Harry Abiri and Cole Jensen, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidates, will be presenting their RIP talks on "Transformer-Based PLMs to Understand the Immune System Language" and “Inferring Naive B Cell Sequences from Clonal Lineages”.

Jess Graham and Andy Chu, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidates, will be presenting their RIP talks on "Mapping the Antigenic Landscape to Predict Immunotherapy Response in Renal Cell Carcinoma" and "Leveraging a Poisson Mixed-Effect Framework to Uncover Dynamic Single-Cell Expression QTLs".

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Yunzhe Jiang, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidate, will be presenting his RIP talk on "Comprehensive Analysis of Pseudogene Expression in Human and Macaque Brains compared with Other Tissues".

Yuhang Chen, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidate, will be presenting her RIP talk on "Personalized Mapping of Allele-Specific Chromatin Accessibility at Single-Cell Resolution".

Mingze Dong and Jake Sumner, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidates, will be presenting their RIP talks on "Understanding and Enhancing Mask-Based Pretraining towards Universal Biological Representations" and "Modeling Protein Polymers at Different layers of Coarse-Graining".

We're excited to introduce our incoming CBB PhD cohort! Each month, we'll spotlight a new student who has volunteered to share a bit about themselves.This month, we're pleased to feature Emilee Grisham, a first-year CBB PhD student.

Kriti Agrawal and Andrew Jia, Yale CBB Ph.D. candidates, will be presenting their RIP talks on "Deciphering Disease Dynamics using Spatial Transcriptomics" and "Genomic predictors of recurrent pregnancy loss".

Ruiqi Li and Donglu Bai, @YaleCBB Ph.D. candidates, will be presenting their RIP talks on "Cluster-Independent Multiscale Marker Identification in Single-cell RNA-seq Data using Localized Marker Detector (LMD)" and "Joint Model of Cell-type Specific RNA and Protein Expression".

For this week's RIP talk, Wes Lewis, a CBB Ph.D. candidate, will present his research project on "Identifying Evolutionary Signatures in Popular Music".

With the start of the new academic year, Yale CBB PhD students will begin presenting at the weekly Research-in-Progress (RIP) talks and journal clubs (JC)

Michelle Yu, a CBB Ph.D. candidate, will be presenting her RIP talk on "Using graph neural network to predict effects of genetic perturbations".