Munta

Bioinformatician | BiffiLab @CRUK_CI @Cambridge_Uni @DarwinCollege 🇮🇶🇹🇷🇬🇧

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

#PancreaticCancer, your days are numbered with this #team. 💜

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

Join us in London in July next year!

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

Excited to share our latest #PrePrint 🎉

https://t.co/vtiC8nslsO...

We wanted to understand how epithelial cell-fibroblast crosstalk is distinct in #PancreaticCancer and #Pancreatitis. This took us on a (long...) journey...have a read! Congrats to Wenlong and Munta. 💜

[Munta @Munta04]

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[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

Going from biotech to tech was an unexpectedly humbling experience, almost an egodeath. In biotech, doing bioinformatics during a PhD or postdoc is considered highly technical, you’re the “computer person” in a world of wet-lab scientists. But in tech, that experience doesn’t carry the same weight. If you haven’t trained a billion-parameter model or built a platform from scratch, you’re not seen as “technical” enough. The shift kinda forces you to rethink what being “technical” really means. Or perhaps we're in this bay area bubble of accusing each other of not being 'technical enough' till death takes us.

[CRUK Cambridge Institute @CRUK_CI]

We are seeking an experienced Bioinformatician to lead data analysis for a new research group.

If you have a passion for working with large-scale genomics datasets and a deep understanding of biological principles, please apply.

https://t.co/BfaS4EAucw

[Munta @Munta04]

Can't agree more ..

[Steven Salzberg 💙💛 @StevenSalzberg1]

Uh oh: deep learning models in genomics lose badly to very simple linear models. Could they have been over-hyped? (new paper by @s_anders_m @const_ae and Wolfgang Huber) https://t.co/NerMDHCMzv

[Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje]

For biological data, if you don't have deep expertise in this low value work called data cleaning, u r lacking a fundamental understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the data. Without this knowledge, it is impossible to seriously model data.

[Munta @Munta04]

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[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

🎉New research grant awarded by @PancreaticCanUK! @BiffiGiulia Group @CRUK_CI will work with @Gilbertson_Lab to explore how cancer cells communicate within #TumourMicroenvironment to promote growth in #PancreaticCancer & #LungCancer.

Read more👉https://t.co/MLTFFd46ZV

[Munta @Munta04]

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[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

🎉Huge congratulations to @Debi_Mukh @BiffiGiulia Group @CRUK_CI for being awarded the @MSCActions Postdoctoral Fellowship! She will explore how cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) contribute to #Cachexia in #PancreaticCancer.

Read more👉https://t.co/O7S33iaZZq

[Munta @Munta04]

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[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

🎉Huge congratulations to #WenlongLi @BiffiGiulia @CRUK_CI who has been awarded @CR_UK #ACED_EarlyCancer fellowship to uncover new biomarkers🎯 in fibroblasts for #EarlyDetection of #PancreaticCancer

Read more👉https://t.co/3rx8aePkoi

[scverse @scverse_team]

🎉 Scanpy 1.11.0 is out! 🎉 just after reaching 2000 stars on GitHub!

- sc.pp.sample replaces subsample with many new features
- Sparse Dask support pca
- session-info2 package for more reproducible notebooks

See the release notes: https://t.co/jRDHHlf9kX

[Munta @Munta04]

@DannGuerreroR @mathoncbro @pauldwkirk Congrats Dani!

[Munta @Munta04]

So excited and happy for @eloise_g_lloyd 👏🎊

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

🥳Happy to see @eloise_g_lloyd et al finally published!

A beautiful study looking at how distinct #genetics of malignant cells shape #PDACprogression, #TMEcomposition and #TherapyResponse.
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https://t.co/i3ZToI38gb

Also, for future posts see you on 🦋 @giuliabiffi.bsky.social

[Extracellular Matrix News @ExtracellMatrix]

A review to get you talking! 💬

@Pris_Cheng, Marta Zaccaria, and Dr. @BiffiGiulia discuss recently identified functional interactions of #CAF subtypes with immune cells, and other stromal cells in primary tumors and metastases. @CRUK_CI

📚 https://t.co/KwwYO0pyZf

[Anirban Maitra @Aiims1742]

A really comprehensive fibroblast review in primary and metastatic cancers! In @trendscancer from @BiffiGiulia @marta_zaccaria_ @Pris_Cheng
Wonderful job!
Illustrations below highlighting
(A) Cues that contribute to fibroblast heterogeneity in cancer
(B) Fibroblast Cancer cell crosstalk
(C) Fibroblast Immune cell crosstalk
(D) Fibroblast Stromal cell crosstalk
Link to manuscript below.
@CR_UK @CRUKresearch

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

🚨2024 is coming to a close but #research on #fibroblast_functions in #cancer is far from done ✅. If you want to know more, read our latest #review now in press @trendscancer.

Fantastic job by @Pris_Cheng and @marta_zaccaria_ 🌟👏🏻.

And happy 2025 🫶

https://t.co/0bka2q3uEn

[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

Our Plant & Bake Sale @CRUK_CI is ready to go! Come and support us to raise fund for @PancreaticCanUK and @CR_UK !

[Munta @Munta04]

@ShadiShafighi @NatureComms Congrats Shadii! Good work.

[CRUK Cambridge Centre: Pancreatic Cancer Programme @CRUKCamPancCan]

👋Meet our panel of experts - Dr Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia, a group leader @CRUK_CI, and member of Team #CANCAN @CancerGrand in our next #WorldPancreaticCancerDay💜webinar on #Cachexia!

Book you ticket & submit your question TODAY👉https://t.co/PYL3UYZMAg

[Munta @Munta04]

Do you have experience analyzing scRNA-seq and an interest in working with (extremely) lovely people to help analyze their data? Come and join us then ...

[Giulia Biffi @BiffiGiulia]

🚨We are 👀 for our next #Bioinformagician🚨

Do you have (preferably lots of) hands-on experience with single-cell/single-nuclei RNA-sequencing? Want to analyze our lab’s pancreatic cancer (and more) datasets?

Join us ⁦@CRUK_CI⁩!

Please RT 👇🏼 https://t.co/jJnIYaHMXG