Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺
Rare & neuromuscular disease researcher at UWA & the Harry Perkins Institute, Perth 🇦🇺
Passionate about #sciencefunding, #womeninSTEM, #EMCRs
Mum of 👦👧🐶
Posting about genomics, rare disease, PI life & wine
https://www.ravenscroftlab.com
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!
- Last night the sunset on my last day of a much-needed break. Hoping for a kinder, calmer year. My word for 2026 is boundaries. What’s yours? #goalsetting #newPI #womeninSTEM
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺More voices standing up.
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺"It's more of a comment than a question"
- 8am #Vac-swim at the beach, perfect way to spent two weeks of the summer holidays. Always good when the shark helicopter comes over and keeps going #mullaloobeach
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Medical research matters! Australian scientists are making potentially lifesaving breakthroughs into the molecular mechanisms of brain tumours - discoveries with potential for commercialisation and global uptake. We should support them better via the MRFF and NHMRC.
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Wow, the Aus gov spending on medical research this year equates to 0.004 submarines. How many people do submarines help vs medical research again? I forgot 🤔
- Impact of chronic underfunding 150 survey responses & counting. Please consider adding your voice and sharing your stories. lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG Storytelling is key to our humanity. We can make economic arguments and health arguments, but the power of stories can not be underestimated #SaveOzScience
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺“This feels like yet another attack on our research community that is already under siege” Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social has issued a media release about the ARC's proposed restructure and job cuts 👇
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Every opportunity politicians provide for you to tell them about how chronic underfunding of research in Australia is affecting your particular fields, people, working conditions etc. is extremely important. Fill out the form here: lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG
- @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers ‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’ lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG 1/
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Thank you @drshanerrr.bsky.social for speaking on behalf of all of us. It’s such wasted effort for 92% of applicants. Wouldn’t it be great if they took the spare 600 mil gathering dust at MRFF and funded an extra 10% of ideas grants?
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs
- this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
- An abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺
- Oh Perth - what a morning #thinkingtime
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT. ‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
- The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺yep
- Calling Australian #EMCR in health and medical research - anyone willing to speak to media and provide quotes about the impact of the MRFF underspend on researchers, on how tough it is in medical research? Please contact me! #NHMRC #MRFF #biomedicalscience #SaveOzScience #medicalresearch
- The government is starving medical research in Australia and we risk losing talent. Thanks @mon4kooyong.bsky.social for asking questions of this government #SaveOzScience #MRFF #medicalresearch
- A locus on the dancefloor #HGSA2025
- Should be working on my talk for #HGSA2025 Miss 7 had other ideas. Painting, it’ll be fun they said #procrastipainting
- is there any way to find details of an individual with a variant in #gnomADv4 One allele in 1.6M....
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Following our God Complex story on #4Corners on Monday on issues including gender politics of neurosurgery, #surgeon and fmr AMA Vic President Dr Jill Tomlinson lamented that of Epworth’s 25 neurosurgeons, none are women. This was #Epworth neurosurgeon Paul D’Urso’s (now-deleted – 🤷🏻♀️) reply:
- Sapphire has been down a large part of the day *sigh* #NHMRC #hungergames
- Master 11’s starter word on worldle is sigma
- Lab curry potluck #teamsthateattogether
- Congrats to all involved with this study associating mono-allelic POLR3A variants with #peripheralneuropathy. So good to catch up with some of the key players at #ESHG2025 Milan where Jevin Parmar presented the study on behalf of the collaborative team #raredisease #CMT
Monoallelic POLR3A variants cause a Pol III-related disorder characterized by peripheral neuropathy medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- *carrels
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Also, check out the News & Views summarizing our findings, written by Youjia Guo & @themodzlab.bsky.social 🤩🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Young Archie competition 2025: Australia’s awards for child portrait artists – in pictures
- Dear academics: you can’t take your H-index with you.
