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Yuval Kluger
Yale UniversityORCID 0000-0002-3035-071XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
Biology Disciplines
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2015-2026 · peak 9/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
10 top collaborators · 29 mutual co-author links33 papers
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- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Locat: Joint enrichment and depletion testing identifies localized marker genes in single-cell transcriptomics
Wesley Lewis, Yariv Aizenbud, Francesco Strino…·Fabio Parisi
Locat identifies localized marker genes by testing both enrichment within and depletion outside cell populations in single-cell transcriptomics.
- Developmental BiologyGenes & DevelopmentPeer-reviewed
Sharp cell type boundaries emerge from coordinated morphogen signaling
Ruiqi Li, Yiqun Jiang, Sarah Platt…·Peggy S. Myung
The paper shows how coordinated Wnt and Hedgehog signaling creates sharp cell-type boundaries by synchronizing cell-cycle exit and differentiation.
DOI 10.1101/gad.353815.126 - PhysiologybioRxivPreprint
Cysteine reduction rather than methionine restriction promotes immunometabolic fitness to confer survival benefit in aging
Lucie Orliaguet, Hee‐Hoon Kim, Piyush Gupta…·Vishwa Deep Dixit
This study shows that reducing cysteine, not methionine, improves immunometabolic fitness and extends healthy lifespan in aging organisms.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.04.749519 - ImmunologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Spatial analysis reveals the cellular microenvironments and mechanisms of inflammation and kidney injury in acute interstitial nephritis
Megan Leila Baker, Vijayakumar R. Kakade, Tifanny Budiman…·Lloyd G. Cantley
The paper identifies the CXCL9-CXCR3 axis and NAMPT as key drivers of inflammation and kidney injury in acute interstitial nephritis using spatial transcriptomics and imaging.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-77210-y - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Stack: In-Context Learning of Single-Cell Biology
Mingze Dong, Abhinav Adduri, Dhruv Gautam…·Yusuf Roohani
SO_SCPLOWTACKC_SCPLOW is a foundation model trained on human single-cell data that enables in-context learning for predicting perturbation effects without fine-tuning.
- ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
Human Lymph Node Cellular Senescence Atlas Reveals Age-Dependent Alteration in Germinal Center B Cell Function and Niches
Negin Farzad, Archibald Enninful, Yao Lu…·Rong Fan
This study maps age-related cellular senescence in human lymph nodes, identifying senescence markers and spatial shifts in germinal center B cells.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
MOSAIC: A Spectral Framework for Integrative Phenotypic Characterization Using Population-Level Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Chang Lu, Yuval Kluger, Rong Ma
MOSAIC integrates single-cell multi-omics data to identify feature connectivity patterns, revealing biological rewiring and improving clinical outcome prediction.
- BioinformaticsImmunoInformaticsPeer-reviewed
AMULETY: A Python package to embed adaptive immune receptor sequences
Meng Wang, Wengyao Jiang, Yuval Kluger…·Gisela Gabernet
AMULETY generates language model embeddings for adaptive immune receptor sequences using pre-trained models, enabling users to leverage different models for downstream applications.
DOI 10.1016/j.immuno.2026.100066 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
DiCoLo: Integration-free and cluster-free detection of localized differential gene co-expression in single-cell data
Ruiqi Li, Junchen Yang, Pei-Chun Su…·Yuval Kluger
DiCoLo detects localized differential gene co-expression without clustering or cross-condition alignment, revealing coordinated gene programs in mouse hair follicle development.
- ImmunologyNature AgingPeer-reviewed
Nerve-associated macrophages control adipose homeostasis across lifespan and restrain age-related inflammation
Elsie Gonzalez-Hurtado, Claire Leveau, Keyi Li…·Vishwa Deep Dixit
This study identifies nerve-associated macrophages (NAMs) as regulators of adipose homeostasis and inflammation during aging, showing their depletion accelerates inflammaging and impairs lipolysis.
- BioinformaticsCommunications BiologyPeer-reviewed
LMD: Cluster-Independent Multiscale Marker Identification in Single-cell RNA-seq Data
Ruiqi Li, Rihao Qu, Fabio Parisi…·Yuval Kluger
LMD identifies localized genes in single-cell RNA-seq data to characterize cellular diversity without batch correction, outperforming existing methods.
- Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprint
Sharp cell-type boundaries emerge from temporal coordination between morphogen signals
Ruiqi Li, Yiqun Jiang, Sarah Platt…·Peggy S. Myung
The paper shows that coordinated timing between Wnt and Hedgehog signaling generates sharp cell-type boundaries during hair follicle development.
1 citation - ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
Hormetic elevation of taurine restrains inflammaging by deactivating the NLRP3 inflammasome.
Chenyang Guan, Seungjin Ryu, Mingze Dong…·Vishwa Deep Dixit
This study shows that elevated taurine reduces age-related inflammation by inhibiting the NLRP3 inflammasome and pyroptosis in mice.
3 citations - BioinformaticsPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Supervised fine-tuning of pre-trained antibody language models improves antigen specificity prediction
Meng Wang, Jonathan Patsenker, Henry Li…·Steven H. Kleinstein
This study improves antigen specificity prediction by fine-tuning pre-trained antibody language models on SARS-CoV-2 and influenza antigens, showing better accuracy than models trained on embeddings alone.
