Welcome to four incredibly talented visiting researchers who have recently joined our lab: Chen Li from Dr. Xuegong Zhang’s lab at Tsinghua University, Qiangwei Peng from Dr. Tiejun Li’s lab at Peking University, Valentina Giunchiglia from Dr. Adam Hampshire’s lab at Imperial College London and Dr. Marinka Zitnik’s lab at Harvard University, and finally, Zehua Zeng, developer of the impressive OmicsVerse framework, from Dr. Hongwu Du’s lab at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.
Chen will be working on novel approaches to perturbation prediction using foundation models. Qiangwei will focus on modeling mechanical forces during embryogenesis. Valentina will contribute to developing the next generation of multi-modal foundation models. Zehua will dedicate his efforts to building robust frameworks for spatial multi-omics integration.
📢 Paper Alert!
We’re thrilled to share our lab’s first single-cell foundation model: Tabula, developed by the incredible Jiayuan Ding!
Tabula introduces a novel pretraining strategy — tabula learning — and integrates federated learning to achieve state-of-the-art performance. Remarkably, it outperforms all existing foundation models using only half the training data. It also demonstrates strong predictive power in uncovering both pairwise and higher-order combinatorial gene regulatory patterns.