Join us Jan. 22 at 2 pm for an IICD Special Seminar with Dr. Romain Lopez from @‌nyu.edu, who will discuss his interdisciplinary work on cellular population dynamics. Register: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-... @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiaseas.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social

📣 The 2026 Director’s Letter is here! Explore this year’s advances in data-driven cancer research and IICD’s growing impact across science and education. Read: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne... @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social

Warm Holiday wishes from the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics. Thank you for your support and partnership this year.

Congratulations to Ethan Cohen, former Alliance intern, who received the Mathematical Modelling and Biodiversity Chair Prize for his work at IICD. Read more: bit.ly/3KbbjFW @khanhndinh.bsky.social @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social

A wonderful night celebrating member achievements at our Holiday Party, capped off with the reveal of the winning IICD Art & Science Competition artworks! 🎉

Don’t forget to apply for the 2026 IICD Summer Research Program for Undergraduates. See details below ⬇️

Congratulations to Marina Milea who received the Sharon D. Cosloy Undergraduate Research Award in Biology @ccnyresearch.bsky.social. Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/marina-... cc: @lingting-shi.bsky.social @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social

Last seminar of 2025: Dr. @sanjaysrivatsan.bsky.social from @fredhutch.org discussed capsule-based genome sequencing and lineage tracing. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and via Zoom. Recording available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/ykS0q7Pl3xo?... @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social

📣 Don’t forget to register for our final seminar of the year with @sanjaysrivatsan.bsky.social. See details below.

🎨 Results are in! Winners of the Collision: Art Meets Science, the 1st IICD Art & Science Competition, are: 🏆 Judges’ Winner: Abdullah Naqvi - A Fighting Chance 🗳️ People’s Choice: Jennifer Jones & Ben Wesley - Windows Fluorescence Read more: bit.ly/4rhzkMd

🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – November 2025 #IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #CancerResearch @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com

Our final IICD Research Meeting of 2025! Thanks to Yanjie Chen (@khanhndinh.bsky.social) for discussing tumor expansion and subclonality, and to Jenny Jin (@brentstockwell.bsky.social) for presenting on metabolic vulnerabilities in hepatocellular carcinoma and ferroptosis. See you next year!

✨As 2025 comes to a close, we look back on a year of #innovation and #discovery at IICD. These nine research spotlights showcase our researchers’ continued commitment to advancing #CancerResearch. Read more: bit.ly/49LPWVP

Welcome to Ishaq Kothari, a Research Associate in the Vickovic Lab @nygenome.org. He is interested in developing computational tools for optics-free “-omics” imaging methods to better understand how spatial organization shapes development and disease.

Our December newsletter is live! Dive into fresh research from the Dinh and Azizi groups, an opinion article by the Vickovic lab, introductions to new members, upcoming events, and more. Check it out: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at IICD! 🍂 We’re grateful for the science, collaboration, and community that make our work possible. Wishing everyone a safe, joyful holiday!

Sharing a few pictures from a fantastic pre-Thanksgiving potluck between IICD members. #potluck #Thanksgiving

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social Community Service is celebrating 79 years of supporting our neighbors in need. Here's how you can get involved during the season of giving! Meet the CCS grantees here and tap into the amazing work happening. Support CCS and give today: bit.ly/4asbFQg

📣 Opportunity: Fellowships in #PancreaticCancerDetection and #AI @italianacademy.bsky.social. See details below.

What an amazing first session to inaugurate our new workshop series, From Theory to Practice! Thank you to Dr. Sanket Rane for leading this hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop to establish foundational quantitative approaches for modeling the complexity of our immune system.

New research by IICD Member @khanhndinh.bsky.social and collaborators made the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Pathology. Their work was also highlighted in Nature Reviews Urology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Ed Reznik and the team on our paper "Lipidomic changes in persister cancer cells drive enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity" in the new journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress! www.sciexplor.com/articles/fos... (free w/ no subscription no APCs)

Welcome to our newest member, Cody Slater, a MD-PhD student in Sanja Vickovic’s lab at @columbiaseas.bsky.social BME and @nygenome.org. Cody studies how different cell types work together in healthy tissues and how to target dysregulated cells in diseases like cancer.

Reminder Columbia Researchers! Don’t miss our inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop on Nov 19 @ 2pm. Register by Nov. 17: bit.ly/4hfpfL2 Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.

Thank you to Dr. Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who discussed cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment. Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...

Don't forget to watch our new Faces of IICD Video Series featuring Beatrice Grauman, a PhD student in the Vicković Lab @nygenome.org. ⤵️

Don’t forget to register for our next seminar! ⤵️

New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine. Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx

🧬 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