Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
🚨 New preprints from our lab! First, we introduce Cryo-mtscATAC-seq, led by Maren (@ms-maren.bsky.social ), enabling high-throughput clonal tracing from frozen human samples by isolating nuclei with their mitochondria (“CryoCells”). 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
✨If Monet studied mouse ovaries 🎨 Stromal cells 💜 Follicular cells 🔵 and Fatty Cells 🟡. Together, they reveal the cellular architecture and functional zones of the ovary 🔬 Image provided by @shmimberly.bsky.social 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #ReproductiveBiology
I'm so sorry Anders 🤯
New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
A world of possibilities contained in the ovary :)
One of our favorite ovary images
Our lab at Yale @yalemedicine.bsky.social seeks #postdocs with in vivo expertise to pioneer research at the intersection of tissue remodeling & aging. Work with us to uncover immunological & vascular drivers of ovarian aging, applying single-cell, spatial omics, and ML! jobrxiv.org/job/yale-uni...
Really excited to share our new @cellpress.bsky.social Cell paper with @fertiglab.bsky.social and colleagues. 1/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@jktgfoundation.bsky.social @itcrtraining.bsky.social @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #mathbio #mathonco @mathonco.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social
Thank you Jenn!!
Thank you Haiqi!
Excited to share that we've received an NIH R35 MIRA! This grant will support our work building tools to study how cell states change over space and time in disease. Grateful to our community, and especially the wonderful team I get to work with.
@yalecvrc.bsky.social
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Pluripotent stem cells that differentiate into vascularized cardiac and hepatic organoids. Wow! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Microvascular obstruction is known to be a #LongCovid feature. Now a potential mechanism found for the obstruction induced by death of endothelial cells->sticky red blood cells. Which wouldn't respond to blood thinners or anti-platelet Rx
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our ability to accurately determine an individual's risk for heart and vascular disease is getting transformed
—New A.I. transformer model
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
—Meta-prediction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out @nature.com: Clonal tracing with somatic epimutations
🧬 Single cell methylome encodes cell state & clonal identity
🔨 EPI-Clone reads out both (+mutations, +RNA) at scale
🩸 Clonal expansions of HSCs are universal from age 50, not driven by CH mutations
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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title of assistant professor's talk: amino acid metabolism of effector T cells in LCMV infection
title of senior full professor's talk: Why do cells eat?
Cells as living drugs is a big part of future medical approaches.
There's been so much about engineering T cells (CAR-T) for treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. But engineering macrophages (CAR-M) is next up for blocking inflammation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A wonderful interview with our @yalecvrc.bsky.social colleague Martin Schwartz! Where science is like art: learning to define your taste in questions
In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.
What if LLMs could “read” & “write” biology? 🤔
Introducing C2S‑Scale—a Yale and Google collab: we scaled LLMs (up to 27B!) to analyze & generate single‑cell data 🧬 ➡️ 📝
🔗 Blog: research.google/blog/teachin...
🔗 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
As promised, a 'skeet' -orial on our paper published last week !
Ranking of Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) in-silico tools from a recently published review, based on Relative performance with rate on MAVE data)
1. CPT-1 (Broad Institute)
2. AlphaMissense (Google DeepMind and cols.)
3. ESCOTT (Sorbonne/INSERM France)
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
The Chung Lab @ Yale seeks a motivated, creative postdoc to examine tissue remodeling in health and disease. We study ovarian aging and cardiovascular disease in human samples and animal models. Passionate about single-cell, spatial genomics, machine learning & therapeutics? Join us!
Here is our paper showing in vivo folding of nascent RNA right after synthesis, published now in @cp-molcell.bsky.social!
With @karlaneugebauer.bsky.social, @isaac-vock.bsky.social, @mattdsimon.bsky.social
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Myocarditis is a focus of many concerns. It is not a side effect of a particular vaccine but of the immune response following vaccination or infection! The latter, infection, is a much more serious event.
A systemic review of over 400 million people; 1947 to 2021:
Growth of the maternal intestine during reproduction @cellcellpress.bsky.social @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
we recently found some really neat RNA-guided DNA-cutting systems in phages. Despite remarkable similarities to CRISPR systems, including encoding guide RNAs in arrays, they appear entirely evolutionarily distinct (but definitely related to snoRNAs 🤓)
We decided to call them TIGR-Tas systems 🐯
