Postdoc in Hamdoun Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; PhD Microbiology at Cornell University

San Diego, CA
Joined April 2015
The ever amazing @art_egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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The events in Springfield, i.e., weaponizing against a community using false allegations & 'othering' them, threatening their safety & that of others in the community (schools, hospitals), is from the Project 2025 playbook for all of the US; great senator you have there, Ohio!
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Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own. PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks and assessments by human experts. We are publishing a paper and open-sourcing the code. This is the first example of AI agents exceeding human performance on a major portion of scientific research, and will be a game-changer for the way humans interact with the scientific literature. Paper and code are below, and congratulations in particular to @m_skarlinski, @SamCox822, @jonmlaurent, James Braza, @MichaelaThinks, @mjhammerling, @493Raghava, @andrewwhite01, and others who pulled this off. 1/
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Hate being stuck in the lab sorting your transgenic #zebrafish? You’re gonna love the Fishpicker, from the clever folks at #CZBiohubSF! Check out this video and learn more here: bit.ly/3ZbIiyN
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The resurrection of strings of extinct molecules raises intriguing questions of patentability and bioethical considerations in an emerging area of patent law go.nature.com/4cz9f2k rdcu.be/dR3Sb
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We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology
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Stable germline transgenesis using the Minos Tc1/mariner element in the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus Read this #DevSIDiversity Techniques & Resources Article by Elliot Jackson @ewaltjackson, Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab and colleagues @Scripps_Ocean: journals.biologists.com/dev/…
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If you’re looking for a postdoc and you are interested in applying AI to imaging data, and would like to have a fancy fellowship, reach out :-) postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/sch…
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🌊 Last weekend, some lucky kayakers and snorkelers came across a rare deep-sea dwelling fish in La Jolla Cove. The seagoers spotted a 12-foot #oarfish and to give you an idea of how rare this encounter is, only 20 oarfish have washed up in California since 1901!
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Im surprised by how much these two variables correlate here and also unsurprised they do.
The new class of HHMI investigators average 3.9 papers as corresponding author in Cell, Nature, or Science. 26 out of 26 members of this group previously trained with a PI who is in the National Academy of Sciences or who was an HHMI investigator themselves.
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If you're affected by today's airline tech issues, bookmark FlightRights.gov. We created an easy-to-use dashboard in 2022 to show which airlines cover meals and hotels, and provide free rebooking when an airline causes a major delay or cancellation.
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Nailed it. Transport me there
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This is a lovely way to show the progress, change, and history of a lab. Love this!
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Finally, we emphasize the utility (and beauty!) of using Lytechinus pictus to study sea urchin late larval development due to their fast developmental time and relatively high optical transparency.
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🤩 Scientific breakthrough! Discover how @Hamdounlab's new study highlights transgenic sea urchins underneath fluorescent light to further researchers in tracking cell movement. (ORIP support through R21OD034075) latimes.com/science/story/20…
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Replying to @NIH_ORIP
Immensely grateful for @nih_orip support to build these resources! We hope this will enable many researchers across the @NIH and @NSF portfolios - and beyond- to take better advantage of the unique biology of this animal model.
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