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Biography

Kamil Slowikowski is a computational biologist working as a postdoc in the Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Alexandra-Chloé Villani. He completed a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics at Harvard under the mentorship of Dr. Soumya Raychaudhuri at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and in close collaboration with Dr. Michael B. Brenner at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He develops open-source computational software packages for single cell RNA-seq data and genetics data, and makes interactive web apps to help researchers interpret the primary data from biomedical studies.

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Employment (1)

Massachusetts General Hospital: Charlestown, MA, US

2019-08 to present | Postdoctoral Associate (Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Harvard University: Boston, MA, US

2012-08-22 to 2019-04-16 | PhD (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics)
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Funding (2)

Transcriptomics in synoviocytes defines pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

2016-09-01 to 2018-08-31 | Grant
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (n/a, US)
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Training in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics

2000-07-01 to 2018-08-31 | Grant
National Human Genome Research Institute (Bethesda, US)
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Works (29)

Single-cell transcriptomics in cancer: computational challenges and opportunities

Experimental & Molecular Medicine
2020-09-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Jean Fan; Kamil Slowikowski; Fan Zhang
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Synoviocyte-targeted therapy synergizes with TNF inhibition in arthritis reversal

Science Advances
2020-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2375-2548
Contributors: Mattias N. D. Svensson; Martina Zoccheddu; Shen Yang; Gyrid Nygaard; Christian Secchi; Karen M. Doody; Kamil Slowikowski; Fumitaka Mizoguchi; Frances Humby; Rebecca Hands et al.
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A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals

Nature
2020-06-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Samira Asgari; Yang Luo; Ali Akbari; Gillian M. Belbin; Xinyi Li; Daniel N. Harris; Martin Selig; Eric Bartell; Roger Calderon; Kamil Slowikowski et al.
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Using genetics to prioritize diagnoses for rheumatology outpatients with inflammatory arthritis

Science Translational Medicine
2020-05-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Rachel Knevel; Saskia le Cessie; Chikashi C. Terao; Kamil Slowikowski; Jing Cui; Tom W. J. Huizinga; Karen H. Costenbader; Katherine P. Liao; Elizabeth W. Karlson; Soumya Raychaudhuri
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CUX1 and IκBζ (NFKBIZ) mediate the synergistic inflammatory response to TNF and IL-17A in stromal fibroblasts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-03-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Kamil Slowikowski; Hung N. Nguyen; Erika H. Noss; Daimon P. Simmons; Fumitaka Mizoguchi; Gerald F. M. Watts; Michael F. Gurish; Michael B. Brenner; Soumya Raychaudhuri
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Fast, sensitive and accurate integration of single-cell data with Harmony

Nature Methods
2019-11-18 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1548-7091
Part of ISSN: 1548-7105
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Using genetics to differentiate patients with similar symptoms: application to inflammatory arthritis in the rheumatology outpatient clinic

2019-10-22 | Other
Contributors: Rachel Knevel; Saskia le Cessie; Chikashi C. Terao; Kamil Slowikowski; Jing Cui; Tom W.J. Huizinga; Karen H. Costenbader; Katherine P. Liao; Elizabeth W. Karlson; Soumya Raychaudhuri
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Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry

Nature Immunology
2019-05-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1529-2908
Part of ISSN: 1529-2916
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CUX1 and IκBζ mediate the synergistic inflammatory response to TNF and IL-17A in stromal fibroblasts

2019-03-11 | Other
Contributors: Kamil Slowikowski; Hung N. Nguyen; Erika H. Noss; Daimon P. Simmons; Fumitaka Mizoguchi; Gerald F.M. Watts; Michael F. Gurish; Michael B. Brenner; Soumya Raychaudhuri
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Lymphocyte innateness defined by transcriptional states reflects a balance between proliferation and effector functions

Nature Communications
2019-02-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus; Nikola Teslovich; Alex R. Mola; Rafael B. Polidoro; Aparna Nathan; Hyun Kim; Susan Hannes; Kamil Slowikowski; Gerald F. M. Watts; Ilya Korsunsky et al.
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Functional genomics of stromal cells in chronic inflammatory diseases

Current Opinion in Rheumatology
2018 | Journal article
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Contributors: Slowikowski, K.; Wei, K.; Brenner, M.B.; Raychaudhuri, S.
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Methods for high-dimensonal analysis of cells dissociated from cyropreserved synovial tissue

Arthritis Research and Therapy
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85050025146

Contributors: Donlin, L.T.; Rao, D.A.; Wei, K.; Slowikowski, K.; McGeachy, M.J.; Turner, J.D.; Meednu, N.; Mizoguchi, F.; Gutierrez-Arcelus, M.; Lieb, D.J. et al.
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Fast, sensitive, and accurate integration of single cell data with Harmony

2018-11-04 | Other
Contributors: Ilya Korsunsky; Jean Fan; Kamil Slowikowski; Fan Zhang; Kevin Wei; Yuriy Baglaenko; Michael Brenner; Po-Ru Loh; Soumya Raychaudhuri
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Discovering in vivo cytokine-eQTL interactions from a lupus clinical trial

