Matthew 'Murph' Murphy, PhD

Today marked an exciting day in my career as I started my new position as research scientist at Advanta Seeds!

Conference time! I am grateful to have the opportunity to attend the Corteva New Frontiers Conference.

@aanupdkl @plantgenome @jdarbelaez @JRutkoski Way to go, Anup!

Our work on improving the milling quality in oats using multitrait genomic selection has been published in @plantgenome. This work would have not been possible without the guidance & mentorship of my advisor @jdarbelaez and @JRutkoski. Special thanks to other collaborators. #Oat

TGIF. There should also be TGFHPC (Thank God for High Performance Computing). I have been using the Arkansas High Performance Computing Cluster for my research. I was able to parallelize GWAS for many traits in a way that instead of taking 50 hours it only took 2 hours. #TGFHPC

I mean at least its a paper 👇

I found this picture on LinkedIN today. I found out quite funny.

Article Alert! 📢 A Bayesian optimization R package for multitrait parental selection doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.2… #OpenAccess

🌱🔬 Exciting #postdoc Opportunity! 🌱🔬 Passionate about predictive #plantbreeding using #MachineLearning, #Statistics, and #quantitativegenetics? Join our team and contribute to cutting-edge research! Check the link below for requirements. Apply now: tinyurl.com/525ay5ah

Come check out the exciting research being conducted in the Fernandes Lab!

✨ Exciting News! ✨🌱🔬 Thrilled to share the preprint of the first research paper from the Fernandes Lab, led by my awesome student, Igor Fernandes. Our work reveals the power of integrating environmental data with #MachineLearning in #GenomicPrediction. (1/3)

I am happy to be presenting my PhD research at the University of Arkansas and establishing new connections and potential collaborators.

Registration is now open for the 2024 Summer Institute in Plant Breeding, which will be held on June 10-14 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Registration is via the following webpage: sipb2024.eventbrite.com For more information, or to receive a flyer, email plantbreed@umn.edu! 🌱🧬

I decided to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, which includes DALL·E. I am quite impressed with the latest version of DALL·E. After describing an analogy of GWAS to DALL·E, here are some of the results. Finding genes is like finding a needle in the (genomic) haystack.

It’s always reviewer #2! instagram.com/reel/Cy0TsU7tm…

2023 was truly an exciting year for me: -Got my second paper published from my PhD -Big One! Successfully defended my PhD and became Dr. Murphy! -Moved to Arkansas to start my postdoc. 2023! You were great! Here is to 2024 and what it has in-store!

Today, I was officially hooded as Dr. Murphy #celebration #PhD

Another experience that I am gaining in my postdoc is creating presentations with Quarto! 📊📚 While the learning curve is steep, I enjoy the seamless integration of code and content into Quarto, especially with interactive plots! quarto.org/docs/presentat… #PresentationPerfection

Poll Time! Do you use the Pomodoro Method?

Plant a tree and stay focused with Forest! I started using the Pomodoro Method this year to supercharge my productivity. I have primarily used a good old timer for my Pomodoro sessions, but after discovering the Forest App and Chrome Extension, I will use this from now on!

The feature, known as Automatic Data Conversion, converted certain human gene names into dates and created massive errors in scientific research. morningbrew.com/daily/stories/… via @MorningBrew