Niranjana Natarajan
@Niranjana89
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Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh (PhD Johns Hopkins, Postdoc Harvard). Working at the intersection of cardiovascular disease & immunology.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined February 2012
Today in @naturemethods, we define a new lexicon for protein/peptide interactions. SWING is a generalizable zero-shot interaction #language_model that outperforms pLMs in multi-context predictions of the impact of genetic variation on interactions. #ML
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Nature Methods - SWING is a versatile interaction language model that can learn the language of peptide and protein interactions.
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Grateful for the support from KARAT bridge funding @PittDeptofMed
In addition to Catalytic Grants, KARAT also provides bridge funding to its junior faculty members. This year's bridge funding awardees include Drs. Corry Bondi, Aravind Cherukuri (@AravindCheruku1), John Evankovich (@JEvankovichMD), Dennis Hsu (@DennisJHsu), Niranjana Natarajan
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A new publication from our lab: How aberrant mitochondrial DNA synthesis in macrophages affects inflammation and atherosclerosis. https://t.co/JgMV4ifojR by @Niranjana89 Jonathan Florentin, and many collaborators- @jishnu1729 @SrutiShiva @KrithikaSRao Yingze Zhang, Sina Tavakoli
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We couldn't have done it without your mentorship and support @jenpluznick !
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Started my tenure track faculty position @PittRheum today! Super excited to be part of the team. I'm really grateful to my mentors @ParthaDuttaLab, @jenpluznick, Rich Lee for all their support!
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🎉Congrats to the 2024 Excellence in Science Awards recipients: Holly Ingraham @UCSF, Pilar Alcaide @TuftsMedSchool, Mariana Byndloss @VUMCDiscoveries. The awards honor women scientists' excellence, leadership, and mentorship in their research fields. https://t.co/1zfD3t0Njv
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Flagship #ML paper from my lab now out in @naturemethods. SLIDE, an interpretable latent factor regression approach, has unique statistical guarantees. Can analyze #multiomic datasets (bulk, sc, spatial etc) to provide inference beyond prediction (1/2).
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Yay!
Friends. After much reflection I have decided to enter the transfer portal for my last year of eligibility. Excited for the future! 5’7” ish 165 14.8 second 40 #Blessed #NILBABY #TDSnation #LFGM
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Diwali and Kalipuja fusion celebration with @jishnu1729 Wishing everyone a happy Diwali filled with happiness and prosperity! #Diwali2023
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Don’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science
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Oohh love it when scientific studies have such conclusions! #curlyhair #evolution
The curls on your head may have originally served as an evolutionary advantage for growing bigger human brains https://t.co/r2Sym6oRMC
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Congrats! @AnaVujic5 Very happy and excited for you!
Thank you @TheBHF for believing in my research and providing the resources needed to make it a reality. Special thanks to Thomas (@thomaskrieglab) and Mike (@Mito_Redox) for invaluable support 🙏. I am excited to continue working towards improving 🫀-health.
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Congrats! Super excited!
Excited to announce that I will be joining @cmmgwsu at Wayne State University @waynestate in #Detroit later this fall as Assistant Professor! The #EspinosaDiezLab will study the role of #ncRNAs in vascular remodeling in response to genotoxic stressors (1/5)
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I asked ChatGPT to rewrite Bohemian Rhapsody to be about the life of a postdoc, and the output was flawless:
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Gulp! I just realised I now have to write a new hour of comedy. New York City I’ve got three spots at the cellar tonight. I’ll be there every night till Wednesday. Then I don’t see you till next year.
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