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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · 9d

On World Heart Day, gain insights from @benoitbruneau.bsky.social, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. His personal connection to heart health drives innovative research at Gladstone. 🫀

Matters of the Heart: A Conversation with Gladstone's Benoit Bruneau

Bruneau, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, shares exciting recent advances in heart research and talks about the impact of predictive AI.

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · 8d

We invite you to join our seminar at UCSF Mission Bay campus with Nicky Whiffin from @ox.ac.uk
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Michael Snyder, @jacobkimmel.bsky.social, Dan Hart, Paul Donohoue, @chrishsiung.bsky.social, KT Moortgat, Kyle Farh, Shishi Luo, Xiao Yang, @jeffspence.github.io, Kathleen Barnes, Mike Schnall-Levin, Matthew Kellinger, and @diegoisworking.bsky.social for your 2025 IHG Symposium talks!

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to our 2025 IHG Symposium sponsors!
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · 28d

We invite you to join our seminar at UCSF Mission Bay campus with Brieuc Lehmann from @ucl.ac.uk
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are excited to inform you about the annual UCSF IHG Genotech Symposium, taking place on 9/22. The goal of this symposium is to foster collaboration and cross-fertilization between industry and academia in genetics and genomics. Hope to see you there!
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join @completegenomics.bsky.social for a focused lunch & learn seminar on Stereo-seq
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join our seminar with BioLegend to discover how TotalSeq can redefine your single-cell research and translational studies
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jul 18

We invite you to join our seminar at UCSF Mission Bay campus with Ramon Birnbaum from Ben-Gurion University
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are excited to inform you about the annual UCSF IHG Genotech Symposium, taking place on 9/22. The goal of this symposium is to foster collaboration and cross-fertilization between industry and academia in genetics and genomics. Hope to see you there!
genotech.ucsf.edu/home

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Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) @parkerici.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congratulations to @pelkalab.bsky.social (@gladstoneinst.bsky.social) on receiving the 2025 @aaas.org Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award. Her paradigm-shifting work in colorectal cancer is shaping the way we understand and potentially treat solid tumors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jun 30

Join us for a seminar to explore the latest innovations in single-cell DNA and multiomics technology with Dr. Adam Sciambi, Chief Technology Officer at @missionbio.bsky.social
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jun 20

Visit UCSF Mission Bay campus for our seminar with Wenqiang Yu from Fudan University
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jun 20

Join our virtual seminar with Meir Shamay from Bar-Ilan University
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Jun 9

Visit UCSF Mission Bay campus for our seminar with Ivan Ovcharenko from NCBI. Ivan has done amazing computational work to characterize the noncoding genome and is always great to talk science with!
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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · May 14

Check out our latest Science in Seconds video featuring Bruce Conklin and Bria Macklin. Conklin and Macklin describe how they use cells collected from patients with CMT to explore how they can use #GeneEditing as a therapeutic tool to treat the disease.
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Science in Seconds | Gladstone Researchers Tackle Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Disease

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · May 14

Visit UCSF Mission Bay campus for our seminar with Chris Gignoux from the University of Colorado
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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · May 8

Sukrit Silas and his colleagues discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it.

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Discovery Spotlight | Bacteria Activate Unusual Defense to Evade Viral Attack

Scientists at Gladstone and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try t...

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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · May 6

Gladstone President Deepak Srivastava explains how #CRISPR gene-editing technology is transforming medicine by providing a potential cure for sickle cell disease—a condition we've understood genetically for 50 years but couldn't treat until now.

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Gladstone Institutes @gladstoneinst.bsky.social · May 7

Karin Pelka (@pelkalab.bsky.social) and her interdisciplinary team are working to create novel immune-driven therapies that treat—and possibly even cure—the most widespread form of colorectal cancer.

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Karin Pelka Wins Grant to Advance Immunotherapy for Colorectal Cancer

The Colorectal Cancer Alliance has awarded Pelka a $500,000 grant to develop novel immunotherapies that overcome the most common form of colorectal cancer.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · May 7

🔈 Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social, invited speaker at #ICDB2025, leads the field in studying chromatin architecture and heart development. A must-hear talk for anyone in gene regulation and morphogenesis! ❤️🧬 🧪

An announcement slide in white and blue colors, with Benoit's name, the SDB ISDB and LASDB logos and text that says Plenary Session 3: Evolution and Development of Organ Systems. Saturday, June 21st 5-7pm.

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · May 5

Join us for a deep dive into the power of Oxford Nanopore sequencing for direct DNA and RNA methylation analysis
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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · May 2

Visit UCSF Mission Bay campus for our seminar with Tiago Faial from @nature.com @natgenet.nature.com
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UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social · May 1

Biggest congratulations to @atulbutte.bsky.social for being inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! A pioneer bioinformatics leader! @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/04...

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Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @ihgatucsf.bsky.social · Apr 22

Sarah will now be presenting virtually on Thursday 4/24. Hope to see you there!
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