Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics

People chatting and eating in a room

People chatting and eating in a room

People chatting and eating in a room

People chatting and eating in a room

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at IICD! 🍂
We’re grateful for the science, collaboration, and community that make our work possible. Wishing everyone a safe, joyful holiday!

IICD Seminar Series: Sanjay Srivatsan, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Last seminar of 2025: Dr. @sanjaysrivatsan.bsky.social from @fredhutch.org will discuss capsule-based genome sequencing and lineage tracing. Join us on Dec. 10th at 2 pm in person or via Zoom: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...
cc: @jlmcfalinefigueroa.bsky.social @basicsci.fredhutch.org

Thanksgiving potluck

Thanksgiving potluck

Thanksgiving potluck

Thanksgiving potluck

Sharing a few pictures from a fantastic pre-Thanksgiving potluck between IICD members. #potluck #Thanksgiving

Columbia Community Service

@columbiauniversity.bsky.social Community Service is celebrating 79 years of supporting our neighbors in need. Here's how you can get involved during the season of giving! Meet the CCS grantees here and tap into the amazing work happening. Support CCS and give today: bit.ly/4asbFQg

📣 Opportunity: Fellowships in #PancreaticCancerDetection and #AI @italianacademy.bsky.social. See details below.

Sanket Rane teaching workshop participants

Sanket Rane teaching workshop participants

Christiaan Van Dorp teaching workshop participants

Workshop participants discussing in a classroom

What an amazing first session to inaugurate our new workshop series, From Theory to Practice! Thank you to Dr. Sanket Rane for leading this hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop to establish foundational quantitative approaches for modeling the complexity of our immune system.

Journal of pathology cover

New research by IICD Member @khanhndinh.bsky.social and collaborators made the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Pathology. Their work was also highlighted in Nature Reviews Urology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Ed Reznik and the team on our paper "Lipidomic changes in persister cancer cells drive enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity" in the new journal Ferroptosis and Oxidative Stress! www.sciexplor.com/articles/fos... (free w/ no subscription no APCs)

Cody Slater

Cody Slater

Welcome to our newest member, Cody Slater, a MD-PhD student in Sanja Vickovic’s lab at @columbiaseas.bsky.social BME and @nygenome.org. Cody studies how different cell types work together in healthy tissues and how to target dysregulated cells in diseases like cancer.

@columbiaseas.bsky.social @columbiacancer.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @datascicolumbia.bsky.social @columbiamed.bsky.social

IICD Workshop Series

Reminder Columbia Researchers! Don’t miss our inaugural session of our new IICD Workshop Series: a hands-on Quantitative Immunology Workshop on Nov 19 @ 2pm. Register by Nov. 17: bit.ly/4hfpfL2

Spots are filling up fast! If we’re full, be sure to join our waiting list.

Ken Chen

Ken Chen

Ken Chen and Khanh Dinh

Thank you to Dr. Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who discussed cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.

Missed it? Watch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcQO...

Don't forget to watch our new Faces of IICD Video Series featuring Beatrice Grauman, a PhD student in the Vicković Lab @nygenome.org. ⤵️

Don’t forget to register for our next seminar! ⤵️

@siyuhe.bsky.social @simonyf.bsky.social @naveedtavakol.bsky.social @columbiaseas.bsky.social @columbiacancer.bsky.social @datascicolumbia.bsky.social

Schematic of cell differentiation prediction (a) and drug response prediction (b).

New paper out in @natmethods.nature.com from @elhamazizi.bsky.social, Kam Leong & @jameszou.bsky.social! The team developed Squidiff, a diffusion #AI model to predict cellular responses to environmental cues and accelerate #PrecisionMedicine.

Learn more: bit.ly/3WRPNsx

IICD Monthly Research Roundup

IICD Monthly Research Roundup

🧬 IICD Monthly Research Roundup – October 2025

#IICDResearch #CancerGenomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #neuroscience #CancerResearch @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ignaciovazquez.bsky.social @elhamazizi.bsky.social @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social @nature.com @natbiotech.nature.com

Simon Tavaré and William Milligan

Arpit Swain

William Milligan

Fantastic discussions at this month’s research meeting! William Milligan shared insights on cell division and mutagenesis in primates, while Arpit Swain (@swainarpit.bsky.social) presented exciting work on Influenza-specific CD4/CD8 T-cell clones.

ABC-SMC-(D)RF graph

@khanhndinh.bsky.social’s group developed a faster, more efficient #RandomForest based #ApproximateBayesianComputation to make mathematical modeling more reliable across disciplines. Read more: bit.ly/4oIvOsB
cc: @columbiacancer.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Flyer for IICD SRP

📣 Applications are open! Calling all undergrads!

The 2026 IICD Summer Research Program offers a 10-week immersive experience in cancer research and mathematical sciences for undergrads. #UndergraduateResearch

📅 Apply by Feb 1, 2026: bit.ly/IICD-SRP

IICD Newsletter November 2025

The November newsletter is out now. Don’t miss our alumni spotlight, cutting-edge research on colon aging, a new K-12 partnership, and other exciting updates: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/iicd-ne...
cc: @nygenome.org @brentstockwell.bsky.social

Thank you to Dr. Robert Frawley (BioBus and @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk on “Microscopes and Community Science” during our October Research Meeting. #STEMOutreach #CommunityScience

Flyer for Ken Chen's seminar

Next in our seminar series, Ken Chen from @mdanderson.bsky.social who will discuss cellular modeling to study #CancerDynamics in the tumor immune microenvironment.
Register here: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/events/iicd-...

@mda-uthgrad.bsky.social @khanhndinh.bsky.social @ricecompsci.bsky.social

Children decrypting ciphers written in invisible ink

The Institute launched a new collaboration with STEM Starters, a graduate student organization who offers hands-on science workshops for local elementary and middle-school students and their families in Harlem. Read more: bit.ly/4nVlYDh
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Photo collage of scientists in the lab for National Mentoring Day

Today we celebrate #NationalMentoringDay! Thank you to IICD researchers and mentors everywhere who dedicate their time to mentoring and inspiring the next generation of scientists.

Please share🔉 We’re #hiring #AI #Engineers
@columbiaseas.bsky.social @cancerdynamics.bsky.social
🚀Join us to build foundation models that learn & reason about cancer systems, integrating #LLMs #causalAI and multi-modal #genomics. Shape the next-generation of cancer therapies! tinyurl.com/5n7wp8ck

Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics Focusing on the quantitative and technological underpinnings of cancer research. The Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) is an interdisciplinary institute located on the ...

🎥 The Institute for Cancer Dynamics continues to share research and insights on YouTube.

Catch up on our Seminar Series talks and watch our JSM TV feature to learn more about IICD’s contributions to cancer research and modeling.

youtube.com/@cancer_dynamics

Vicković Lab publishes a new study on colon aging #NBTintheNews via @cancerdynamics.bsky.social cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/news/vickovi...

Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - Nature Biotechnology cSplotch compares spatial transcriptomics data across ages and regions of mouse colon tissue.

Tissue and cellular spatiotemporal dynamics in colon aging - @nygenome.org @flatironinstitute.org @broadinstitute.org @cancerdynamics.bsky.social go.nature.com/47I1RBF