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Ajit Johnson Nirmal

@ajitjohnson.com

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Assistant Professor @harvard • Tumor Microenvironment | Spatial Biology | Computational | Multimodal Data Integration • PI at @nirmallab.com

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 05/05/2025

How can we bridge observational spatial biology with functional characterization—bringing together experts in spatial, systems, and synthetic biology! Join NCI for virtual workshops on May 13, 15, & 20 (12:00–4:30 PM ET) 📅 Register: events.cancer.gov/nci/syntheti... #SynSysBio4SpatialCancerResearch

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 16/12/2024

PathOmCLIP: Connecting tumor histology with spatial gene expression via locally enhanced contrastive learning of Pathology and Single-cell foundation model. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 09/12/2024

Vision foundation models for microscopy from Lundberg lab - first proteome-wide hierarchical map of proteome organization that is learned from image data. #science 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 28/11/2024

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 19/11/2024

Fun fact: Apparently here's the image from a presentation @jay.bsky.team gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 19/11/2024

DeepCellTypes from Van Valen Lab, a new language-informed vision model, leverages the power of AI to accurately identify cell types in spatial proteomics data across diverse datasets and imaging platforms. 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.02.621624v2.full.pdf+html

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 18/11/2024

ROSIE by Wu et al. is one of the promising advancements in the field, using AI to predict multiplex protein biomarkers from H&E images.🧪

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 18/11/2024

Wonderful work by Punovuori et al.—They demonstrate that the interplay between partial EMT states and cancer-associated fibroblasts significantly enhances tumor aggressiveness in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. 🧪

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Ajit Johnson Nirmal @ajitjohnson.com · 17/11/2024

✨ Let’s get creative! ✨ Here’s a fun experiment: Ask ChatGPT, “Based on what you know of me, draw a picture of what you think my life currently looks like.” Then, comment your result below! Let’s see how our lives get reimagined in unique and unexpected ways—let’s start a conversation! #research

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