22 citationstop 2% - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Multi-omic Characterization of HIV Effects at Single Cell Level across Human Brain Regions
Junchen Yang, Kriti Agrawal, Jay S. Stanley…·Serena Spudich
This study uses single-nucleus multiome sequencing to identify HIV-associated transcriptional and epigenetic changes in brain regions of individuals with HIV, revealing altered glial cell states and pro-inflammatory signaling.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Principled PCA separates signal from noise in omics count data
Jay S. Stanley, Junchen Yang, Ruiqi Li…·Yuval Kluger
BiPCA improves PCA for omics count data by adaptively rescaling noise, enhancing biological interpretation and reducing batch effects across multiple modalities.
3 citations - ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
IL-4 Licenses B Cell Activation Through Cholesterol Synthesis
Holly R. Steach, Autumn Gabrielle York, Jonathan R. Mattingly…·Richard Anthony Flavell
This study shows IL-4 promotes B cell activation by upregulating cholesterol synthesis, which is essential for ER expansion, cell cycle progression, and proliferation during influenza infection.
- BioinformaticsNature BiotechnologyPeer-reviewed
Gene Trajectory Inference for Single-cell Data by Optimal Transport Metrics
Rihao Qu, Xiuyuan Cheng, Esen Sefik…·Yuval Kluger
GeneTrajectory infers gene trajectories instead of cell trajectories to uncover progressive gene dynamics in biological processes.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
SORBET: Automated cell-neighborhood analysis of spatial transcriptomics or proteomics for interpretable sample classification via GNN
Shay Shimonov, Joseph M Cunningham, Ronen Talmon…·Yuval Kluger
SORBET uses geometric deep learning to predict phenotypes from spatial transcriptomics and proteomics data, showing improved accuracy over existing methods.
6 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Scaling deep identifiable models enables zero-shot characterization of single-cell biological states
Mingze Dong, Kriti Agrawal, Rong Fan…·Yuval Kluger
This paper introduces scShift, a deep variational model that enables zero-shot characterization of single-cell biological states across datasets by overcoming batch effects.
- BioinformaticsNucleic Acids ResearchPeer-reviewed
Language model-based B cell receptor sequence embeddings can effectively encode receptor specificity
Meng Wang, Jonathan Patsenker, Henry Li…·Steven H. Kleinstein
This study evaluates B cell receptor sequence embeddings for predicting sequence properties and specificity, finding that BCR-specific embeddings and paired-chain sequences improve performance.
26 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
SIMVI reveals intrinsic and spatial-induced states in spatial omics data
Mingze Dong, David G. Su, Harriet M. Kluger…·Yuval Kluger
SIMVI disentangles intrinsic and spatial-induced variations in spatial omics data, revealing spatial effects and biological dynamics across multiple datasets.
- BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Comprehensive visualization of cell-cell interactions in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics with NICHES
Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Junchen Yang, Neeharika Kothapalli…·Yuval Kluger
NICHES visualizes cell-cell interactions at the single-cell level using ligand-receptor signaling proxies, enabling analysis of heterogeneous signaling across cell clusters and spatial contexts.
128 citationstop 1% - GenomicsJNCI Journal of the National Cancer InstitutePeer-reviewed
Cancer relevance of human genes
Tao Qing, Hussein Mohsen, Vincent L. Cannataro…·Lajos Pusztai
The paper identifies cancer-relevant genes by analyzing their proximity to core cancer genes in protein-protein interaction networks, finding that genes closer to cancer genes show greater functional importance in cancer biology.
5 citations - Systems BiologyScientific ReportsPeer-reviewed
Connectome: computation and visualization of cell-cell signaling topologies in single-cell systems data
Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Junchen Yang, James Garritano…·Laura E. Niklason
Connectome quantifies and visualizes cell-cell signaling networks from single-cell RNA-sequencing data using a software package for R.
139 citationstop 1% - BioinformaticsPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Graph of graphs analysis for multiplexed data with application to imaging mass cytometry
Ya-Wei Eileen Lin, Tal Shnitzer, Ronen Talmon…·Yuval Kluger
The paper introduces a graph-based method for analyzing multiplexed spatial data, applied to imaging mass cytometry to predict treatment sensitivity with 92% accuracy.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Detection of differentially abundant cell subpopulations discriminates biological states in scRNA-seq data
Jun Zhao, Ariel Jaffe, Henry Li…·Yuval Kluger
DA-seq identifies differentially abundant cell subpopulations between biological states in scRNA-seq data, revealing both known and novel subpopulations with biological insights.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
Zero-preserving imputation of scRNA-seq data using low-rank approximation
George C. Linderman, Jun Zhao, Yuval Kluger
Truncated SVD plus a per-gene threshold at the most negative value fills dropouts while leaving biological zeros alone, and runs on 50,000 cells in about 40 minutes.
- BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Gating mass cytometry data by deep learning
Huamin Li, Uri Shaham, Kelly Patrick Stanton…·Yuval Kluger
The paper introduces DeepCyTOF, a deep learning method for automating cell gating in mass cytometry data, achieving high concordance with manual gating and performing well on benchmark challenges.