Congratulations to our PhD student Chelsea Lai, who was awarded an NSF GRFP earlier this week!

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

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...

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

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... 🧵

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 🐯

Excited to share this new work led by postdoc Brendan Floyd, deep mapping of cell-surface protein interactomes of T and B cells reveals maverick mitochondrial proteins and immune modulatory complexes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic Cardiology Grand Rounds on advances in polygenic risk scores from field leader Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social, introduced by our own Hattie Chung @hattaca.bsky.social

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our new paper showing how loss of the nuclear pore protein TPR leads to activation of an inflammatory gene expression programme in senescence is now published in eLife: bit.ly/4h1VcFi @wbickmor.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social

Excited to see Moscot (moscot-tools.org) published in @Nature! We scaled Optimal Transport (OT) in single-cell genomics & added multimodality together with spatiotemporal trajectory inference, finding exciting new biology in the pancreas! 🚀 Read at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@ImmunityCP preview: Restimulation by macrophages exhausts T cells www.cell.com/immunity/ful... on www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Very excited to announce that the single cell/nuc. RNA/ATAC/multi-ome resource from ENCODE4 is now officially public. This includes raw data, processed data, annotations and pseudobulk products. Covers many human & mouse tissues. 1/ www.encodeproject.org/single-cell/...

Reposting my offer for 1-1 mentoring for anyone… email me and we'll find a time! Especially happy to talk with those from diverse backgrounds and non-traditional career trajectories.

Our ChromBPNet preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Huge congrats to Anusri! This was quite a slog (for both of us) but we r very proud of this one! It is a long read but worth it IMHO. Methods r in the supp. materials. Bluetorial coming soon below 1/

Registration is now open for the 2025 Reproductive Aging Conference! May 4-7, 2025 in San Jose, California This is the only international meeting dedicated solely to mechanisms of reproductive aging. Register today: www.reproductiveagingconference.com @jennifergarrison.bsky.social

Excited to share our lab's first preprint: we used spatial transcriptomics to dissect how aging disrupts the cycling ovary! 🧵 This was an incredible team effort w/ @jennifergarrison.bsky.social #TammyLan @davidsebfischer.bsky.social #AlisonKochersberger #RuthRaichur #SophiaSzady

@thejohnnyyu.bsky.social, @therealnima.bsky.social , Kevan Shokat, and I are excited to announce a historic achievement by our team at @vevotherapeutics.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4rrvap3t

Incredibly excited to see this brilliant work from @gheimberg.bsky.social #AvivRegev out this week. Years in the making, Graham thought of this before foundation models became cool :) a model for searching & finding the closest cell state, and experimentally validated !