Avantika Lal
avantikalal.bsky.social
Avantika Lal
@avantikalal.bsky.social
Principal AI scientist at Genentech. Previously NVIDIA, insitro, Stanford. AI + Genomics.
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And finally, we have a postdoc opening in our team. You’ll get to work on cutting edge models while gaining a unique perspective on how these tools can shape the future of AI in genomics. Join us! 15/15

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Regulatory Language Understanding (ReLU) Lab in South San Francisco, California, United States of America | Students & Graduates at Genentech
Apply for Postdoctoral Fellow - Regulatory Language Understanding (ReLU) Lab job with Genentech in South San Francisco, California, United States of America. Students & Graduates at Genentech
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Excited to share Nona: a unifying multimodal masking framework for functional genomics.

Models for DNA have evolved along separate paths: sequence-to-function (AlphaGenome), language models (Evo2), and generative models (DDSM).

Can these be unified under a single paradigm? 1/15
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The Starting Principal Investigators at #AITHYRA the Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence of the OeAW in Vienna invite outstanding candidates to apply for postdoctoral positions in the field of AI/ML & Life Sciences.
www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/post...
Please apply by 20 Nov 2025!
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🚨 Exciting opportunity! The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is recruiting exceptional postdocs for 2026 at the intersection of ML/math and biomedicine.
Shape the future of computational biology 🧵👇
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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gReLU advances deep learning based modeling and analysis of DNA sequences with comprehensive toolsets and versatile applications. @avantikalal.bsky.social @gokcen.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
gReLU: a comprehensive framework for DNA sequence modeling and design - Nature Methods
gReLU advances deep-learning-based modeling and analysis of DNA sequences with comprehensive toolsets and versatile applications.
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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My team has a postdoc position available now, join us!

careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
September 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'm happy to share that our gReLU package is now published in Nature Methods!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
gReLU: a comprehensive framework for DNA sequence modeling and design - Nature Methods
gReLU advances deep-learning-based modeling and analysis of DNA sequences with comprehensive toolsets and versatile applications.
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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We have a postdoc position in my team. Join us if you are passionate about genomics, human genetics, synthetic biology and agentic AI!

careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I’ll be in Boston for #ASHG25 next week and am looking forward to meeting everyone! Please ping me if you want to catch up, or catch me after my talk on Thursday morning (It’s the first thing on Thursday morning. I’m sure you all will be awake)
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Now that I'm settled in at @umasschan.bsky.social, I'm hiring at all levels: grad students, post-docs, and software engineers/bioinformaticians!

The goal of my lab is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in our genomes and how this changes across every cell in our bodies.
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Open rank tenure-track position in comp bio at the University of Montreal. Great environment, great position. @futurepislack.bsky.social

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medecine.umontreal.ca
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We have an exciting new opportunity for a postdoc in our team at Genentech! Please share.
My team has a postdoc position available now, join us!

careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...
September 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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scVerse conference is at Stanford this year! Encourage folks (especially Bay Area/West coast folks) to sign up and attend. Cool workshops/talks and other events + great community of developers for one of the most widely used open source software for single cell data analysis!
🎉 scverse conference 2025 Registration & Call for Abstracts NOW OPEN! 🎉
We're excited to announce that registration and the call for abstracts are officially open for the scverse Conference 2025!
Details in thread!
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August 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Job Alert: A stealth startup focused on non-cancer diagnostics is keen to hire a deep learning for genomics/bio engineer. I am an advisor for the startup & closely involved. Please see the job description below and get in touch if interested. Plz forward.
August 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease.

Details below
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa...

Plz RT
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Only a few days left to apply to become a group leader in our Generative Biology programme at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
www.sanger.ac.uk
Wellcome Sanger Institute - Genomics Research Institute in Cambridge
We are a world-leading genomics research institute in Cambridge. Our work helps improve human health and understand life on Earth
www.sanger.ac.uk
June 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Join us for our next Kipoi Seminar with Katherine Pollard, Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology,UCSF, Biohub
@gladstoneinst.bsky.social @czbiohub.bsky.social
👉Human variant interpretation with sequence-to-activity models
📅Wed June 4,5:30pm CET🧬 kipoi.org/seminar/🦋@kipoizoo.bsky.social
https://kipoi.org/seminar/🦋kipoizoo.bsky
May 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social is expanding and looking for ML-oriented computational biologists. Join our team based in NYC to work on cutting-edge single-cell & spatial transcriptomics methods in collaboration with leading research labs. bit.ly/4lTEr2t
Computational Biologist (Single-cell Genomics / ML) – Single-cell Analytics Innovation LabChaligne Lab Website
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May 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The premier conference on Machine Learning for Computational Biology is Sep 9-10 at the NY Genome Center in NYC!

Submission deadline is June 1 for 2-page abstracts and 8-page papers (eligible for proceedings track).

Registration is now open! (Link below)

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May 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Polygraph - a python package to characterize synthetic cis-regulatory elements - is published! Polygraph reveals regulatory mechanisms exploited by design methods, diagnoses out-of-distribution issues, and helps generate more realistic synthetic DNA. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Polygraph: a software framework for the systematic assessment of synthetic regulatory DNA elements - Genome Biology
The design of regulatory elements is pivotal in gene and cell therapy, where DNA sequences are engineered to drive elevated and cell-type specific expression. However, the systematic assessment of synthetic DNA sequences without robust metrics and easy-to-use software remains challenging. Here, we introduce Polygraph, a Python framework that evaluates synthetic DNA elements, based on features like diversity, motif and k-mer composition, similarity to endogenous sequences, and screening with predictive and foundational models. Polygraph is the first instrument for assessing synthetic regulatory sequences, enabling faster progress in therapeutic interventions and improving our understanding of gene regulatory mechanisms.
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is a beautiful study, I love it!
Out in Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social: Design principles of cell-state-specific enhancers in hematopoiesis
🧬🩸 screen of fully synthetic enhancers in blood progenitors
🤖 AI that creates new cell state specific enhancers
🔍 negative synergies between TFs lead to specificity!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Design principles of cell-state-specific enhancers in hematopoiesis
Screen of minimalistic enhancers in blood progenitor cells demonstrates widespread dual activator-repressor function of transcription factors (TFs) and enables the model-guided design of cell-state-sp...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Another exciting opportunity for all you AI+Bio researchers, this time in Belgium!
Our new call for VIB.AI group leaders is online! Junior and senior positions available to develop innovative ML methods in biology. With professorship at CS or Medical Faculty. Deadline 14th June. DM for more info.
We are looking for additional Group Leaders to join the growing computational biology community at VIB.

If you are excited about combining AI and machine learning with fundamental biology, we would love to hear from you!

https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/110906
May 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Back to @cshlnews.bsky.social for #BoG25! This time I’m giving a talk on deep learning for gene expression prediction on Thursday afternoon. And as always I’m amazed by how beautiful the campus is…
May 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Now the discovery of the 4th gene variant which promotes short sleep (4-6 hours) with full restfulness, potentially a path to a drug for sleep efficiency someday
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The SIK3-N783Y mutation is associated with the human natural short sleep trait | PNAS
Sleep is an essential component of our daily life. A mutation in human salt induced kinase 3 (hSIK3), which is critical for regulating sleep durati...
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May 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM