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Gamze Gürsoy

@gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social
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Department of Applied Math and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge; g2lab.org

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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m hiring a postdoc at Cambridge again! Work on privacy-preserving human pangenomes at the intersection of statistics, graph algorithms, optimization, differential privacy & computational genomics. Please spread the word! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/57231/
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genome Privacy (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genome Privacy (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Faculty position in pathogen genetics here with us in Cambridge: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics
Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are looking for a creative and highly independent postdoc excited about synthetic biology, genome engineering, molecular programming, and nucleic-acid technologies to work with us on problems related to genome privacy. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nucleic Acid Computing and Molecular Engineering (Fixed Term)
We invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Nucleic Acid Computing and Molecular Programming in the laboratory of Dr Gamze Gursoy at the University of Cambridge. Th...
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.
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Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dear friends, after many wonderful years in the U.S., it’s time for a new adventure. My lab and I are moving to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge starting April 2026. If you’re in the UK, come say hi. If you’re not, come visit 🙂
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markgerstein.bsky.social @markgerstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Posting my talk tomorrow @nygenome.org (hosted by @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social). lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/AI-A... Doing genomics with AI & then seeing if AI can take over the whole thing (spoiler: not yet!). New slides on assessing agent models with externalized reasoning (vs. baselines)
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UPF Medicine and Life Sciences @melisupf.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Big congratulations to @luisasantus.bsky.social for winning one of the awards for good open data management in her research. 👏🎊 Luisa is currently visiting @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social lab at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social during her PhD in Cedric Notredame's Lab at @crg.eu #OAWeek2025
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Excited to share that our paper that was accepted to #CHIL2025 "KEEP: Integrating Medical Ontologies with Clinical Data for Robust Code Embeddings" is now available at PMLR: raw.githubusercontent.com/mlresearch/v...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Super excited to share the first 3D genome paper from my lab @narjournal.bsky.social , led by my smart and hardworking student Carlos (joint with @LuLaboratory) with assists from a brilliant summer intern Narjis. (1/n) academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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pC-SAC: A method for high-resolution 3D genome reconstruction from low-resolution Hi-C data
Abstract. The three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome is crucial for gene regulation, with disruptions linked to various diseases. High-throughpu
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
super excited to share the newest from my lab: a tool that can securely process RNA-seq reads to quantify gene expression. Huge congrats to the dream team Seungwan, @BioConorWalker, and Annie! We developed a new gene expression quantification algorithm 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Secure and scalable gene expression quantification with pQuant - Nature Communications
RNA-seq data can expose private genotypes during computation. Here, the authors present pQuant, a privacy-preserving tool that uses homomorphic encryption to quantify gene expression securely, achievi...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stop collaborate and listen! 😀Yesterday was a great day for science! Thank you @standupforscience.bsky.social !The real work begins now. People are listening! We need to challenge misunderstandings and show that investment in science is crucial for our health for our economy and for our future!
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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Neville Sanjana @nevillesanjana.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🔷 📰 BLUETORIAL time! 📰 🔷 Excited to share recent work from our lab on noncoding genomics 🔎🧬: High-resolution CRISPR perturbations of the MYC TAD (~3 Mb) in 6 different human cancer cell lines www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Comprehensive dissection of cis-regulatory elements in a 2.8 Mb topologically associated domain in six human cancers - Nature Communications
The oncogene MYC plays a key role in cancer initiation and progression. Using thousands of CRISPR perturbations, the authors investigate regulators of MYC in six different cancers. These tumor-specifi...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
More science! We have a new pre-print - more on non-IID federated learning: We (well my student Ahmed) were inspired by model pruning and developed a new metric called federation sensitivity. (1/2) www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.08829
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PLayer-FL: A Principled Approach to Personalized Layer-wise Cross-Silo Federated Learning
Non-identically distributed data is a major challenge in Federated Learning (FL). Personalized FL tackles this by balancing local model adaptation with global model consistency. One variant, partial F...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The world is on fire but we must continue doing science! With immense pride, I share the latest from my lab: privateQTL - a method for federated and secure eQTL mapping, led by my brilliant student Annie from @ColumbiaDBMI www.cell.com/cell-genomic... (1/n)
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Secure and federated quantitative trait loci mapping with privateQTL
Choi et al. developed a novel tool for privacy-preserving cross-institutional eQTL mapping studies. The authors benchmarked their tool against meta-analysis and demonstrated that it achieves higher ac...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Call for submission to 2025 @recombconf.bsky.social Satellite Conference on Biomedical Privacy and Equity (RECOMB P&E) is open! For more info please see recomb-privacy-equity.github.io/papers/ or reach out to our wonderful chairs (Hoon Cho and Shalmali Joshi! )
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Call for Papers
RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biomedical Privacy and Equity
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Neville Sanjana @nevillesanjana.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
🎇🎄Some holiday reading: Overdue TWEETORIAL on the latest preprint from our lab 🎇🎄 In this work, superstar postdoc @xinhexue.bsky.social combined 2 kinds of pooled CRISPR screens to pinpoint noncoding regulatory elements and the transcription factors that activate these elements.
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New paper alert! 🚨 SQUiD: Our secure and queryable genotype-phenotype database prototype with many secure analysis functionalities is out @genomebiologyunit.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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SQUiD: ultra-secure storage and analysis of genetic data for the advancement of precision medicine - Genome Biology
Cloud computing allows storing the ever-growing genotype-phenotype datasets crucial for precision medicine. Due to the sensitive nature of this data and varied laws and regulations, additional securit...
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Gamze Gürsoy @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Super excited for my lab's first paper at @recombconf.bsky.social. See you all in South Korea!
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