Bioinformatics is dead.
Computational biology is just biology.
Long live a new field of science—one that merges biology & machine learning—to better understand the language of life.
Florian Markowetz
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Florian Markowetz
@markowetzlab
Computational Oncology at Cambridge | chromosomal instability | genomes and images | selfish about reproducibility | useless models | all fox, no hedgehog
- All models are wrong and yours are useless! In case you missed my talk yesterday on how to make clinical prediction tools useful for patients, you can read all about it here. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1038/s41698…
- First good news of the day: the Cambridge Reporter reported that I got a better title. I am now the Cambridge Professor of Computational Oncology - thanks to everyone who worked with me here over the last 13 years. Second good news ... will be up in 90min 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
- Want to detect cancer early and efficiently? Our new paper shows how to empower pathologists with AI to streamline the detection of a precursor of oesophageal cancer without using endoscopy. 1/11
- Thank you everyone who helped me on the way. #ERCAdG I will soon start hiring postdocs. If you love making sense of the messiest genomes and develop treatments for the most lethal cancers, watch this space. Or better still: email me.🎉 Many congratulations to Dr Florian Markowetz @markowetzlab! Florian has been awarded an @ERC_Research Advanced Grant #ERCAdG for his project 'Targeting the roots of chromosomal instability in cancer'. Find out more about his project 👇 cruk.cam.ac.uk/2022/04/26/flo…
- This is a terrible take on PhD studies. As a counterpoint: the two most common causes of hardship in PhD students are bad supervision and unsupportive environments.The two most common causes of hardship in PhD students are an inability to accept failure and choosing this career path for the prestige, rather than out of any real interest in research. go.nature.com/2IYZX4N
- To put opinions like this in perspective: The main paper of my PhD is in the journal Bioinformatics, which no one would consider a ‘top journal’ (ok, maybe top in bioinformatics) and you will not ‘top journals’ to get a postdoc in my lab. Don’t listen to the trolls!Grad Students: You NEED to publish. But you NEED to do so in top journals. I routinely see grad CVs with 4-5 publications, but in small journals. And I think… Great, but they must have a small mind. One publication at a top journal is far better than five in low-impact venues.
- Good answer @lpachter : "being wonderful to some postdocs doesn’t give someone the right to sexually harass other postdocs."
- And yes, I still look as young as on this photo from 2009 - thanks for using it!
- 💻👩🔬 Computational postdoc position in my lab ♋️ Data integration and deep learning in pathology 🦀 Work closely with oncologists and pathologists Official job ad soon - until then just email me.
- Join us in Cambridge! 2x group leader positions. Particular interest: computational biology including AI Core funded. Best start-up package you will get anywhere. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43302/
