Dr Oumie Kuyateh, PhD
@popgen_oumie
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Sanger Excellence Fellow @sangerinstitute | JRF @wolfsoncam @Cambridge_Uni | PhD @EdinburghUni, BSc @ucl | Co-founder @warc_uk
Joined November 2014
I’ll be starting a lab as an Assistant Professor @CornellEng @Cornell_CBE in 2026! We’ll combine synthetic biology and materials science to engineer microbes into living materials & therapies. Recruiting PhD students & postdocs - please get in touch! 🔗 https://t.co/XpDxeNzI0W
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Another complete circle around the sun & it has been a productive one: 🪔British Academy/Leverhulme grant 🥈Best PhD thesis award 👨🏾🏫Became a lecturer 📚Best teacher's award for LSE summer school 📊Longlisted for 2 more international grants Excited for the coming years✨ #HBD🎈
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Had a fantastic time at the 2025 BMES annual conference, meeting, catching up, and celebrating mentors, friends, and students. #BMES2025.
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Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting 1-2 PhD students for admission in the fall of 2026 at @Mila_Quebec
https://t.co/kOGpVOSTGB Are you interested in multilingual NLP + VLMs / AI Safety? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1
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Each student at Mila is supervised by one of our affiliated professors. Applicants are selected through the supervision request process.
Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026 admission! For more information, visit https://t.co/r01eLcY1P4
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🎉Congrats to Freeman Hrabowski Scholar @IshmailSaboor on receiving the @NIH Director’s Pioneer Award! His research will explore how sense of touch contributes to communal behaviors.
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I did it!!!11hours 18mins&I was done with my 11th chemotherapy cycle for mixed connective tissue disease. I'm proud of myself. #autoimmunedisease
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Spent #DayOfTheGirl training journalists on using storytelling & media advocacy to protect girls’ rights. Ethical reporting can help end harmful practices like #FGM & amplify girls’ voices. Every story matters. #EndFGM
#GirlsRights
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Congratulations to Dr Gaurav Kudtarkar, who just passed his PhD without corrections!! Gaurav developed a radically new theory of perceptual representation, which drew on both Aristotle and the Indian classical philosophy of Nyāya. Here pictured with...
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Congrats to Robert Platt on being appointed Associate Dean and Director, School of Population and Global Health! 🙌 More info: 🔗 https://t.co/xIJ89Dv4Cc
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.
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So grateful that my lab is celebrating its 25th anniversary next week! Super lucky to work with such an inspiring team that made this possible 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Join us as we celebrate our 25th anniversary with a special symposium 🤗 @YaleMed
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Thrilled to share I’m starting as an Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at @EmoryUniversity @EmoryGoizueta! I’m very excited for this next chapter and deeply grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and collaborators who made it possible!
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🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Join the prestigious EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme bridging @sangerinstitute & @embl 🔬 Projects: 1️⃣ AI-driven single-cell perturbation exp design m. (with @Muzz_Haniffa @saezlab) 2️⃣ Predicting cell phenotypes of new compounds using
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The ESPOD fellowship builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, offering projects that combine experimental (wet-lab) and computational (dry-lab)...
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Our @SBSatEd @EdinburghUni Masters by Research student #Payton @pcovelli1 is analysing data from her peptide #ELISA assays. The samples used in these assays are from Zimbabwean children under 5 years old at risk of #schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease. @ColSciEng
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Toxoplasma facing career options: 🏃 Tachyzoite (fast life) 😴 Bradyzoite (chronic sleeper) 🙀 Pre-sexual (cat-ready) Spoiler: epigenetics makes the call. Our recent review decodes how chromatin remodelers, TFs& AP2s orchestrate these fates 👇🏽 https://t.co/7CSZYuVRNV
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Two months ago, I graduated from the Europubhealth+ programme with 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: two master’s degrees, three universities, three countries 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇫🇷 and countless lessons that have shaped and inspired me. @EuroPH @sheffielduni @JagiellonskiUni @EHESP
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Thrilled to be attending the 19th International Congress of Immunology #IUIS2025! Day 4 of incredible science, inspiring conversations and catching up with colleagues. @iuis_online @FAISAfrica
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First Kolade Lab social outing (mini-golf ⛳️then dinner). Starting a lab is tough, but this amazing and fearless crew (and incredible colleagues) has made it so much easier over the past four months! @ucsdbe @UCSDJacobs @UCSD.
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I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.
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