🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025 #IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com

Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.

@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads! The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch 📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP

The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne... cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social

Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience

The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.

Please share🔉 We’re #hiring #AI #Engineers @columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social 🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck

🎥 The Institute for Cancer Dynamics continues to share research and insights on YouTube. Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling. youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics

Vicković Lab publishes a new study on colon aging #NBTintheNews via @cancerdynamics.bsky.social cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/vickovi...

Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - @nygenome.org @flatironinstitute.org @broadinstitute.org @cancerdynamics.bsky.social go.nature.com/47I1RBF

Big news: The Vicković Lab’s study on colon aging has been accepted by @natbiotech.nature.com! The team built a detailed atlas of aging colon tissue, using spatial transcriptomics + a new tool (cSplotch) to profile ~1,500 samples & 400k nuclei. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hj3ry7 #SpatialTranscriptomics

Welcome to Hamza Golubovic, a PhD student in statistics in Genevera Allen’s group @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social. Hamza has been developing interpretable machine learning methods related to feature importance and signal processing in high dimensional settings.

Columbia Researchers! Join us for the inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop led by Sanket Rane. 📅 Date: Nov 19, 2-5 PM ET 📍 Location: Schermerhorn Hall 603 ✍️ Register by: Nov. 17 (5 PM ET) Link: bit.ly/4hfpfL2

Check out the next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture, “Driving brain breakthroughs with data science,” organized by @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social and featuring IICD core faculty Genevera Allen. zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/stavros-niar...

**Students** submit your projects for the Columbia Undergraduate Research Fair 2025! Dive into AI’s future - technological, ethical and social 🧠 Deadline: Oct 22 Event: Nov 6 More info: datascience.columbia.edu/events/under... #ColumbiaAI @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @barnardcollege.bsky.social

✨Alumni Spotlight: Mingzhang Yin, former @cancerdynamics.bsky.social and @datascicolumbia.bsky.social postdoc, is now a faculty at University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. His work bridges statistics, AI, & marketing to drive new insights in research and industry. bit.ly/47nRyT9

Congratulations to IICD member @brentstockwell.bsky.social who was awarded an NCI P01 grant with Xuejun Jiang (MSK) and Wei Gu (CUIMC). Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/brent-s... cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social

Welcome to Anirban Nath, a PhD student in statistics co-advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) and Ming Yuan (@datascicolumbia.bsky.social). His research focuses on developing distribution-free inference methods for interpretable machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.

IICD Monthly Research Roundup – September 2025 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @braphael.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social

Thank you to Dr. Teresa Davoli (NYU Langone) who shared about her latest research on cancer aneuploidy with our researchers. cc: @khanhndinh.bsky.social Missed it? Watch the recording here: youtu.be/ZRzrjes7knQ?...

We are highlighting the work of IICD scientists advancing our understanding of breast cancer. Their research, along with collaborative efforts across Columbia, continues to drive progress toward more precise and effective breast cancer treatments: bit.ly/4pHt8MD #BreastCancerAwareness

📣 Don’t forget to register for the next seminar.

October newsletter is out. Watch the latest Faces of IICD interview, read about the latest breast cancer research highlights and the GROW conference, and more. cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne... #BreastCancerAwareness @nygenome.org @elhamazizi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social

Thrilled to welcome Irene Chang to IICD! Irene is a PhD student in Statistics, advised by Genevera Allen (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social). Her research focuses on simplifying manifold learning methods with efficient neural networks for better interpretability and results on high-dimensional data.

The #AMICI 🤝 tutorial is out! Bringing #attention to #cellcellcommunication 🚨👉 amici-st.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ #spatialtranscriptomics #compbio #machinelearning

1/ I’m excited to share recent work on inferring cell-cell interactions using attention by @justjhong.bsky.social and me, supervised by @elhamazizi.bsky.social . Open the thread 🧵 for a brief overview of our method. bioRxiv link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

Thanks @cancerdynamics.bsky.social for highlighting this interview with @columbiacancer.bsky.social for Blood Cancer Awareness Month and our work in @cohesinlab

Columbia welcomed 90 undergrads from around the country for GROW 2025, a conference supporting students in the mathematical sciences! Proud to sponsor this inspiring event for a second year with our Columbia partners. #GROW2025 Read more: bit.ly/4nnAIKO

This #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth, Dr. Aaron Viny (@thedoctorisvin.bsky.social) is shining a light on the lifesaving role of transplants in blood cancers & addressing some of the most persistent myths surrounding donation via @columbiacancer.bsky.social. www.cancer.columbia.edu/news/breakin...

