Petra Vertes
@petra_vertes
Thrilled to introduce AlphaGenome, our new DNA sequence model now available via our AlphaGenome API. Really excited to see how the scientific community uses AlphaGenome’s predictions to understand genome function, drive biological discoveries, develop new treatments, and more...
Introducing AlphaGenome: an AI model to help scientists better understand our DNA – the instruction manual for life 🧬 Researchers can now quickly predict what impact genetic changes could have - helping to generate new hypotheses and drive biological discoveries. ↓
💥I’m hiring! 💥🚀 Funded by @ARIA_research, we’re massively ramping our work on spatially-embedded efficient computation in neural networks. 18m first instance, great London location, competitive postdoc salary. Any Qs, my DMs are open! (please RT). imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…
To all #OHBM2025 speakers who are naming/including photos of students ‘who did all the work’ - please, please provide the full name. An unlabelled photo or saying ‘my student John found’ isn’t super helpful.
Super cool talk by Trang Cao on her paper on Mode-Based Morphometry (MDM) [1] MBM projects individual brain morphometry onto eigenmodes of a physical deformation model* to capture anatomical variation across spatial scales May offer higher sensitivity than traditional morphometry…
Really enjoyed presenting Richard Dear’s beautiful work, including the paper below as well as his more recent results integrating the Allen Human Brain Atlas, developmental single-nuclei RNAseq, and imaging genetics to understand adolescent brain development 🧬 🧠🌟
@petra_vertes brilliant talk #OHBM2025 on her lab’s Nature Neuroscience article nature.com/articles/s4159… •Applied nonlinear diffusion map embedding (DME) to spatially filtered cortical transcriptomic data from the Allen Brain Atlas to extract three highly generalizable…
❤️🔥New VIDEO tutorial "Generative AI and Vision Language Models in Neuroimaging" *key concepts: Freddy Mercury and the British Queen (well you have to watch it to find out ! ), CLIP embedding, fine-tuning vision/text encoders, LDMs, DDPMs, Fokker-Planck equations, Classifier…
Very proud to share my latest work with the netneurolab, now out in @ScienceAdvances! 🐒🧠 🧬 Translational neuroscience from macaque gene expression, within + across species
Benchmarking macaque brain gene expression for horizontal and vertical translation | science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Led by @loopyluppi in @ScienceAdvances How useful is macaque brain gene expression for asking questions about macaque protein abundance and human gene expression? ⤵️
Fantastic conference, incredible speaker line up. Registration is excellent value and subsidised for students Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Interventions & Recovery 10-11 September 2025, Cambridge, UK neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-event…
We are hosting & organising the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @imperialcollege! 🚀 Fantastic set of speakers, see at neuralcomputation.uk It’s an incredibly exciting time to be working at the intersection of comp neuro/AI & applications. Save the dates: 9th July -…
Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk
Congrats Annie - great work!
📣 First 2 years of my PhD have culminated into this new preprint w/ @Kevin_M_Aquino @LindenParkes @AFornito @bendfulcher! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties🧠🧮 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Join us for a one-of-a-kind chat among network neuroscientists on topics including #multilayer #controllability and #AI Featuring @DaniSBassett @petra_vertes @LindaDouw @misicbata Live Dec 06, 2024 @MultilayerNets Free registration t.ly/enXlU
Huge congrats Eva!
📣 First 2 years of my PhD have culminated into this new preprint w/ @Kevin_M_Aquino @LindenParkes @AFornito @bendfulcher! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties🧠🧮 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Congrats Kayson! Looking forward to you joining us!
🚨Time for more personal/academic updates! I'll be joining @mrccbu with the dream combo of @DuncanAstle, @DanAkarca, and @petra_vertes. It was a wonderful few years @ICNS_Hamburg, and we'll be in close collaboration to continue working on brain networks and brain-inspired AI 😏
Our preprint about heterogeneity of functional connectivity in autism is out! 👇🧵 below:
Our latest PP led by @IvaIlioska, in collab. w/ @NSB_Lab @DondersInst. We use normative modelling to characterise the inter-individual variability of FC alterations in people with autism from individual edges to macroscale networks: tinyurl.com/mr4673cw
Our latest PP led by @IvaIlioska, in collab. w/ @NSB_Lab @DondersInst. We use normative modelling to characterise the inter-individual variability of FC alterations in people with autism from individual edges to macroscale networks: tinyurl.com/mr4673cw
📢Up for some free and engaging brain chat? Join your friends, neighbours, lab mates, College pals for the @CamBrainCNS Neurotalks 📅⏰🌍Thurs Oct 17th | Cambridge Tap Pub (upstairs) | 7pm 🍷Welcome drinks for those who arrive on time Theme is the 'Brain & Immune System'