Andreas Pfenning
@apfenning
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Assistant Professor of CompBio at Carnegie Mellon University. Working at the intersection of compbio, genomics, neuroscience, and evolution.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined December 2009
#TearsOfThemis X #MeloMelo Collab Event has ended.All the staff at Melomelo extend our sincere gratitude to everyone. Looking forward to joining forces again in the future to create more wonderful moments together. Hope to see you again next time.
#TearsOfThemis X #MeloMelo Collab Event Review Tears of Themis X MeloMelo Collab Event has ended. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation. Hope to see you again next time! #ToTXmas
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Delivered my debut conference talk at the #KeystoneSymposium on #Neurodegeneration. A heartfelt thanks to Li-Huei Tsai and Aaron Gitler for organizing such a dynamic and insightful conference. Thrilled by the promising advances we're making in understanding #AlzheimersDisease
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Super excited to host @BrandonDLe from @jsteinlab next Tuesday at 3pm for the #neurogenomics seminars. Bran will present the lab's excellent recent work linking wnt pathway activation with context specific regulatory QTLs. DM/email for the zoom link
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Rather than studying evolution based on conservation of specific nucleotides, we using machine learning to find conservation/convergence based on predicted tissue-specific open chromatin across >200 genomes.
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It was wonderful to be a part of the amazing #zoonomia team! Congrats Irene, @alyssajolawler, and Daniel on the TACIT manuscript as a part of this package.
Researchers in Science have pinpointed parts of the genome linked to a few exceptional traits in the mammalian world, such as extraordinary brain size, superior sense of smell, and the ability to hibernate during the winter. https://t.co/106eJqWecE
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The @ZoonomiaProject’s sequencing of more than 240 mammal genomes is paving new roads for understanding mammalian diversity and evolution and ourselves. Learn more in a new special issue of Science: https://t.co/s4N159JW7o
#Zoonomia
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The current issue of Science is out online with a lot of evolutionary genomics from https://t.co/TvyUGaL8w5 and the @apfenning lab, a massive effort! On mammals: https://t.co/BZtKQjcP9z On humans: https://t.co/bxzo4jdfgz On regulatory evolution:
science.org
Protein-coding differences between species often fail to explain phenotypic diversity, suggesting the involvement of genomic elements that regulate gene expression such as enhancers. Identifying...
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As a part of the @ZoonomiaProject, a team of CBD researchers developed the Tissue-Aware Conservation Inference Toolkit to identify genome parts critical to understanding how certain species' traits evolved. Read about it in this month's @ScienceMagazine! https://t.co/Iqte5RKjdj
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A team of Computational Biology Department researchers have developed new methods to identify parts of the genome critical to understanding how certain traits of species evolved. Their work appeared...
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It's so cool to see @CMUCompBio colleagues' work on connecting mammalian regulatory regions to phenotype get published in @ScienceMagazine ! Even more exciting is that one of the first authors on this work is our *undergrad* student Daniel Schaffer. Such a huge deal!
The @ZoonomiaProject’s sequencing of more than 240 mammal genomes is paving new roads for understanding mammalian diversity and evolution and ourselves. Learn more in a new special issue of Science: https://t.co/s4N159JW7o
#Zoonomia
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Excited to share that I will join @CMUCompBio as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2023! I am thrilled about starting this new chapter with my amazing new colleagues. I will work on #GWAS #scRNAseq #eQTL #machinelearning, #AIforScience
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Amazing illustration! @davidasinclair, it was wonderful working with you on this project. So excited to see it out.
Delighted to share our latest study that tests The Information Theory of Aging. 13 years of work. Available at 11 AM EST today @CellCellPress. What’s it about? Here’s a clue from Catherine Delphia’s illustration in Lifespan
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Please Vote this cycle in the USA (between now and Nov 8th 2022). Don't let someone else decide your future for you. Vote for those that allow women to choose their future, and that accept the majority of the people's choice, especially when they were not chosen.
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Congrats, Zheng!
.@CMU_Bio professor Zheng Kuang has received a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award from @NIH_CommonFund to support his research into how intestinal bacteria regulate metabolism and immunity. https://t.co/JDyYYKdUCp
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Congrats, @eenork!
I also won a prize at #ICCFGG. GO ME!! photo credit to @EllieRaffan (really attributable to @DogAgingProject and @darwinsarkfnd who keep making so much great data!)
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We are hiring! Looking for a lab manager to help us study the neural circuitry of Parkinson's disease. https://t.co/kU50vISjR6
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I had a wonderful time visiting @PierceNeuro, @ronhart604, and others at Rutgers. Amazing neuroscience work going on there!
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Excited to see this out - amazing work profiling H3-"Canine" Acetylation
Delighted to share our preprint @biorxivpreprint about creating a reference dog epigenome. Conceived the idea during my sabbatical from @manoliskellis lab @MIT from 7 yrs ago. Only came to fruition with the recruitment of young scientists @new__hong @PrecursorCell @MethylAReum
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Are you looking for a PhD program where you can learn both experimental and computational approaches? Come join us in Pittsburgh!
cmu.edu
The Ph.D. program in Systems Neuroscience is administered by the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute in Pittsburgh, PA.
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CBD Faculty member, Andreas Pfenning, is part of a collaborative group of neuroscientists working to create an ultra-high-resolution molecular atlas of the brain and develop brain cell type-specific strategies for effective and precise gene delivery. https://t.co/u8qu3qBXQi
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