Stephanie Hicks

Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th!

Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏

Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu

🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology

I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful!

🧪 🧬🖥️ 🧠 #neuroskyence #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM #Autism

Very excited to share that Department of Biomedical Engineering @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social is hiring for open rank tenure-track faculty in #Biomedical #DataScience!

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/177042
Apps starting to be reviewed Dec 5 and ongoing after!

🧪🧬🖥️🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

Thank you yes apologies for the confusion!

Adding that you are still encouraged to apply even if you can't hit the Nov 15th date! It's just the date we plan to start reviewing, but we'll definitely continue reviewing for some time.

Come work with me! @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 🥳 Apps due Nov 15

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/176686

🧪🧬💻🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM

Looking for postdoctoral opportunities? ✅

Interested in working with me or any of the 30 other amazing @jhubiostat.bsky.social faculty? ✅

If yes, I encourage you to apply to our postdoc program in #DataScience and #AI in #Health and #Medicine!

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/174430

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This was a really fantastic collaboration! Congratulations @mictott.bsky.social Rita Cervera Juanes,
@svitlanabach.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🧪🧬💻🧠

Congratulations to @prashanthi-ravi.bsky.social @svitlana-bach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @alexisbattle.bsky.social and @martinowk.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social spatially profiling human nucleus accumbens 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️

Thank you #NIH #NIDA for generous funding 👏

Thank you for the invitation @sib.swiss! I really enjoyed talking with everyone and I learned a lot over the last few days. I highly recommend this conference to anyone working in Bioinformatics. 🧬🧪💻

Thank you so much @mikelove.bsky.social!

Congratulations @kinnaryshah.bsky.social @mictott.bsky.social @svitlanabach.bsky.social & all co-authors! Wonderful collab btw @jhubiostat.bsky.social @jhu.edu and @lieberinstitute.bsky.social spatially profiling human dACC 🧠 #TeamScience 🧪 🧬 🖥️

Thank you #NIDA #NIMH for generous funding & support 👏

Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻

stephaniehicks.com/blog/course-...

Characterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysis Abstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d

Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics

Vince Carey opening GBCC2025 with a slide highlighting Bioconductor’s technical and community advances.

Charlotte Soneson delivering her keynote titled “From classes to community: how Bioconductor has advanced my research.”

Slide showing GBCC2025 sponsors and supporters - CZI, Limagrain, GalaxyWorks, Bristol Myers Squibb, R Consortium, Gigascience, ELIXIR, NHGRI

Large group photo of GBCC2025 attendees outdoors at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, smiling and gathered on the steps.

Big thanks to everyone who made #GBCC2025 a fantastic week of science, collaboration, and community!

Highlights for Bioconductor included keynotes, hands-on projects, and great conversations 💻🧬

@galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

Very excited to see this important work out led by the talented @mictott.bsky.social @boyiguo.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social! 🧪🧬🖥️

Genetics and Genomic Sciences External Seminar Series | Stephanie Hicks, MA, PhD

Looking forward to visit Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai tomorrow morning. If you are around NYC and are interested in single cell / spatial genomics, the talk starts at 10am. Hope you see you there! 🧪🧬🖥️

events.mountsinaihealth.org/event/geneti...

Kinnary Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate and co-president of the Biostats Student Org. Learn more about Kinnary and two of her ongoing research projects, one with the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, and one with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social, on our website:
publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

Thank you Amy!

New paper out in @genomeresearch.bsky.social on using contrastive self-supervised learning for spatial domain detection with multi-omics data! Huge congratulations to Jianing Yao and coauthors Jinglun Yu, Brian Caffo Stephanie Page & @martinowk.bsky.social! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪

doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

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New article is out! Sleep deprivation is bad for the brain transcriptome, but how quickly can a little sleep reverse this effect? A team effort and fun collaboration with @stephaniehicks.bsky.social (a thread) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315180/

Stephanie Hicks named fellow of the American Statistical Association Hicks was recognized for her professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistics.

Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!

. @stephaniehicks.bsky.social giving a master class on spatial genomics analysis - normalization and qc are essential to reveal the underlying biology! #bog25

The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism

I really enjoyed this article: The synaptic hypothesis of schizophrenia version III: a master mechanism! 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

h/t @boyiguo.bsky.social

2025 ASA Fellows Congratulations Abhirup Datta / Stephanie Hicks

We are thrilled to announce that @dattascientist.bsky.social and @stephaniehicks.bsky.social have been elected Fellows of the American Statistical Association! 🎉 This prestigious honor recognizes outstanding contributions to statistical science. Congrats Abhi & Stephanie! 👏 @amstatnews.bsky.social

April is #Autism Awareness Month. This is a month to accept, understand and love those in the Autism Spectrum. Above all accepting that someone is different and respecting their differences is the most important thing we can do. Here are some facts to help understand (a thread):

Rafa has come out swinging this morning 😂

Always excited to have @rafalab.bsky.social visit Hopkins! He’s talk about statistical challenges in single single and spatial omics. 🧪🧬🖥️

So this weekend I won the veggie category at @jhubiostat.bsky.social annual Chili Cookoff! Huge congratulations to @statsprofo.bsky.social — winner of the meat category! We have the privilege of wearing these hats for the next year 😂 🌶️ #stats 🧪🧬💻

PS thank you @lizstuart.bsky.social for hosting! 🌸