Cold Spring Harbor PhD with a focus on plant gene coexpression and single cell. Cooks a lot and passionate about food, hiking, and board games 🇵🇷

Joined September 2014
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
[POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY] Engineer plant traits with AI × regulatory genomics at CSHL with the Ware Koo labs. For this funding: U.S. citizens only PhD in quantitative field or biology with strong computational skills. Prior plant experience preferred. Send CV by DM or email.
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
💰 We're paying your rent 💰 The Mets are 0-10 since Mamdani hugged Mr. Met For every day NYM go without a win, we're sending out $1,000 towards someone's rent payment 🤝 To enter, just: 1️⃣ Repost this 2️⃣ Follow us
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
An exciting foray for my lab into engineering the rhizosphere with sensor microbial strains! Tour de force synbio by Stanford TomKat fellow now UGA Prof @C_M_Dundas and UGA PhD Gretchen Brinkman! Rhizobacterial Biosensors Spatially Map Sucrose Exudation biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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🎁 UMAMI WOODEN KEYBOARD GIVEAWAY 🎁 To enter: 🔁 Retweet and Like this post 👣 Follow @HuatGG @u_m_a_m_i May the strangest soul win. 🌙
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
BREAKING: Cuomo has fled the NYC mainland following its fall to socialist Zohran Mamdani. Sources say he will establish a new govt on Staten Island with the goal of eventually reclaiming the entire city. Mamdani has promised to purge all remaining Cuomintang on the mainland.
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
先日行なわれた情報処理学会の特別企画IPSJ-ONEの講演動画が美しく編集されてアップされました👏 私のトークは→【ゲノムで決まること・決まらないこと―ゲノム配列からエピゲノムを予測する人工知能】 youtu.be/_dNzEEcv5QE?si=u5Xp… #IPSJONE #IPSJONE2025
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
Very proud of our latest work with Zach Lippman, Jesse Gillis, Joyce Van Eck, Matthias Benoit, Katie Jenike and many others. @JohnsHopkins @CSHL @JHU_BDPs nature.com/nature/volumes/64…
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
🚨New paper, now published in @Nature! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, in collab. with @mike_schatz and many others! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The only thing I want AI to do is remember every meme I scroll past and instantly find it by description
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides. And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election. When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
Trump's proposal is ILLEGAL & amounts to an indiscriminate funding cut for research centers of all sizes, NOT just Ivies. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, & derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.
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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60% that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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It's crazy how much the Sumo oranges have dropped off in quality. The first year I had them they were one of the best fruits I've ever had, now they are a bit dry and not always sweet.
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This is your sign to buy a bunch of fish from rainbowtomatogarden and do a sea-cuterie board
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The last really good cut of meat that hasn't been "discovered" by most people and made much more expensive (like beef cheek or oxtail) has to be a pork picnic roast
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
23 Dec 2024
I'm hiring: 1. PhD-level Research associate to generate perturbation data 2. ML postdoc to build multimodal generative AI for DNA (eg diffusion and LLM) 3. Bioinformatician (any level) to harmonize functional genomics data for training foundation models DM me if interested!
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
27 Nov 2024
Excited to co-organize the session 'Resolving heterogeneity in plants with imaging and omics' with @I_Rubio_Somoza at #ICAR2025! Looking forward to having a wide range of speakers from abstracts. Stay tuned for more details!
Abstract Submission OPEN for #ICAR2025 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research! Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published! 📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪 🕸️ icar2025.com
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
20 Nov 2024
Wonderful collaboration with @jmhibber @l_luginbuehl @Cambridge_Uni
Joe Ecker @JoeEcker, Joseph Swift @_joseph_swift, and team have revealed the genetic details of 30-million-year-old question: How did some plants evolve from less-efficient C3 photosynthesis to C4 photosynthesis? Their findings pave the way for the creation of more robust, efficient plants that withstand the effects of climate change and can feed a growing global population 🌱 @Nature salk.edu/news-release/superi…
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
Fascinating talk by @SivetzScience on inflammation altering natural killer cells function in #liver metastasis for #pancreaticcancer #AACRtumorenviron24 @AACR #AACRTME #pancreaticcancerawarenessonth
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
Dear plant friends, what flowers have the coolest patterns on their petals? I will start: Saxifraga rotundifolia
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Michael Passalacqua retweeted
friday night I'm drinking eight beers and texting the homies I'm steaming and braising shit for real come over I'm steaming and braising various items but everyone is busy. cowards.
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