Armita Nourmohammad
thearmita.bsky.social
Armita Nourmohammad
@thearmita.bsky.social
physicist, interested in biology --- Assoc. Prof. of physics @UW
(Seattle)
excited to announce that this January we are relocating to Yale to start a theory initiative at the Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI): @yalecsei.bsky.social

looking to hire 2 postdocs to join us in this endeavor.

more details can be found here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/statp...
SPE - join us
Postdoctoral position: In January 2026, we are relocating to Yale university to start a theory initiative at the Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI). We are looking for talented postd...
sites.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reposted by Armita Nourmohammad
The Mahan postdoctoral fellowship offers 21 months of support to develop your own research with Fred Hutch computational biology faculty-- lots of excellent labs to choose from!
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/172697
Faculty: www.fredhutch.org/en/research...
Herbold Computational Biology Faculty & Labs
www.fredhutch.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
excited that this paper is finally out in @pnas.org :
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Led by Gian Marco Visani (effort initiated by Michael Pun), fantastic collaboration with @pgtimmune.bsky.social @asya-minervina.bsky.social and Phil Bradley.
October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
check out our manuscript (led by Obinna Ukogu) on Design principles of cytotoxic T-cell response: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Reposted by Armita Nourmohammad
Wanted to highlight our latest preprint--a huge effort by multiple people and labs, but led primarily by @wsdewitt.github.io, Tatsuya Araki, and Ashni Vora, in a very close wet-dry collaboration with @matsen.bsky.social’s lab at the Hutch

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape
Darwinian evolution of immunoglobulin genes within germinal centers (GC) underlies the progressive increase in antibody affinity following antigen exposure. Whereas the mechanics of how competition be...
www.biorxiv.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Armita Nourmohammad
Recasting the perils of phylodynamic non-identifiability as a feature not a bug, we show that a unique forward-equivalent process enables exact and efficient simulation from arbitrarily large populations. With M Celentano, S Prillo, @yun-s-song.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2412978122
May 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
check out our new manuscript (led by Gian Marco Visani):

structure-based machine learning model for TCR-pMHC complexes, predicting T-cell affinity to peptide-MHC complexes, quantifying T-cell receptor specificity, and designing de-novo immunogenic peptides:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.00648
March 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM