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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 New AI breakthrough in structural biology!
GraphPep learns from binding interfaces, not isolated molecules 🤯
Each protein–peptide contact becomes a graph node — revealing how nature builds molecular interactions.
Game changer for effector docking & target discovery 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

An interaction-derived graph learning framework for scoring protein–peptide complexes - Nature Machine Intelligence

GraphPep presents an interaction-derived and protein language model-powered graph learning framework for robust scoring of protein–peptide complexes, substantially enhancing the binding mode predictio...

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · 12d

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!!! 👍

formatmypaper.com

FormatMyPaper - The End of Manuscript Formatting

Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to all the LIDISKI team !

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · 26d

🎓👏 Congrats to Naomie Pature on her successful PhD defense on Amblyomma variegatum biology!
From anatomy to life cycle and microbiome, her work advances tick biology & vector–pathogen interactions. 🌍🔬 @cirad @inrae

#OneHealth #Research #Ticks #VectorBiology #PhDDefense #Teamwork

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · 26d

🦟 Irony at its finest: a fully engorged mosquito landed on a anti-mosquito slide during a SIT meeting. 😂
Target mocking the scientist, live. 🎤🔬

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Sep 23

🎓 Naomie Pature defends her PhD on Sept 29!
Celebrating brilliant science, #OneHealth #research and the best team photo ever ✨
#PhDDefense #TeamScience @cirad.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Sep 19

🔥 Pathogenic bacteria don’t guess — they play to win.
Their business is killing… and business is good.
👉 hal.science/hal-05230483
#Microbiology #HostPathogen #GameTheory
When Theory Meets Genomics: Reconciling Game Dynamics and Within-Host Evolution

When Theory Meets Genomics: Reconciling Game Dynamics and Within-Host Evolution

Virulence is a context-dependent strategy, not a fixed trait. Building on Tonkin-Hill et al., a game-theoretical framework predicts when pathogens invest in immune evasion or shift to rapid replicatio...

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Sep 10

🎉 Entering in my 50th year, fueled by love, gratitude, and purpose 🙏💙

5 keys to guide the next chapter:
🔑 #Ikigai – purpose 💛
🔑 #Kaizen – progress ⛰️
🔑 #Shoshin – curiosity ❓
🔑 #Wabi-sabi – authenticity 👍
🔑 #Pomodoro – focus ⏳

Life is short 🌍. Let’s make it meaningful. ✨
#mindset #growth

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just a short question to the community? Is there a way to comment on a published article ? (Not speaking about preprint/Peer Community In) For example, I would like to comment on a recent article published in July in @natmicrobiol.nature.com and I want to put in perspective with some of our work…

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

✅ >80% feeding success in immature stages
✅ Successful oviposition in adult females
✅ Viable larvae with natural feeding behavior
✅ A step forward for tick-pathogen studies 🧫 and animal welfare 🐄❤️

🔬 A tool for advancing research on ticks and other hematophagous arthropods.

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

📌 Why it matters?
The tropical bont tick is a major threat to livestock health in the tropics 🌍. Our innovative artificial membrane feeding system allows us to complete its life cycle without live hosts.

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧬 New #preprint!
🎯 We completed the life cycle of Amblyomma variegatum using an artificial membrane feeding system — no live hosts! 🕷️🩸
👉 doi.org/10.21203/rs....
#ticks #OneHealth #vectorbiology #artificialfeeding #tropicaldiseases #Amblyomma #Ehrlichia #TeamScience

Successful completion of the life cycle of Amblyomma variegatum using tick artificial membrane feeding system

The three-host tick Amblyomma variegatum, commonly known as the tropical bont tick, poses a major threat to livestock health and productivity in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. This tick i...

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yep so tired of that ! x.com/johnholbein1...

John B. Holbein on X: "this conversation will be on repeat for many academics as they visit family this summer https://t.co/hVMUmrbsnr" / X

this conversation will be on repeat for many academics as they visit family this summer https://t.co/hVMUmrbsnr

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · May 12

What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.

History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.

We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · May 15

America is complicit in the slaughter of the Palestinian people.

2.2 million people are trapped. Disease is spreading. Children are starving to death.

And we continue to provide U.S. military aid to Netanyahu.

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · May 22

The difference between Gaza and Auschwitz is that the world still has an opportunity to stop the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · Apr 28

🔬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "PPIFold: a tool for analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction from AlphaPullDown."

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf090

Authors include @dammeyer.bsky.social

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Apr 25

🚀 New paper alert! I am thrilled to present PPIFold: a tool that simplifies protein-protein interaction predictions with AlphaPulldown 🧬 Featuring the intuitive iQ-score + auto figures
@cirad.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social
📖 Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
🔧 Code: github.com/Qrouger/PPIF...

PPIFold: a tool for analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction from AlphaPullDown

AbstractMotivation. Protein structure and protein-protein interaction (PPI) predictions based on coevolution have transformed structural biology, but manag

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Apr 21

Joining people around the world in mourning Pope Francis today. He lived a life of extraordinary grace and deep compassion. May he rest in peace. #Easter

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Apr 11

Science & Art is my life 😎

Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yes I am

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Jacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · Feb 18

Third: We developed an amplicon-based pipeline that lets you take an unknown insect and determine its species, what it has been eating, if it's infected with parasites, and info on potential insecticide resistance, to better monitor vectors like mosquitoes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Schematic of our vector amplicon pipeline

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Jacob Tennessen @jacobphd.bsky.social · Feb 18

Three 2025 papers (so far). First: we used transposons to disrupt most genes of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium knowlesi, revealing the essential genes for survival, either in general or under antimalarial drugs, providing clues to how parasites can be killed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Damien F. Meyer @dammeyer.bsky.social · Mar 18

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