Apparently, while studying for the midterm, my students memed my class. 💀 credit: @wrboohar

Thank you to everyone who came to our Ides of March meeting! Tonight we stabbed (cake) Caesar, read excerpts from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and played Among Us!!

Out today from the Stegle, Theis, and Moore labs! SpatialData is a user-friendly computational framework for exploring, analyzing, annotating, aligning and storing spatial omics data that can seamlessly handle large multimodal datasets. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Researchers from #ILLINOIS and Brazil have successfully engineered the first insulin-producing cow, a potential game-changer for diabetes treatment. "Mother Nature designed the mammary gland as a factory to make protein really, really efficiently." ▶ bit.ly/48WNyaR

Yesterday I sent a letter with Tammy Duckworth & 15 bipartisan members of the IL delegation to NIH in support of University of Illinois Cancer Center’s application to obtain NCI designation—bringing resources for cancer research & treatments to patients across our state:

Thrilled to be co-chairing the inaugural #Alzheimer’s Gordon Research Conferences from June 22-27, 2025. This conference will delve into #AI/#ML, #omics, stat. genetics, fungen, sysbio, #neuroimaging, & other topics. Outstanding lineup of speakers and registration will open soon. Stay tuned!

Happy that CellRank2 is out Nature Methods! Philipp Weiler & Marius Lange led this multimodal extension of CellRank, to allow study of cellular fate via multiview single-cell data of millions of cells in unified fashion. Text nature.com/articles/s4159… code github.com/theislab/cellr…

Technical Report of HelixFold3 for Biomolecular Structure Prediction The PaddleHelix research team at Baidu have released their AlphaFold3 replication under an open-source noncommercial license. Performance approaches that of AlphaFold3. abs: arxiv.org/abs/2408.16975 website:

Repository of scientific images from NIH that are free to use in publications. Has a few images that may be of use to neuroscientists. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Loving the new BioArt library from NIH - includes tons of vector drawings of proteins, cells, animals, and more. Plus, custom Illustrator brushes and swatches! You could easily make publication-ready figures in just a few minutes. Available at: bioart.niaid.nih.gov

To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people – you come through me.

“We’re very excited to see what people do with this” AlphaFold3 is open at last go.nature.com/4fHAfio

Happy to share our latest Open Problems paper on our perturbation prediction competition and living benchmark, accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2024. A fun project with many collabs led by Artur Szałata and Andrew Benz! Community-driven standards & data for perturbation models

anndata 0.11 is out now: anndata.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rele…! We have some great new features to highlight as well as some breaking changes to look out for.

Spapros developed by Fabian Theis and colleagues is a probe set selection and design pipeline for targeted spatial transcriptomics. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to share that Spapros, the first end-to-end probe set selection method for targeted spatial transcriptomics, is now out in nature methods doi.org/10.1038/s41592… , a collab of the labs of Malte Luecken, Marie Piraud, Peter Horvath, Ali Max Erturk, C. Samakovlis, Fabian Theis 🧵1/17

Honored to be included in the Forbes #30Under30 Science list! I'm thankful for my mentors, colleagues, family, and friends, who have all played important roles in this journey. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. forbes.com/30-under-30/20…

Nearly 100 NIH study sections were canceled in the past month. Here is a list of the canceled meetings, compiled by Annika Barber at Rutgers Univ. As a result, the process of biomedical science funding has been halted in the United States. tinyurl.com/5auw74s4

A study from Sergio Marco MatsNilssonLab and colleagues presents a comprehensive evaluation of Xenium in situ datasets and provides recommendations on analysis workflows. SciLifeLab nature.com/articles/s4159…