Quantum for Bio grant awarded by Wellcome Leap
The Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) funding from non-profit Wellcome Leap was awarded for a proposal, led by quantum information company Infleqtion, with co-PIs Sam and Alex Pearson at UChicago , and Aram Harrow at MIT, to transform cancer care by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and quantum algorithms to drive personalized diagnostics and treatments. More details in the announcement by Infleqtion.
Hope wins outstanding TA Award
Congratulations to Hope for a well-deserved PME Outstanding TA Award!
Preprint on improving RNA velocity
Frank, Sam, and Suri Vaikuntanathan post a preprint dissecting and integrating bursty transcriptional dynamics for complex systems, improving on state-of-the-art RNA velocity methods.
Sam speaks at the UChicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science
Sam participates as a speaker in a really stimulating 3-day, inaugural meeting of the University of Chicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science.
Preprint on histology-encoded transcriptomic features of tumors
Hanna, Sam, Alex Pearson, and coauthors post a preprint on how latent transcriptional programs reveal histology-encoded tumor features spanning tissue origins.
Welcome to new group member Ruxandra
We welcome Ruxandra Tonea, first-year PhD student in molecular engineering! She will be co-advised by Sam and Tom Gajewski.
Joey reaches a milestone
Congratulations to Joey for passing his qualifying exam for the Molecular Engineering PhD program!
Immunity publication and commentary
Joseph, Sam, Bana Jabri, and coauthors publish in Immunity on how GATA4 regionalizes intestinal metabolism and barrier function to prevent immunopathology.
Preprint on intestinal immune regionalization
Joseph, Sam, and co-authors post a preprint exploring how GATA4 regionalizes intestinal metabolism and barrier function to prevent immunopathology.
Publication in Cell
Joseph, Sam, and coauthors publish in Cell on how nociceptor neurons direct goblet cells via a CGRP-RAMP1 axis to drive mucus production and gut barrier protection.
Hanna wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Congratulations to Hanna on winning the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, which provides funding for two years!
Ryan reaches a milestone
Congratulations to Ryan on successfully defending his masters thesis on applications of manifold learning to single-cell transcriptomics!
Commentary published in Nature Cancer
Commentary in Nature Cancer by Hanna and her co-advisor Alex Pearson describes how multi-omics can create a more holistic picture of ovarian cancer.
Goodbye and good luck to Kyle and Alexis
Congratulations to Kyle and Alexis on earning their undergraduate degrees! We will miss them.
Hope receives an NSF GRFP award
Hope Anderson is a 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellow! Congratulations!
Kyle is off to Harvard for a PhD
Kyle Ruark is accepted to Harvard's PhD program in Bioengineering. We are very proud!
Welcome to new group member Joey
The Riesenfeld Group warmly welcomes its newest member, PME PhD student Joey Federico. He will be co-advised by Sam and Bana Jabri.
Congratulations to Frank on becoming a finalist for the 2022 Grier Prize for innovation in biophysical sciences research
Congratulations to Frank on becoming a finalist in the competition for the UChicago Institute for Biophysical Dynamics Grier Prize for 2022! The purpose of this prize is to support Ph.D. students in the laboratories of trainers in the Biophysical Sciences graduate program who seek to develop new areas of research that may involve high risk or require the development of new technology.
