Philipp Rentzsch

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

Planetary Rings

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varCADD: large sets of standing genetic variation enable genome-wide pathogenicity prediction - Genome Medicine Background Machine learning and artificial intelligence are increasingly being applied to identify phenotypically causal genetic variation. These data-driven methods require comprehensive training set...

Last contribution from my PhD work, showing that we can train CADD-like models of genome-wide variant pathogenicity from population variant datasets like gnomAD: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Junior / Assistant Specialist: Kim Lab, Developmental & Cell Biology University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

I am hiring for a research technician role in my new lab at UC Irvine studying how transcription factors control cell identity. If you know any graduating undergrads or postbacs looking for a position, please spread the word! Apply by May 9 for full consideration. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09594

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