Leopold Parts
@leopoldparts.bsky.social
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Faculty in Generative and Synthetic Genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute; CTO (part-time) at ExpressionEdits. Engineering DNA in mammalian cells to understand and build.
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ewanbirney.bsky.social
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
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wellcometrust.bsky.social
Genomics continues to revolutionise science.

But there’s untapped potential for new discoveries through collaboration between genomics and the humanities, social sciences, bioethics and wider stakeholders.
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johndoench.bsky.social
Doomscrolling pause to chat CRISPR libraries! Preprint describes our new, data-driven approach to combine on-target and off-target predictions much more intelligently for *selecting* guides, which we use to develop our newest Cas9 knockout library, Jacquere. Thread: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Balancing off-target and on-target considerations for optimized Cas9 CRISPR knockout library design
The continued development of high-dimensional CRISPR screen readouts, such as single-cell RNA sequencing and high-content imaging, necessitates compact libraries to enable functional interrogation at ...
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basvansteensellab.bsky.social
Very proud of our paper on "scrambling-by-hopping" LADs, which was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Congrats to Lise Dauban and the rest of the team – this was a real tour-de-force!
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
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kauralasoo.bsky.social
Extremely proud to see this work led by @mihkeljesse.bsky.social now out on biorxiv!
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jamesimcc.bsky.social
I've reached 100 British springtail species! This was helped by a recent glasshouse sampling trip, where I added these 4 species.

3 are now in the pipeline to have reference-quality genomes sequenced for the first time, by the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. More info in the thread below! 🧵1/7
Sminthurinus bimaculatus. Sminthurinus igniceps. Seira domestica. Sminthurides bifidus.
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ebi.embl.org
Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme.

ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob
ESPOD, the EMBL-EBI/Sanger postdoctoral fellowship. Applications deadline 30 September. Image credit: Karen Arnott / EMBL-EBI
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sudpinglay.bsky.social
We are hiring a scientist to lead our 'Build' team at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology. @alleninstitute.org

Job posting below:
alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...

Please reach out if you have any questions!
Jobs
We are working to solve the biggest mysteries in bioscience.
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proftomellis.bsky.social
New paper from our lab on synthetic genome work in yeast is out - Iterative SCRaMbLE for Engineering Synthetic Genome Modules and Chromosomes. Exciting project led by Jane (Xinyu) Lu in our group, now online. t.co/0LuGwgAWlA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62356-y
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normanlab.bsky.social
Our paper is now out in final form at Nature Genetics! For those who missed the preprint, we used large-scale Perturb-seq targeting transcription factors to push primary fibroblasts into diverse transcriptional states, including those observed in cell atlas studies.
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albertescobedo.bsky.social
🎲 Our paper on the genetics, energetics, and allostery in proteins with randomized cores and surfaces is out today @science.org!
🧬 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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avsecz.bsky.social
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
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hilarycmartin.bsky.social
New preprint - collab with the groups of @mehurles.bsky.social and @dr-appie.bsky.social. We imputed missing fluid intelligence test scores into ~170k @ukbiobank.bsky.social indivs & showed how this reduces bias and increases power for rare+common variant analyses. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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benlehner.bsky.social
The evolution of allostery in a protein family.
Aina's new preprint containing seven complete comparative allosteric maps biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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elena-kuzmin.bsky.social
Our manuscript on how single-cell imaging of protein dynamics of paralogs reveals sources of gene retention is out in iScience with a great team of collaborators @leopoldparts.bsky.social @guilbourque.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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deboramarks.bsky.social
Which RNAs are functional? Been a long time goal of @deboramarks.bsky.social to start an RNA sequence —> function and structure mapping.

Huge thx to team for pushing on this when - led by Rohit Arora and Murphy Angelo for seeing this thru and Pascal Notin for pulling together!!!
pascalnotin.bsky.social
🚨 New paper 🚨 RNA modeling just got its own Gym! 🏋️ Introducing RNAGym, large-scale benchmarks for RNA fitness and structure prediction.
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hilarycmartin.bsky.social
Delighted that the 'flagship' manuscript on our @genesandhealth.bsky.social 44k exomes (British Pakistanis & Bangladeshis) is now preprinted. Great academic-industry collaboration. Lots of new associations (mostly additive, a few recessive) and new insights into homoz knockouts & drug discovery.
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