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Hani Goodarzi

@genophoria.bsky.social
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Core Investigator @ Arc Institute | Associate Professor @ UCSF | {Computational, Systems, Cancer, RNA} biologist | Co-founder @exaibio @vevo_ai

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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 15/05/2026
See the full announcement from program organizer @genophoria.bsky.social: arcinstitute.org/news/aixbio-... :
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Introducing the 2026 Arc AIxBio Fellows | Arc Institute
Some of the most exciting AI projects I have worked on started not with graduate students or postdocs in my lab, but with undergraduates driven by raw curiosity and technical ambition. So when we laun...
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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Delighted to share our lab's latest (w/ inimitable @genophoria.bsky.social) in final form at @nature.com. Enormous lift by Sean Wang, @palindromephd.bsky.social & @martyyang.bsky.social to address extensive & constructive reviewer comments & see this through. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pervasive and programmed nucleosome distortion on single chromatin fibres - Nature
An analytical pipeline called Iteratively Defined Lengths of Inaccessibility (IDLI) maps the genome-wide occupancy of a range of nucleosome types and shows that most nucleosomes exhibit programmed ‘di...
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
But wait! There’s more! So you thought you knew nucleosome structure? Think again! @vram142.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and @genophoria.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org show that there is plenty of distortion largely due to TFs butting in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pervasive and programmed nucleosome distortion on single chromatin fibres - Nature
An analytical pipeline called Iteratively Defined Lengths of Inaccessibility (IDLI) maps the genome-wide occupancy of a range of nucleosome types and shows that most nucleosomes exhibit programmed ‘di...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Pervasive and programmed nucleosome distortion on single chromatin fibres @nature.com @gladstoneinst.bsky.social @genophoria.bsky.social @arcinstitute.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 29/04/2026
Today in @nature.com, the @genophoria.bsky.social and & Vijay Ramani labs reveal that our picture of how nucleosomes regulate DNA accessibility has been too simple. They find that over 85% of nucleosomes in mammalian cells are structurally distorted, with DNA partially accessible even while wrapped.
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 23/04/2026
While chemotherapy kills some tumor cells, others survive and can drive relapse. This variability isn't fully explained by DNA mutations. In a new preprint, Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social and lab identify RNF8 and MIS18A as drivers of tumor cell variability in breast cancer.
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Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Blog post: transitioning to being a PI in the age of AI open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...
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Transitioning to being a PI in the age of AI
Computational biology is in a period of upheaval that is both exhilarating and terrifying.
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Devastated to learn of the passing of the great cancer pioneer J. Michael Bishop. Mentor and friend, it was only a few weeks ago we celebrated his 90th birthday. He taught us that the seeds of cancer lie within us and spent his career combating cancer. 🧪 @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
Mike Bishop at his 90th birthday party surrounded by former trainees. Feb 23rd, 2026, Larkspur, CA
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 20/03/2026
Over 250 million protein sequences are known, but fewer than 0.1% have confirmed functions. Today, @genophoria.bsky.social, @bowang87.bsky.social & team introduce BioReason-Pro, a multimodal reasoning model that predicts protein function and explains its reasoning like an expert would.
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Congratulations @heatherkarner.bsky.social and @tabeamittmann.bsky.social for getting this awesome project across the finish line!
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thernabio.bsky.social @thernabio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
AI-enabled RNA design for ultra-rare diseases was on stage at PMWC and in a new Charles River feature last week. Two signs of a growing conversation around what is now possible. Link in comments. #RNA #PrecisionMedicine #RareDisease
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Faraz Mardakheh @mardakheh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🎉Proud to present our latest paper, out now in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... RNA Binding Proteins (RBPs) are often full of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), but what these regions do during RNA recognition is often unclear. 1/10 #RNA #IDR #RBP
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An intrinsically disordered region mediates RNA-binding selectivity and cellular activities of LARP6 - Nature Communications
LARP6 is an EMT-associated RNA-binding protein with diverse RNA targets. Here, the authors show that the N-terminal disordered region of LARP6 promotes RNA-binding selectivity by modulating the adjace...
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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🚨 NEW 🚨 "Systemic hypoxia suppresses solid tumor growth" @ayushmidha.bsky.social @genophoria.bsky.social @ishahjain.bsky.social @arcinstitute.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social bit.ly/4arkFX8
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Systemic hypoxia suppresses solid tumor growth
Local hypoxia is a hallmark of solid tumors and a negative prognostic factor in the progression and treatment of cancer. Here, we showed that systemic hypoxia, in contrast to localized tumor hypoxia, decreases tumor growth in vivo across multiple cancer...
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 11/02/2026
In this Molecular Cell Voices piece, @genophoria.bsky.social comments on how he thinks about bridging bench and computational work: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Amazing collaboration with the Jain lab! The impact of systemic hypoxia on cancer!
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 24/10/2025
Arc Core Investigator @genophoria.bsky.social will speak on a free, online panel with @tkaraletsos.bsky.social, @emmalundberg.bsky.social, and @ronalfa.bsky.social on Wed., Oct. 29, as part of GENbio's “The State of AI in Drug Discovery in 2025.” Register at: webinars.liebertpub.com/e/the-state-...
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Arc Institute @arcinstitute.org · 09/10/2025
Hear how Arc, Ultima Genomics, and @10xgenomics.bsky.social are partnering to generate perturbation data at the scale needed to train virtual cell models on The Bio Report podcast with guests @genophoria.bsky.social, Gilad Almogy, and Serge Saxonov: thebioreport.podbean.com/e/transformi...
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pauldatlinger.bsky.social @pauldatlinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
#CELLFIE for CAR T screening—a new mRNA-based platform for screening primary cells. CAR + gRNA library are delivered by lentivirus, CRISPR modifiers as electroporated mRNA. That’s more flexible and effective than existing T cell screening methods. (1/7)
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New work from stellar scientists Jeremy Williams and Roman Camarda. Many contributors including the amazing Zena Werb and Atul Butte Work explores how breast cancer cells interact directly with adipocytes via gap junctions, leading to lipid release. @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
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Tumor cell-adipocyte gap junctions activate lipolysis and contribute to breast tumorigenesis
Nature Communications - Breast cancer cells interact with neighbouring adipocytes, but the mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, the authors show that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)...
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis by chemically caging acp3U. Excited to report this work lead by Vinnie @vinnieviruses.bsky.social and in collaboration with @vijayrathinam.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My colleagues at Nature Biomedical Engineering @natbiomedeng.nature.com are hiring an associate or senior editor. Ideal applicant will have expertise in immunology, immunotherapy, or immuno-oncology. Please feel to ask me questions! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering Organization: Nature Portfolio Location: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai or Beijing – Hybrid Working Closing date: August 20, 2025 ...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Go @exai.bio! Looking forward to working with Mike as our incoming CEO and our amazing board members.
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Fusion Conferences @fusionconf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Are you currently in the ERE related field & want to find new collaborative opportunities? Join our Chairs @chiappinellilab.bsky.social, @shenhui1986.bsky.social, Ting & Tao at #EREHD25 this Nov! 🎙️Talk Submission extended to 03 Sept 💰Final few $500 grants remaining Don't Miss out! bit.ly/4eRq9Mp
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Homa Majd @homamajd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Our ENS is vital to gut-brain health. When it breaks down, so does health. Treatments? Almost none. Access to functional human enteric neurons at scale powers disease modeling and therapeutic discovery. Grateful to everyone who made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Oh no! I am devastated!
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Faraz Mardakheh @mardakheh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Check out this amazing work from @genophoria.bsky.social’s lab, revealing a novel post-transcriptional tumour suppressive programme in breast cancer 👇👇
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Been going back and forth on whether it makes sense to post science in the midst of all that is happening. But here it goes with a couple of days of delay: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Integrative analysis of mRNA stability regulation uncovers a metastasis-suppressive program in breast cancer
Heterogeneity in cancer gene expression is typically linked to genetic and epigenetic alterations, yet post-transcriptional regulation likely influences these patterns as well. However, the quantitati...
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🧬💊 @science.org Programmable gene insertion in human cells with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @sternberglab.bsky.social @isaacwitte.bsky.social eitzingersimon.bsky.social + al. #CRISPR #Medicine #Science #Evolution #Genome #evoCAST
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Programmable gene insertion in human cells with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase
Programmable gene integration in human cells has the potential to enable mutation-agnostic treatments for loss-of-function genetic diseases and facilitate many applications in the life sciences. CRISP...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Really excited to see this published! From observations we made in our lab… to a blood test that works in real life scenarios… all thanks to the many scientists, ML researchers and engineers at @exai.bio who have worked on bringing this to the clinic. Kudos @babak-a.bsky.social and the team!
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Yael David @yaeldavidmsk.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited for this summer’s NYC Chromatin Club! Grad students & postdocs: submit your abstracts for a chance to present a poster or talk. Come connect w/ fellow epigenetic New Yorkers! #NYCChromatinClub @dshechter.bsky.social @vivrisca.bsky.social @epicypher.bsky.social @kjarmache.bsky.social
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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Delighted to see this out! Fun fact: I actually started my lab @ UCSF w/ goal of understanding tRNA txn regulation, which aligned perfectly w/ @genophoria.bsky.social & Sohail! 6+ years of amazing collaboration & stellar work by Siyu, Albertas, & co & we're making real progress w/ more to come!
