Statement of solidarity and support for Iranian civilians
Widespread protests in Iran have been sparked by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini by the regime’s “morality” police, for not wearing hijab compliant clothing...
News
2022
Deciphering 3D genome folding using deep learning
Excited to share our work developing experimental strategies for deep learning models to decipher how DNA sequence informs 3D genome folding! Our study point...
2020
Black Lives Matter
As a lab we are deeply disturbed by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and many more. Recent events throughout the US ...
2019
Kangway named Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Congrats to @kangway, who joins the 2019 class of Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows in Chemical Sciences! Thank you @BeckmanFnd for the game-changing su...
Artificial Intelligence Could Vastly Scale Up Alzheimer’s Research
Want to try your own #DeepLearning models for #AlzheimersDisease pathologies? Ziqi Tang's paper, code, AND data are open to everyone - let us know what y...
Advanced Topics in #DeepLearning for Biological Sciences (BMI 219)
This year's "Advanced Topics in #DeepLearning for Biological Sciences (BMI 219)" course starts Monday morning! Looking forward to Dr. Nobuyuki ...
Training computers to think more like scientists
Two School scientists recently showed how to train computers to think more like scientists. #MachineLearning
Study with John Irwin (UCSF) makes JCIM’s most-read-of-2018
Predicted #Biological Activity of Purchasable #Chemical Space @teaguesterling #Most_read_Year
Leo Gendelev takes home the #TitanV poster prize
Our very own Leo Gendelev takes home the #TitanV poster prize at today's #UCSF #DeepLearning in #Biomedicine Symposium (https://t.co/VEaakeRnQn)! Big tha...
2018
Lab receives CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award
Extremely honored to join the #Neurodegeneration Challenge Network as a @cziscience Ben Barres Investigator! We're working to decode how promising drug-l...
In the Pipeline – Machine Learning: Be Careful What You Ask For
Great to see Kangway's piece taken up by today's In the Pipeline! #drugdiscovery #MachineLearning #ML #Chemistry #DataScience https://t.co/c1ddLZZFyJ...
Ziqi’s preprint on interpretable-AI for Alzheimer’s disease pathologies goes live
Ziqi and Kangway’s preprint on interpretable neural networks for amyloid-β pathology classification is out!
#ml & #deeplearning can almost always find patterns in data
#ml & #deeplearning can almost always find patterns in data. But how often is this scientifically meaningful? We argue that a framework of strong hypothe...
Our #datascience intern Jizhou Yang is looking for a summer internship!
Our #datascience intern Jizhou Yang (https://t.co/d14ZwggMNo), master's #computerscience in progress, is looking for a summer internship! #bioinformatics...
Today’s #psb18 workshop on explainability in #ML …
Today's #psb18 workshop on explainability in #ML and #DataScience revisits Platt's method of Strong Inference from 1964 https://t.co/bbGxjKKA8N pic.t...
2017
Extensive new examples & awesome docs #E3FP
Extensive new examples & awesome docs from @sdaxen for those who'd like to give 3D molecular fingerprints a shot! #E3FP https://t.co/WMchBayfVQ&mdash...
Kangway, Ed, and Ziqi have arrived
October’s off to an auspicious start with the recent arrival of three new lab members!
Awesome new ideas & connections @ HHMI #Gilliam2017
Awesome new ideas & connections @ HHMI #Gilliam2017 poster session. #ScienceCultureCommunity pic.twitter.com/32PUuPvCs8— Keiser Lab (@keiser_lab) S...
The @fraser_lab Method of Following the Scientific Literature
The @fraser_lab Method of Following the Scientific Literature https://t.co/v3elgqSeF3: For the au courant literateur. pic.twitter.com/7aYFzGFIVQ— Keise...
3d conformer fingerprint calculation using #RDKit
3d conformer fingerprint calculation using #RDKit https://t.co/C8tZbYEqmc. Awesome to see #E3FP in the wild! @sdaxen— Keiser Lab (@keiser_lab) Septembe...
RT @sdaxen: Open source software available
Open source software available at https://t.co/e4fHAEugGS and all code to reproduce the work at https://t.co/C7siniD6Ly #E3FP https://t.co/G6TaGioWhY— ...
RT @sdaxen: Our just accepted @JMedChem paper on #E3FP was recommended on @F1000Prime
Our just accepted @JMedChem paper on #E3FP was recommended on @F1000Prime https://t.co/uipGqbAeh2 @keiserlab @zenbrainest pic.twitter.com/ZXuolZqlav— S...
@UCSFCancer Impact Grant awarded
We’re excited to be a recipient of the 2017 UCSF HDFCCC Impact Grant! Working with Drs. Maria Wei, MD, PhD and Rob Judson, PhD, the project’s goal is to use ...
RT @UCSFCancer: Big thanks to @UCSFCancer for supporting this #melanoma project
Big thanks to @UCSFCancer for supporting this #melanoma project. Excited to get rolling! #deeplearning #machinelearning #dl #ml https://t.co/PXRJb2QYbk&mdash...
RT @sdaxen: Our paper on #E3FP is available on @biorxivpreprint
Our paper on #E3FP is available on @biorxivpreprint https://t.co/Pooiew1MRf @keiser_lab @zenbrainest— Seth Axen (@sdaxen) May 14, 2017
RT @bioRxiv: Evolutionarily Conserved Roles For Blood-Brain Barrier Xenobiotic Transporters …
Evolutionarily Conserved Roles For Blood-Brain Barrier Xenobiotic Transporters In Endogenous Steroid ... https://t.co/39BT9YTwhT #bioRxiv— bioRxiv (@b...
Amanda joins group
We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Amanda Li PhD, who’s starting her postdoc with the lab this month. Amanda comes to us from UC San Diego, where she did her bio...
2016
Leo, Garrett, and Elena receive graduate fellowships
Leo, Garrett, and Elena knock it out of the park. In a record summer (hereafter to be known for far more than what some sources dub a ‘shocking’ Game of Thro...
Lab receives UCSF PBBR Award
Our lab has received a UCSF Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research New Frontier Research Award for 2016-2017. This program provides funding for projects...
Elena receives NSF GFRP Fellowship
Congratulations to Elena on being selected for a 2016 NSF GRFP fellowship! Opportunely, we were able to memorialize the occasion today with a double celebrat...
2015
Garrett named Hillblom Fellow
Congratulations to Garrett on being awarded a 2015 Graduate Student Fellowship from the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging! He will be determining new ...
Lab receives Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Award
Our lab has been selected by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) Program to investigate the fundamental cellular bio...
Welcome to Nick, Michael, and Elena!
It’s been an eventful 2015! In this (belated) news update, we’re thrilled to welcome Nick Mew, Michael Mysinger, and Elena Caceres (UCSF Bioinformatics progr...
2014
Lab receives Glenn Foundation Award
Our lab was selected this year for a Glenn Award. These awards were initiated in 2007 to provide unsolicited funds to researchers investigating the biology o...
Garrett comes on board
Garrett Gaskins (Bioinformatics graduate program) has joined the group!
Leo joins lab
Leo Gendelev (UCSF Biophyics program) has joined the lab, co-mentored with Bill DeGrado’s group!
Welcome Cristina & Teague
A big welcome to Cristina Melero and Teague Sterling! Cristina will be working on chemical-genetic epistasis in high content screening and tissue culture sys...