<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Spatial Transcriptomics | Erwin POUSSI</title><link>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/tag/spatial-transcriptomics/</link><atom:link href="https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/tag/spatial-transcriptomics/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Spatial Transcriptomics</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/media/icon_hu0b7a4cb9992c9ac0e91bd28ffd38dd00_9727_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.png</url><title>Spatial Transcriptomics</title><link>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/tag/spatial-transcriptomics/</link></image><item><title>PantheonOS: An Evolvable Multi-Agent Framework for Automatic Genomics Discovery</title><link>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/publication/xu-2026-pantheonos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/publication/xu-2026-pantheonos/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Pantheon: LLM-Based Bio Assistant</title><link>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/project/pantheon-gene-panel-selection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://rwin2.github.io/erwinpoussi.github.io/project/pantheon-gene-panel-selection/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="demo">Demo&lt;/h2>
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&lt;p>This project focuses on the development of &lt;strong>Pantheon&lt;/strong>, an open-source &lt;strong>multi-agent LLM platform for biological scientific workflows&lt;/strong>&lt;br>
(&lt;a href="https://www.pantheon-os.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pantheon Project&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;p>My work specifically targets &lt;strong>Gene Panel Selection (GPS)&lt;/strong>, a core capability of Pantheon that automates the design of gene panels for &lt;strong>spatial transcriptomics&lt;/strong> experiments.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The GPS system coordinates &lt;strong>five specialized LLM agents&lt;/strong>, built on open-source models and extended with &lt;strong>custom toolchains and domain-specific reasoning&lt;/strong>. A &lt;strong>Leader Agent&lt;/strong> interprets ambiguous biological intent, decomposes high-level scientific questions into structured computational steps, and orchestrates agents such as the &lt;strong>Selection Expert&lt;/strong>, with iterative validation and error handling.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I am currently &lt;strong>fine-tuning and continually pretraining Qwen3 LLMs&lt;/strong> to power Pantheon&amp;rsquo;s self-evolving agent backbone, leveraging &lt;strong>reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR)&lt;/strong> and &lt;strong>tool-augmented inference&lt;/strong> to build domain-adaptive, evolvable agents for autonomous genomic reasoning. I also collaborate with &lt;strong>Vizgen&lt;/strong> to integrate a &lt;strong>reinforcement learning module&lt;/strong> for autonomous gene panel design by Pantheon.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This research is conducted in collaboration with &lt;strong>Prof. Xiaojie Qiu&lt;/strong>
(&lt;a href="https://www.devo-evo.com/people/xiaojie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Qiu Lab, Stanford&lt;/a>)
and &lt;strong>Dr. Weize Xu&lt;/strong>
(&lt;a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/weize-xu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford Profile&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Deployed in collaboration with &lt;strong>Vizgen&lt;/strong>, Pantheon processes &lt;strong>large-scale multi-omics datasets&lt;/strong> and produces &lt;strong>curated gene panels&lt;/strong> that previously required extensive manual expertise.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Publication:&lt;/strong> Xu, Poussi et al., &lt;em>PantheonOS: An Evolvable Multi-Agent Framework for Automatic Genomics Discovery&lt;/em>, bioRxiv 2026. &lt;a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.707870v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read preprint&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>&lt;a href="https://github.com/aristoteleo/PantheonOS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Repository&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>