Group Meetings

Wednesdays at 10:00am, the 6th floor conference room

 Presentation dateProgress ReportJournal Club
2026   
March   
 4/8Di"UniversalEPI: Harnessing Attention Mechanisms to Decode Chromatin Interactions in Rare and Unexplored Cell Types" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624813v1
 4/29Xiaoqin"Widespread low-affinity motifs enhance chromatin accessibility and regulatory potential in mESCs" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.685822v1.full
 5/20Jaya"Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09221-6



Papers to present:
"Uncovering the whole genome silencers of human cells via Ss-STARR-seq" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-55852-8)
"An expanded registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09909-9)
"A plasma proteomics-based candidate biomarker panel predictive of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03890-6)
Borzoi (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.555582v1.full.pdf)
"Increased enhancer–promoter interactions during developmental enhancer activation in mammals" Nature Genetics. Kvon Lab
"Range extender mediates long-distance enhancer activity" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09221-6 Nature. Kvon Lab
"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55513-2
UniversalEPI: Harnessing Attention Mechanisms to Decode Chromatin Interactions in Rare and Unexplored Cell Types
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624813v1
Evaluation of deep learning approaches for high-resolution chromatin accessibility prediction from genomic sequence
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.641000v1.abstract
Deep learning-based models for preimplantation mouse and human embryos based on single-cell RNA sequencing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02511-3#Sec19
SHAP: https://shap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
"Long-range massively parallel reporter assay reveals rules of distal enhancer-promoter interactions"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.21.649048v1.full
"Widespread low-affinity motifs enhance chromatin accessibility and regulatory potential in mESCs"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.18.685822v1.full
"Functional dissection of complex trait variants at single-nucleotide resolution"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10121-6


Project discussions (Monday meetings)

  • Monday, 9:00 am - Xiaoqin
  • Monday, 9:30 am - Jaya
  • Monday, 10:00 am - Di
  • Monday, 10:30 am - Gaetano


Acknowledgement (included in publications)
This resea­rch was suppo­rted [in part] by the Intra­mural Resea­rch Progr­am of the Natio­nal Insti­tutes of Healt­h (NIH). The contr­ibuti­ons of the NIH autho­r(s) are consi­dered Works of the Unite­d State­s Gover­nment­. The findi­ngs and concl­usion­s prese­nted in this paper are those of the autho­r(s) and do not neces­saril­y refle­ct the views of the NIH or the U.S. Depar­tment of Healt­h and Human Servi­ces. 

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