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Mathew Garnett

@mgarnett.bsky.social
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Cancer programme Faculty @sangerinstitute.bsky.social & founder MosaicTx developing precision combination therapies. #Cancer, Functional genomics, biomarkers, target discovery, #organoid, #CRISPR. Proud 🇨🇦.

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Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute @cruk-mi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exciting news - we are recruiting new Group Leaders! 🥼 We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...
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Group Leader Recruitment at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The Garnett Lab is excited to launch DepMap Miner, a new tool to explore cancer dependency data! Built on the Sanger DepMap, the DepMap Miner brings together multi-omic and functional datasets for over 1300 cancer cell models. Start mining data now: dataminer.depmap.sanger.ac.uk
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Exciting FULL PROFESSORSHIP at the Vienna BioCenter - Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Mechanisms: www.maxperutzlabs.ac.at/news/open-po... Come be our colleague!
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Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
The Max Perutz Labs - one of Europe’s leading institutes for basic research in the life sciences - invite applications for a Full Professorship in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. We are seeking outst...
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Excited to be on my was to the GRC synthetic lethal approaches in oncology conference #GRCSyntheticLethal. Some stellar science kicking off tonight. In the meantime enjoying the beautiful scenery on the drive up the Maine coast.
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A new drug target that has the potential to treat aggressive eye cancer has been discovered 👁️ This research may provide a hopeful outlook for eye cancer patients with very limited treatment options and has implications for a range of other cancers ⤵️ www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ne...
Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, David Adams stands outdoors, discussing the significant genetic discovery related to uveal melanoma and cancer therapy. His quote reads: “Our study reveals a previously unrecognised genetic relationship in uveal melanoma, driven by a particular relationship between the CDS1 and CDS2 genes. This discovery not only deepens our understanding of tumour biology but also opens new routes for precise therapy development. What makes this finding especially exciting is its relevance beyond uveal melanoma as our research suggests a therapeutic potential for a broad range of cancers.”
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Join the Frontier of Cellular Genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute. We are looking for Group Leaders to drive innovative science with core funding, cutting-edge technology, and global impact. Apply now: lnkd.in/eqneJFVt 📅 Closing date: 17 August #GroupLeader #FacultyPosition #CambridgeScience
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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Now online in Cancer Discovery: AAnet Resolves a Continuum of Spatially-Localized Cell States to Unveil Intratumoral Heterogeneity - by Aarthi Venkat, Scott Youlten, Beatriz San Juan, Smita Krishnaswamy, Christine Chaffer, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...
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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Cancer Plasticity Atlas To Improve Cancer Therapies #HelmholtzMunich joins @sangerinstitute.bsky.social & @parse.bsky.social to build the Cancer Plasticity Atlas, using #AI & single-cell data to model therapy response. 👉 t1p.de/13ifi @fabiantheis.bsky.social @mgarnett.bsky.social #CancerResearch
Cancer Plasticity Atlas To Improve Cancer Therapies
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Announcing a new collaboration with @parse.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de to develop a #Cancer Plasticity Atlas. The reference map will help predict the effect of cancer drugs - where resistance might develop and where to target future treatment efforts. www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/pi...
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Pioneering cancer plasticity atlas will help predict response to cancer therapies
Utilising novel organoid perturbation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms, the aim is to create a comprehensive dataset to fuel foundational drug discovery models and cancer research.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is going to be a great event showcasing cutting edge science.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Don't miss your chance to register for the GRC conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology this July in beautiful Maine (near Boston). We have stellar speakers, with a mix from academia and industry in this translational space. There are speaker slots from abstracts.
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Victor Javier @vjsanchez.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
MLOmics: Cancer Multi-Omics Database for Machine Learning 🧪 🧬🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MLOmics: Cancer Multi-Omics Database for Machine Learning - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - MLOmics: Cancer Multi-Omics Database for Machine Learning
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
For students & trainees, there are speaking slots for selected abstracts at the upcoming GRC conference on Synthetic Lethality in Oncology (www.grc.org/synthetic-le...). The informal small meeting format is perfect for networking and to find your next career opportunity. Bursaries available.
