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Connor McGinnis

University of Oxford

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:human· 3 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1

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Jonathan D. FinniD· 4 shared Sandeep KumariD· 4 shared Anne M. Bara· 3 shared Dane Z. HazelbakeriD· 3 shared Daniel J. O’ConnelliD· 3 shared Matthew H. BakalariD· 3 shared Xiarong Shi· 3 shared Brett EstesiD· 2 shared

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Designing AI-programmable therapeutics with the EDEN family of foundation models

Geraldene Munsamy, Gavin Ayres, Carla Greco, Keith Y K Kam, Gus Minto-Cowcher, John St John, Tanggis Bohnuud, Matthew H. Bakalar, William Chow, Robert J. Pecoraro, Marcelo D. T. Torres, Aaron W. Kollasch, Marcus H. Y. Leung, Hassan Sirelkhatim, Francesco Farina, , Philipp Lorenz

This paper introduces the EDEN family of foundation models for AI-programmable therapeutic design, demonstrating their ability to generate functional gene insertions, antibiotic peptides, and synthetic microbiomes.

bioRxiv · Feb 9, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Highly Efficient Multiplexed Genome Engineering and Clone Selection to Enable Next Generation Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-based Cell Therapies

Kaivalya Molugu, Ruba Halaoui, Mohammed Zeaiter, Anne M. Bara, Matthew H. Bakalar, Bruna Castro de Oliveira, Connor McGinnis, Jie Wang, Marie-Joe Kimaz, Lauren Herchenroder, Arun Bhattathiri, Alexander Allen, Minggang Fang, Davood Norouzi, Didac Santesmasses, , Chong T. Luo

This paper introduces a novel genome engineering method for iPSCs that enables efficient multiplex gene editing and clone selection, improving the precision and speed of iPSC-based therapies.

bioRxiv · Dec 25, 2025 · PreprintGenomics

Curative levels of endogenous gene replacement achieved in non-human primate liver using programmable genomic integration

Jenny Xie, Maike Thamsen Dunyak, Patrick Hanna, Angela Xinyi Nan, Brett Estes, Jesse C. Cochrane, Shuai Wu, Jie Wang, Connor McGinnis, Qiang Wang, Rejina Pokharel, Dev Paudel, Jason Zhang, Dan Li, Parth H. Amin, , Jonathan D. Finn

This paper demonstrates programmable genomic integration in non-human primate liver, achieving curative levels of gene expression in over 50% of liver cells.

bioRxiv · Oct 12, 2024 · PreprintBioengineering

Large Serine Integrase Off-target Discovery and Validation for Therapeutic Genome Editing

Dane Z. Hazelbaker, Japan B. Mehta, Connor McGinnis, Didac Santesmasses, Anne M. Bara, Xiaoyu Liang, Thomas C. Biondi, Tim J. Fennell, Nils Homer, Brett Estes, Jenny Xie, Davood Norouzi, Kaivalya Molugu, Ravindra Amunugama, Chong T. Luo, , Daniel J. O’Connell

The paper develops and validates methods to detect off-target recombination by Large Serine Integrases, finding higher sensitivity than whole genome sequencing.

bioRxiv · Aug 23, 2024 · PreprintGenomics