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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD

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Geneticist with a reputation of solving genetic riddles for rare diseases. Discovering genetic variation with stong effect sizes will enable genetic therapies.

Miami, Florida
Joined May 2014
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Dwarkesh Patel
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The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self
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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD
10 months
This is big.
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NIH
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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above
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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD
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Thank you Pankaj, for pushing this important topic in Florida! U of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Hospital would be the best place to establish this approach.
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Pankaj Agrawal
11 months
Did a testimony and met with ⁦@AdamAndersonFL⁩ yesterday to advocate rapid #genome in the #nicu across Florida! It’s wonderful to have a champion for our babies! Hopefully we will also work on newborn screening using sequencing ⁦@UMiamiHealth⁩ ⁦@ExpertKidsCare
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Veera Rajagopal 
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Mapping the segmental duplications in the human genome using 170 long-read genome assemblies. SDs are among the toughest to read in the human genome, even with long read sequencing. Here the authors have identified SDs spread over 6% of the human genome. The authors predict that
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Veera Rajagopal 
1 year
Exactly how many protein-coding genes are there in the human genome? The truth is no one knows. The numbers change based on what database you use as reference. "More than 2,500 coding genes in the human reference gene set still have unsettled status" Maquedano et al. bioRxiv
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Veera Rajagopal 
1 year
Analysis of sequencing data of 320k individuals (75k cases and 245k controls) shows heterozygous carriers of cystic fibrosis mutations are protected from inflammatory bowel disease. The protection mechanism could be due to an altered gut mucosal barrier that resists penetration
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Andrew Carroll
1 year
Release of DeepVariant 1.8. Large speed improvement (~67% faster) via small model for easy sites. New Pangenome-aware option. Reduces error by ~30% for vg-mapped WGS ~10% for BWA WGS ~5% BWA exome. New config for custom model users, see release notes 1/3 https://t.co/TQmQElqAOR
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Google DeepMind
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Today in @Nature, we’re presenting GenCast: our new AI weather model which gives us the probabilities of different weather conditions up to 15 days ahead with state-of-the-art accuracy. ☁️⚡ Here’s how the technology works. 🧵 https://t.co/PWCNWbQnlU
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Jared Isaacman
1 year
I am honored to receive President Trump’s @realDonaldTrump nomination to serve as the next Administrator of NASA. Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history. On my last mission
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Martin Picard
1 year
Superb video of the mitochondrial community in a single cell—hundreds of squiggly microorganisms sensing, processing, and signaling energy and information By @chillinwithpfn1
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Daniel Calame, MD, PhD
1 year
‼️We are almost ready to recruit patients w/ hereditary spastic paraplegia into the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN) study @TXChildrens Please reach out if interested @SpasticParapleg @DariusFakhari For more info:
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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD
1 year
Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍁
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Nikolay Kukushkin
1 year
We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in @NatureComms shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵 https://t.co/biaahYiPRW
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Daniel Calame, MD, PhD
1 year
#ASHG2024 highlights - annual Lupski lab reunion, Jim’s Lifetime Achievement Award, non-stop snow, and great science!
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Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us
1 year
Generative Haplotype Prediction Outperforms Statistical Methods for Small Variant Detection in NGS Data https://t.co/0ykahMtgvN 🧬🖥️ https://t.co/jwiOHr6R6d
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Prof. Nikolai Slavov
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How do cells response to withdrawal of amino acids? It depends on the amino acid. ◼️Lysine withdrawal causes immediate cell-cycle stalling while the withdrawal of other amino acids allow for completion of additional cell cycles.
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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD
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Meeting friends and colleagues in Perth. Towards solving neuromuscular diseases. ⁦@ICNMD_Congress⁩ ⁦@Gianina_Natoli⁩ Phillips Lamont, Jevin Parmar, Bernard Brais, Nigel Laing
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Math at Halloween.
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Stephan Zuchner, MD, PhD
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News of the day. Wow. @SpaceX
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