Genome Biology
2018-10 | Journal article
Version of DOI: 10.1101/118703
Part of ISSN: 1474-760X
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Mixed-effects association of single cells identifies an expanded effector CD4 + T cell subset in rheumatoid arthritis

Science Translational Medicine
2018-10-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Chamith Y. Fonseka; Deepak A. Rao; Nikola C. Teslovich; Ilya Korsunsky; Susan K. Hannes; Kamil Slowikowski; Michael F. Gurish; Laura T. Donlin; James A. Lederer; Michael E. Weinblatt et al.
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Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types

Nature Genetics
2018-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Hilary K. Finucane; Yakir A. Reshef; Verneri Anttila; Kamil Slowikowski; Alexander Gusev; Andrea Byrnes; Steven Gazal; Po-Ru Loh; Caleb Lareau; Noam Shoresh et al.
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Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis

Nature Communications
2018-02-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Fumitaka Mizoguchi; Kamil Slowikowski; Kevin Wei; Jennifer L. Marshall; Deepak A. Rao; Sook Kyung Chang; Hung N. Nguyen; Erika H. Noss; Jason D. Turner; Brandon E. Earp et al.
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Pathologically expanded peripheral T helper cell subset drives B cells in rheumatoid arthritis

Nature
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85011994125

Contributors: Rao, D.A.; Gurish, M.F.; Marshall, J.L.; Slowikowski, K.; Fonseka, C.Y.; Liu, Y.; Donlin, L.T.; Henderson, L.A.; Wei, K.; Mizoguchi, F. et al.
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Refining the role of de novo protein-truncating variants in neurodevelopmental disorders by using population reference samples

Nature Genetics
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85012277777

Contributors: Kosmicki, J.A.; Samocha, K.E.; Howrigan, D.P.; Sanders, S.J.; Slowikowski, K.; Lek, M.; Karczewski, K.J.; Cutler, D.J.; Devlin, B.; Roeder, K. et al.
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Mixed Effects Association of Single Cells Identifies an Expanded Th1-Skewed Cytotoxic Effector CD4+ T Cell Subset in Rheumatoid Arthritis

2017-08-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Chamith Y. Fonseka; Deepak A. Rao; Nikola C. Teslovich; Susan K. Hannes; Kamil Slowikowsi; Michael F. Gurish; Laura T. Donlin; Michael E. Weinblatt; Elena M. Massarotti; Jonathan S. Coblyn et al.
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UBiT2: a client-side web-application for gene expression data analysis

2017-03-22 | Other
Contributors: Jean Fan; David Fan; Kamil Slowikowski; Nils Gehlenborg; Peter Kharchenko
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52 Genetic Loci Influencing Myocardial Mass

Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84990929556

Contributors: van der Harst, P.; van Setten, J.; Verweij, N.; Vogler, G.; Franke, L.; Maurano, M.T.; Wang, X.; Mateo Leach, I.; Eijgelsheim, M.; Sotoodehnia, N. et al.
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A method to decipher pleiotropy by detecting underlying heterogeneity driven by hidden subgroups applied to autoimmune and neuropsychiatric diseases

Nature Genetics
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84968627067

Contributors: Han, B.; Pouget, J.G.; Slowikowski, K.; Stahl, E.; Lee, C.H.; Diogo, D.; Hu, X.; Park, Y.R.; Kim, E.; Gregersen, P.K. et al.
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Disentangling the Effects of Colocalizing Genomic Annotations to Functionally Prioritize Non-coding Variants within Complex-Trait Loci

American Journal of Human Genetics
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84937424402

Contributors: Trynka, G.; Westra, H.-J.; Slowikowski, K.; Hu, X.; Xu, H.; Stranger, B.E.; Klein, R.J.; Han, B.; Raychaudhuri, S.
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Common genetic variants modulate pathogen-sensing responses in human dendritic cells

Science
2014 | Journal article
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Contributors: Lee, M.N.; Ye, C.; Villani, A.-C.; Raj, T.; Li, W.; Eisenhaure, T.M.; Imboywa, S.H.; Chipendo, P.I.; Ran, F.A.; Slowikowski, K. et al.
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Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization

Nature Genetics
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84905594041

Contributors: Arking, D.E.; Pulit, S.L.; Crotti, L.; Van Der Harst, P.; Munroe, P.B.; Koopmann, T.T.; Sotoodehnia, N.; Rossin, E.J.; Morley, M.; Wang, X. et al.
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Regulation of Gene Expression in Autoimmune Disease Loci and the Genetic Basis of Proliferation in CD4<sup>+</sup> Effector Memory T Cells

PLoS Genetics
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84903457544

Contributors: Hu, X.; Kim, H.; Raj, T.; Brennan, P.J.; Trynka, G.; Teslovich, N.; Slowikowski, K.; Chen, W.-M.; Onengut, S.; Baecher-Allan, C. et al.
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SNPsea: an algorithm to identify cell types, tissues, and pathways affected by risk loci

Bioinformatics
2014-05-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1367-4803
Contributors: K. Slowikowski; X. Hu; S. Raychaudhuri
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Computational and experimental analyses of retrotransposon-associated minisatellite DNAs in the soybean genome

BMC Bioinformatics
2012 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1471-2105
Contributors: Lauren S Mogil; Kamil Slowikowski; Howard M Laten
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