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Casey Gifford

@caseygifford.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ Stanford

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NAVBO @navbo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#NAVBO Webinar 🔥Thursday, April 2, 1 PM ET! Featuring: Dr. Casey Gifford, Department of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University Talk title: The beat goes on: using cardiac organoids to study heart development and disease Register👉https://members.navbo.org/ap/Events/Register/VeFA3ZNTNCeC9
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Shawn Fayer @shawnfayer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The effects of genetic variants primarily occur in differentiated cells meaning we need to access these cell types to measure variant effects for most disease genes. We developed saturation genome editing in stem cells (iPSC-SGE) to enable phenotyping in diverse genetic and cell contexts at scale!
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Editing stem cell genomes at scale to measure variant effects in diverse cell and genetic contexts
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) systematically measure variant function but have been limited to cancer cell lines rather than disease-relevant cell types. We developed saturation genome ...
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Casey Gifford @caseygifford.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
About 7 weeks ago, I told my lab that #ultima_genomics was willing to sequence cardiac organoid multiomes delivered by June 30. Josh, Megha and Lucy said… GAME.ON. And well, today they delivered 59 from various hiPSC lines, conditions and time points 💪🥳🧬 So proud of them for stepping up!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Good cover @economist.com
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 22/05/2025
Bullying students and schools to provoke fear and silence dissent is how we trade democracy and freedom for authoritarianism. This will affect nearly a third of Harvard's students. We cannot be silent.
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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.
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Casey Gifford @caseygifford.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Vote for Megha Agarwal’s cardiac organoid ‘STEMCELLfie’ 🔬🧫❤️⭐️🤩 www.stemcell.com/stemcellfie
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Magnifying the Beauty of Science!
Enter your best cell image by April 16th.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 27/03/2025
Go California! Please write to your representatives in the California Senate and ask them to support Mr. Scott Wiener's Bill. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Fearing Trump cuts, California Democrat proposes creating state’s own NIH
The ambitious state lawmaker argues moves by Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show the Golden State must “step up” as a global leader.
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Bornabrit1 @lindarothwell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/03/2025
Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️ www.rarediseaseday.org
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Rare Disease Day 2025 – Raising awareness for people living with rare diseases and their families worldwide.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/02/2025
Most #PhD scientists in the United States stay in the labor force notably longer than the average person—into their late 60s and in some cases beyond—according to new data from the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/4knpeWn
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Why do so many retirement-age scientists keep working?
Survey reveals a desire to hold onto their professional identity keeps Ph.D.s working beyond their 60s
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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Erin Gibson @erinmgibson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025
A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi
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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 11/02/2025
#WomeninSTEM accelerate science and make our work possible. Today, we join other science organizations around the world by recognizing the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScienceDay
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/02/2025
"Maybe impostor syndrome wasn’t a sign of failure, but a sign of growth." This week's #ScienceWorkingLife. scim.ag/3QbA5oF
WORKING LIFE I was worried I didn't belong in science—until I discovered many researchers feel the same way
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/02/2025
President Trump ended a first-of-its-kind assessment of land, water and wildlife across the U.S. that its leader called "too important to die," weeks before the study was set to be completed.
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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JT Neal @jtneal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our paper “A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology” is finally out today in @naturemethods.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (I tweeted about our preprint in 2023 over at the bad place, but deactivated my account, so here we go again!)
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A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology - Nature Methods
An optical pooled cell profiling platform (PERISCOPE) based on Cell Painting and optical sequencing of molecular barcodes was used to develop the first unbiased genome-wide morphology-based perturbati...
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Nadav Ahituv @nadavahituv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) testing >680,000 sequences combined with machine learning to improve regulatory element & variant effect prediction. Amazing work by @vagar.bsky.social, Fumitaka Inoue, @jshendure.bsky.social and many others as part of ENCODE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Massively parallel characterization of transcriptional regulatory elements - Nature
Lentivirus-based reporter assays for 680,000 regulatory sequences from three cell lines coupled to machine-learning models lead to insights into the grammar of cis-regulatory elements.
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Moez Dawood @moezdawood.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🚨 Excited to announce the Marker paper for the GREGoR Consortium! arxiv.org/abs/2412.14338 Accelerating #RareDisease diagnostics with cutting-edge #Genomics and global data sharing of omics and deep phenotyping from ~7500 individuals on NHGRI AnVIL and much more to come! 🧬
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GREGoR: Accelerating Genomics for Rare Diseases
Rare diseases are collectively common, affecting approximately one in twenty individuals worldwide. In recent years, rapid progress has been made in rare disease diagnostics due to advances in DNA seq...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/12/2024
I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Introducing scE2G: a new model to link enhancers to target genes using single-cell data. Excited that scE2G will enable building enhancer maps in hundreds of cell types in the human body! Wonderful collaboration with @randersson.bsky.social @613weilin.bsky.social @mayayayas.bsky.social Thread👇
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Wei-Lin Qiu @613weilin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excited to share our latest preprint on scE2G – a new model to link enhancers to target genes using single-cell data – with state-of-the-art performance across multiple perturbation benchmarks. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Read more below! 1/12
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Mapping enhancer-gene regulatory interactions from single-cell data
Mapping enhancers and their target genes in specific cell types is crucial for understanding gene regulation and human disease genetics. However, accurately predicting enhancer-gene regulatory interac...
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Rosa Ma @rosaxma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What cell types drive congenital heart defects (CHD)? Some new answers in our latest preprint, where we explored: 1). Key cell types contributing to CHD genetics 2). Impact of noncoding variants on CHD risk www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In a new preprint led by @TheNikhilMilind, we explored a fascinating paradox: For many traits the number of duplications or loss-of-function (LoF) mutations is correlated with phenotype. Curiously, for most traits, the AVERAGE direction of LoFs and Dups is the SAME. Why?
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Eric Kernfeld @ekernf01.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Many reporter assays assume that the determinants of expression are 1) DNA sequence and 2) trans-acting soluble factors. It's ambitious but natural to want to model dose response to regulators as a function of DNA sequence, and I'm excited to see this. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Transfer learning reveals sequence determinants of the quantitative response to transcription factor dosage
Deep learning approaches have made significant advances in predicting cell type-specific chromatin patterns from the identity and arrangement of transcription factor (TF) binding motifs. However, most...
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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Accepting postdoc applications to work on a broad range of topics including gene regulatory variation, response eQTL mapping, complex traits, comparative genomics in primates, and predictive models.
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