I am presenting Landmark Attention today at 17:15 in #NeurIPS2023. I will also present CoTFormer (arxiv.org/pdf/2310.10845) in WANT workshop on Saturday. Excited to meet some of you at either.

I haven't worked even one day at a tech company but I am already traumatized by how they treat their employees.

Becoming a postdoc after complaining for 4 years during your PhD

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

Our review article on sequencing & characterising short tandem repeats (STRs) is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! We delve into short read & long read STR genotyping tools and applications in rare disease & population genetics🧬 go.nature.com/48pWZix Genomic Technologies Group Dr Harriet Dashnow Daniel MacArthur

Such a motivational perspective! I often find myself overwhelmed by the literature and the endless experiments I need to do 🚶‍♀️ But seeing it all as a detective on the hunt for clues? Way more fun!

Thanks to funding from the Hartwell Foundation, our lab now has an open position for a postdoctoral researcher! If you are interested in building genomic risk models of childhood-onset asthma and clinical implementation, please reach out! amariutalab.org/ourteam

Ah don't even let me get started 😪

Thrilled to announce the largest long-read based SV resource on open samples (1kGP) to date. Highlights include a pangenome augmentation pipeline, sequence resolution of 74k insertions, fine-scale SV classification and evidence for recurrent SV formation. Great team effort:

Five UC San Diego grad students applying engineering principles to solve medical challenges have been selected as 2025 Siebel Scholars! Siebel Scholars recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools. More about these scholars: today.ucsd.edu/story/engineer…

Tandem repeat catalogs directly affect the sensitivity, cost, and accuracy of TR genotyping studies. In this paper, we discuss TR catalogs and share a new catalog of 4.9 million loci biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢 New preprint alert: We’ve just published a deep dive into the role of tandem repeats (#TRs) in single-cell gene expression across the immune system, using #WGS and #scRNA-seq data from 1,790 individuals and over 5 million blood cells! 🧬 🧵👇 #repeats #SingleCell 1/9

Arrived in snowy Denver for #ASHG2024! I’ll be giving a talk on contribution of tandem repeats to complex traits. 📍 Four seasons ballroom 4. Session 38. ⏰ Nov 7, 8 AM. Hope to see many of you there!

Great discussion this morning on tandem repeats - exploring new long read approaches, candidate loci in disease cohorts, association testing frameworks, and ancestry-specific distributions! David Nelson Emily Nelson, Egor Dolzhenko, Dale Annear, Andrew Sharp, Helia (Helyaneh) Ziaei Jam #ASHG24

I will be hosting an information session for applicants to the USC Computational Biology and Bioinformatics PhD program, discussing research topics and application strategies. If you are registering with a non-institutional e-mail, please let me know tinyurl.com/cbb-qbio-info

Got an email from my PhD student today—she had traveled to Tehran just a few weeks ago, right before war was unfolding. No complaints. No requests. Just a quiet, steady project update—sent with the kind of calm strength that left me speechless. I sat there staring at the

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