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Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics @cancerdynamics.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Cover feature! 🎉 Siyu He and colleagues appear on the January cover of @natmethods.nature.com for Squidiff, a diffusion AI model predicting cellular responses to developmental and chemical cues: www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...

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Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics @cancerdynamics.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine. Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx

Schematic of cell differentiation prediction (a) and drug response prediction (b).

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

#TissueTalks returns for our SIXTH year with a talk from @MIT Prof. Roger Kamm on Wed, Sept 10th at 3pm EST: "Transport processes in the brain: From delivery of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier to the clearance of amyloid beta." See you there! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Last chance!! Abstracts due tonight! Join us this fall for a @CSHL meeting (Sept 28 - Oct 1) on "Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models" in NY! We have a wonderful program with a dynamic set of speakers to bridge bioengineering tech with human tissue models. meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Join us this fall for a Cold Spring Harbor Lab meeting (Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2025) on "Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models" on Long Island, New York. Co-organized by myself, my advisor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic & collaborator Mirjana Maletic-Savatic: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Join us for the last Tissue Talk of the spring 2025 season with a seminar from ETH Zurich Prof Martin Fussenegger on “Powering Biology: the emerging frontier of electrogenetics.” See you at 3pm EST: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happening today at 3pm EST! Join us for a #TissueTalk with Drexel Prof Kara Spiller as she talks about “Biomaterials for engineering macrophages in regenerative medicine.” See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Happening today at 3pm EST! JHU Prof. Warren Grayson joins us for a #TissueTalk titled "It takes a village to regenerate a tissue - probing the neural contributions to bone healing." See you soon! bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Join us tomorrow, Feb. 26th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Brown University Dean and Prof. Tejal Desai @tejaladesai.bsky.social on "Tuning the 'Structure' of Biomaterials for Cell-Based Therapy." See you soon! RSVP/zoom link: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Check out our new collaborative work with Dr. Kam Leong @columbiauniversity.bsky.social now out in Advanced Functional Materials! We developed oral nanoparticles to help mitigate hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome, especially in cases of deep space exploration: t.co/1jQwcU1pDB

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Why I Study Cancer The cancers that are fatal today don't have to be tomorrow. Support for biomedical research enables generational shifts in how we treat cancer. What a privilege to work at @cancercenteril. Work funded by National Institutes of Health www.instagram.com/reel/DGTUxwD...

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Irene de Lazaro @irenedelazaro.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Honored to be featured in this podcast about careers in Tissue Engineering! Always a pleasure to chat with superstar @naveedtavakol.bsky.social from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Listen to learn more about the challenges and joys of becoming a Professor of BME! @nyutandon.bsky.social

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Check out our new episode of the #TERC podcast series "Career Conversations", ft. my friend & @nyutandon.bsky.social Prof. Dr. @irenedelazaro.bsky.social, where she describes her diverse international research experiences, starting up her lab, & the BME community. open.spotify.com/episode/0xrD...

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join us tomorrow, Feb. 19th at 3pm EST as Prof. Jeff Hubbell from NYU joins us for #TissueTalks to discuss "Engineering the microenvironment in regeneration and inflammation." See you soon: bit.ly/tissuetalks @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 12th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with a pioneer in the cancer, hematopoiesis, and stem cell fields from @StanfordMed Dr. Irv Weissman! See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Join us today, Wed. Feb 5th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with @mitofficial.bsky.social @wyssinstitute.bsky.social Prof. Ellen Roche on "Tissue talks and tissue moves: replicating tissue motion for simulation and organ assistance." See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 29th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk from a pioneer in the stem cell field, Stanford Prof. Helen Blau, on "Targeting a gerozyme to increase muscle strength." See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#TissueTalks are back for Spring 2025! Join us tomorrow, Wed., Jan. 22nd at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Prof. Tal Danino from our very own dept to discuss "Engineering bacteria for cancer therapy." See you soon: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-E0gHU6CT3enyf0mJH1LZw#/registration

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Our paper was recently chosen as one of the covers of Advanced Science for their Nov 2024 issue: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Join us for a #TissueTalk TODAY at 3pm EST from Prof. Darrell Irvine @MIT on “modulating immunity with leukocyte-anchored cytokines.” See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Siyu He @siyuhe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Given the scRNA data on day 0 and day 3, can we predict the data on day 1, day 2 and further? Squidiff predicts this differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into mesendoderm and endoderm, guided by stimuli vectors. 3/🦑

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Siyu He @siyuhe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We are thrilled to share #Squidiff 🦑, a conditional diffusion model, which generates new transcriptomes that represent distinct cellular states, and its application to cell differentiation and drug perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/🦑

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Squidiff: Predicting cellular development and responses to perturbations using a diffusion model

Single-cell sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of cellular heterogeneity and responses to environmental stimuli. However, mapping transcriptomic changes across diverse cell types in respo...

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Michelle Jansman @michellejansman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Tags so it ends up on some related feeds: 🧪 #AcademicSky #OrganOnChip #TissueEngineering

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Please join us tomorrow, December 4th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with @wyssinstitute.bsky.social Prof. Don Ingber on "New insights into human disease mechanisms and drug discovery enabled by organ chips." See you there! RSVP/Zoom link here: bit.ly/tissuetalks

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Naveed Tavakol @naveedtavakol.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wanted to reintroduce myself since we’re making new friends on a new platform 🦋 I’m Naveed, a postdoc at Columbia in NYC focused on engineering models of the blood & immune system “in a dish.” Outside of science, I love Taylor Swift, traveling, plants, and the LGBTQIA+ community 🫶

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