Alexis Thornton
@AlexisThornton_
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Bioinformatics Scientist @GRAILbio | PhD from @TheBrooksLab @ucscbme | @UF Alum š | She/Her | #BLACKandSTEM
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined November 2016
Hey #BlackInGeneticsRollCall! Iām Alexis, a PhD candidate in Bioinformaticsš©š½āš» at @UCSC_BSOE. Iām studying the dynamics of alt. splicing in cancer and Iām building a tool (eVIP) that uses RNA-seq to predict the functional impact of somatic cancer mutations #BlackInGeneticsWeek
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RT @GrailBio: This past weekend at #AACRDisp23, our team presented data on multi-cancer early detection across races and ethnicities and hoā¦.
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RT @TheBrooksLab: Our paper "Full-length transcript alterations in human bronchial epithelial cells with U2AF1 S34F mutations" is now publiā¦.
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U2AF1 is one of the most recurrently mutated splicing factors in lung adenocarcinoma and has been shown to cause transcriptome-wide pre-mRNA splicing alterations; however, the full-length altered...
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RT @treehousecancer: š£ Treehouse is releasing the first publically available Kallisto expression data for 2,403 RNA-Seq tumor samples! Dataā¦.
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RT @conchoecia: Are you sequencing genomes? Do you want to compare the chromosomes of two or more species?š§¬. I recently released the ODP soā¦.
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RT @CellPressNews: Online in @STARProtocols: #bioinformatics #protocol from Dr. Angela Brooks' lab .@TheBrooksLab @AlexisThornton_ @ucscbmeā¦.
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RT @Alex_Aravanis: Congrats to University of Jerusalem, @GrailBio, and @Illumina teams on the worldās most comprehensive atlas of human celā¦.
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Nature - We describe a human DNA methylome atlas based on deep whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, allowing fragment-level analysis of cell-type-specific markers and providing an essential resource...
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RT @STARProtocols: Check out this #bioinformatics #protocol from Dr. Angela Brooks' lab @TheBrooksLab @AlexisThornton_ @ucscbme @UCSC for eā¦.
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RT @GrailBio: Weāre honored to have @GalleriTest included in TIMEās Best Inventions of 2022 list! #TIMEBestInventions .
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RT @blkwomencompbio: š§µ HOT OFF THE PRESS: .BWCB is pleased to announce the publication of our editorial in @PLOSCompBiol titled "Ten simpleā¦.
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RT @LabCarpenter: It was a lot of fun to present the collaborative work between the Carpenter and @TheBrooksLab at the UCSC interdisciplinaā¦.
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RT @LabCarpenter: We are delighted to share a new review article from the Carpenter lab, headed by our grad student, Eric Malekos, on shortā¦.
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RT @elektra_robi: Very excited my final paper of my PhD is out (pre-peer review), co-first authorship with the amazing @May_Salih1 . Thankā¦.
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RT @ProfDanielKim: Super excited to share our new paper out today in @CellReports "Mutant KRAS regulates transposable element RNA and innatā¦.
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RT @apwiita: Our latest now out @NatureComms! We use cell surface #proteomics to find new #immunotherapy targets and biomarkers of resistanā¦.
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Nature Communications - The myeloma cell surface proteome regulates plasma cell biology and delineates therapy targets. Here, the authors profile the myeloma surfaceome at baseline and in drug...
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RT @ucscgenomics: DEADLINE EXTENDED! We've already had quite a few researchers sign up for our FREE bioinformatics immersion session for diā¦.
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RT @_YuliOrtega: In a series of racist events our students raised their voice and empowered themselves to be heard. Our campus has more toā¦.
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RT @TheBrooksLab: Congratulations @alisondtang! Alison is the inaugural recipient of the The Darrell Long and Elaine Long Prize in Experimeā¦.
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RT @TheBrooksLab: Our new preprint shows how you can use tumor RNA-seq data to identify potential cancer drivers!.
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