Luca Pinello
@lucapinello.bsky.social
Computational methods for epigenetic, CRISPR genome editing and single-cell genomics. Associate Professor at MGH / Harvard Medical School. http://pinellolab.org
🚨 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 🧵👇
Shape the future of computational biology 🧵👇
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
🚨 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 🧵👇
Shape the future of computational biology 🧵👇
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I'm happy to share that our gReLU package is now published in Nature Methods!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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
I'm happy to share that our gReLU package is now published in Nature Methods!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧬Excited to be at #ASHG2025! My lab is presenting 5 studies this week. Join us for talks and posters on #SingleCell #CRISPR, #DeepLearning & more! Thread below with all presentation details 👇
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🧬Excited to be at #ASHG2025! My lab is presenting 5 studies this week. Join us for talks and posters on #SingleCell #CRISPR, #DeepLearning & more! Thread below with all presentation details 👇
Reposted by Luca Pinello
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
Reposted by Luca Pinello
I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:
Beneath the surface of the sum
When genetic interactions matter and when they don't
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:
Reposted by Luca Pinello
🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form
🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
💻 Code: corneto.org
🧵 Thread 👇
🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
💻 Code: corneto.org
🧵 Thread 👇
July 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form
🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
💻 Code: corneto.org
🧵 Thread 👇
🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
💻 Code: corneto.org
🧵 Thread 👇
Reposted by Luca Pinello
Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU
Multiplexed assays of variant effect for clinical variant interpretation
Nature Reviews Genetics - Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are highly scalable experimental approaches used to generate functional data for genetic variants. In this Review, McEwen et...
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU
Excited to be at #ISMBECCB2025! I'll be presenting at RegSys on "Learning the Regulatory Genome by Destruction and Creation" (Thursday 3:15PM in Room 11BC). I'm looking forward to connecting with both new and old friends throughout the conference! 🧬 #CRISPR #Genomics #Diffusion
July 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Excited to be at #ISMBECCB2025! I'll be presenting at RegSys on "Learning the Regulatory Genome by Destruction and Creation" (Thursday 3:15PM in Room 11BC). I'm looking forward to connecting with both new and old friends throughout the conference! 🧬 #CRISPR #Genomics #Diffusion
🧵 It's raining outside, perfect for some vibe coding... ☔
So I built something cool with @anthropic.com's Claude Desktop!
Introducing Claude Text Editor - edit ANY text, ANYWHERE on macOS with Claude's help. No more copy-paste gymnastics! 🚀
So I built something cool with @anthropic.com's Claude Desktop!
Introducing Claude Text Editor - edit ANY text, ANYWHERE on macOS with Claude's help. No more copy-paste gymnastics! 🚀
June 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
🧵 It's raining outside, perfect for some vibe coding... ☔
So I built something cool with @anthropic.com's Claude Desktop!
Introducing Claude Text Editor - edit ANY text, ANYWHERE on macOS with Claude's help. No more copy-paste gymnastics! 🚀
So I built something cool with @anthropic.com's Claude Desktop!
Introducing Claude Text Editor - edit ANY text, ANYWHERE on macOS with Claude's help. No more copy-paste gymnastics! 🚀
Great to see it finally out —such a fantastic collaboration with @bkleinstiver.bsky.social , @rachelsilverstein9.bsky.social and team!
In @nature.com we describe the use of scalable #proteinengineering & #machinelearning to predict millions of bespoke CRISPR enzymes, offering safer & more efficient genome editing tools 🧬🖥️ @rachelsilverstein9.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning - Nature
Nature - Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Great to see it finally out —such a fantastic collaboration with @bkleinstiver.bsky.social , @rachelsilverstein9.bsky.social and team!
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Excited to share James Jusuf's preprint:
By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%)
We quantify mESC 36k loops: are generally rare (2.3%)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%)
We quantify mESC 36k loops:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Excited to share James Jusuf's preprint:
By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%)
We quantify mESC 36k loops: are generally rare (2.3%)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%)
We quantify mESC 36k loops:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Luca Pinello
Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Transcript-specific enrichment enables profiling of rare cell states via single-cell RNA sequencing - Nature Genetics
Programmable Enrichment via RNA FlowFISH by sequencing (PERFF-seq) isolates rare cells based on RNA marker transcripts for single-cell RNA sequencing profiling of complex tissues, with applicability t...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/ 🎄 What’s the best gift under the tree for a computational biologist? 🎁 A new experimental assay that refines our view of gene regulation: ACCESS-ATAC! This creative idea from Richard Sherwood was developed collaboratively between his lab and mine. #Genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM
1/ 🎄 What’s the best gift under the tree for a computational biologist? 🎁 A new experimental assay that refines our view of gene regulation: ACCESS-ATAC! This creative idea from Richard Sherwood was developed collaboratively between his lab and mine. #Genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to be visiting Duke University to share insights on computational methods for single-cell genomics and CRISPR genome editing! Thank you for hosting me
@yi-zhang-compbio.bsky.social 🙏
@yi-zhang-compbio.bsky.social 🙏
Happening this week with special guest @lucapinello.bsky.social! Check out dmpi.duke.edu/duke-single-... for more information.
