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CPCB Hackathon 2022

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The CPCB GSA held their first annual 24-hour CPCB Hackathon from 5pm April 8th to 5pm April 9th. The event included meals and prizes awarded by a judging panel: Maria Chikina, Olexandr Isayev, and Phillip Compeau. Participants will also receive an exclusive CPCB mousepad, courtesy of Prof. David Koes.

The purpose of hosting this hackathon was to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing between all specialties and interests. With that in mind, all projects were valid: a group of students could make a compbio quilt, an API that starts the coffee machine or orders Chipotle, a CLI for transcriptomics workflows, or a protein that folds up to look like a professor.

 

 

 

Winners of the CPCB Hackathon 2022 were:

Logo-Gen: A Web-app for Generating new CPCB Logos with Biological Modeling — Participants’ favorite (2/2), 1st place
by Anush Devadhasan, Shahul Alam, and Caleb Ellington

Optimal Causal single-cEll ANalysis Cells (OCEANCells) — 2nd place
by Frank Zhang, Minxue Jia, Jason Doi, and Devin Jiang

The Mysterious Affair at Murdoch: a Paper-Stealing Puzzle Game — Participants’ favorite (1/2), 3rd place
by Roshni Bhatt, Marissa Di

Other Projects:

One Shining Moment of 2020: Using analytics and neural networks to crown an NCAA men’s basketball champion
by Alex Hummels

CPCB Codenames: A New Take on a Classic Game, presented as a customized desktop app
by Sophia Hu

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Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis Receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award

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Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis has received a 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award along with 14 other faculty members.

According to the official release, she was “recognized for her work on new genes that emerge through evolution. One of just a handful of the foremost experts on this phenomenon, Carvunis’ peers called her research ‘among the most innovative’ in evolutionary biology.”

The Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award annually recognizes outstanding scholarly accomplishments of members of the University of Pittsburgh’s faculty. For more the official announcement, please click here.

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award

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Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award to support his PhD word titled “Causal graphical methods for high-dimensional heterogeneous biomedical data”

Mining high dimensional, heterogeneous, and often dynamic datasets to make biologically or medically important inferences or develop predictive models requires sophisticated data analytics methods. New machine learning methods have begun filling this gap, but most of these methods generate “black box” models that lack clear interpretability. This proposal aims to develop new causal graph learning methods for heterogeneous variable types in high dimensional and multicollinear data. These methods will be used to address important questions in cancer and chronic diseases.

Tyler is a 4th year PhD students in Dr. Takis Benos’ lab in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. With this fellowship support, Tyler will continue his training towards a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.

For more information on the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award, please click here.

Combination of Dynamical Systems Theory and Machine Learning Predicts Cell Fate Governing Equations

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Yan Zhang

Ivet Bahar

Jianhua Xing

Single-cell (sc)RNA-seq, together with RNA velocity and metabolic labeling, reveals cellular states and transitions at unprecedented resolution. Fully exploiting these data, however, requires kinetic models capable of unveiling governing regulatory functions. Here, we introduce an analytical framework dynamo (https://github.com/aristoteleo/dynamo-release), which infers absolute RNA velocity, reconstructs continuous vector fields that predict cell fates, employs differential geometry to extract underlying regulations, and ultimately predicts optimal reprogramming paths and perturbation outcomes. We highlight dynamo’s power to overcome fundamental limitations of conventional splicing-based RNA velocity analyses to enable accurate velocity estimations on a metabolically labeled human hematopoiesis scRNA-seq dataset. Furthermore, differential geometry analyses reveal mechanisms driving early megakaryocyte appearance and elucidate asymmetrical regulation within the PU.1-GATA1 circuit. Leveraging the least-action-path method, dynamo accurately predicts drivers of numerous hematopoietic transitions. Finally, in silico perturbations predict cell-fate diversions induced by gene perturbations. Dynamo, thus, represents an important step in advancing quantitative and predictive theories of cell-state transitions.

Figure 1. Overview of dynamo computational framework for analyzing time-resolved single-cell data.
Upper left: Dynamo generates time-resolved RNA velocity from metabolically labeled single cell RNA-seq data based on a biophysical model of gene expression.
Upper right: The transcriptomic vector field reconstructed from discrete RNA velocity samples using a machine learning method encodes essential gene-gene interaction information in the underlying gene regulatory network, which can be extracted from various differential geometrical quantities of the vector field.
Lower left: Dynamo reveals the underlying biological mechanism for the fast appearance of Megakaryocytes in a hematopoiesis dataset.
Lower right: Dynamo predicts cell type transitions by mapping out the most probable path and cell fate changes under in silico perturbations.

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Qiu X, Zhang Y, Martin-Rufino JD, Weng C, Hosseinzadeh S, Yang D, Pogson AN, Hein MY, Min KH, Wang L, Grody EI, Shurtleff MJ, Yuan R, Xu S, Ma Y, Replogle JM. Lander ES, Darmanis S, Bahar I, Sankaran VG, Xing J, Weissman JS (2022) Mapping transcriptomic vector fields of single cells. Cell, in press. 

Dr. Carvunis and lab receive NSF CAREER award

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Dr. Carvunis and lab receive the National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how the widespread translation of evolutionary novel sequences impacts physiology and fitness in yeast. The research will be integrated with a far reaching educational project in collaboration with Primarily Undergraduate Institutions across the United States.

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

“The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”

For more information on the NSF CAREER award, please click here to visit their website.