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Damir Baranasic

@da-bar.bsky.social

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Research Associate at @institutrb 🧬. Researching into #ComputationalBiology & #Bioinformatics. Passionate about #RegulatoryGenomics & #ComparativeGenomics 🧪. Opinions are my own 🌍.

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am very proud to see @kkajan.bsky.social and Marta Bosnjakovic from my group presenting their exciting results obtained from #CAGE data!

#CroAGE #nextGenerationEU

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚀 Exciting update!

Proud to share that our team members @kkajan.bsky.social and Marta Bošnjaković presented their research at the Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Aug 26–30! #cshlmoet 🎤🧬

Thank you #nextGenerationEU for the opportunity!

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · Aug 4

To recognise and celebrate @svobodalab.bsky.social's pivotal contribution to Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science, #TCTeAC, I am starting this "What Petr Svoboda did at Woodstock?" thread. If you were there - #contribute and #retweet.

"Petr Didn’t Submit an Abstract. #TCTeAC Submitted to Him."

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 24

🐦 @kkajan.bsky.social is exploring promoter usage during early avian development in #EvolCompGen. #ISMBECCB2025

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 24

📈 Scaling CAGE analysis across tens of #DANIO-CODE samples with the @nf-co.re inspired CAGEflow pipeline —big data meets promoters. Catch Ira's poster D-515! 🦓🐠

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 24

🦓🐠 Building the first promoter atlas of adult zebrafish organs—expanding #DANIO-CODE. Visit Marta at poster C-514. #zebrafish #CAGE

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 24

🤖 @da-bar.bsky.social is exploring AI-driven promoter architecture characterisation from CAGE! Come chat at poster D-507 at #ISMBECCB2025 @iscb-regsys.bsky.social

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚀 The CroAGE team is attending to Liverpool for #ISMBECCB2025! Catch our CAGE & promoter research posters all week at ACC Liverpool. Thank you #nextGenerationEU for the opportunity🧵

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 23

Do we really need large language models to tell us that the germline residue is the optimal one? One of the questions Charlotte Dean tackled in her talk at #ISMBECCB2025, and how she and her team addressed the problem of germline bias in antibody target prediction 🧬🔬💻🤖

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today marks the start of the #RegSys @iscb-regsys.bsky.social track at ##ISMBECCB2025! Very much looking forward to listening to the exciting science that will be presented.

Join us in room 11BC today and tomorrow.

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 We're hiring! NCMBM @ncmbm.bsky.social is looking for 2 new group leaders to join our vibrant research community. Ready to build your own group with strong support and a solid startup package?

Interested and attending #ISMBECCB2025? Let’s connect!

🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Group Leader (282908) | University of Oslo

Job title: Group Leader (282908), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 22

Day 3 of #ISMBECCB2025 started with an excellent talk from @jameszou.bsky.social which presented how AI can form virtual labs to discuss problems, how can AI reanalyse research data to get new biological results, and how we can interpret complex AI predictions 💻🤖

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today's keynote at #ISMBECCB2025 Amos Bairoch talking about 45 years of data curation #swissProt #cellosaurus

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 20

Eagerly waiting for the start of #ISMBECCB2025 with @croage.bsky.social team, @kkajan.bsky.social, Marta and Ira, with the great company of @damlaob.bsky.social and @ferenckata.bsky.social for a keynote talk from John Jumper 🧬🔬

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 20

Meet our team!
👨‍🔬 Dr. Damir Baranašić – Project Leader @da-bar.bsky.social
🔬 Dr. Matija Piškorc – Research Associate
👩‍🔬 Dr. Katarina Kajan – Postdoc @kkajan.bsky.social
🧬 Marta Bošnjaković & Ira Renko – PhD candidates

Reposted by Damir Baranasic

CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 20

Using cutting-edge technologies like CAGE (Cap Analysis of Gene Expression) and AI-driven algorithms, we aim to develop tools to explore promoter architecture & identify novel antitumor targets.

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · Jul 20

🚀 Introducing CroAGE – a #NextGenerationEU project advancing regulatory & comparative genomics in 🇭🇷 Croatia! We study gene promoters to understand how they control development & how tumours disrupt transcription.
🔗 croage.eu/en

CroAge Project, Founded by the Europe Union

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Now, I hope to see you at #ISMBECCB2025! Please make sure to come to poster D-507 to say "Hi"! 😀🧬🔬

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Finally, as a new member of the @embo.org YIP, it was an excellent opportunity to meet fellow EMBO YIP members and network with my peers through excellent science at the #EMBO YIP Annual Meeting in Heidelberg. I am looking forward to exciting new collaborations

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Then, at the Origin of Metazoans in @sbroscoff.bsky.social I presented the promoter features of a Metazoan relative, Creolimax fragrantissima. The result of collaboration with @alexdemendoza.bsky.social, @borislenhard.bsky.social and @bzunar.bsky.social

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 19

It all started with the legendary #TCTeAC where I presented how we rediscovered TATA box using AI!

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh boy, what an intensive and exciting June is behind me!! After three excellent meetings, including #TCTeAC, the Origin of Metazoans at @sbroscoff.bsky.social, and finally the @embo.org YIP annual meeting, #ISMBECCB2025 you are next!!! 🧵

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 13

Extremely proud to be part of this story! 🧬🔥 Our @nature.com paper, led by Will Scott @mrc-lms.bsky.social , maps 171k nuclei in human fat. Weight loss reverses senescence & reignites metabolic flux, but macrophages remain primed—clues for future therapies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Selective remodelling of the adipose niche in obesity and weight loss - Nature

An atlas study of adipose tissue in people with obesity undergoing weight loss and their lean counterparts reveals that weight loss reduces cell senescence but cannot reverse all the metabolic problem...

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jul 13

I am glad to announce that the #DANIO-CODE Data Coordination Center is back online at a new home:
danio-code-dcc.genereg.net
Thank you all for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience!

Ferenc Mueller @ferencmueller.bsky.social · Jul 13

#IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

This Data Coordination Center allows DANIO-CODE consortium members to submit and view their data sets annotated with standard metadata nomenclatures.

danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · Jun 28

I am happy and extremely proud to be able to contribute to this work with Irène Amblard and @vmetzis.bsky.social, where by changing one motif we completely rewired the function of a regulatory element!🔬🧬 Now out in Developmental Cell!

Vicki Metzis @vmetzis.bsky.social · Jun 27

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

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Valeriy Kutsyna @valeriyk1.bsky.social · Jun 12

What do you write at the end of the #TCTeAC survey email?