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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My lab is recruiting postdocs in AI/ML for genetics & genomics through the Malone Postdoctoral Fellows program. Apply by Jan 30! Lots of other great labs across the Malone Center as well.

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Loving the “Pitch a problem” session at the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Engineering in Healthcare. Lots of animated conversations! @jhumceh.bsky.social

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Baltimore and Hopkins friends - remember to join us for the Malone Center Symposium Monday Dec 8 in the Glass Pavilion: Human + AI: Redefining the Standard of Care in Medicine

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My kid just casually referred to the “starboard” side of his shoe. He’s going to be so sad for sailing camp to end and school to start.

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Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Congratulations @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on being named an ASA Fellow! So well deserved! 🎉

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Such a fun Battle lab retreat this week, with state of the lab updates, lightning talks, AI tools discussion, a meditation session, games, and general merriment. What a great group!

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Now up, led by Ashton Omdahl! Our method GLEANR finds shared genetic factors across lots of GWAS, and handles spurious correlation driven by cohort overlap. Neat examples of factors driving related traits with enrichment in different cell types / developmental stages.

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs: probgen2026.github.io Please help spread the news.

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We have released a new annotation-informed PRS method with a preprint and code available, check it out!

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Excited to announce new Malone Center Seed Grants in three focus areas: collabs with Nursing, collabs with Surgery, and focusing on Precision Medicine.

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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻 stephaniehicks.com/blog/course-...

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Translating the face-paced world of research in deep learning and genetics and genomics to the classroom – Stephanie C. Hicks, PhD

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Ben Strober @bennystrobes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I'm excited to share I'll be starting a faculty position at Boston Children's Hospital in the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) this October!!

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Mingyuan "Merlin" Li @supmerlin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Heading to Minneapolis next week to share this work at STATGEN2025!

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Our new work testing nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine exposure across many cell types at once, including their modulation of eQTLs. Take a look!

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Power enabled by creative use of public data! We called genotypes from thousands of ATAC-seq samples to run one of the largest chromatin accessibility QTL analyses ever- our results now online with Genome Biology rdcu.be/efKlI, led by Brandon Wenz and Yuan He. GWAS/eQTL overlap, TF binding and more.

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Genotype inference from aggregated chromatin accessibility data reveals genetic regulatory mechanisms

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Check out our work on rare SVs using long read sequencing, led by Tanner Jensen and @bohanni.bsky.social, now online in @genomeresearch.bsky.social. With @mikeschatz.bsky.social, @mwheelermd.bsky.social, and @sbmontgom.bsky.social

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Ian Fingerman @fingerman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There’s a lot of amazingly brilliant scientists and staff about to enter the job market. Hope people take advantage of that and give them a place to land. You won’t regret it

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fortunes at the Battle lab lunar near year celebration were on brand. Love the lab. Watch out for confounders this year everyone, and happy new year.

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JHU Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare @jhumceh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congratulations to Malone affiliate Casey Overby Taylor on receiving a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! Learn more about the research she’s being recognized for here below.

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Casey Overby Taylor receives Presidential Early Career Award

Taylor is part of a select group of scientists and engineers to receive a 2025 PECASE award.

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our study is up! Context-specificity galore -- we explore genetic regulation of gene expression across many cell types and temporal states simultaneously in an efficient experimental system + scRNA-seq:

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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Biology of Genomes 2025 is coming up: - meeting dates: May 6 - 10, 2025 - abstract deadline: Feb 14, 2025 We hope to see you there for another great meeting with a fantastic speaker lineup! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

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Biology of Genomes

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Did you know that Claude Shannon’s PhD thesis was on genetics? “An algebra for theoretical genetics”, MIT 1940. The bibliography has just six entries including Fisher and Haldane.

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Now online at Genome Biology! We developed a method for learning latent contexts for eQTL effects, applicable to single-cell or bulk studies, led by Ben Strober: rdcu.be/dwGzY

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

We inferred coexpression networks from over 95K RNA-seq samples from recount3, check out what we found www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... on heritability, context-specificity, and more. Led by Prashanthi Ravichandran.

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Aggregation of recount3 RNA-seq data improves the inference of consensus and tissue-specific gene co...

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