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2025 Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Check out the first session for the upcoming GRC conference on synthetic lethality in oncology www.grc.org/synthetic-le.... Top flight speakers - Simon Powell (MSK), Chris Lord (ICR), and plenary talk from William Sellers (Broad Inst.). What a start! It's not too late to register.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Check this out if you're interested in #crispr #baseeditor. Congratulations Cansu for creating this wonderful tool.
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 16/05/2025
Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Learn about the future of synthetic lethality in oncology at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference. This is the inaugural meeting and WOW what a lineup! We have a truly phenomenal program, with top speakers from academia and industry. Check it out at the link below. www.grc.org/synthetic-le....
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2025 Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Gabriele Picco @gabrielepicco.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Great talk by Yanhua Rao at #AACR2025 on GSK’s new clinical WRN inhibitor. Proud to see our unpublished data spotlighted for revealing new MoA insights. Exciting times ahead! @mgarnett.bsky.social
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Six years after the discovery of WRN synthetic lethality in MSI cancers, WRN inhibitors hit center stage again today at #aacr25 with report of the first in human phase 1 trial data for RO7589831. Can’t wait to see it!
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Inigo Martincorena @imartincorena.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I am speaking at #AACR25 this afternoon on our latest work on somatic mutations in normal tissues. If you are attending AACR, feel free to drop by and say hello. brnw.ch/21wRUZZ
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Gabriele Picco @gabrielepicco.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just landed in Chicago for #AACR25 — Millennium Park in bloom! Excited for team talks on WRN inhibitors in MSI cancers, with first-in-human data discussed by @mgarnett.bsky.social at the Clinical Trials Plenary. I’ll present new data on WRNi-driven evolution — Poster #420! #MSI #SyntheticLethality
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Matt Coelho @mattcoelho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Excited to announce our preprint today @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Using functional genomics, we map the genetic determinants cancer cell sensitivity to tumour-reactive T cells: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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CRISPR screens in the context of immune selection identify CHD1 and MAP3K7 as mediators of cancer immunotherapy resistance
Cancer immunotherapy is only effective in a subset of patients, highlighting the need for effective biomarkers and combination therapies. Here we systematically identify genetic determinants of cancer...
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George Sflomos @georgesflomos.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Uncovering synthetic lethal vulnerabilities across cancers. Upregulation of #TWIST1/2, #VIM, and integrin components ( #ITGB5, #ITGAV, #FERMT2 ) constitutes a synthetic lethal buffering mechanism that preserves tumor fitness despite #CDH1 #Ecadherin loss #lobular #DGC www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The transcriptomic architecture of common cancers reflects synthetic lethal interactions - Nature Genetics
Tumor cells upregulate compensatory buffering genes following tumor suppressor loss. These genes may represent new synthetic lethal partners that could be harnessed therapeutically.
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jonas @josch1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Yay, we built a thing! With @dominik1klein.bsky.social Daniil, Aviv Regev, Barbara Treutlein @graycamplab.bsky.social @fabiantheis.bsky.social we use flow matching to enable generalised sc phenotype modeling. From cytokine screens to fate programming and organoid engineering tinyurl.com/3xhju7db
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CellFlow enables generative single-cell phenotype modeling with flow matching
High-content phenotypic screens provide a powerful strategy for studying biological systems, but the scale of possible perturbations and cell states makes exhaustive experiments unfeasible. Computatio...
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
this week 20 years ago, Nature published two seminal papers showing for the first time that BRCA-mutant cells were selectively sensitive to PARP inhibitors, paving the way for clinical trials and approval of PARP inhibitors for patients with BRCA-mutant ovarian and breast cancers, and beyond.
