And that's a wrap! 🎬 Dr. Yoshua Bengio's presentation on predicting drug combinations with graph neural networks was the perfect way to wrap up two incredible days of visionary talks! #futuretx20 drugsymposium.org

Had a great time at the NSF National Symposium on Drug Repurposing for Future Pandemics #futuretx20 (thank you Marinka Zitnik and Jure Leskovec for organizing)! Key takeaways, summaries of favorite talks, and relevant papers organized in thread below.

Amplify women scientists: junior edition! A few amazing CS/CompBio women!👩‍💻 Joyce Kang Aparna Nathan Maya Talukdar Jayoung Ryu Yixuan He Dylan Maghini Roshni Patel @JessicaRibado Fiona Tamburini Alice Yu Tiffany Amariuta Julia Gong Katie Collins Jacqueline Valeri Emily Alsentzer

(1/2) Congratulations to the finalists!! iGEM Toulouse Vilnius iGEM'18 XMU-China iGEM iGEM Team Aachen iGEM_Leiden GreatBay SCIE, TAS iGEM ! Watch their presentation videos, and view their wikis and posters below: 2020.igem.org #iGEM2020 #GiantJamboree

Happy Birthday, Brandon Frazier❗️

Defended my dissertation! I'm thrilled. So grateful and exhausted. I didn't have time for this, but I wanted to speak a little to the ~now~ of everything lately, how surreal and difficult it has been, and offer--if I may--some advice for how I've been getting through it. 1/24

The power of students can be immense. Students offer the benefit of time, passion, and drive. Mentors offer the benefits of experience, teaching, and context. The combination of student and mentor can bring both to new heights. Read more: globalscalpels.com/katayoun-joffr… 🎙

Nature's write-up: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to DBMI at Harvard Med's Marinka Zitnik for her Bayer AG Early Excellence in Science award in the Data Sciences in Life Sciences category! cc Harvard Medical School Harvard Data Science Initiative bayer-foundation.com/otto-bayer-awa…

Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly. A short thread... 1/

Therapeutics Data Commons is a collection of #ML tasks spread across areas of #therapeutics 22 tasks 67 datasets Therapeutics ML offers incredible opportunities for innovation and impact TDC informs ML model dev, valid and transition into production & clinical implem. Join us!

Excited to present a tutorial on #ML for drug development and discovery at IJCAIconf. Jan 6, 7-10pm EST / Jan 7, 9am-12pm JST w/ Jimeng Sun and Danica Xiao IQVIA zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/drugml

On a day for the history books, Amanda Gorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."

The members of HMS Genetics Anti-Racism Group express their solidarity with our workers. This is unacceptable Harvard Medical School! Friends @ HMS and the boston area, please spread the word and join us! Follow the link to take action👇 On FB tinyurl.com/HarvardMedcall… or nolayoffs.wordpress.com

Great to see the National Surgical Obstetric Anesthesia Plan process starting in #SouthAfrica. Led by #GlobalSurgery champions Kathryn Chu Salome Maswime EMakasa. SADC Secretariat Stellenbosch University UCT Global Surgery Wits University bit.ly/2KJYEuF

800 free computer science classes you can take online right now: bit.ly/800CSclasses #MondayMotivation

And my journey in (After) iGEM continues - now with this amazing team! ❤

So honored to have been selected as a winner of the NCWIT Collegiate Award!

The program for the #WiNS2021 satellite Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt & NetSci Conference is online! tinyurl.com/WiNSSatellite Join us on Jun 30+Jul 1! Not attending the conference but interested in participating in #WiNS2021? Sign up here forms.gle/Qs2u2stzVdJx6L… (registration not required for conference attendees)

Come join us at Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt & NetSci Conference June 30+July 1! #WiNS2021 Event is open to everyone and free to register: tinyurl.com/WiNSSatellite