Yun S. Song
@yun_s_song
Professor of EECS and Statistics @UCBerkeley. Mathematical and computational biologist. bsky handle: https://bsky.app/profile/yun-s-song.bsky.social
Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Lab page: speidellab.github.io
This week in academia, a not so short🧵... 1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-uni…
Preliminary program now available for ProbGen 2026: probgen2026.github.io. We have an amazing set of speakers let by our keynotes Sally Otto and @jkpritch. 1/8
Wanted to highlight our latest preprint--a huge effort by multiple people and labs, but led primarily by Will DeWitt (UW) and Tatsuya Araki and Ashni Vora (our lab), in a very close wet-dry collaboration with @ematsen ’s lab at the Hutch biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Save the date! ProbGen 2026 will be hosted at UC Berkeley, March 25 to March 28, 2026, featuring keynote speakers @jkpritch and Sally Otto. Help spread the message to people who are not this dystopian hellsite.
Thrilled to see my digital art on the cover of @TrendsGenetics! The two binary strings represent reverse-complementary DNA sequences (00=A, 01=C, 10=G, 11=T) and the connecting rectangles represent “embeddings” learned by DNA language models. Our article: doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.…
