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David Cook

@dpcook.bsky.social
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Single-cell and spatial genomics, ovarian cancer, cell plasticity | Scientist, Cancer Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa. www.cooklab.ca

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David Cook @dpcook.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Harnessing the Potential of Spatial Statistics for Spatial Omics Data with pasta. arxiv.org/pdf/2412.01561
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
STAMP: Single-cell transcriptomics analysis and multimodal profiling through imaging @cellcellpress.bsky.social @lgmartelotto.bsky.social @hoheyn.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Soragni:Lab @alice.soragnilab.com · 03/06/2025
Acquired resistance limits the efficacy of cancer treatments & accounts for therapy failure in most patients. Our Roadmap explores how innovative technologies bridge the gap between fundamental research on resistance and clinical translation into actionable strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acquired resistance in cancer: towards targeted therapeutic strategies - Nature Reviews Cancer
Acquired therapeutic resistance is a key contributor to cancer treatment failure, requiring new approaches to address its complex mechanisms. In this Roadmap, Soragni, Knudsen and colleagues discuss t...
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Kieran Campbell @kieranrcampbell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🧬 We're hiring - join our lab in Toronto, Canada! 🇨🇦 Exciting postdoc joint with @hartjackson.bsky.social developing machine learning methods for the next generation of spatial histopathology technologies joint with industry partners in the Bay Area. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/168307
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Daphne Superville @dasuperville.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Running NMF on your scRNAseq data? Check out my updates to Lyndsay Murrow's DECIPHER-seq package, now compatible with Seurat v5 objects and rliger v2! github.com/dasuperville...
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GitHub - dasuperville/DECIPHER-seq-v2: Data and code to reproduce results from DECIPHER-seq paper. Updated for use with Seurat v5 objects and rLiger v2.
Data and code to reproduce results from DECIPHER-seq paper. Updated for use with Seurat v5 objects and rLiger v2. - dasuperville/DECIPHER-seq-v2
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Nick Banovich @nebanovich.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to share Ruqian has developed a package for this transcript based niche analysis. Check out the preprint and the package! This is a flexible approach and we're working on extending this for other spatial analyses! @davisjmcc.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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SpatialRNA: a python package for easy application of Graph Neural Network models on single-molecule spatial transcriptomics dataset
Image-based spatial transcriptomics deliver gene expression measurements of RNA transcripts in tissue slices with single-molecule resolution and spatial context preserved. Modern Graph Neural Network ...
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David Cook @dpcook.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Awesome work! Apologies if I’m missing it in there—any sense whether segger could improve on 10x’s multimodal segmentation or is it fairly similar? I feel like it’s significantly better than their nuc expansion, but obviously challenging for some tissue compositions
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Geospatially informed representation of spatial genomics data with SpatialFeatureExperiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Max Koppers @maxkoppers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So cool! rdcu.be/eboxL
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Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm
Nature Biotechnology - Single-molecule live-cell fluorescence in situ hybridization uses an RNA-targeting CRISPR–Csm complex to image and track endogenous RNAs.
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dconrad1.bsky.social @dconrad1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Happy to share that the preprint to our new scATAC-seq multiplexing method, MULTI-ATAC, is officially online: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Reducing batch effects in single cell chromatin accessibility measurements by pooled transposition with MULTI-ATAC
Large-scale scATAC-seq experiments are challenging because of their costs, lengthy protocols, and confounding batch effects. Several sample multiplexing technologies aim to address these challenges, b...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So much happening in the segmentation space for bioimage analysis. These two papers that were published online today really stood out to me as noteworthy (a thread).
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David Cook @dpcook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Very cool work! Love seeing more SCCOHT research
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Caleb Lareau @caleblareau.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transcript-specific enrichment enables profiling of rare cell states via single-cell RNA sequencing - Nature Genetics
Programmable Enrichment via RNA FlowFISH by sequencing (PERFF-seq) isolates rare cells based on RNA marker transcripts for single-cell RNA sequencing profiling of complex tissues, with applicability t...
