Daniel M Spagnolo

I’m running the Cambridge Half Marathon next month! My charity bib is sponsored by Petals, who provide and promote specialist counselling for parents across the UK following baby loss. Please consider donating to them via the link below if you’re able.

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Excellent @fogenomics.bsky.social session on AI in drug discovery chaired by @tomdiethe.com w/ an extremely succinct explanation of different generative models & the utility of synthetic data from Helena Andres Terre & a vision for disrupting the drug discovery paradigm/timeline from Sergei Yakneen

An RNA foundation model enables discovery of disease mechanisms and candidate therapeutics Accurately modeling and predicting RNA biology has been a long-standing challenge, bearing significant clinical ramifications for variant interpretation and the formulation of tailored therapeutics. W...

One of my favorite talks of the day at @fogenomics.bsky.social was Brendan Frey from Deep Genomics discussing the advantages of foundation models with the use case of predicting RNA regulatory mechanisms and designing RNA therapeutics. More details at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ExCeL London / @fogenomics.bsky.social catering to its captive audience of nerds with an X-Wing Starfighter on display #starwars #rebelalliance

Great talk at Festival of Genomics this morning from @adamrutherford.bsky.social on scientific racism & the eugenic origins of the field of genetics. One takeaway: “standard genetics teaching increases racist essentialist thinking” in students, instead we should start by introducing complex traits.

Excited to attend the Festival of Genomics, which also bookmarks my 1 year milestone at Artios! Looking forward to hearing from the diverse roster of speakers, and making some professional connections.