USC Dept. of Quantitative & Computational Biology

Notification of tenure! So many people to thank, my wife and foundation Simone, family, members of the lab: Soyeon Ahn, Jingwen Ren, Robel Dagnew, Tsung-Yu Lu, Quentin Yang, Keon Rabbani, Walfred Ma, Ishaan Thota, Seung-Jae Kim, and Dhaivat Joshi, the @qcb_usc

“It’s fairly easy to trace my mother’s side of the family back to the early 1500s... But my father is African American. We are no longer able to trace anything because of the lack of genealogical records.” Read about @Jazlyn_Mooney's landmark study: today.usc.edu/ancestry-slave…

Great way to end the day talking to @usc @USCDornsife undergrad #datascientists about #bigdata in #CancerResearch through peer-to-peer research course developed by @ellisoninst interns (Kate Guion Nicole Black Kayla Xu) w/ @qcb_usc #trainingthenextgeneration #forpatientbenefit

Congratulations to professor Helen Berman! dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/s…

The July GENETICS cover image of a double-helix drill bit forged in 1820 by enslaved blacksmith Solomon Williams accompanies a study from J.A. Mooney et al. on the genetic and genealogical history of African Americans from the 17th century to the 1960s. academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

Published in Cancer Immunology Research - @AACR, Drs. @RoussosTorres & MacLean demonstrated importance of MDSC dynamics as a crucial predictor of outcomes in breast-to-lung metastasis and a possible therapeutic target. Link: aacrjournals.org/cancerimmunolr… @USCDornsife @KECKSchool_USC

Making #data #FAIR is important- esp Reusable for next gen of #DataScientists. Proud of @qcb_usc #QBIO undergrads that spent the semester learning to use #TCGA #CPTAC from Nicole B & Kate G @ellisoninst. Grateful to @AnnaBarker20 for motivating them to do more #forpatientbenefit