Finally, thank you to all of the Weiss lab graduate students and other Vandy grad students who helped me over the years! Special thanks to Dr. George Xu for starting this sequencing journey years ago and to Dr. Fei Ye and Dr. Sheau-Chiann Chen for all of their help with stats!
Thanks to Dr. Eric Huang at University of Washington for helping us build a robust thyroid cancer cohort and to our collaborators at MD Anderson Dr. Jennifer Want and Dr. Chia-Chin Wu for collaborating to look at stromal gene signatures in their clinical sequencing cohorts.
Thanks to Dr. Ryan Belcher for pushing us to include pediatric thyroid cancer in our spatial analysis and helping to generate pediatric spatial transcriptomic data. All of the surgeons at Vanderbilt have been invaluable for building a thyroid cancer sequencing cohort.
I also had invaluable computational support from Dr. Quanhu "Tiger" Sheng and Dr. Hua-Chang Chen. Thank you both for continuing to work on this project!
Additional thanks to Dr. Ken Lau for his insights and guidance working with spatial transcriptomics/single-cell sequencing data. Coming in with almost no computational experience, having Dr. Lau on my thesis committee was incredibly helpful for me and @vivianweiss.bsky.social.
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Thanks to @ltkagohara.bsky.social and Dr. Liz Jaffee for helping us pilot initial visium spatial transcriptomics runs and guiding us through computational analysis of spatial transcriptomics data. This project may never have gotten off the ground without their help and insight.
So excited to see my PhD work published in @insight.jci.org!! I can't thank @vivianweiss.bsky.social enough for her mentorship both with this paper & throughout my PhD! This was an incredibly collaborative project, and there are many additional people to thank.
I had so much fun presenting at AACR this week! Thanks to all of our collaborators for helping with this project! And special thanks to @ltkagohara.bsky.social for helping with the spatial data analysis.
A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current
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Many thanks to all our collaborators and biostatisticians!! Special thanks to @ltkagohara.bsky.social for her expertise and helping me learn how to analyze Visium spatial transcriptomic samples!
We are excited to share our recent pre-print exploring cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) phenotypes as thyroid cancers progress from treatable well-differentiated tumors to highly lethal anaplastic thyroid cancer! @vivianweiss.bsky.social @hartheat.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
