Nick Banovich
@nebanovich.bsky.social
VP of Scientific Development and Professor at TGen.org. Interested in genmoics, single cell and spatial transcriptomics, lung disease, and oftentimes fishing. banovichlab.org
@saahimall.bsky.social sharing her journey!
TGen@tgenresearch.bsky.social · 2mo agoCan one summer change your entire future? For 20 years, the Helios Scholars Program at TGen has been doing just that for Arizona students—turning summer break into a launchpad for top-tier STEM careers. 🧬🚀 https://bit.ly/4ulK3Wh #Genomics #Arizona #Biotech #Internship
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T
President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf
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Great work Floris! You’re on a role.
Floris Barthel@florisbarthel.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe human genome's most variable and clinically important regions (centromeres, telomeres, and acrocentric short arms) have been hardest to study at scale. Thrilled to share KaryoScope, our new preprint that brings them within reach. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Great work from the Barthel lab! Happy to see this out in it's final version!
Nucleic Acids Research@narjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago⭐ #NARBreakthrough ⭐ New study delivers the first chromosome-level phased assemblies, uncovering >50,000 #structuralvariants and rescuing millions of #unmappable reads in BJ and IMR-90 human cell lines. 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... #Genomics #CellLines #CommunityResource
New preprint! We used Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing to ask: does chromosome-arm-specific telomere length shape how IDH-mutant astrocytoma genomes evolve? Short answer: yes, and in two opposite directions. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It’s #earthday! Sad to see some of the most pristine parts of the US under threat for short term gains and political reasons. This pic I took in my fav part of the US on the Utah/AZ border.
Earth day. As it turns out Earth is one of my favorite places to hang out. All kidding aside I spend all the free time I can in the woods and on the rivers of the West. Unfortunately we’re facing headwinds for protecting these places in the US. We’ve got to take care of this place.
In diseases like Sarcoidosis Granulomas are ubiquitous and mysterious, and RIPE to be demystified by spatial omics analysis. Kudos @jonas_schupp for this groundbreaking work. Read paper at academic.oup.com/ajrccm/artic... #CureSarcoidosis
Spatial transcriptomics uncovers hybrid, proinflammatory, and profibrotic cellular niches in pulmonary granuloma of patients with chronic sarcoidosis
AbstractBackground. Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology, characterized by the formation of immune cell accumulations (granulomas) in the lung and
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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Friends and Colleagues! I am SO excited to catch up with you all this week at #AABA2026! Here is a quick 🧵summarizing what our 🧪🧬👩🏽💻👨🏿🔬👩🏼🔬🧑💻lab will be presenting at the meetings (1/n) @umncla.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social www.nievescolonlab.org
Anthropological Genetics Lab at UMN
Anthropological Genetics Laboratories at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Excited to share new preprint with NVIDIA on GPU-accelerated single-cell analysis 🚀 rapids-singlecell brings native GPU support to scverse/AnnData: hours → seconds (1M cells: ~52m → ~25s), scaling to 100M cells. Huge thanks to Severin Dicks 🙌 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.02402
@ee-reh-neh.bsky.social capturing the difficulty of carrying out any sort of projects with a field component. So grateful to have been a part of this study.
Irene Gallego Romero@ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 6mo agoFirst, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.
Very excited to see this work be the first to use the quasar method for eQTL mapping!
Irene Gallego Romero@ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 6mo agoFirst, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.
Register now for March 2nd @agbt.bsky.social Recap! Inside AGBT: Big Announcements and Bigger Implications www.genengnews.com/multimedia/i... Featuring @jlemieux.bsky.social @biomath.bsky.social @jasmineplummer.bsky.social @nebanovich.bsky.social Catherine Aquino
Inside AGBT: Big Announcements and Bigger Implications
On this episode of GEN Live, we deliver a full debrief on the news from AGBT—critical to understanding where NGS, spatial, single-cell, and multiomics are headed.
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Hi yes I will have more to say about this in a few hours but please enjoy this paper. It's been a huge labour of love and effort for the last four years, and a significant part of our research efforts, and I'm so so so thrilled it's finally ready to share. Tldr: scRNA-seq in Indonesia hard but fun
bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 6mo agoAncestral and environmental diversity shape the immune landscape in Indonesia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.704933v1
So excited to have this study live! Lead by @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social's teram and in collaboration with an incredible team at MRIN in Indonesia. This is the culmination of ~5 years of work including a ton of effort in the field. Really proud of how this came together! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoCNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
My (now) weekly update on 2026 NIH funding. New and competitive renewal awards. 3 new awards (compared to ~100 expected based on recent years). No new ICs... still just NIA, NINDS, NIDCD, and NIDCR. 1/2
Use of SNPs in a low diversity system for genetic monitoring and identifying a successful translocation event in the Paiute Cutthroat Trout (O. henshawi seleniris) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.697447v1
A fun little project. We were curious if you could prep a single sample using both 10X Genomics Xenium V1 probes and Prime probes – allowing users to profile 480 genes at high sensitivity and 5,000 genes at lower sensitivity inline. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fishing with Two Lines: A Hybrid Approach to Spatial Transcriptomic Discovery
Spatial transcriptomics faces a trade-off between the number of genes assayed and depth of per-gene sensitivity. We developed a 'dual chemistry' method that combines the high sensitivity of a 10X Geno...
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Great new work led by Aaron Kwok from @davisjmcc.bsky.social’s group. A tool to “denoise” contaminating transcripts from image based spatial data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Denoising image-based spatial transcriptomics data with DenoIST
Image-based spatial transcriptomics (IST) technologies provide unprecedented resolution of gene expression in tissue sections, but suffer from contamination of cells' gene expression profiles due to i...
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🚀 We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with SOPHiAGENETICS! Together, we’re redefining what’s possible in #sequencing—delivering richer insights, faster results, and greater accessibility for labs everywhere. 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4nNmOks #Genomics #Genetics
SOPHiA GENETICS and Element Biosciences Unite Sequencing Power and AI Analytics to Accelerate Global Research In Precision Medicine
SOPHiA GENETICS and Element announce a partnership to unite sequencing and AI analytics to streamline genomic workflows and accelerate research in precision medicine
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8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...
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Excited to be attending my first SITC Annual Meeting! On Friday, Brandon Fischer from @nebanovich.bsky.social will present a poster on some of our work on Chlorotoxin CAR T cells. Check it out! #SITC25
Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer@sitcancer.bsky.social · 10mo ago#SITC25 Science Preview: Examine immune regulatory subsets in tumors with Jennifer Guerriero, PhD, Sergio Quezada, PhD, UCL News, @bcellbruno.bsky.social, Florent Ginhoux, PhD and Aurélien Marabelle, MD, PhD Gustave Roussy 🏥 View session details: https://ow.ly/TqBo50XgUsp
reminder that my (wonderful, diverse, interdisciplinary) department at the University of Oregon is seeking applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Data Science -- deadline 10/31 and only cover letter/CV needed to apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
University of Oregon, Department of Data Science
Job #AJO30328, 535565 Associate or Full Professor of Data Science, Department of Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, US
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Thank you! I am so honored and had such a wonderful time at #ASHG. What an amazing and inspiring society!
CU Department of Biomedical Informatics@cubiomedinfo.bsky.social · 10mo agoCongratulations @audreyhendricks.com for being honored with the 2025 @geneticssociety.bsky.social Education Award for her transformative work in genetics education. Hendricks accepted the award and shared her insights during a featured presentation at the ASHG Annual Meeting.
