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Head of Generative and Synthetic Genomics @sangerinstitute; Systems + Synthetic Biology @CRGenomica; Co-founder https://t.co/5N3PvqNXec https://t.co/l6NKYFgZBP

Barcelona | Cambridge
Joined April 2009
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Albert Escobedo
2 months
🎲 Our paper on the genetics, energetics, and allostery in proteins with randomized cores and surfaces is out today @ScienceMagazine! 🧬 By charting a protein’s sequence universe, we could rationalize which versions were kept through evolution – and why many stable ones were not.
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Ben Lehner
3 months
Arriving at the airport to fly to an AI conference and this happens #AIxBio25
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Ben Lehner
3 months
The evolution of allostery in a protein family. New preprint from the brilliant @ainamartiaranda. Seven complete allosteric maps.
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@immunobananna
Anna Arutyunyan
3 months
Alzheimer’s disease 🧠starts with a molecular domino effect - but what triggers the first piece to fall? In our new study we cracked open the black box of early protein aggregation, and the findings could reshape how we fight neurodegeneration. 🧵👇 https://t.co/PQZcE4bGwN
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The aggregation rates of >140,000 mutants reveal the energetic structure of an amyloid-β nucleation reaction transition state.
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@BenLehner
Ben Lehner
4 months
Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. pls RT! https://t.co/skA0MAOTyZ https://t.co/cZ8i3TigJH
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@BenLehner
Ben Lehner
4 months
New publication. We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @Bennibolo @CRGenomica @sangerinstitute @IBECBarcelona
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xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.
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@mo_lotfollahi
Mo Lotfollahi
7 months
I’m excited to co-host the new #AIxBio conference alongside @Avsecz, @ferruz_noelia, @pdhsu, @BenLehner, @ml19, @deboramarks, @p_tingying, @CarolineUhlerat at @wellcomegenome/ @sangerinstitute! We’ll focus on modellingz and designing DNA, RNA, proteins, and cells, as well as
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@eventsWCS
Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training
7 months
Could #AI be a game-changer for #BiologicalResearch? Join us for #AIxBio25, our new conference on the transformative potential of #AI and #MachineLearning, in shaping the future of medical science. 📅Save the date: 23-25 June 2025 📎 Find out more: https://t.co/yONsRLQESs
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@BenLehner
Ben Lehner
7 months
3 great computational positions open at @ALLOXbio to work with the great @aj4re @JuliaDiumenge @pbcenturion @mseumaar
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Andre Faure @ajfaure.bsky.social
8 months
At @ALLOXbio we now have 3 computational positions available! 📌Structural Bioinformatics Scientist 👉 https://t.co/owf7tlAUWr 📌Platform Bioinformatician 👉 https://t.co/JwtjcOyoBi 📌Computational Chemist 👉 https://t.co/WkEQUFFf1M Apply or repost to help us spread the word 🙏
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@JonasKoeppel
Jonas Koeppel
8 months
I’m delighted to share our work on scrambling the human genome using prime editing, repetitive elements, and recombinases @ScienceMagazine! @ferreira_raph_ @LeopoldParts @ProfTomEllis, @geochurch @SangerInstitute https://t.co/UtJ13iNRAq Lots of changes from the preprint. A🧵
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Jonas Koeppel
8 months
If you’d like to work in this exciting science area, @LeopoldParts lab at the @sangerinstitute is hiring postdocs! This is all part of the new Generative and Synthetic Genomics programme with nearby @benlehner and Jussi Taipale
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Jonas Koeppel
8 months
We are happy to share our enhancer scramble story, a strategy to create hundreds of stochastic deletions, inversions, and duplications within mammalian gene regulatory regions and associate these new architectures with gene expression levels 🧵 @LeopoldParts, Pierre Murat
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@CRGenomica
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
8 months
Introducing Human Domainome v1, the largest and most comprehensive library of human protein variants to date, which maps the effects of +500K mutations across 522 domains. The study by @BenLehner and Toni Beltran @mutatoni is out in @Nature. ✍️ Illustration by @QueraltTolosa
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@sangerinstitute
Wellcome Sanger Institute
8 months
Protein instability is the main driver of inherited genetic conditions, according to the largest map of protein variants to date − Human Domainome 1.0🔎 This dataset can help predict how proteins behave, paving the way for new treatments💊 https://t.co/7lIRduqP64
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@manuelansede
Manuel Ansede
8 months
The first ‘human domainome’ reveals the cause of a multitude of diseases. An ingenious large-scale experiment in Barcelona (by @mutatoni & @BenLehner) has led to the creation of a catalog detailing the effects of half a million DNA mutations: https://t.co/oE9kfCX2nT
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An ingenious large-scale experiment in Barcelona has led to the creation of a catalog detailing the effects of half a million DNA mutations
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