Lasse Middendorf
@lassemiddendorf.bsky.social
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PhD Student at @CRG.eu | Synthetic Biology, Proteins & Evolution 🧬 | AI4ProteinDesign Lab
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igemcommunity.bsky.social
Welcoming @lassemiddendorf.bsky.social as Mayor of iGEM’s Biomanufacturing Village.

This Village explores how we can grow the medicines, materials and commodities of the future using synthetic biology- powered by shared tools, scalable ideas and practical roadmaps.

villages.igem.org
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moalquraishi.bsky.social
It's long seemed that molecular biology is a natural home for ML interpretability research, given the maturity of human-constructed models of biological mechanisms—permitting direct comparison with their ML-derived counterparts—unlike vision and NLP. Our first foray below👇.
etowah0.bsky.social
Can we learn protein biology from a language model?

In new work led by @liambai.bsky.social and me, we explore how sparse autoencoders can help us understand biology—going from mechanistic interpretability to mechanistic biology.
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claudiaalcar.bsky.social
Join the ProSE Seminar Series! A monthly discussion on the #Evolution of #ProteinStructure 🧪

Next up: Andrei Lupas
“Highly repetitive genomic ORFs: a source of new fibrous proteins?”
11th February | 3 PM GMT
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar1
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ppgardne.bsky.social
This is an important problem. 👏
biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social
Detecting and avoiding homology-based data leakage in genome-trained sequence models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634321v1
lassemiddendorf.bsky.social
Highlighting the amazing research at the #CRGPhDSymp2024 Poster Session! Check out some snapshots from today’s sessions
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nuriamimbrero.bsky.social
Super interesting talk from Gül Aydin’s about understanding the role of dynamic DNA methylation at
promoters during B-cell differentiation at the #CRGPhDSymp2024
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iseultleahy.bsky.social
Kicking us off today is Tamara Perteghella from the Guigó lab with her talk on the latest release of #GENCODE, dramatically increasing the number of annotated lncRNAs. Well done to everyone involved in the consortium! #CRGPhDSymp2024
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aljordlab.bsky.social
PhD Symposium at @theprbb.bsky.social !

#PhD #symposium #prbb
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People are slowly getting settled for the second day of the #CRGPhDSymp2024
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nuriamimbrero.bsky.social
Learning about cell type diversity and evolution beyond gene expression thanks to the amazing talk from Paulina Spurk at the PhD Symposium.

#CRGPhDSymp2024
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mattezambon.bsky.social
Great talk from Laia Montes Espuna at the @crg.eu PhD Symposium! Her work is focused on cell type diversity in early metazoans, aiming at broadening the understanding of cell type identity programs across the animal kingdom 🪸🧬 #CRGPhDSymp2024
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iseultleahy.bsky.social
Navigating the #CRGPhDSymp2024 poster session, I’m slowly becoming an expert at nodding thoughtfully while frantically trying to understand someone’s life work in 3 minutes!
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iseultleahy.bsky.social
Great talk from Javier Navarro Delgado on understanding, predicting and engineering variant effects in synthetic antibodies. #AntibodyDiscover #CRGPhDSymp2024
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nuriamimbrero.bsky.social
Very interesting talk from Pablo Lanuza about mechanistic understanding of splicing, titled SPF45 and 3'splice site proofreading.

#CRGPhDSymp2024 #splicing
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iseultleahy.bsky.social
Thanks Charlie for opening the PhD Symposium! Many thanks to everyone involved in its organisation. #CRGPhDSymp2024
lassemiddendorf.bsky.social
Next up we have @javibiotec.bsky.social talking on using large-scale mutational experiments to understand the genetic architecture of nanobody stability

#CRGPhDSymp2024
lassemiddendorf.bsky.social
Reporting from the #CRGPhDSymp2024 today and tomorrow! Kicking it off with a fascinating talk Gioia Quarantani on DMS of a 1000 exons to investigate alternative splicing
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crg.eu
Our amazing CRG PhD community are celebrating their annual symposium
today and tomorrow.

Follow our first year students on Bluesky for snippets about all the amazing talks featured this year:

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noeliaferruz.bsky.social
Ah, we have several positions open!
lassemiddendorf.bsky.social
Structural data sure helps, but I think we’re not quite there yet 😅 I’m waiting for the day you can search your
structure in a database and the top hit isn’t “uncharacterized protein”