Samira Asgari
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Scientist, Computational biologist. Asst. Prof. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 🧬. Alum. Harvard Medical School 🇺🇸, EPFL🇨🇭, University of Tehran 🇮🇷
- 🎉Just learned that our proposal on how viral exposures shape lupus risk & heterogeneity will be funded by the Lupus Research Alliance's Innovation Award. Grateful to @lupusresearch.bsky.social & to collaborators @alemedinarivera.bsky.social & Deshire Alpizar-Rodriguez for their energy & enthusiasm.
- I’ve always been fascinated by how psychedelics can rewire the brain, and as new research starts to reveal the mechanisms behind it, the whole picture just gets even more interestig. We cover some of these new discoveries in the latest issue of @mindshiftnews.bsky.social.
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- 🎉 Grateful to have received one of the inaugural pilot awards from Mout Sinai Institute for Liver Research. With this award, Dr. Michael Murray and my team will explore the role of somatic mutations in inflammatory liver diseases. reports.mountsinai.org/article/live... @sinaigenhealth.bsky.social
- My lab is at #ashg2025 🧬🥳: 1- Platform talk & predoc finalist by Abhijith Biji: human genomics of infectious diseases 2- Lighting talk & poster by Ashley Richardson: somatic mutations underlying auto-inflammatory diseases Looking forward to a few days of science & networking.
- Preprint alert 📜: How do social, behavioral, and environmental factors combine with genetics to shape risk for common diseases? In our new work, led by senior bioinformatician Jane Brown, we sought to answer this question. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- If you are @cellpress.bsky.social #CSPrecisionGen25 conference don’t miss the talk by my brilliant PhD student Abhijith Biji. He will share our latest findings on human genomics study of 99 infectious disease phenotypes in ~800k individuals.
- Preprint alert📜: How do lifetime viral exposures shape our immune system response to future infections? 🦠🧬 We explore this question in our new preprint, led by postdoc Chad Hogan. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #SystemsImmunology #Immunology #Virology #Infection #HostResponse
- Another two weeks, another MindShift issue; this one packed with updates on advancing clinical trials and new opportunities for psychedelics beyond the Global North.
- Starting the academic year with a trip to Yale. Looking forward to sharing how large biobanks and real-world data are reshaping our understanding of infectious disease genomics, and to the conversations ahead!
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- 🤩What a nice surprise to see @mindshiftnews.bsky.social mentioned by @jeanabbiateci.bsky.social, seasoned journalist and founder of the award-winning newsletter bulletin.fr. Curious? Read our latest issue: bit.ly/4oCg22F Want to support us? Subscribe (free, ad-free): mindshift.news/subscribe
- Lab news 🎉 We’ve received a 5-year, $2.3M award from NIH/NIGMS to leverage large-scale biobanks and build a data-driven approach to understanding sepsis biology and risk.
- I just learned that Americans call some chalky, non-chocolatey!, pale candies ‘Smarties’ 😱 and they have no idea what they’re missing. Europeans, you know what I mean.
- Back in Boston for #FOGBoston and excited to share our latest work! Using #Genomics, clinical data, and #RealWorldEvidence from three large #Biobanks, we identified hundreds of novel genetic risk loci for #InfectiousDiseases. If you're around or want to chat, let’s connect!
- Reposted by Samira Asgari📢 Just posted: Our preprint introducing SPC — Spectral Components — is now live on medRxiv! Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9
- Excited to be in beautiful Madison, visiting colleagues @uwmadison.bsky.social! I’ll be sharing our recent work using three large-scale biobanks to advance understanding of the human genomics of infectious diseases. Looking forward to a full day of science and fun!
- I asked #ChatGPT: Based on my prompts so far, describe me in 20 words. The answer: Data-driven, sharp-tongued scientist blending genomics, AI, and storytelling. Strategic thinker, clear writer, playful observer—always chasing impact, never fluff. I think we're in a relationship.
- To women who lead, inspire, mentor, break barriers, and lift others as they rise - thank you for shaping the future! 🥂💜 #WomenMentors #IWD #InternationalWomensDay Many thanks to @NaturePortfolio for giving us an opportunity to acknowledge some of the women who inspire us.
- UES cafe - #NYC guy 1: …these girls serve some of the wealthiest women in New York. They can’t be, you know, ugly. g2: That’s why I had to let [name] go. She was not bad looking, but kind of bland…poker face. g1: What about [name]? g2: She was 38. #peopleunfiltered 🤢
- In snow-filled Breckenridge for the inaugural Keystone somatic mutation meeting! We are new to this space, so I’m beyond grateful for receiving the Keystone Symposia fellowship—giving us the chance to share our work & learn from some of the field's best. Excited for what's ahead!
- Looking forward to spending the afternoon with our midtown neighbors. Stop by if you are on campus (talk starts at 4:30).
- Reposted by Samira Asgari#MLCB2025 will be Sept 10-11 at @nygenome.org in NYC! Paper deadline June 1st & in-person registration will open in May. Please sign up for our mailing list groups.google.com/g/mlcb/ for future announcements. More details at mlcb.github.io. Please RP!
- Artists often have rituals that accompany their creative pursuits. It’s less spoken of among scientists, yet I know many who have their own. For me, writing projects begin with an obsessive search for the song to embody its essence (Jacques Brel sets the tone atm!). What fuels your process?
- It would be funny if it couldn’t be true.
- Reposted by Samira AsgariIf you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
- And the cherry on the cake… @ashleyrichardson.bsky.social got the prize for the best lighting talk! #proudPI
- Excited to attend the NYC Inborn Errors of Immunity meeting and look forward to an incredible lineup of speakers. Our work on leveraging genetics and electronic health records to identify IEIs in adults will be showcased through lightning talks by Ashley Richardson & Eitan Carroll.
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- Too bad middle children are going extinct…y’all will miss our humility 😏
- Reposted by Samira AsgariTwo new chapters from my free online book in human genetics out this weekend! These complete Part 3 of the book, on human population structure and history: 3.3: Human prehistory [separate thread] 3.4: Ancient DNA: a genetic time capsule [this thread] web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...
- I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
