Daniel Diaz

#HiSciSky 👋 I am a Bioinformatics Engineer working on Product Development for Illumina. I am interested in anything genomics 🧬 , diabetes 💉, or space 🚀related! I recently wrote about exploring my own diabetes genomic variants here: dddiaz.com/post/hla/

Erin did an amazing job capturing "my why". www.illumina.com/company/news... #genomics #illumina #DRAGEN

Genetically modified Beta Cells that are immune evasive. This is an incredible step in the right direction to a possible #Type1Diabetes cure that does not require immune suppression. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"I sit here and get to do one of the coolest jobs in the world & play baseball for a living, and I do all that as type 1 diabetic. I hope to be an inspiration to kids that they can do anything they want to." #Padres pitcher Mason Miller on living with type one diabetes youtu.be/3Hg5Cu4s9FQ?...

This is Epic! 🚀 Axiom Mission 4 will research the accuracy of continuous glucose monitors #CGM and the viability of different insulins in space! With the end goal to "eventually fly a crew member with the condition". #T1D #diabetes issnationallab.org/press-releas...

Just beat Expedition 33. The music is awesome and the game is lots of fun! Never played a RPG like this, but it was totally worth it. #monami #ps5

I think i just heard the sonic boom from the spacex landing in oceanside! Wish I knew about it earlier so I could have watched it.

Just finished reading #Abundance by Ezra Klein and @dkthomp.bsky.social . Well worth it! The authors sum up the book well in the first chapter: "This book is dedicated to a simple idea: to have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need." #booksky

Watching #SailGP in SF was awesome!

Afreeza is a form of inhaled #insulin I use, in addition to normal insulin in my insulin pump. It’s super fast acting ( starts working in 30 minutes ) and i think it’s great. Today i decided to look up its full cost in cvs… 😅😅😅 #T1D #Diabetes

Was pleasantly surprised when I opened LinkedIn to find out #Illumina had quoted me on their page! Pretty cool! 🧬💻🙂 : www.linkedin.com/posts/illumi...

Illumina's Innovation Roadmap: 👀 www.illumina.com/science/geno... - Constellation mapped reads (sequencing with no library prep!) - Spatial transcriptomics - 5-base solution for methylation - Multiomic data analysis Pretty exciting if you ask me, but I am biased 😂 #illumina #AGBT25

Looking forward to reading about all the cool announcements that come out of #AGBT25 ! 👀👀🧬🧬👏👏

This is what a world with personalized medicine can look like: Vaccines that are trained to target your specific cancer cells. Super interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #genomics #cancer

Oh wow, it’s been so long since I have “binged” a book! I picked up Project Hail Mary at the beginning of the week and I just finished it!So good, not a single dull moment! #booksky

This reflects my experience with a GLP-1 as a #T1D as well. Onboarding was rough, but it made my management a lot easier. #t1d #diabetes

Just learned this today, during a state of emergency pharmacists can use professional judgement to refill a perscription without a prescribers auth. Hopefully useful for people affected by the fires who lost access to medication. #T1D #diabetes #cafire

Very exciting development for immune evasive islet cells. These were transplanted, which are not readily available, but the hope is this could be extended into stem cell derived islets. www.breakthrought1d.org/news-and-upd... #t1d #diabetes #stemcells

Just finished Team Of Rivals! Such a good read! Goodwin does an amazing job showing Lincoln’s incredible emotional intelligence, truly something to admire. #booksky #lincoln

5 lessons I learned in 2024: 1. The value of emotional intelligence 2. We do things because they are hard 3. The Internet is not a valid "third place" 4. Diabetes research is still advancing rapidly 5. Eclipses are cool. You can see the full post here: www.dddiaz.com/post/learned... #yearinreview

Interesting new paper using Dexcom cgm data and an ml model to identify 4 different sub phenotypes for type 2 diabetes. - Muscle insulin resistance - Hepatic insulin resistance - β-cell dysfunction - Impaired incretin action #diabetes #dexcom #cgm #t2d www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#UCI Sailing Alumni Regatta ⛵️ this past weekend in Newport! #zot #zot #sailing

6/9 📄 If you've read this far and are curious for more, dive into the full paper for details: 🧬 HLA-TCR associations 🤖 ML & deep learning analyses 🔍 TCR motif enrichment And much more here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

10 percent of people with #T1D do not have the DR3/DR4 haplotype, this paper investigates the genetic drivers for T1D in this population, and suggests the mechanism may be based more on inflammation and b-cell disfunction, rather than T-cell activation. diabetesjournals.org/care/article... 🧬 💻

The #fpga enabled #aws instances are critical for accelerating #genomics 🧬💻workloads in the cloud ☁️ . Excited to see what this new generation of f2 instances helps unlock for customers ( with the help of #illumina #dragen of course! ) aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/no...

“The amazing, unexpected result of this BeginNGS trial was that nearly 30 percent of NICU babies who weren’t considered to need genome sequencing actually had genetic diseases..." radygenomics.org/2024/beginng... Super interesting study BeginNGS (pronounced beginnings) #genomics #illumina 🧬

I’m biased but point two is particularly interesting to me. #genomics

#SD2 is such an incredible resource in San Diego. Every person in this photo has spent a year mentoring a young person (HS or College) to support their journey in STEM. My mentee last year is now off at #Cal and I am so proud of him! sd2.org

Had to use this card at a comedy show that had a no phones policy recently! I need my phone to manage my insulin pump, luckily they were super accommodating and nice. They gave me a special wrist band and everything. #T1D #Diabetes #Loop

#T1D takes over the San Diego Zoo! Repping #dexcom g7, #eversense , and #tandem mobi . So happy to have these amazing friends in my life. #diabetes #diabeteslookslikeus

Pre Turkey Day Chaos. I know i won’t get it perfect, maybe not even close, but i’ll try my best! Gobble Gobble #t1d #dexcom #diabetes

Happy Turkey 🦃 Day everyone!

I have been experimenting with logging afreeza (inhalable insulin) in #loop (open source app that helps automate my insulin dosing through my insulin pump). As far as i’m aware, loop is the only lago that lets u log afreeza, and it seems to be working well 👍 #t1d #diabetes #closedloop

New JWST image of the Sombrero Galaxy #space #jwst science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Interesting Substack on the "T1D Fund". An attempt to bridge great T1D research with biotech companies who are working on cures that can get into patients hands. #t1d #diabetes open.substack.com/pub/smdohert...

oh this seems super nifty for automatically scaling aws ecs in preparation for some weekend workloads aws.amazon.com/blogs/contai...

Last week I got to see the Pandas at the SD Zoo! 🐼

A genomic test is the optimal way to rapidly diagnose central nervous system infections, 7-year performance data in thousands of patients for metagenomics next-gen sequencing www.nature.com/articles/s41...