Dr./Prof. Keolu Fox
@KeoluFox
Kānaka Maoli | Genome Scientist | @NativeBio | @UCSanDiego | @JCVenterInst | @TEDFellow | @EmCollective Fellow | @NatGeoExplorers
Data centers + cloud computing are heating up our planet 🌏🌡️ Interested in sustainable solutions? Join us for the @PacSymBiocomp first ever session on "Earth Friendly Computation" Jan 4-8, 2025, in Kohala, Hawai'i 🌋 See submission details below ⬇️❤️ psb.stanford.edu/callfor/papers…
Evolution be trippin
Guess what? Mitochondria are weirder than we thought
Dream BIG today folks. Imagine a timeline where Cook never reaches Hawai‘i, Cortés never arrives at Tenochtitlan, and the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María are still trees in the earth. Where would Indigenous peoples be today? Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay ❤️nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…
Our advisor @KeoluFox sharing news of Variant Bio's ground-breaking partnership with Novo Nordisk during a keynote at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2025 in Hawaii this week
Thank you #ASH24 @TrowbridgeLab for organizing this session. Seeing the inspiring presentations of @KeoluFox and Maureen Achebe was the highlight of my ASH 2024. @LeeGrimesLab @Bailee_Kain @rosslevinemd @DocOmomomoh
Ending #ASH24 Sunday with a spectacular presentation on Black AML, highlighting the role of PHIP mutations in this pt population by @AkEisfeld and moderated by @TrowbridgeLab Read their beautiful paper in @NatureGenet here nature.com/articles/s4158… @LeeGrimesLab @Bailee_Kain
Thrilled that our soil-powered sensors won the Energy category at Prototypes for Humanity 2024! Honored to receive the award from @LatifaMRM among 2700+ submissions and 100 finalists. #prototypesforhumanity #dubaifuture prototypesforhumanity.com/winners-of-the…
On Red Shawl Day, we honor our relatives lost to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, an emergency which impacts Native people across our country. I'm proud of our work with Tribes and survivors to build the solutions we need.
The power of the jacket!! A few members of the Tsosie Lab for #Indigenous #Genomic #Data Equity and Justice + @YrachetaJM of @NativeBio representing one of our undergraduate mentees’ (Emiliano Manriquez) who is presenting his work at #ASHG2024!!! @GeneticsSociety #ASHG24
Huge thank you to @Analyticsindiam for covering our work -- Honored to have our new Earth Friendly Computation efforts covered in India 🇮🇳🪷analyticsindiamag.com/ai-origins-evo…
Science for Everybody.
Congratulations to SFI External Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu (@big_data_kane), one of the 2024 winners of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications by @theNASEMin partnership with @schmidtsciences. Selected from nearly 600…
Very proud of our first Game! (At CHI PLAY!) Kaona is a tabletop role-playing game (RPG) and digital storyteller, designed to foster youth well-being from a Native Hawaiian perspective. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=_VDT_K…
What bold approaches can we take to rethink how we create and use health information? Tune in on October 25 for a lively discussion between @KeoluFox of UC San Diego and Sarah Richardson of the @genderscilab for @RWJF's Unscripted conversation series. rwjf.ws/w5UeCY
My department at UCLA is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics - Please RT! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09913 #biostatistics #statistics #datascience
Charting Indigenous futures— a shared vision where the wisdom of the past guides us for generations to come.... where the guardianship of the Earth and the equitable distribution of its resources define progress. Deep and necessary insight from @KeoluFox nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl…
This is amazing! Demo showing how mangroves protect shorelines. Such a simple concept.
Congratulations to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. At a time when the threat of nuclear weapons is growing – and the taboo against threatening their use is weakening – Nihon Hidankyo’s…
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its…
This solar and battery-powered Florida development has made it through four hurricanes in two years. fastcompany.com/91207612/hurri…
We’ve been cooking up something new that we’re thrilled to finally share with you. The TED Fellows Film Series is a brand new kind of content from TED. These short films are a mix of TED Talks and short form documentaries about TED Fellows. TED Fellows are emerging innovators…
Congratulations to David and the @UWproteindesign! David’s definitely the most inspirational person I’ve ever worked with.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Excited to share that denovo-db is now available on @ZENODO_ORG (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…)! The new version of denovo-db contains >1 million de novo variants from published data on >70,000 individuals. After much thought, this feels like the right step for sharing with the…