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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How accurate are 'gene regulatory networks' inferred from scRNA-seq data? This comprehensive analysis in @naturemethods.bsky.social concludes: 1. The areas under the precision-recall curve are moderate 2. Methods not using pseudotime-ordered cells are more accurate
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HHMI @hhmi-science.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congrats to HHMI Investigator David R. Liu on receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences! He is recognized for developing base editing & prime editing: 2 breakthrough gene-editing technologies that enable the correction or replacement of virtually any genetic mutation. hhmi.news/3RA6shj
HHMI Investigator David R. Liu, smiling, with a graphic of a DNA helix in the background. Text overlay announces his award of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 03/04/2025
An engineered Cas12a enables higher-order combinatorial functional genomic screens using CRISPR interference go.nature.com/3UTnSXM rdcu.be/ef95k
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Engineered CRISPR-Cas12a for higher-order combinatorial chromatin perturbations - Nature Biotechnology
An engineered Cas12a enables higher-order combinatorial functional genomic screens using CRISPR interference.
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
scNET: learning context-specific gene and cell embeddings by integrating single-cell gene expression data with protein–protein interactions www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 31/03/2025
Congratulations to Peer Bork (EMBL’s Interim Director General), Ewan Birney (EMBL’s Executive Director) & Jo McEntyre (EMBL-EBI’s Interim Director) on their new appointments. We thank Edith Heard for her leadership at the helm of @embl.org. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/a... @ewanbirney.bsky.social
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Changes in EMBL-EBI leadership
Jo McEntyre will become Interim Director of EMBL-EBI as Ewan Birney takes up the role of EMBL Executive Director.
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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We are seeking a new colleague to join us at the Vienna BioCenter, specifically at my beloved home institution, IMBA @imbavienna.bsky.social we value collegiality and a passion for curiosity driven science. Being a great and fun human being also helps!
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A great scientist and colleague! Congratulations muzz
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Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt’s Lab Institute of Cancer Research @icrlordlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
For those of you interested in cancer synthetic lethality, this should be a v interesting Gordon Conference organised by @mgarnett.bsky.social @vazquezf.bsky.social & Benjamin Schwartz- highly recommended ! www.grc.org/synthetic-le...
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2025 Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Congratulations Julio
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 13/03/2025
Gene dynamics of concurrent biological processes are unraveled by considering gene trajectories instead of cell trajectories go.nature.com/49pGsM7 rdcu.be/ebBiE
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Gene trajectory inference for single-cell data by optimal transport metrics - Nature Biotechnology
Gene dynamics of concurrent biological processes are unraveled by considering gene trajectories instead of cell trajectories.
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Matt Coelho @mattcoelho.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to announce that we're recruiting a Staff scientist at the Sanger Institute to investigate drug resistance mechanisms in cancer using gene editing. Interested? Apply here: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...
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Jolanda van Leeuwen @jsvanleeuwen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Some science news to brighten up your timelines ☀️ Our latest work on the modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality between genetic backgrounds, now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... So what did we find?
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The modifiers that cause changes in gene essentiality
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Women in research need the credit & recognition they deserve for the amazing contributions they make. Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science are open for applications - take a look 👇🏻 & help spread the word #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/in...
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Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science
Celebrating and supporting the achievements of women in science, and all those who work to encourage girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and stay in STEM careers around the world.
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danapeer.bsky.social @danapeer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
1) I am delighted to share a manuscript long in the making (7 years), elucidating the forces that shape metastatic adaptation PDAC using scRNA-seq across multiple organs from a rapid autopsy combined with a powerful new clonal phylogeny inference algorithm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Transcriptomic plasticity is a hallmark of metastatic pancreatic cancer
Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer deaths; nonetheless, how tumor cells adapt to vastly different organ contexts is largely unknown. To investigate this question, we generated a transcriptomic ...
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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Now online in Cancer Discovery: Single-Cell eQTL Mapping Reveals Cell Subtype-Specific Genetic Control and Mechanism in Malignant Transformation of Colorectal Cancer - by Can Chen, Yimin Cai, Wenlong Hu, Kai Tan, Zequn Lu, Xuanyu Zhu, Jianbo Tian, Xiaoping Miao & colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...
