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Where our work shows up: the conferences we take part in, the communities we belong to, the centres we are associated with, and what they are announcing. For photos from the lab, visit the Showroom.
Conferences
Meetings we are taking part in.
Australasian RNA Biology and Biotechnology Association
A-RNA 2026
26 to 28 October 2026 · voco Brisbane City Centre
The fifth annual conference, incorporating the fifth annual mRNA QLD Symposium. Registration, abstract deadlines and the programme.
Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data
SMPGD 2027
28 to 29 January 2027 · Pisa, Italy
The annual meeting on statistical methods for the analysis of post-genomic data, from mathematical statistics to emerging high-throughput biology. Abstracts close 11 December 2026.
58èmes Journées de Statistique
JdS 2027
24 to 27 May 2027 · Université Grenoble Alpes
The 58th Journées de Statistique, the annual French-speaking statistics meeting, held on the Saint-Martin-d'Hères campus in Grenoble.
Communities
The research communities we belong to.
Australasian RNA Biology and Biotechnology Association
A-RNA Association
The RNA research community across Australia and New Zealand, formed in 2021 and incorporated in 2023. Nikolay served on its committees in 2022 and 2023.
Centres we are associated with
We are not a unit of any of these. We work alongside them, supplying the measurement and modelling layer their programmes build on.
The University of Western Australia
Australian Centre for RNA Therapeutics in Cancer
The ACRTC develops RNA therapeutics for cancer. We are associated with the centre and supply the RNA measurement and modelling layer that its programmes build on.
LinkedIn pageThe University of Western Australia
RNA Innovation Foundry
Translational RNA manufacturing and development capability in Perth, and one of the routes our methods take out of the laboratory.
LinkedIn pageCentre national de la recherche scientifique
CNRS Mathematics
The CNRS institute for the mathematical sciences and their interactions with other disciplines, where our statistics and modelling work is rooted.
CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and Grenoble INP
Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann
The applied mathematics and computer science laboratory in Grenoble that is Alice's home institution.
From our network
Selected posts from the centres we are associated with, embedded from LinkedIn. Their announcements, not ours.
Australian Centre for RNA Therapeutics in Cancer
The centre congratulating Nikolay on the School of Human Sciences Mid-Career Research Award, part of the University of Western Australia's 2026 Research Awards, and judged by a panel of school colleagues.
View on LinkedInThe ACRTC announcing ROBUST, the MRFF National Critical Research Infrastructure award for re-engineering therapeutic mRNA. Nikolay is a Chief Investigator.
View on LinkedInRNA Innovation Foundry
The Foundry on hosting the Oxford Nanopore Technologies team, at RIF and in the ACRTC RNA sequencing lab Nikolay heads, and on Nikolay as its resident expert on direct RNA sequencing.
View on LinkedInThe Foundry on hosting Kyrin Hanning of the University of Waikato, with Nikolay hosting: tours, internal seminars, and the part everyone actually wants, getting past the small talk into the shared problems.
View on LinkedInFrom the group
Speaking at RNA Symposium 2026 in Wellington
Nikolay joins the RNA Production and Quality Control session as an international guest at the New Zealand RNA Symposium, held at Te Papa in Wellington.
Read more →Co-chairing at the EMBO | EMBL Symposium in Heidelberg
Nikolay co-chaired the co-translational RNA biology session at "The complex life of RNA", the EMBO | EMBL Symposium held at EMBL Heidelberg from 13 to 16 October. The meeting follows RNA from transcription to translation, and the translation end of that journey is where much of our own work sits.
Read more →Danielle Rudler wins an A-RNA EMCR Travel Award
Danielle is one of two recipients of this year's Early and Mid-Career Researcher Travel Award from A-RNA, the Australasian RNA Biology and Biotechnology Association. The award helps an early- or mid-career researcher get to a conference, workshop or training opportunity, which means our work on RNA regulation and stability travels with her.
Read more →Oxford Nanopore in the lab
The Oxford Nanopore Technologies team came to Perth, spending time at the RNA Innovation Foundry and in our direct RNA sequencing laboratory at the ACRTC. Nanopore reads the native RNA molecule, modifications and all, and it is the technology behind much of what we measure, so time with the people who build it is well spent. Nikolay also joined Oxford Nanopore's executive session with genomics and precision health leaders, a conversation the Foundry is keen to see develop.
Read more →The refined yeast transcriptome is published
Orlane Rossini, Alice and Nikolay have their reference transcriptome for brewer's yeast out in FEMS Yeast Research. Long nanopore reads measure where each gene's untranslated ends really are, and the merge with the old short-read annotation never shortens a boundary, so nothing already known is lost. The reference files and the pipeline that rebuilds them are free to use.
Read more →Navigating RNA Data Quality in the Age of AI
Nikolay spoke at the Alliance for mRNA Medicines Science and Tech Talk webinar, on a panel with Nathan Stover of BioCurie and Brian Parrett of the Mayo Clinic. Three problems that decide how quickly an mRNA medicine reaches a patient: making manufacturing predictable, reaching new diseases, and being able to trust the data underneath both. AMM has since posted the recording.
Read more →Nikolay wins the School of Human Sciences Mid-Career Research Award
Part of the University of Western Australia's 2026 Research Awards, and judged by a panel of colleagues within the school, which is the part that makes it worth having. It recognises sustained research contribution alongside the mentoring of students and staff.
Read more →A visit from the University of Waikato
Kyrin Hanning spent the day with us, through the nanopore sequencing laboratory, the RNA Innovation Foundry and our own group seminar. He works on large variant library screening and, for the New Zealand RNA platform, on nanopore analysis for quality control, which is the same problem we come at from the other side. The conversation continues in Wellington in November.
Read more →Four of us at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting
Bac Dao gave a student talk in Frontiers in Genetics, on isoform aware deep learning for predicting RNA modifications from sequence and structure, and came away with a Best Poster prize. Danielle Rudler, Shafi Mahmud and Nikolay each presented a poster. A good day out for a group that spends most of its time at a bench or a terminal.
Read more →TagGen clears peer review
The TagGen paper in F1000Research is through, with two referees approving and a third approving with reservations. TagGen generates error tolerant barcodes for long read sequencing and demultiplexes the reads back again, on platforms where error rates make short read barcodes useless.
Read more →Ribosome supply, and what happens to a tissue when it runs short
A collaboration in iScience, with Nikolay among the authors, on what depleting the ribosomal protein RpS19a does to blood cell precursors. Rather than simply slowing everything down, the shortage reshapes which messages get translated, and that shift is what drives the tissue to overgrow.
Read more →T2GD v1.19.0 "Shenlong" released
Transcriptome-space to genome-space alignment conversion, as a single static binary with no dependencies. Ships a command-line tool with 36 subcommands and a desktop interface, with builds for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Read more →Keynote at the UWA Data Institute annual conference
Archa Fox and Nikolay gave the late-morning keynote at Data Matters, the Data Institute's 2026 conference, on designing therapeutic mRNA when the data you have to design from is part natural and part synthetic.
Read more →INDEGRA v1.2.0 "Echidna" released
Integrated RNA degradation analysis from sequencing data, with builds for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Read more →FracFixD v2.0.6 "Quokka-5" released
Compositional statistics for fractionated RNA-seq, as an R package and as standalone binaries.
Read more →VX v0.9.0 "Aardvark" released
The desktop genome viewer and transcriptome browser, now shipping an MCP server and an HTTP API alongside the binaries.
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