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺The dystonin gene encodes three major isoforms: DST-a, -b, and -e. Jacob et al. report that variants exclusively affecting DST-b cause an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, while variants that also affect DST-a cause a lethal contracture syndrome. tinyurl.com/3p99pu9j
- Revisiting sacred Wednesdays (just for a few hours this morning) - we both needed it today #womeninSTEM #puttingoutfires #leadingishard
- Some nights require brandy #wiseestate #beautifulstranger
- Congrats Dr Mridul Johari on this important study, huge thanks to the many collaborators and the patients and their families. We describe a large cohort of patients with mono- or bi-allergic variants in TUBA4A and myopathies, some presenting at birth. #myopathy #raredisease
- Missense variants in TUBA4A cause myo-tubulinopathies medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Sharing my love of DNA and genomics with a cohort of yr6 kids. Knackered after 3 classes back to back and hats off to teachers everywhere. We extracted 🧬 from 🍓 and made 🧬 helices from haribo base-paired bears. Great questions from all the kids and so much engagement
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺New #hmg_journal paper: Novel missense variants in CFL2 affect F-actin depolymerisation and expand the disease spectrum of CFL2-related myopathy. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/2xusbna7
- Wonderful to finally have Dr Sanam Mustafa back in Perth with the @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social seminar. Talking about applying GPCR-based tools to Toll receptors to better understand pathways involved in #chronicpain Sanam was a postdoc in the Pfleger lab at WAIMR/Perkins 2009-11
- This arrived today, couldn’t have arrived at a better time. #jacindaardern #kindness #leadingwithvunreability
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺My interview with @mothersinsci.bsky.social is out! www.mothersinscience.com/journeys/adr...
- I met Atul once, after a phenomenal talk in Perth some 10-15 years ago. He left such an impression on me, I still recall much of what he said that day - about the need to down pipettes and mine data already generated. Tonight I am sad and I didn't even know the man. He sounds truly remarkable.
- My #careerdisruptions are officially over, I've been F/T since 2021. Calculated total career disruptions one last time, only 1054 days = 2.9 years (2 x mat leave and 0.6-0.8 for a number of years). Can't believe that is all it was. I should have given us more time #NHMRC #grantwriting #momademia
- #NHMRC Investigator Grant guidelines include details on increased flexibility! Able to extend grants by up to 2 years if one experiences career disruptions! A great step forward for equity and #womeninSTEM
- No place like home 👠
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺People we need to encourage PBS to post on bsky. Wise dude be he. @cosmicpinot.bsky.social “I look around& I am scared,” Schmidt said. “The Australian government investment in its sovereign research capability was 50% higher 15 years ago as a fraction of GDP.” theconversation.com/nobel-laurea...
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions. And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
- Congrats Lein Dofash on your award at the #ESHG2025 Congress from the @eshg.bsky.social to visit Emma Baple and the @rdexeter.bsky.social #raredisease #neuromusculardisease #underrepresentedcommunities @perkinsinstitute.bsky.social
- And the winner is @gringene.org with a “locus of geneticists on the dancefloor” 🏆
- What’s the collective noun for a dance floor of geneticists #ESHG2025
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Justified standing ovation for Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó at #ESHG2025 She shared her adventurous scientific life and life lessons like "If you want to do something, you find a way. If not, you find excuses", and reminded us scientists to thank our near and dear because "they suffer a little bit"
- Career highlight - hearing the incredible Katalin Kariko deliver the Mendel Lecture at ESHG2025 “if you want to do something you find a way, if you don’t, you find excuses” #mRNA #nobellaureate #katalinkariko
- What’s the collective noun for a dance floor of geneticists #ESHG2025
- Best news on last day of ESHG - upgraded to business for 17 hour return flight from London to Perth ✈️ 💤
- Reposted by Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social #ESGH2025 🤖 TALOS automatically and iteratively re-reviews genomes and exomes (including CNVs/SV on historic data) focus on specificity - only 0.7 candidates /trio Diagnostic yield is 5%, 248/4,744 - higher in older cases 9% 2019 4% 2022
- Dr Dani Hock from @dstroudlab.bsky.social presenting on #RDMassSpec in diagnosis of #raredisease in the Multiomics session #ESHG2025
- Incredible talk and beautiful images by @elfridedebaere.bsky.social on vision enhanceropathies. Much food for thought. #missingheritability #generegulation #ESHG2025
- Great to be at my 1st ESHG meeting & feeling lucky to have a few of the team here too. PhD students Lein Dofash & Jevin Parmar gave great talks last night on gene discoveries. So good to meet POLR3A collaborators IRL. Amazing program, kudos to the SPC incl. Mridul Johari from our team #ESHG2025
- Standing room only for the first plenary session at #ESHG2025
- Anyone have “stuck in the security queue” on their #ESHG2025 bingo card?
