👏 Congratulations to Dr. Deb Schrag, Chair of the MSK Department of Medicine, and Dr. Lorenz, Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at MSK, who were elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors bestowed upon scientists worldwide. Learn more: bit.ly/4fvwkoP

this is so cool. seeing is believing.

Out in Nature Communications ! ChromaFold predicts 3D contact maps using single-cell ATAC-seq alone. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Lab hiking at Cold Spring, and completed the Bull Hill Loop. The weather was amazing and it was rewarding to enjoy ice creams after the hard work 😋. Thanks Denis Torre for organizing this great trip! And welcome Hazel Zhao, our newest member.

Excited to share our latest preprint, as part of ENCODE4, on a consensus variant-to-function (cV2F) score for functionally prioritizing variants for complex disease - led by Tabassum Fabiha and co-mentored with Alkes Price. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Finally out in Science Magazine! Utilizing the cost-effective EasySci to profile 21 million single-cell transcriptomes across five life stages and diverse sexes/genotypes, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific

Several years in the making (and aging), Xueqian Zhuang 's study on aging is out today nature. She finds, surprisingly, that aging suppresses tumorigenesis and stemness in the lung by promoting a functional iron insufficiency in the alveolar epithelium. nature.com/articles/s4158…

In Nature Genetics we report that base editing of trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) reduces somatic repeat expansions in Huntington’s disease (HD) and Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA)—in patient-derived cells and in vivo—a collaboration with the Mouro Pinto lab. drive.google.com/file/d/1on7kdy… 1/14