Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D.
@denbonte.bsky.social
Doing fun AI/imaging genetics research @unil.bsky.social 🫀🧬
Former Research Scholar @ AIM Harvard 🇺🇸 and PhD @maastrichtu.bsky.social 🇳🇱
I love coding, reading, video games, and fitness 👀
Former Research Scholar @ AIM Harvard 🇺🇸 and PhD @maastrichtu.bsky.social 🇳🇱
I love coding, reading, video games, and fitness 👀
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This year’s #ESHG 🧬 in Milan 🇮🇹 couldn’t have wrapped up better.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
Reposted by Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D.
Dirigée par @zkutalik.bsky.social et @rjhfmstr.bsky.social à la @fbm-unil.bsky.social, au @sib.swiss et à #unisanté, une nouvelle étude publiée dans @nature.com présente une méthode computationnelle innovante pour étudier ces effets liés à l’origine parentale.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals - Nature
A novel multistep strategy reveals how parent-of-origin effects shape complex traits in large-scale biobanks.
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Dirigée par @zkutalik.bsky.social et @rjhfmstr.bsky.social à la @fbm-unil.bsky.social, au @sib.swiss et à #unisanté, une nouvelle étude publiée dans @nature.com présente une méthode computationnelle innovante pour étudier ces effets liés à l’origine parentale.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This year’s #ESHG 🧬 in Milan 🇮🇹 couldn’t have wrapped up better.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
May 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This year’s #ESHG 🧬 in Milan 🇮🇹 couldn’t have wrapped up better.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
Particularly interesting talk from @rjhfmstr.bsky.social @ #ESHG25. Impressive work coming out of @unil.bsky.social 🧬🚀
May 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Particularly interesting talk from @rjhfmstr.bsky.social @ #ESHG25. Impressive work coming out of @unil.bsky.social 🧬🚀
✨ What if your face could tell something about how old your body really is?
Excited to share our latest paper just published in The Lancet Digital Health (open access!)
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Excited to share our latest paper just published in The Lancet Digital Health (open access!)
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
FaceAge, a deep learning system to estimate biological age from face photographs to improve prognostication: a model development and validation study
Our results suggest that a deep learning model can estimate biological age from face
photographs and thereby enhance survival prediction in patients with cancer. Further
research, including validation...
www.thelancet.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
✨ What if your face could tell something about how old your body really is?
Excited to share our latest paper just published in The Lancet Digital Health (open access!)
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Excited to share our latest paper just published in The Lancet Digital Health (open access!)
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New #preprint alert 🚀
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Did you know arteries can expand to compensate for bad cardiovascular health? A thread! 🫀🧬🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Did you know arteries can expand to compensate for bad cardiovascular health? A thread! 🫀🧬🧵
Genetic Insights from Automated Lumen Diameter Measurements in Carotid Ultrasounds of the UK Biobank
Carotid ultrasound is routinely used in clinical practice for non-invasive vascular anatomical and functional assessment, such as measuring carotid Intima-Media Thickness (cIMT), an important marker f...
www.medrxiv.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New #preprint alert 🚀
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Did you know arteries can expand to compensate for bad cardiovascular health? A thread! 🫀🧬🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Did you know arteries can expand to compensate for bad cardiovascular health? A thread! 🫀🧬🧵
First post on @bsky.app had to be a blue sky with some friends chilling under it. Behold the mascots of @unil.bsky.social roaming around the campus day in day out 🐑🐏
January 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
First post on @bsky.app had to be a blue sky with some friends chilling under it. Behold the mascots of @unil.bsky.social roaming around the campus day in day out 🐑🐏