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Check out our latest preprint, led by Dr. Siyu Chen, that brings together an amazing team of scientists from several labs ( @vram142.bsky.social, Tavazoie, and Navickas) to tackle a fundamental problem in biology: how do cells regulate expression of their tRNAs? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Discovery of a tRNA-regulatory transcription factor that suppresses breast cancer metastasis
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs), once viewed as static adaptors in translation, are now recognized as dynamic regulators of gene expression. While recent studies have illuminated roles for tRNA stability, the u...
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Andrei Goga @andreigoga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Pleased to have our reviewed preprint out now @elife.bsky.social Outstanding work by Drs. Rachel Nakagawa, Dan Van de Mark, and Andrew Beardsley. Shout out to @genophoria.bsky.social, Mary-Kate Hayward and many others Press Release Here elifesciences.org/for-the-pres... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social
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Tumor Cell Spatial Organization Directs EGFR/RAS/RAF Pathway Primary Therapy Resistance through YAP Signaling
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Fereydoun Hormozdiari @fhormozd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out our latest work on one of the first multi-modal cell-free RNA foundation models for blood surveillance and liquid biopsy applications, led by @genophoria.bsky.social, @babak-a.bsky.social, @mehrankr.bsky.social and Aiden Sababi
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Babak Alipanahi @babaka.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Super excited to share that our paper on a multi-modal cell-free RNA foundation model is out! A fantastic collaboration with @genophoria.bsky.social, @fhormozd.bsky.social and the @exai.bio team!
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mehrankr.bsky.social @mehrankr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
1/ It has been a privilege to have the opportunity of contributing to Exai-1. Shout out to my co-first author, Aiden Sabadbi, and my amazing colleagues @exai.bio, particularly @fhormozd.bsky.social, @babak-a.bsky.social, and @genophoria.bsky.social who led the effort.
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Joining forces with the legendary @babak-a.bsky.social, @fhormozd.bsky.social, and @mkarimzadeh.bsky.social to bring you Exai-1; a multi-modal cell-free RNA foundation model for blood surveillance and liquid biopsy applications. Kudos to the broader @exai.bio team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A multi-modal cell-free RNA language model for liquid biopsy applications
Cell-free RNA (cfRNA) profiling has emerged as a powerful tool for non-invasive disease detection, but its application is limited by data sparsity and complexity, especially in settings with constrain...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 28/03/2025
Now we’re finally talking! www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Brian Plosky @brianplosky.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you want a glimpse into the mind of @pdhsu.bsky.social and how he describes Evo 2 check out the clip in the post below along with the full video in the 🧵
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Plucking students one by one...! how can we make sure these students have the support that they need and the right representation? Beyond the uni statements?
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Arc founder and Core Investigator @pdhsu.bsky.social presenting Evo 2 at the inaugural Arc Symposium! At the time, some of these results were fresh off the GPU!
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
AIxBio Builders: @vevotherapeutics.bsky.social is joining forces with @hf.co & NVIDIA Healthcare to organize the 1st hackathon to build on Vevo's Tahoe-100M dataset. Join us! We will select 40 participants, provide compute and a $400 travel voucher for 10 travelers. Details in 🧵
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Check out this talk from our own Garyk Brixi talking about Evo 2!
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Valentine Svensson @nxn.se · 06/03/2025
Link to HubModel huggingface.co/vevotx/Tahoe...
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vevotx/Tahoe-100M-SCVI-v1 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Valentine Svensson @nxn.se · 06/03/2025
A pre-trained SCVI model of our Tahoe-100M cell atlas is now available as a HubModel! It can be used for gene expression visualization, differential expression, or cell clustering. Available at Hugging Face with instructions on how to load it (see thread)
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scientistjoanna.bsky.social @scientistjoanna.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are thrilled to share our discovery of a new factor, the RBP RBM42, which is key to fueling pancreas cancer through the deadly oncogene Myc. I look forward to what we uncover next! Thanks to the fantastic team lead by @DavideRuggero @rushika-perera.bsky.social & @genophoria.bsky.social!
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Nice review written by postdoc in the lab Jennifer Porat "Circuit logic: interdependent RNA modifications shape mRNA and noncoding RNA structure and function" having won the Scaringe Award from @rnasociety.bsky.social rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/earl...
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Circuit logic: interdependent RNA modifications shape mRNA and noncoding RNA structure and function
A monthly journal publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research on all topics related to RNA and its metabolism in all organisms
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
scBaseCamp: An AI agent-curated, uniformly processed, and continually expanding single cell data repository www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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