Artem Babaian

This is the most consciousness-expanding project I've had the pleasure to contribute to: 🧬 We assembled all 27 million sequencing datasets / 44 petabases, and can search it in hours 🤯 🌎🧬 Next goal: SRA-scale BLAST search in sub 60 seconds

A history of viral encephalitis is one of the strongest risk factors for developing dementia. With @JacobJacobog02, Yifan Chen, @RNA_Life, and @RyanDhindsa, we refine this link by describing a neuronal cell type that can reactivate HSV-1 in humans 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

🧬5/5 #Genomics is our shared evolutionary heritage. We re-imagine public sequencing data not as an archive, but a living digital twin of Earth’s Genome. Infrastructure like 🗻Logan🗻 will help unlock this frontier of genetic diversity 🌎🧬 Preprint🔗: doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

🧵4/5 Analyzing this as an 'in-silico ecosystem', we find PV biodiversity hotspots in East Africa and South America, and show that undersampl biomes like Tropical Forests or Mangroves disproportionately yield viral diversity.

🧬Ultra fast petabase-scale virus discovery is here! 🚀 In our lab’s newest preprint, Jess explores the biodiversity of Papillomaviruses (PVs) in record time 🧵1/5 👇 🔗: doi.org/10.64898/2026

Molecular Genetics @ University of Toronto 🇨🇦@UofT🦠 is recruiting an Assistant Professor in #Virology!! Come build your dream lab! 🔗jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

@jbsteinberg If Academia is your job, you're ganna have a bad time. If Academia is a continuation of your learning beyond the known, it's the best profession.

Tenured academia is really not "just a job." - can't be fired. - get a 5-month summer break. - complete flexibility on schedule/wfh - study what interests you -get paid more than enough to live comfortably. It's completely rational to work insanely hard to get this!

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on induced proximity and functional genomics! Join our team in Toronto 🇨🇦 to tackle major challenges in oncology and neurodegeneration. nature.com/naturecareers/…

@jbhuang0604 Essential Viewing: youtube.com/watch?v=03VVfk…

What's your best advice for students/postdocs who want to go on to the academic job market in 1-2 years? (crowdsourcing this for a talk I’m giving next week!)

@jbhuang0604 Trust your own instincts, and do what you think is the most important use of your time. Institutions serve scientists, not the other way around.

@UofT @uoft_intl @UTM @UTSC @workingatuoft @univcan @OntUniv @U15ca Now is the time to come to UofT as a PostDoc 😉 --> jobrxiv.org/job/university…

#UofT launches $24-million program to create 100 new postdoctoral positions, accelerate independent research ➡️ uoft.me/bZI

Turn your #PostDoc into a Global Impact. 🌍 Join @UofT/#RNAlab to evolve plastic-degrading enzymes #SynBio. 🧬🔬 SYNTHETIC + MOLECULAR BIOLOGY on MICROPLASTICS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW @RNA_Life University of Toronto See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/university… #enzymology #microplastics #moleculargenetics #syntheticbiology #Yeastgenetics #ScienceJobs jobrxiv.org/job/university…

MetaGraph: A Landmark paper in Petabase-scale Genomics is _finally_ out! 🚀🚀 Congrats Andre + Co. making the world's sequencing data🧬 available in a major achievement for the field. 🚀🚀

After years of research and continuous refinement, we’re thrilled to share that our paper on the MetaGraph framework — enabling Petabase-scale search across sequencing data — has been published today in Nature (nature.com/articles/s4158…).

Now online, our work in nucleorhabdoviruses

A warm welcome to Donnelly's newest Faculty member, Dr. Khalid Al-Zahrani! Our next news story will talk about his research and his journey; from elementary school trips to Canada Science and Technology Museum, to the first time he did bench work.

Have you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain of a hackathon? Our most recent article covers everything, from the creation of the winning projects to the private judging deliberations. Read it here: thedonnellycentre.utoronto.ca/news/anatomy-c…

One year after our initial preprint, we're excited to post a major update to Logan. At its heart, Logan is the assembly of 27 million samples (50 Pbp) using a 6-day cloud-compute peaking at 2.2M vCPUs. This compresses the SRA 140x compared to raw FASTQs. github.com/IndexThePlanet…