Cheers to a great IICD Welcome Back Happy Hour! Always a joy to reconnect and celebrate our community. Looking forward to the next one! 🥂#IICDCommunity

We’re excited to welcome YoonHaeng Hur, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Statistics and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social, to the IICD community! In Dr. Genevera Allen’s group, YoonHaeng develops mathematical and statistical foundations for data science. #Welcome #IICD #DataScience

Today is #NationalCancerResearchDay! We’re grateful for our IICD researchers, students, and collaborators pushing the boundaries of cancer research every day, bringing us closer to better treatments and cures. #CancerResearch #TeamScience #IICD #WorldCancerResearchDay

Check out this new publication from @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social and team in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social : Multiplexed Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Diverse Phenotypic Outcomes for Pathogenic SHP2 Variants #CancerResearch #SingleCell #Genomics #IICD doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Attention early-career researchers focusing on GI & inflammatory diseases, #neuroscience or oncology: apply by Sept 16 for the Takeda Innovators in Science Award with Nature and join the previous winners. #Academicsky #GISky #medsky go.nature.com/4jBp3oM

Check out this new publication from IICD researchers Andrew Blumberg, Abigail Hickok, and collaborators in #Arxiv: EmbedOR: Provable Cluster-Preserving Visualizations with Curvature-Based Stochastic Neighbor Embeddings. arxiv.org/abs/2509.03703 @columbiacancer.bsky.social

We’re #hiring! The IICD is looking for an Communications Specialist to join our team. This role will will play a vital role in amplifying IICD’s mission and impact to showcase groundbreaking science and innovative collaborations. #job #IICD #Communication opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/9e05387...

We are #hiring for an exciting campus-wide collaborative effort! 📢 See the first position below for large-scale #CRISPR perturbation screens! #cancerresearch @cancerdynamics.bsky.social @columbiaseas.bsky.social

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! We’re proud to celebrate our talented postdocs and all they contribute to IICD’s research and community. #NPAW2025 #IICDResearch

Meet Beatrice Grauman, PhD student in the Vicković Lab at @nygenome.org 🌟. Her research explores tumor–microenvironment interactions and cancer evolution. 🎥Find out what inspires her outside the lab in our latest Faces of IICD feature 🔗 bit.ly/3K0Xidr #FacesOfIICD #PhDLife #WomenInSTEM

Thank you to Dr. @lecong.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social for an outstanding seminar to kick off our Fall series! 🧬 His talk on AI-powered genome technology and cancer evolution sparked valuable discussion and ideas. Watch the recording here: youtu.be/irBMeBhVZ-I #IICDSeminarSeries

We’re always happy to join Columbia CUPP each summer! From research highlights to community building at the annual CUPP cookout & Poster Symposium, our SRP interns shined all summer. 🔗 Read the story: provost.columbia.edu/news/cupp-st...

🔔 Reminder: The first seminar of the series is tomorrow! Register at the link below.

Check out this new publication by IICD member @braphael.bsky.social and team in @natcomms.nature.com: Graph Homomorphism Approach for Unraveling Histories of Metastatic Cancers and Viral Outbreaks under Evolutionary Constraints www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet the keynote speakers for the 2025 scverse conference! Elham Azizi, Associate Professor of Cancer Data Research and Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University 🧵 @elhamazizi.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social #scverse #scverse2025 #machinelearning #genomics #cancerimmunology

🎥 A peek inside IICD We found some extra b-roll from our feature on JSM TV at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meeting and couldn’t resist sharing! 🧬 Watch the full video: t.co/TAod7PnCLA cc: @websedgescience.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @bimidu.bsky.social

Our first IICD Monthly Research Meeting of the semester was a success! 🔬Jun Won Park (Rane): Spatiodynamic Inference using Vision-Based Generative Modelling 🧬Aaron Zweig (Azizi/Knowles): Inferring Cell Trajectory with Flow Matching Excited for a semester of inspiring talks!

🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – August 2025 From immune cell aging to cancer genomics and machine learning, this month’s studies span Science, Immunity, Blood Red Cells & Iron, Cancer Bioinformatics, and arXiv. #IICDResearch #SystemsBiology #AIinScience #CancerGenomics #Immunology @science.org