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Ulrich Elling @ulielling.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Today we published a new paradigm to do CRISPR screens in complex model systems such as in vivo but also e.g. in organoids. The publication came out in Nature Biotechnology. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CRISPR-StAR enables high-resolution genetic screening in complex in vivo models - Nature Biotechnology
Pooled genetic CRISPR screening is improved in complex models through leveraging internal controls.
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Hattie Chung @hattaca.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Excited to share our lab's first preprint: we used spatial transcriptomics to dissect how aging disrupts the cycling ovary! 🧵 This was an incredible team effort w/ @jennifergarrison.bsky.social #TammyLan @davidsebfischer.bsky.social #AlisonKochersberger #RuthRaichur #SophiaSzady
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Anniina Färkkilä @afarkkila.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New preprint alert ‼️ @farkkilab.bsky.social We generated a single-cell spatial atlas of 280 metastatic #ovariancancer and found tumor MHCII as a key driver of tumor ecosystems and clinical outcomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Single-cell spatial atlas of high-grade serous ovarian cancer unveils MHC class II as a key driver of spatial tumor ecosystems and clinical outcomes
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a complex network of interactions between malignant and host cells, yet its orchestration in advanced high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSC) remains poorly unde...
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Färkkilä Laboratory @farkkilab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
1/n New paper alert 🚨 We're thrilled to share our just published paper in #CancerCell Do you ever wonder how the #TME in #HGSC changes during chemotherapy? Check it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and let’s dive into the highlights together #spatialbiology #ovariancancer #cancerresarch
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Chemotherapy induces myeloid-driven spatially confined T cell exhaustion in ovarian cancer
Anti-tumor immunity is crucial for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) prognosis, yet its adaptation upon standard chemotherapy remains poorly und…
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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Very pleased to announce that our package for Multiscale Spatial Analysis - MuSpAn - has landed! The preprint is on biorxiv now, but you can find a lot more details at www.muspan.co.uk, including documentation, worked tutorials (an ever-expanding list), install guides, and how to get the code!
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MuSpAn: a Multiscale Spatial Analysis toolbox for biologists | MuSpAn: a Multiscale Spatial Analysis toolbox
Muspan is a powerful software package designed for biologists to perform spatial analysis on imaging data. Our multiscale toolbox simplifies the analysis of spatial transcriptomics and histology, enab...
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Petter Brodin @petterbrodin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This paper is now online: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and it is fascinating!!
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Cancer cells impair monocyte-mediated T cell stimulation to evade immunity - Nature
Inflammatory monocytes are identified as important players in T cell restimulation in the tumour microenvironment.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Both #Cancer #Research starter packs are now completely full! ~300 researchers, oncologists, students, postdocs, patient advocates, and organizations supporting cancer research 🧪🔬⚕️ I hope you'll find these useful to build our community here Pack 1: go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc Pack 2: go.bsky.app/6EcjWNA
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David Cook @dpcook.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Is anyone else having issues with all hyperlinks on Nature sites being non-functional in Safari for both macOS and iOS?? Can’t click anything. Have been experiencing it for the last couple months
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David Cook @dpcook.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Beautiful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ex vivo imaging reveals the spatiotemporal control of ovulation - Nature Cell Biology
Thomas, Marx et al. devise a live imaging approach to spatiotemporally dissect mouse ovulation ex vivo.
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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
1/ 🧬 Single-cell genomics reveals biological variations beyond cell types. Unveiling these in separate latent dim’s is known as disentanglement. Led by @AmirAliMoinfar, we develop DRVI to learn nonlinear, disentangled & interpretable latent spaces. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.06.622266v1
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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Need to design your next Xenium/CosMx/Merfish experiment? Spapros, now out @naturemethods, allows for probe set selection for target spatial tx. Led by @KuemmerleLouis, it optimizes both cell type ID & within-cell type variation. nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02496-z github.com/theislab/spapros
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