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Arjun Bhattacharya

@arjunbhattac.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Epidemiology at MD Anderson. Molecular epi and statistical genomics to understand cancer and human development bhattacharya-lab.com

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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great work by @seantbres.bsky.social and undergrad intern Charis Xiong in tackling a critical problem in molecular epi and genomics! Great collaboration as always with @jonhuang.bsky.social! Try out ICONIC, any and all feedback is welcome.
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Another preprint from our group @mdanderson.bsky.social led by talented postdoc @seantbres.bsky.social! Joint with @jonhuang.bsky.social, exploring the intersection of environmental toxins, maternal/fetal health, and placental txomics. Tweet thread below!
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New work by talented postdoc @taylorhead.bsky.social in our group @mdanderson.bsky.social! Tweet thread below:
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Excited to see everyone in Boston at #ashg25! 🧵on my group’s presentations.
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A few programming notes for #ashg25 from trainees in my group @mdanderson.bsky.social + a thread of me being a proud PI. Please drop by these sessions and talk to @taylorhead.bsky.social, @seantbres.bsky.social , @ytchang11.bsky.social, and me in Boston @geneticssociety.bsky.social next week!
Presentations for Taylor Head (Room 205ABC Level 2 at 11:15 am on 10/15), Sean Bresnahan (Room 253ABC Level 2 at 8:45 am), and poster for Yung-Han Chang (Board 1108T, 2:30-4:30 pm on 10/16)
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Harold Pimentel @hjp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Super excited to get this out. This collab started a few years ago and is the first paper from it. Here, with experimental and computational approaches we: 1. establish that cell villages can be just as accurate (one might argue more accurate!) than arrayed-based designs bsky.app/profile/bior...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
When testing a computational data analysis method: simulated data are good for checking whether the method is doing what you think it should be doing, real data for checking whether what you think it should be doing is any good.
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Very proud of @ytchang11.bsky.social for her first publication from her doctoral research! She conducted very meticulous genomic analyses that uncovered novel isoform-specific mechanistic hypotheses underlying genetic loci associated with multiple cancers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isoform-level analyses of 6 cancers uncover extensive genetic risk mechanisms undetected at the gene-level - British Journal of Cancer
British Journal of Cancer - Isoform-level analyses of 6 cancers uncover extensive genetic risk mechanisms undetected at the gene-level
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Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Excited to share this preprint from first author Jon Rosen, a postdoctoral fellow in the @klmohlke.bsky.social lab and my lab. We examine eQTL study sample size and how this affects signal discovery and rates of colocalization with GWAS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization
Expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies in human cohorts typically detect at least one regulatory signal per gene, and have been proposed as a way to explain mechanisms of genetic liability...
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hanseulkim.bsky.social @hanseulkim.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social! 🔗Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New work from the lab trying to wrap our heads around the massive complexity of the human transcriptome revealed by long-read RNA-seq! Fun collab with Gloria Sheynkman. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Perplexity as a Metric for Isoform Diversity in the Human Transcriptome
Long-read sequencing (LRS) has revealed a far greater diversity of RNA isoforms than earlier technologies, increasing the critical need to determine which, and how many, isoforms per gene are biologic...
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Excited to share new work investigating transcriptional diversity in the placenta from our group led by talented postdoc @seantbres.bsky.social! Thread below describing the salient results. Welcoming any feedback and comments.
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Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Much more important things going on in the world, but wanted to share this new work on parent-of-origin effects & “non-canonical” genomic imprinting in developmental plasticity of honey bees, out now in Genome Biology 🧪🧬🔄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Intragenomic conflict associated with extreme phenotypic plasticity in queen-worker caste determination in honey bees (Apis mellifera) - Genome Biology
Background Caste determination of honey bees (Apis mellifera) exemplifies developmental plasticity, where differences in larval diet result in identical genotypes yielding either long-lived, reproduct...
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Drop by and say hi to @mdanderson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Data Scientist @seantbres.bsky.social if you’re at Biology of Genomes. He’ll be presenting some new work from our group that he’s championed. You’ll have an interesting science and/or science policy discussion!
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Neglected to share this good news this morning :)
UNC beats Duke in Women's basketball--53-46 in OT
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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
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Jess Ewald @ewaldlab.org · 13/12/2024
🎉 I'm starting my own lab at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK; June 2025) 🎉 We will focus on identifying and characterizing chemical hazards to humans and ecosystems using computational biology methods. I am beginning the search for two postdocs now - stay tuned for more details! ewaldlab.org
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Ewald Lab
@ EMBL-EBI. We identify and characterize chemical hazards to both humans and ecosystems with cell profiling data, machine learning, and integrative data analysis.
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan. 21! Open to grads & undergrads, join the world of cancer prevention this summer Jun 3 to Aug 9 at MD Anderson with an NCI funded internship working with too cancer researchers & clinicians! Apply at bit.ly/CPRTP-Summer
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CPRTP Summer Research Experience
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Our isoTWAS work with the Pasaniuc and Gandal labs is out at Nature Genetics! Great team effort, especially from Daniel Vo and Connor Jops. Appreciate the helpful and thoughtful comments from reviewers that improved our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric d...
A multivariate framework for isoform-resolution transcriptome-wide association studies enables modeling of a greater number of genes, with the benefit of identifying isoform-specific associations with...
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
If you’re a trainee or know one looking for a postdoctoral position, let’s chat during ASHG this week!
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
This is a Bluesky feed that tracks #WCPG2023 posts for the world congres of psychiatric genetics 2023, SUBSCRIBE!: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Come join me at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Texas Medical Center! I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to lead genetic and molecular epidemiology projects to study breast cancer or pregnancy/childhood outcomes. More details here: bit.ly/pd_blgc2023
Skyline for MD Anderson Cancer Center and surrounding Texas Medical Center buildings
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