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Scott Adamson
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Post-doc studying genetics and post-transcriptional gene regulation. Outdoor hobbyist, sports fan, and amateur critter photographer.
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SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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KATMAP infers splicing factor activity and regulatory targets from knockdown data - @daspliceisright.bsky.social go.nature.com/47ycrMJ
KATMAP infers splicing factor activity and regulatory targets from knockdown data - Nature Biotechnology
A biophysical model uses knockdown or overexpression data to infer splicing factor activity.
go.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Happy #RNA Day everyone!!! 🎉🎉🎉

#AUG1st #RNASky
a 3d rendering of a colorful dna molecule with a black background
ALT: a 3d rendering of a colorful dna molecule with a black background
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August 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Excited for this to be out officially! It was a great team effort and has a lot of useful tidbits for studying isoform function. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cas13d-mediated isoform-specific RNA knockdown with a unified computational and experimental toolbox - Nature Communications
The majority of human genes can produce multiple isoforms, but studying their functional relevance requires tools to target specific isoforms. Here, the authors develop a CRISPR-based exon-exon juncti...
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function go.nature.com/4mc1SmQ
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function - Nature Biotechnology
RNA-binding motifs in eukaryotic proteins are presented in a comprehensive resource.
go.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Very excited that our most significant work, a collaboration w/ Dr. Can Cenik at UT Austin on translational gene regulation, was finally published in Nature Biotechnology in a dual set of studies:

Paper 1 -- an AI model trained to predict translation rates from mRNA sequences: rdcu.be/exN1l
Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells
Nature Biotechnology - A deep convolutional neural network model predicts the influence of the full-length mRNA sequence on translation efficiency.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Love RNA biology and care about reproducibility? I’m co-editing a @bio-protocol.bsky.social special issue with @marionhogg.bsky.social & Renate Weizbauer —focusing open access and transparent RNA detection protocols.
Submit yours today - en.bio-protocol.org/content17
#OpenScience #ReproRNAbiology
July 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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New 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...
Perplexity as a Metric for Isoform Diversity in the Human Transcriptome
Long-read sequencing (LRS) has revealed a far greater diversity of RNA isoforms than earlier technologies, increasing the critical need to determine which, and how many, isoforms per gene are biologic...
www.biorxiv.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Our new contribution to the quest to find causal GWAS genes! Sam Ghatan from my lab at @nygenome.org led a systematic comparison of eQTLs and CRISPRi+scRNA-seq screens. TL;DR: they provide highly complementary insights, with ortogonal pros and cons. 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Excited to share our first foray into (noncoding) rare variant association testing: a probabilistic model that learns functional annotation importance and finds associations missed by existing methods. Anjali did a fantastic job with model assessment and scaling! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Leveraging functional annotations to map rare variants associated with Alzheimer's disease with gruyere
The increasing availability of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has begun to elucidate the contribution of rare variants (RVs), both coding and non-coding, to complex disease. Multiple RV association tes...
www.medrxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Finally I'm in a top percentile of scientists!
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
November 26, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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If we post enough complementary Heng Li memes, he'll surely join.
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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New preprint alert! EuPRI has everything:

* New binding data (174 RBPs)
* New motifs (34,000 RBPs)
* New ML for inferring motifs from protein sequence (JPLE)
* Evolution of RBP motifs across eukaryotes
* 12 Plant RBPs assigned PTR function. Stay tuned for more

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reconstructing the sequence specificities of RNA-binding proteins across eukaryotes
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are key regulators of gene expression. Here, we introduce EuPRI (Eukaryotic Protein-RNA Interactions) — a freely available resource of RNA motifs for 34,736 RBPs from 690 e...
www.biorxiv.org
October 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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We're recruiting postdocs! Join our lab at 
@scilifelab.bsky.social and KTH in Stockholm to work on functional genomics at the experimental and/or computational intersection of CRISPR/scRNA-seq/genetics approaches. Close links to our team at NY Genome Center. 1/
April 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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For those in the NY area, SAVE THE DATE (& register) for a Symposium on Human Genetics at Columbia University: Oct 10-11 2024. Talks will also be streamed.
March 13, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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You got the kind of hedgehog that can be so smooth, yeah
Give me your heart, make it real, or else forget about it
December 22, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Gotta love a surprise Grinch on a motorcycle and Polar Express while wandering around town.
December 9, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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Spurred on by ribosome profiling and other cool methods, translation elongation has grown into a whole field with new surprises all the time (and new relevance for vaccine mRNAs!). Here’s our latest on why synonymous codons aren’t all the same. (Thread) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Codon optimality modulates protein output by tuning translation initiation
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2023 at 7:07 AM
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Very excited to share the first manuscript out of my PhD presenting our analysis into the genetic architecture of gene expression and splicing using blood RNA-seq of 4,732 blood donors from the INTERVAL study. (1/7)
Genetic determinants of blood gene expression and splicing and their contribution to molecular pheno...
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
www.medrxiv.org
November 28, 2023 at 12:00 PM
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Inside of you is one homer, what is your homer?
October 25, 2023 at 4:45 AM
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Interested in doing a PhD with me in Sweden? Experimental+computational genomics skills and/or interests? We have an open position! Great environment at KTH on @SciLifeLab campus, staff benefits, well-funded project, close interactions with our New York team. kth.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
October 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Is there any etiquette for sharing science threads from X for research that isn't mine (and I can't find the poster/author on bluesky)?
October 4, 2023 at 12:34 PM