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Chris Lord and Andrew Tutt’s Lab Institute of Cancer Research @icrlordlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We show transcriptomic buffering of tumour suppressor loss via syn. lethal genes is not anecdotal but a cancer hallmark. Buffering also seen in BRCAness, predicts penetrant syn leth effects and outcome. @icr.ac.uk @cancerresearchuk.org @breastcancernow.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The transcriptomic architecture of common cancers reflects synthetic lethal interactions - Nature Genetics
Tumor cells upregulate compensatory buffering genes following tumor suppressor loss. These genes may represent new synthetic lethal partners that could be harnessed therapeutically.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Some beautiful spring flowers amid all the craziness at the moment. As a Canadian, where winter is longer and colder, I always appreciate how early we are blessed with spring flowers in the UK
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Super cool technology!
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Introducing our Sanger Alumni Series ⭐ From sequencing viruses at Sanger to shaping global health policy, Velislava Petrova has taken her career beyond academia! Her advice? "Build a broad network & keep an open mind—science isn’t just academia!" #SangerAlumni #SangerSpotlight
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The Cancer Dependency Map @depmap.org · 29/01/2025
📣Registration is now open for an exciting Gordon Conference on synthetic lethality organized by Ben Schwartz (GSK), Mathew Garnett (Sanger), and Francisca Vazquez (DepMap Director, Broad Institute) Highly recommended! Register here grc.org/synthetic-le...
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2025 Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Mathew Garnett @mgarnett.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New Gordon Research Conference Alert: Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology. www.grc.org/synthetic-le.... Join us 20-25th July 2025 for an intimate meeting with thought leaders in the field. Great for networking and opportunities for early career scientists to present their research.
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John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Calling attention to this tome. 👀 By reading this paper, you are likely to learn many things, not the least of which is that using "Giga-scale" in your paper title sounds bad-ass. Worked headed by @genophoria.bsky.social & @vevotherapeutics.bsky.social #genomics #bioinformatics 🧪 bit.ly/4bj2fIc
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Tahoe-100M: A Giga-Scale Single-Cell Perturbation Atlas for Context-Dependent Gene Function and Cellular Modeling
Building predictive models of the cell requires systematically mapping how perturbations reshape each cell's state, function, and behavior. Here, we present Tahoe-100M, a giga-scale single-cell atlas of 100 million transcriptomic profiles measuring how each of 1,100 small-molecule perturbations impact cells across 50 cancer cell lines. Our high-throughput Mosaic platform, composed of a highly diverse and optimally balanced 'cell village', reduces batch effects and enables parallel profiling of thousands of conditions at single-cell resolution at an unprecedented scale. As the largest single-cell dataset to date, Tahoe-100M enables artificial-intelligence (AI)-driven models to learn context-dependent functions, capturing fundamental principles of gene regulation and network dynamics. Although we leverage cancer models and pharmacological compounds to create this resource, Tahoe-100M is fundamentally designed as a broadly applicable perturbation atlas and supports deeper insights into cell biology across multiple tissues and contexts. By publicly releasing this atlas, we aim to accelerate the creation and development of robust AI frameworks for systems biology, ultimately improving our ability to predict and manipulate cellular behaviors across a wide range of applications. ### Competing Interest Statement Jesse Zhang, Airol A Ubas, Richard de Borja, Valentine Svensson, Nicole Thomas, Neha Thakar, Ian Lai, Aidan Winters, Umair Khan, Matthew G. Jones, Daniele Merico, Nima Alidoust, Hani Goodarzi, Johnny Yu, have received compensation and/or equity from Vevo Therapeutics. Vuong Tran, Joseph Pangallo, Efthymia Papalexi, Ajay Sapre, Hoai Nguyen, Oliver Sanderson, Maria Nigos, Olivia Kaplan, Sarah Schroeder, Bryan Hariadi, Simone Marrujo, Crina Curca Alec Salvino, Guillermo Gallareta Olivares, Ryan Koehler, Gary Geiss, Alexander Rosenberg, Charles Roco, have received compensation and/or equity from Parse Biosciences.
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