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Paz Polak

@PolakPaz

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Computational biologist . Views are my own

Manhattan, NY
Joined August 2014
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@skimomiks
Marcin Imieliล„ski
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latest from the lab --> how we used whole genome passenger somatic mutation patterns ๐Ÿงฌ to trace the origins of never-smoker lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) to cells of the proximal lung ๐Ÿซ @NatureGenet https://t.co/jqNdVSdZ9z 1/๐Ÿงต
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@dr_alphalyrae
Vega Shah
4 months
Parabricks, a genomics startup with the goal to GPU-accelerate NGS analysis, was acquired by @NVIDIA in 2019. The Parabricks team has recently published their body of work showing GPU-accelerated, universal analysis that supports a wide range of sequencing platforms - including
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@AnneKniselyMD
Anne Knisely, MD
5 months
Thrilled to share our paper now out in @Nature that correlates inactivating PPP2R1A somatic mutations with improved survival for patients with cancer receiving immunotherapy, with exciting prelim mechanistic insights! @AmirJazaeri @IamLinghua @Yibo_Dai
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Nature - Inactivating PPP2R1A mutations correlate with better survival after immune checkpoint blockade in patients with ovarian clear cell carcinoma, suggesting that targeting the phosphatase 2A...
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@JbAlberge
JB Alberge
7 months
1/ ๐ŸงตCheck out our new study in @NatureGenet, which examines how precancerous conditions (MGUS/SMM) evolve into Multiple Myeloma, and offers new computational methods to predict progression risk and model cancer evolution. https://t.co/IHnN87QKTk
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@anthonycosta
Anthony Costa
7 months
Check out new work from @NVIDIAHealth Genomics, @genentech, transcriptome-guided genomic alignment with transformer-based splice junction scoring, delivering SOTA in splice junction detection, indel identification, and resolving complex splicing patterns
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Advancements in high-throughput sequencing have revolutionized the field of transcriptomics, pro-viding unprecedented insights into gene expression, splicing events, and fusions. Despite these...
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@RosenblumSerge
Serge Rosenblum
8 months
What a way to close out this year's APS March Meeting! #APSSummit25 #Aurora #Quantum
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@bengrbm
Benjamin D. Greenbaum
11 months
We are hiring ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ! As part of our immuno-oncology transformation @MSKCancerCenter we are building the Computational Immuno-Oncology Shared Resource. CIOSR is a key pillar supporting expanded immune monitoring & broad IO efforts. We have two open positions: bioinformatics
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
1 year
One way to trace AI over the last year is GPQA Diamond. This is a Google-proof question set that experts get 81% right in their fields & highly skilled non-experts with 30 minutes per question and Google access get 22%. GPT-4 got 37% at the start of 2024. o1 got 78%. o3 is 87.7%
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@naxerova
Kamila Naxerova
1 year
Most exciting event of spring 2025! Please come join us!
@TimCoorens
Tim Coorens
1 year
Spread the word! Registration for the "Mutations in Time and Space" conference is open. The meeting is all about the origins, patterns, and consequences of mutations across cells, individuals, populations, species. Abstract submission deadline: Jan 17th https://t.co/KMEHdXnLMQ...
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@SamuelAhuno
Samuel Ahuno
1 year
Cool scientists!
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@notSoJunkDNA
Nicolas Robine
1 year
Nobel for the not-junk-DNA! microRNA FTW! ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ˜„
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
1 year
BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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@YizhakLab
KerenYizhakLab
1 year
๐Ÿšจ New preprint alert! We performed scRNA-seq & scTCR meta-analysis on cancer patients treated with ICIs, revealing key T cell signatures linked to therapeutic response, with insights into clonal replacement vs reinvigoration! #scRNAseq #Immunotherapy https://t.co/d35nY6dfIf
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Despite the crucial role of T cell clones in the anti-tumor activity, their characterization and association with clinical outcome following immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) is lacking. Here we...
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@LabWaggoner
Waggoner Lab
1 year
Neoantigen immunogenicity landscapes and evolution of tumor ecosystems during immunotherapy with nivolumab @NatureMedicine @GeneCollector @xrtGenomics https://t.co/Taonn58ftH
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@shlomopolak580
ืฉืœืžื” ืคื•ืœืง
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ืืžื ื›ื•ืชื‘ืช: ืื™ื‘ื“ืชื™ ืืช ื”ื‘ืŸ ืฉืœื™ ืฉื ื”ืจื’ ื‘ืขืช ืฉื ืœื—ื ื‘ื’ื‘ื•ืจื” ื‘ืงืจื‘ ื‘ืงื™ื‘ื•ืฅ ื‘ืืจื™. ืงืฆื™ืŸ ืฆืขื™ืจ ืจืง ื‘ืŸ 20. ืื ื™ ืจืง ืžื‘ืงืฉืช ืฉืœื ืชืฉื›ื—ื• ืืช ื”ื™ืœื“ ื”ื’ื™ื‘ื•ืจ ืฉืœื™!! ืืฉืžื— ืฉืชืฉืชืคื• ืœื–ื›ืจื• ืฉืœ ื”ื‘ืŸ ืฉืœื™ ื™ื•ื ืชืŸ ื’ื•ื˜ื™ืŸ ื’ื™ื‘ื•ืจ ื™ืฉืจืืœ!!
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@lkreidberg
Laura Kreidberg
1 year
Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! this is an amazing opportunity to build an independent research group that comes with 2.7 MEuro support over 6 years. If you're interested in being hosted @mpi_astro, please contact me!
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Apply to become a Max Planck Research Group Leader. Max Planck Research Groups - Announcement 2024.
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@getz_lab
Gad Getz Laboratory
1 year
With @rheinbay_lab and additional Broad collaborators, we are excited to enter into this partnership with @Inocras to analyze whole genomes for the benefit of cancer research and cancer patientsย ๐Ÿงฌ! @GenomeDoctor @BroadInstitute @MGHCancerCenter
@GenomeDoctor
Young Seok Ju
1 year
We are excited that we (@inocras) start a collaboration on large-scale cancer whole-genome analyses with Gad Getz (@getz_lab) and colleagues at the Broad Institute!
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@doctorveera
Veera Rajagopal ๎จ€
1 year
BRCA1 and friends 30 years on -William D. Foulkes https://t.co/vVb8XqJNis In this beautiful article in @NatureRevGenet , @WillDFoulkes takes us back in time to the moment BRCA1 discovery was revealed to the world by Myriad Genetics at the ASHG 1994 ( https://t.co/UnAAYweKGk).
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@WeillCornell
Weill Cornell Medicine
1 year
An artificial intelligence-powered method for detecting tumor DNA in blood has shown unprecedented sensitivity in predicting cancer recurrence, says a team led by Dr. Dan Landau (@landau_lab) and researchers at @nygenome and @MSKCancerCenter. https://t.co/2ZCZMnsnBG
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@SamuelAhuno
Samuel Ahuno
1 year
thank you to all who stopped by my poster & helpful comments to improve the generative model! @MSKCancerCenter Tumor-Immune Systems Biology Symposium on 05-22-2024
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