Check out our mini-review on functional SVs & human-specific traits. Was a lovely collaboration with Charikleia Karageorgiou and Omer Gokcumen Part of a larger themed issue “Genetics of Human Origin” from Genetics & Genomics, edited by Alex Pollen, Jason Stein, and Luis De La Torre-Ubieta.

HHMI is excited to announce the launch of AI@HHMI, an ambitious $500 million initiative to accelerate scientific discovery through AI-driven research. Read more about this exciting new initiative at ai.hhmi.org. #AIHHMI

Iman Hajirasouliha showing updates from the Microbiome in a Bottle” project and Core Analysis Modular Pipeline (CAMP) to get us past the realm of one-click pipelines #metasub24

Combination of LLMs and theorem provers is what I am most excited about for AI in the next few years. That’s how DeepMind got impressive performance in the international math Olympiad. This approach can speed up mathematical research and potentially be used in other domains as

When the lab veteran agrees to teach you how to run a western blot

Don't miss the next WCM Englander Institute for Precision Medicine #AI Working Group talk, “Ovarify: A #DeepLearning model for automatic calculation of #ovarian morphological features in pelvic ultrasonography,” by grad student Eeshaan Rehani (Eeshaan Rehani). August 23rd at 11 AM, Greenberg room Y.13.01

We have a tenure-track faculty position open Michigan Genetics. If your research addresses fundamental questions in genomics and genomics, consider applying to join our collaborative scientific community. Apply by 11/15 (review starts 10/1) apply.interfolio.com/152208

1970: One more lane will fix it. 1980: One more lane will fix it. 1990: One more lane will fix it. 2000: One more lane will fix it. 2010: One more lane will fix it

Release of DeepSomatic v1.7 (github.com/google/deepsom…). Now supports tumor-only applications, now supports FFPE-prepared samples with specific models. New models to support exome and ONT. Improved accuracy and runtime improvements.

Over the next five years, Yale will help faculty, students, and staff as they engage with artificial intelligence — and equip them for leadership in the evolving field. #Yale news.yale.edu/2024/08/28/yal…

Our next WCM Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Journal Club, "A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images," will be presented by Suraj Rajendran, Graduate Student in the Tri-I Program! Related article: nature.com/articles/s4158… Sept. 12th at 3 pm in Belfer #1401.

September is PCOS Awareness Month Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex hormonal disorder that affects 10% of women worldwide, yet it remains often misunderstood or overlooked. Join us in advocating for better understanding and care. #PCOSAwareness #PCOSAwarenessMonth2024

Hamed Najafabadi is one of the smartest computational biologists I know... and an amazingly patient and supportive mentor. Highly recommended!

Our paper is out! Automatic ploidy prediction and quality assessment of human blastocysts using time-lapse imaging .. congratulations to my star PhD student and first author Suraj Rajendran Tri-I CBM Weill Cornell GSMS WCM Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine nature.com/articles/s4146…

Representing Meyer Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medicine Meyer Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine Population Health Sciences on 2024 Third Avenue Fair - my area of research #breastcancer and mammographic density as a risk factor for breast cancer #mammographicdensity #breastdensity #communityoutreach

Good to be back at Villa del Grumello, in Como ... giving three lectures today, tomorrow and Thursday at #Alpaca PANGAIA Project sponsored PhD school on Evolution in Computational Pangenomics!

Great first day at the PhD school on Evolution in Computational Pangenomics in Como. Thanks to our awesome speakers!

Always great and stimulating EichlerLab @pan

We honor and remember those lost on September 11, 2001. This morning, Cornell Republicans and Cornell Democrats came together to honor those fallen by planting flags on the Arts Quad.