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Daniel Brock

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MD/PhD Student Baylor College of Medicine Genetics of glaucoma and retinal degeneration 🧬👀 I like bikes 🚲

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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome: The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues. Uses cases 👇 1/
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Update: scE2G is now online at Nature Genetics! Since the preprint, we added a new benchmark on a fully held-out CRISPR dataset. scE2G continues to show state-of-the-art performance, reinforcing that it generalizes well nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02695-8 1/
Held-out CRISPR benchmark: n=189 positives, 4,175 tested pairs from 5 cell types. Weighted AUPRC bar chart with scE2G-Multiome and scE2G-ATAC highest, above Distance to TSS, ABC, and 8 other single-cell methods.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 05/07/2026
A mouse model study, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, reports that treating induced pluripotent stem cells with Norrin and vitronectin produces retinal-like endothelial cells capable of regenerating retinal vasculature. 🧪
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Derivation of functional retinal endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells for therapeutics and modelling - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Treatment of induced pluripotent stem cells with Norrin and vitronectin, and subsequent cell sorting and maturation, generates retinal-like endothelial cells that can regenerate retinal vasculature in an oxygen-induced retinopathy mouse and recapitulate enhanced inner blood–retinal barrier properties when co-cultured with retinal-like pericytes.
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why do guinea pigs have so many natural bypass arteries — and mice and humans almost none? We develop in vivo Perturb-seq for endothelial cells to ask how protective collateral arteries are built. Preprint with by Irene Fan, Ronghao Zhou, and Kristy Red-Horse: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A Perturb-seq screen guided by species divergence uncovers pathways for collateral artery formation
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JCI insight @insight.jci.org · 14/04/2026
From our physician-scientist development category: doi.org/10.1172/jci.... Cynthia Y. Tang & team analyzed 36,298 applicants, reporting dual-degree training shapes residency application strategies, interview rates, specialty choice, and program prestige.
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Timothy Hla @hlatim.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Upcoming Gordon Research Conference on ENDOTHELIAL CELLS Spain (July 5-10, 2026).The latest breaking topics in vascular biology focused on endothelial cells will be featured. Open slots reserved for oral presentations. Register early to reserve your spot. www.grc.org/endothelial-...
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Now online! A single-cell time-series atlas of endothelial cell embryonic development
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A single-cell time-series atlas of endothelial cell embryonic development
The STED-EC atlas enables inter-organ and multi-time-point comparisons of gene expression in endothelial cells, revealing substantial transcriptomic variations across endothelial cells from different embryonic organs and facilitating investigation of previously unknown molecular mechanisms that govern organ-specific vascular development.
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Thomas Norman @normanlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New preprint on technologies to scale up CRISPR screens. We use them to map 665,856 pairwise genetic perturbations and outline a path to comprehensive interaction mapping in human cells. We also introduce an approach for cloning lentiviral libraries with billions of elements.
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Nature @nature.com · 28/09/2025
Nature research paper: In vivo CRISPR screens identify modifiers of CAR T cell function in myeloma go.nature.com/3IeODUh
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In vivo CRISPR screens identify modifiers of CAR T cell function in myeloma - Nature
In vivo loss-of-function CRISPR screens were performed to identify genes influencing CAR T cell persistence and function in human multiple myeloma, highlighting CDKN1B as a promising target.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/07/2025
In a large-scale proteomic study of biological aging of 11 organs, the biological ages of the brain and immune system emerged as strong predictors of healthspan and longevity, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/44nLb1M #medsky 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows organ age estimates predict future age-related disease.
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Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Our paper on gene regulatory networks controlling hypothalamic and prethalamic development is now out in Cell Reports./1 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Decoding gene networks controlling hypothalamic and prethalamic neuron development
Kim et al. map gene regulatory networks of the developing mouse hypothalamus and prethalamus using single-cell multiomics, identifying regulators of regionalization and neurogenesis. They further show...
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Daniel Brock @danielbrock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Drop by poster B0008 today to learn about genetic risk factors for retinal detachment! We found that variants in VSX2 were associated with an increased risk of retinal detachment in the UK Biobank. Shout out to my PIs Ben Frankfort and @ryandhindsa.bsky.social! @arvoinfo.bsky.social #visionscience
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Today at the #JointMeeting2025, Svetlana Mojsov, 2024 #LaskerLaureate, gave an impressive overview of how her research on GLP-1 revolutionized the field of glucose metabolism. Her findings led to development of novel therapeutics for #diabetes and #obesity. 🧪 @a-p-s-a.bsky.social
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Ryan Dhindsa @ryandhindsa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 We’re hiring postdocs! Join our lab in Houston to study human disease using stem cell models, functional genomics, and big genomic data. Wet & dry lab backgrounds welcome. Please email me if you're interested (ryan.dhindsa@bcm.edu) or apply directly: jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoct... 📩
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Postdoctoral Associate- Human Genetics
Postdoctoral Associate- Human Genetics
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Bob Johnston @bobbyjeyeguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Check out this tour de force work from @christ3na.bsky.social in my lab! Her studies reveal how developmental timing in the retina is controlled like an hourglass. The progenitor:neuron ratio shifts to control signaling levels and trigger photoreceptor development over time. Check it out!!
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BCM MD/PhD Program @bcm-mstp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Congratulations to all the medical students who matched today! We are particularly proud of the 15 MDPhD Students that Matched! We can't wait to see what you do next!! @bcmhouston.bsky.social #Match2025 #MatchBCM #doubledoctor
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Ryan Dhindsa @ryandhindsa.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Had a lot of fun teaming up with my younger brother and collaborators @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social and @astrazeneca.bsky.social on this paper! We trained ML models that predict genes linked to dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorders @ajhgnews.bsky.social www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...
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Genome-wide prediction of dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorder-associated genes
Thousands of neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD)-associated genes remain undiscovered, limiting genetic diagnoses. Here, we employ inheritance-specific machine learning models, incorporating gene expres...
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BCM MD/PhD Program @bcm-mstp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Baylor College of Medicine MSTP hosted the south regional APSA @a-p-s-a.bsky.social conference on Friday, February 21. Kudos to the student organizers for a great turnout!
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Daniel Brock @danielbrock.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Excited that the APSA South Regional Meeting was a success! 🎉 Huge thanks to attendees, organizers, Baylor & Texas Children's for hosting, and @a-p-s-a.bsky.social for making it happen! Interested in hosting next year’s meeting? DM me—we’ve got resources to share! #APSA #PhysicianScientists
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Epigenome Technologies @epigenometech.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Epigenetics Update - KMT2C/KMT2D-dependent H3K4me1 mediates changes in DNA replication timing and origin activity during a cell fate transition bit.ly/3Q9xlYV #Epigenetics #HIstoneMethylation --- Discover the Paired-tag breakthrough at epigenome.us
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ISER @iser.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hello Vision Science Peeps! Be sure to put the @iser.bsky.social / @brightfocus.bsky.social Concepts and Breakthroughs In Glaucoma Meeting on your schedule. It will be in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from October 8-11, 2025 iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org
ISER / BRIGHTFOCUS GLAUCOMA SYMPOSIUM:
CONCEPTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS IN GLAUCOMA
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA
OCTOBER 8-11, 2025
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