We hope to see you all there 🧬
We hope to see you all there 🧬
December 18, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Excited to be visiting Duke University to share insights on computational methods for single-cell genomics and CRISPR genome editing! Thank you for hosting me
@yi-zhang-compbio.bsky.social 🙏
@yi-zhang-compbio.bsky.social 🙏
Amazing new assay that allows testing of multiple DNA sequences, similar to MPRA, but in an endogenous setting. Incredible potential! Congrats @jk-swietek.bsky.social , @bartdeplancke.bsky.social and the entire team – grateful and lucky to be an early adopter. Check it out!
Finally out! We present EXTRA-seq, a new EXTended Reporter Assay to quantify endogenous enhancer-promoter communication at kb scale!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A 🧵about what it can do:
#SynBio #DeepLearning #GeneRegulation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A 🧵about what it can do:
#SynBio #DeepLearning #GeneRegulation
EXTRA-seq: a genome-integrated extended massively parallel reporter assay to quantify enhancer-promoter communication
Precise control of gene expression is essential for cellular function, but the mechanisms by which enhancers communicate with promoters to coordinate this process are not fully understood. While seque...
biorxiv.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Amazing new assay that allows testing of multiple DNA sequences, similar to MPRA, but in an endogenous setting. Incredible potential! Congrats @jk-swietek.bsky.social , @bartdeplancke.bsky.social and the entire team – grateful and lucky to be an early adopter. Check it out!
Attending #NeurIPS2024 this week and excited to connect with anyone exploring the intersection of #GenerativeAI, #DeepLearning, and #Genomics! I’m presenting our DNA-diffusion work at the LatinX in AI workshop today at 2:30—drop by if you’re around. Looking forward to meeting and learning from you!
December 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Attending #NeurIPS2024 this week and excited to connect with anyone exploring the intersection of #GenerativeAI, #DeepLearning, and #Genomics! I’m presenting our DNA-diffusion work at the LatinX in AI workshop today at 2:30—drop by if you’re around. Looking forward to meeting and learning from you!
Excited to visit the @humantechnopole.bsky.social 🇮🇹today to share our work on computational approaches in functional genomics! Looking forward to discussions with amazing scientists about #singlecell, #CRISPR, and #syntheticbiology. 🧬Special thanks to @nicolesoranzo for the invitation 🙏
December 2, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Excited to visit the @humantechnopole.bsky.social 🇮🇹today to share our work on computational approaches in functional genomics! Looking forward to discussions with amazing scientists about #singlecell, #CRISPR, and #syntheticbiology. 🧬Special thanks to @nicolesoranzo for the invitation 🙏
Hello World! Very glad to be here and see the scientific community growing 🌱. It’s so refreshing to scroll through a feed full of exciting science! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and collaborators and meeting new ones. Let’s keep the science flowing! 🌟
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Hello World! Very glad to be here and see the scientific community growing 🌱. It’s so refreshing to scroll through a feed full of exciting science! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and collaborators and meeting new ones. Let’s keep the science flowing! 🌟
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Interested in #singlecell and #spatial #metabolomics? Then book your calendar for December 10th! – Our online, free event will summarize major achievements of the field in 2024. #metabolism #omics #MALDI #EPFL With Giovanni D'Angelo and our #PhD students we prepared for you a fantastic lineup. 🧵 1/5
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Interested in #singlecell and #spatial #metabolomics? Then book your calendar for December 10th! – Our online, free event will summarize major achievements of the field in 2024. #metabolism #omics #MALDI #EPFL With Giovanni D'Angelo and our #PhD students we prepared for you a fantastic lineup. 🧵 1/5
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There are ~40k postdocs in the US, according to the NIH. While PhD students generally have good support (their committees, external advisors, and classmates), the postdocs do not. To help with this, we're starting the 'Postdoc Night Science' club in Boston this Thursday! (1/3)
November 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM
There are ~40k postdocs in the US, according to the NIH. While PhD students generally have good support (their committees, external advisors, and classmates), the postdocs do not. To help with this, we're starting the 'Postdoc Night Science' club in Boston this Thursday! (1/3)