Arjun Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology at MD Anderson. Molecular epi and statistical genomics to understand cancer and human development
bhattacharya-lab.com
- Excited to see everyone in Boston at #ashg25! 🧵on my group’s presentations.
- A few programming notes for #ashg25 from trainees in my group @mdanderson.bsky.social + a thread of me being a proud PI. Please drop by these sessions and talk to @taylorhead.bsky.social, @seantbres.bsky.social , @ytchang11.bsky.social, and me in Boston @geneticssociety.bsky.social next week!
- A few programming notes for #ashg25 from trainees in my group @mdanderson.bsky.social + a thread of me being a proud PI. Please drop by these sessions and talk to @taylorhead.bsky.social, @seantbres.bsky.social , @ytchang11.bsky.social, and me in Boston @geneticssociety.bsky.social next week!
- @taylorhead.bsky.social will talk about integrating long-read based transcript assemblies can improve QTL mapping and GWAS integration for breast cancer risk, building off her recent work showing eQTL colocalization and TWAS are HIGHLY sensitive to annotation choice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Taylor also was recently nominated internally and submitted an early K99/R00 award to NCI. She did a tremendous amount of work for a really exciting proposal!
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View full threadSean and Yung-Han both were awarded travel awards for their presentations, underscoring the importance of their work and the hard work they've put in for these projects. Looking forward to #ashg25.
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaSuper excited to get this out. This collab started a few years ago and is the first paper from it. Here, with experimental and computational approaches we: 1. establish that cell villages can be just as accurate (one might argue more accurate!) than arrayed-based designs bsky.app/profile/bior...
- Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaWhen testing a computational data analysis method: simulated data are good for checking whether the method is doing what you think it should be doing, real data for checking whether what you think it should be doing is any good.
- Very proud of @ytchang11.bsky.social for her first publication from her doctoral research! She conducted very meticulous genomic analyses that uncovered novel isoform-specific mechanistic hypotheses underlying genetic loci associated with multiple cancers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- On a personal note, I'm honored to be named an Emerging Leader by BJC! We're excited to continue our work in genomic mechanisms for cancer risk and progression to discover novel biomarkers for risk stratification and prognosis. www.nature.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaExcited to share this preprint from first author Jon Rosen, a postdoctoral fellow in the @klmohlke.bsky.social lab and my lab. We examine eQTL study sample size and how this affects signal discovery and rates of colocalization with GWAS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Arjun Bhattacharya⚡🦠I'm very excited to share our latest work on the gut microbiome and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is published in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with @hutlab.bsky.social & @longnguyen.bsky.social! 🔗Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaNew work from the lab trying to wrap our heads around the massive complexity of the human transcriptome revealed by long-read RNA-seq! Fun collab with Gloria Sheynkman. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Excited to share new work investigating transcriptional diversity in the placenta from our group led by talented postdoc @seantbres.bsky.social! Thread below describing the salient results. Welcoming any feedback and comments.
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaMuch more important things going on in the world, but wanted to share this new work on parent-of-origin effects & “non-canonical” genomic imprinting in developmental plasticity of honey bees, out now in Genome Biology 🧪🧬🔄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Drop by and say hi to @mdanderson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Data Scientist @seantbres.bsky.social if you’re at Biology of Genomes. He’ll be presenting some new work from our group that he’s championed. You’ll have an interesting science and/or science policy discussion!
- In NY for Biology of Genomes @cshlnews.bsky.social this week. During a layover on the way here, I tried to write a bit to communicate some of the work our group is doing, and why federal research funding for basic science matters substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaNeglected to share this good news this morning :)
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaFriends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon
- Reposted by Arjun Bhattacharya🎉 I'm starting my own lab at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK; June 2025) 🎉 We will focus on identifying and characterizing chemical hazards to humans and ecosystems using computational biology methods. I am beginning the search for two postdocs now - stay tuned for more details! ewaldlab.org
- DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan. 21! Open to grads & undergrads, join the world of cancer prevention this summer Jun 3 to Aug 9 at MD Anderson with an NCI funded internship working with too cancer researchers & clinicians! Apply at bit.ly/CPRTP-Summer
- Our isoTWAS work with the Pasaniuc and Gandal labs is out at Nature Genetics! Great team effort, especially from Daniel Vo and Connor Jops. Appreciate the helpful and thoughtful comments from reviewers that improved our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- If you’re a trainee or know one looking for a postdoctoral position, let’s chat during ASHG this week!
- Come join me at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Texas Medical Center! I'm hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to lead genetic and molecular epidemiology projects to study breast cancer or pregnancy/childhood outcomes. More details here: bit.ly/pd_blgc2023
- Reposted by Arjun BhattacharyaThis is a Bluesky feed that tracks #WCPG2023 posts for the world congres of psychiatric genetics 2023, SUBSCRIBE!: bsky.app/profile/did:...
