hearing from Neena Mitter, Ian Small, Jakub Dolata & Soumitra Patekar telling us about the enormous potential of RNA for bio-pesticides and sequence editing. So much to do in this area! #ARNASydney2025 @plants4space.bsky.social #RNASky #AgSky
- Reposted by Selene FeRNAndezThe Asia RNA Club Symposium will be happening in Seoul in Nov 3-5, bringing together RNA scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. Excellent speakers and a great opportunity to connect! Abstract submission by Sept 5 asiarnaclub.org
- Happy for my dear friends and colleagues @paleogenomics.bsky.social & @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social and their team, who just published a study @science.org describing the genetic diversity of mammoths 🦣 found while building an airport in 🇲🇽. DNA usually does not preserve well in warmer climates More 👇🏽
- Mammoths’ genomes from Mexico? 🦣🇲🇽🧬 Yes! And you can find the full story here 🤩-> shorturl.at/xjIvy Congrats to all the authors!
