Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
@cancerdynamics.bsky.social
The Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) focuses on the interplay between mathematical sciences and cancer research at Columbia University.
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The IICD Seminar Series returns this fall!
Join us monthly for talks from top minds in cancer dynamics—from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Human Technopole, and more.
📍2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom
📅 Full lineup: bit.ly/4kT5YPC
#CancerResearch #CompBio #Genomics #IICD
Join us monthly for talks from top minds in cancer dynamics—from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Human Technopole, and more.
📍2nd Wednesdays @ 2PM ET | Schermerhorn Hall 603 & Zoom
📅 Full lineup: bit.ly/4kT5YPC
#CancerResearch #CompBio #Genomics #IICD
Sharing a few pictures from a fantastic pre-Thanksgiving potluck between IICD members. #potluck #Thanksgiving
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sharing a few pictures from a fantastic pre-Thanksgiving potluck between IICD members. #potluck #Thanksgiving
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social Community Service is celebrating 79 years of supporting our neighbors in need. Here's how you can get involved during the season of giving! Meet the CCS grantees here and tap into the amazing work happening. Support CCS and give today: bit.ly/4asbFQg
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social Community Service is celebrating 79 years of supporting our neighbors in need. Here's how you can get involved during the season of giving! Meet the CCS grantees here and tap into the amazing work happening. Support CCS and give today: bit.ly/4asbFQg
📣 Opportunity: Fellowships in #PancreaticCancerDetection and #AI @italianacademy.bsky.social. See details below.
Deadline Dec 5. Fellowships: Pancreatic Cancer Detection/AI—& more.
Scadenza: 5 dicembre. Borse di ricerca sul Cancro al pancreas/intelligenza artificiale—e molto altro.
@Columbia. Details: tinyurl.com/iafellow26 #PancreaticCancerAwarenessMonth, #WorldPancreaticCancerDay, #PancSky
Scadenza: 5 dicembre. Borse di ricerca sul Cancro al pancreas/intelligenza artificiale—e molto altro.
@Columbia. Details: tinyurl.com/iafellow26 #PancreaticCancerAwarenessMonth, #WorldPancreaticCancerDay, #PancSky
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
📣 Opportunity: Fellowships in #PancreaticCancerDetection and #AI @italianacademy.bsky.social. See details below.
What an amazing first session to inaugurate our new workshop series, From Theory to Practice! Thank you to Dr. Sanket Rane for leading this hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop to establish foundational quantitative approaches for modeling the complexity of our immune system.
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
What an amazing first session to inaugurate our new workshop series, From Theory to Practice! Thank you to Dr. Sanket Rane for leading this hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop to establish foundational quantitative approaches for modeling the complexity of our immune system.
New research by IICD Member @khanhndinh.bsky.social and collaborators made the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Pathology. Their work was also highlighted in Nature Reviews Urology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New research by IICD Member @khanhndinh.bsky.social and collaborators made the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Pathology. Their work was also highlighted in Nature Reviews Urology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Congrats to Ed Reznik and the team on our paper "Lipidomic changes in persister cancer cells drive enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity" in the new journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress! www.sciexplor.com/articles/fos... (free w/ no subscription no APCs)
Lipidomic changes in persister cancer cells drive enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity
Aims: Unique in the broader category of drug-resistant cells, persister cancer cells (PSs) acquire their tolerance to compounds through reversible, chromatin-mediated changes, allowing them to ‘persis...
www.sciexplor.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Congrats to Ed Reznik and the team on our paper "Lipidomic changes in persister cancer cells drive enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity" in the new journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress! www.sciexplor.com/articles/fos... (free w/ no subscription no APCs)
Welcome to our newest member, Cody Slater, a MD-PhD student in Sanja Vickovic’s lab at @columbiaseas.bsky.social BME and @nygenome.org. Cody studies how different cell types work together in healthy tissues and how to target dysregulated cells in diseases like cancer.
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Welcome to our newest member, Cody Slater, a MD-PhD student in Sanja Vickovic’s lab at @columbiaseas.bsky.social BME and @nygenome.org. Cody studies how different cell types work together in healthy tissues and how to target dysregulated cells in diseases like cancer.
Reminder Columbia Researchers! Don’t miss our inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop on Nov 19 @ 2pm. Register by Nov. 17: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.
Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reminder Columbia Researchers! Don’t miss our inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop on Nov 19 @ 2pm. Register by Nov. 17: bit.ly/4hfpfL2
Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.
Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.
Thank you to Dr. Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who discussed cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...
Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thank you to Dr. Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who discussed cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...
Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...
Don't forget to watch our new Faces of IICD Video Series featuring Beatrice Grauman, a PhD student in the Vicković Lab @nygenome.org. ⤵️
Meet Beatrice Grauman, PhD student in the Vicković Lab at @nygenome.org 🌟. Her research explores tumor–microenvironment interactions and cancer evolution.
🎥Find out what inspires her outside the lab in our latest Faces of IICD feature
🔗 bit.ly/3K0Xidr
#FacesOfIICD #PhDLife #WomenInSTEM
🎥Find out what inspires her outside the lab in our latest Faces of IICD feature
🔗 bit.ly/3K0Xidr
#FacesOfIICD #PhDLife #WomenInSTEM
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Don't forget to watch our new Faces of IICD Video Series featuring Beatrice Grauman, a PhD student in the Vicković Lab @nygenome.org. ⤵️
Don’t forget to register for our next seminar! ⤵️
Next in our seminar series, Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who will discuss cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Don’t forget to register for our next seminar! ⤵️
New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine.
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine.
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com
Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.
@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads!
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads!
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch
📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP
The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social
Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience
The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.
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Please share🔉 We’re #hiring #AI #Engineers
@columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social
🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck
@columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social
🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck
October 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Please share🔉 We’re #hiring #AI #Engineers
@columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social
🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck
@columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social
🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck
🎥 The Institute for Cancer Dynamics continues to share research and insights on YouTube.
Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling.
youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics
Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling.
youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics
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October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🎥 The Institute for Cancer Dynamics continues to share research and insights on YouTube.
Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling.
youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics
Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling.
youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics
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Vicković Lab publishes a new study on colon aging #NBTintheNews via @cancerdynamics.bsky.social cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/vickovi...
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Vicković Lab publishes a new study on colon aging #NBTintheNews via @cancerdynamics.bsky.social cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/vickovi...
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Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - @nygenome.org @flatironinstitute.org @broadinstitute.org @cancerdynamics.bsky.social go.nature.com/47I1RBF
Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - Nature Biotechnology
cSplotch compares spatial transcriptomics data across ages and regions of mouse colon tissue.
go.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - @nygenome.org @flatironinstitute.org @broadinstitute.org @cancerdynamics.bsky.social go.nature.com/47I1RBF