Drs. Sally Thurston and marissa sobolewski were among the co-authors of a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives linking prenatal air pollution exposure with possible harm to reproductive system development. Their newsworthy paper was featured in ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/…

Happy 1 Year Anniversary IHHE!🥳Jan 13th marked 1 year since the official launch of our institute here University of Rochester! We want to thank everyone involved in our growth this past year. We are looking forward to all the new opportunities for collaboration across campus in this new year.🎉

Excited to share that #GIDS and University of Rochester were ranked #7 of the best #DataScience masters programs for 2024 by FORTUNE Education! 🎉 fortune.com/education/info…

Some key facts and figures around #URochesterResearch in 2023 ⬇️ Not pictured: the tremendous amount of creativity, innovation, hard work, and passion that faculty, staff, and learners pour into their science. Looking forward to what 2024 brings for our research community!

The Liu Lab has officially launched UR Medicine , focusing on the functional genome of aging and diseases, with multiple open positions available. Welcome to join and make recommendations! hbliulab.org

Our latest review paper on recommender systems just got published 👏🏼tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to postdoctoral associate Ernesto Aparicio-Puerta on receiving the highly-competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellowship! His project aims to optimize aspects of microRNA sequencing analysis to overcome limitations of current methods. #URochesterResearch Matthew N. McCall

The selection process evaluates the applicant's merits as well as the scientific quality of the host laboratory and the proposed project. This is no doubt a great step for his research and career! More on the award here: urmc.rochester.edu/biostat/events…

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…

What is Brooklyn plot? They are a new tool to detect global changes in genomically-related adjacent gene co-expression within single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data Great tool provided by Arun Marc Halushka MD PhD academic.oup.com/nargab/article…

When you thought you were studying gene expression but half your data was just sneaky tissue having a bad day. Checkout this paper for strategies to deal with this variation! Arun Marc Halushka MD PhD sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great to visit CSI and meet with so many amazing cancer researchers! Thank you for hosting me!

New #URochesterResearch out of UR Institute for Human Health and the Environment could help provide clear guidance on eating fish while pregnant. Out now via Am J Epidemiology ➡️ urmc.info/1DF Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science Brigham and Women’s Research

📢 2 positions covered, and 2 more to go! #Postdoc/RA: 1. Large-scale #singlecell/#spatial omic data analysis applied to cancer 2. #Multiomics pipeline development in #R and #AI/#ML methods dev Join us to boost your career! South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute github.com/MangiolaLabora… Plz share! 🙏

Research Catalyst Funds - up to $50k available to University of Rochester faculty for research on how the environment influences health. Preliminary proposals due 10/7. 🔗urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries…

Congrats to Minsoo Kim on this impactful work exploring How the Immune System Fails as Cancer Arises: Wilmot Cancer Institute microenvironment program. urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/res…

My department is hiring! We’re looking for faculty in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester. As I can attest, Rochester provides a highly supportive and collaborative environment and is a great place to work/live: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/662300/ten…

Congratulations to this year’s awardees of the William Jackson Hall Graduate Student Fellowship, Cuong Pham and Samantha Manning! This merit-based fellowship recognizes students in their final semester/year w/ an academic record reflecting the cornerstones of Prof. Hall’s career.

New #URochesterResearch shows that the tumor microenvironment alters the circadian rhythm of macrophages, impacting their ability to restrain tumor growth. More in EMBO Reports: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10… Nice work, Lauren Hablitz, Amelia Knudsen-Clark, Matthew N. McCall, Minsoo Kim!

Congrats to Isaac Harris, PhD, & Nicole O'Dell, PhD, MLS, for receiving Wilmot Community Outreach and Engagement Innovator Awards! They were recognized for working with the Community Cancer Action Council & striving to bring together community with Wilmot research & education.