@naveedtavakol
Postdoc at Columbia BME, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Lab. Tissue Engineer.🩸🔬| Interested in 3D models of blood stem cells, the immune system, and cancer | Alum of Columbia & UVa | #TSwift fan 🏳️🌈 sites.google.com/view/naveedtavakol/
Curious to learn more about Squidiff? Read our previous spotlight: bit.ly/3WRPNsx
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Nature Methods Cover
Cover feature!
🎉 Siyu He and colleagues appear on the January cover of @natmethods.nature.com for Squidiff, a diffusion AI model predicting cellular responses to developmental and chemical cues: www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...
Schematic of cell differentiation prediction (a) and drug response prediction (b).
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
#TissueTalks returns for our SIXTH year with a talk from @MIT Prof. Roger Kamm on Wed, Sept 10th at 3pm EST: "Transport processes in the brain: From delivery of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier to the clearance of amyloid beta."
See you there! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Last chance!! Abstracts due tonight!
Join us this fall for a @CSHL meeting (Sept 28 - Oct 1) on "Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models" in NY! We have a wonderful program with a dynamic set of speakers to bridge bioengineering tech with human tissue models.
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Join us this fall for a Cold Spring Harbor Lab meeting (Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2025) on "Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models" on Long Island, New York. Co-organized by myself, my advisor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic & collaborator Mirjana Maletic-Savatic:
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
Join us for the last Tissue Talk of the spring 2025 season with a seminar from ETH Zurich Prof Martin Fussenegger on “Powering Biology: the emerging frontier of electrogenetics.”
See you at 3pm EST: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Happening today at 3pm EST! Join us for a #TissueTalk with Drexel Prof Kara Spiller as she talks about “Biomaterials for engineering macrophages in regenerative medicine.”
See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Happening today at 3pm EST! JHU Prof. Warren Grayson joins us for a #TissueTalk titled "It takes a village to regenerate a tissue - probing the neural contributions to bone healing."
See you soon! bit.ly/tissuetalks
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 26th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Brown University Dean and Prof. Tejal Desai @tejaladesai.bsky.social on "Tuning the 'Structure' of Biomaterials for Cell-Based Therapy."
See you soon! RSVP/zoom link: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 26th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Brown University Dean and Prof. Tejal Desai @tejaladesai.bsky.social on "Tuning the 'Structure' of Biomaterials for Cell-Based Therapy."
See you soon! RSVP/zoom link: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Congratulations to Dr. Yuefei Zhu, @siyuhe.bsky.social, & all authors for their contributions, in addition to our funding sources TRISH, NIAID, NCI, & NSF for their support. It was a great pleasure to contribute to this work, & really proud of Yuefei for getting this project past the finish line!
Check out our new collaborative work with Dr. Kam Leong @columbiauniversity.bsky.social now out in Advanced Functional Materials! We developed oral nanoparticles to help mitigate hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome, especially in cases of deep space exploration:
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Screenshot of video of Brendan Harley - Why I study cancer
Why I Study Cancer
The cancers that are fatal today don't have to be tomorrow. Support for biomedical research enables generational shifts in how we treat cancer.
What a privilege to work at @cancercenteril. Work funded by National Institutes of Health
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Honored to be featured in this podcast about careers in Tissue Engineering! Always a pleasure to chat with superstar @naveedtavakol.bsky.social from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Listen to learn more about the challenges and joys of becoming a Professor of BME! @nyutandon.bsky.social
"Career Conversations" follows a unique group of speakers through the different career options available to early career #bioengineers! Episodes can be found on our website nextgenterc.com/podcast or Spotify/Apple Music (or wherever you get your podcasts)...!!
@irenedelazaro.bsky.social
Check out our new episode of the #TERC podcast series "Career Conversations", ft. my friend & @nyutandon.bsky.social Prof. Dr. @irenedelazaro.bsky.social, where she describes her diverse international research experiences, starting up her lab, & the BME community.
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Join us tomorrow, Feb. 19th at 3pm EST as Prof. Jeff Hubbell from NYU joins us for #TissueTalks to discuss "Engineering the microenvironment in regeneration and inflammation."
See you soon: bit.ly/tissuetalks @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 12th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with a pioneer in the cancer, hematopoiesis, and stem cell fields from @StanfordMed Dr. Irv Weissman!
See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Join us today, Wed. Feb 5th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with
@mitofficial.bsky.social @wyssinstitute.bsky.social Prof. Ellen Roche on "Tissue talks and tissue moves: replicating tissue motion for simulation and organ assistance."
See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 29th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk from a pioneer in the stem cell field, Stanford Prof. Helen Blau, on "Targeting a gerozyme to increase muscle strength."
See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
#TissueTalks are back for Spring 2025! Join us tomorrow, Wed., Jan. 22nd at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Prof. Tal Danino from our very own dept to discuss "Engineering bacteria for cancer therapy."
See you soon: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-E0gHU6CT3enyf0mJH1LZw#/registration
#TissueTalks are back for Spring 2025! Join us tomorrow, Wed., Jan. 22nd at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with Prof. Tal Danino from our very own dept to discuss "Engineering bacteria for cancer therapy."
See you soon: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-E0gHU6CT3enyf0mJH1LZw#/registration
And thanks so much to the NIH NIBIB (& Nikhith Kalkunte) for this really nice write up about our work:
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Our paper was recently chosen as one of the covers of Advanced Science for their Nov 2024 issue: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Join us for a #TissueTalk TODAY at 3pm EST from Prof. Darrell Irvine @MIT on “modulating immunity with leukocyte-anchored cytokines.”
See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks
Given the scRNA data on day 0 and day 3, can we predict the data on day 1, day 2 and further? Squidiff predicts this differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into mesendoderm and endoderm, guided by stimuli vectors. 3/🦑
We are thrilled to share #Squidiff 🦑, a conditional diffusion model, which generates new transcriptomes that represent distinct cellular states, and its application to cell differentiation and drug perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/🦑
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