Deadline is coming up soon!!

www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

Kudos to all poster presenters and congratulations to Marios Eftychiou (@jdemeul.bsky.social lab), who got the runner-up poster award, and Wannes Hermans (@joanampereira.bsky.social lab), who won the Best Poster Award 🏆 🙌 #VIBAIscienceday

Great mix of talks from across all @viblifesciences.bsky.social research areas at our first-ever #VIBAIScienceDay. Sharing another mini photo dump while we digest lunch and gear up for more science this afternoon.

Thank you to all the speakers, poster presenters, keynote speaker M. Blaschko, and to all participants for a fantastic first edition of the VIB.AI Science Day !

And we're off for a full day of VIB.AI science! 🤩
What a treat to bring the entire community together from Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and Leuven, and to do so in this beautiful location.
Welcome to the church of AI in Biology. 😇
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Hi folks,

Check out our updated website!
Details on next year's conference will be posted there soon!

fly-jedi.org

🚀Excited to share our new preprint: “Programming human cell type-specific gene expression via an atlas of AI-designed enhancers”

We built the largest repository of AI-designed enhancers, validated across 10 human cell lines + mouse retina.

👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#AI #Genomics #SynBio

One week left to apply! 🚨

We are hiring for two exciting roles at the intersection of AI and life sciences:
👉 Head of the Machine Learning Expertise Unit
👉 LLM Engineer

Don’t miss your chance to apply by October 31!
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list

Do we need LLMs to predict epigenomes from DNA—or is biophysics enough? 🧬
IceQream (IQ) is a biophysics-based framework that predicts epigenomes with SOTA-level accuracy—and is fully explainable.
@NatureComms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thread 🧵👇
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We are thrilled to share our new preprint entitled “The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now that I'm settled in at @umasschan.bsky.social, I'm hiring at all levels: grad students, post-docs, and software engineers/bioinformaticians!

The goal of my lab is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in our genomes and how this changes across every cell in our bodies.

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper is out! A bold vision to map the diversity and evolution of cell types across the tree of life 🌍

We have two open positions for a ML and a LLM engineer to launch a machine learning expertise unit in our center @vibai.bsky.social, see vib.ai/en/opportuni...

We're growing the VIB.AI Machine Learning Unit, and we're hiring!

📌 Head of the Machine Learning Unit
📌 LLM Engineer

Both roles are based in Leuven, Belgium, at the heart of a thriving research ecosystem.
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list
Apply by October 31st.

Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome:

The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu

This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues.

Uses cases 👇

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New faculty position opening at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social . Especially interested in candidates with deep expertise and vision for the future of AI/ML/computational models of biomolecules. Please RT

Registration deadline for @embo.org workshop EvoChromo extended until September 30.

meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

@niklaskemp.bsky.social will present our new CREsted framework at the next scverse community meeting!

CREsted allows you to train sequence-to-function models tailored to cell type-specific enhancers (including synthetic enhancer design) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... github.com/aertslab/cre...

1/ First preprint from @jdemeul.bsky.social lab 🥳! We present our new multi-modal single-cell long-read method SPLONGGET (Single-cell Profiling of LONG-read Genome, Epigenome, and Transcriptome)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join EMBL as a research group leader in AI in biology. EMBL AI is our new initiative aiming to exploit the full potential of ML/AI-based approaches to advance our understanding of the most complex system in the known universe - life on Earth.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

New from the lab: Fatty Acid Metabolism Sets the Species-specific Tempo of Cortical Development through Protein Acetylation Dynamics. Led by amazing trio: @ryo2iwata.bsky.social , Isabel Gallego, @emirerkol.bsky.social, together with @steinaerts.bsky.social , @fendtlab.bsky.social

Latest from the lab, the beautiful work of Iryna Mohylyak and colleagues describing a temporal developmental transcriptional program for mitochondrial quality control and synaptic connectivity, with @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social, Olga Corti and @steinaerts.bsky.social
labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the genomics community, we have focused pretty heavily on achieving state-of-the-art predictive performance.

While undoubtedly important, how we *use* these models after training is potentially even more important.

tangermeme v1.0.0 is out now. Hope you find it useful!