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Sebastiaan (Seb) Vanuytven
@svanuytven.bsky.social
Computational postdoc @cedric-blanpain.bsky.social Lab | Tackling cancer one cell at the time | Science, Coffee, Chess, Running & Bouldering | Views are my own
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⚠️ TSP-1/CD47 drives T cell exhaustion — block it, reinvigorate immunity
💥 MITEs: Tumor-activated immunocytokines that flip TAMs + supercharge T/NK cells
⏳ ACE: Explainable AI finds conserved aging genes across species
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🧬 CRISPR first-in-human: ANGPTL3 editing cuts LDL/TG ~50%+ after one infusion
🧠 Neuro–immune crosstalk: Sensory neurons use TGF-β to shape macrophage identities for nerve repair
🧩 FADVI: Disentangles batch effects vs biology for cleaner single-cell & spatial integration
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🛑 TGF-β creates a dual immune barrier in CRC liver mets
💬 CellHermes: Turns omics into natural language to unify encoding, prediction & explanation.
🗺️ CONCERT: Learns niche-aware perturbation responses
⚙️ Monod: Replaces heuristic scRNA-seq workflows with mechanistic transcription modeling.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🧩 NRF2 reprogams BM progenitors into immunosuppressive macrophages
⚠️ High CIN fuels cancer non–cell-autonomously, promoting relapse
🗺️ STORIES learns "Waddington landscapes" from spatial transcriptomics
🔭 Early myeloid clusters predict if precancerous lesions regress/progress
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I am on a quest to follow all the Bioinformaticians here on #Bluesky.
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
⚡ CAFs act like neurons
➡️ velotest puts RNA velocity visualizations to the test
🧠 CytoTRACE 2 decodes absolute cellular potency
🧩 scooby predicts multiomic cell profiles from DNA
💉 mRNA vaccines boost immunotherapy response
🐋 Bowhead whales fight cancer with DNA repair
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🧠 Large Perturbation Model predicts cellular responses in silico
🧩 MIMA unifies any omics with AI-driven batch correction
🧱 fastCNV maps tumor CNVs from single-cell & spatial data—fast ⚡ & accurate
🌸 PHLOWER untangles complex differentiation trees from multimodal data
October 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🧓 Single-cell phylogenies map 70 years of clonal evolution in the human esophagus
💊 Generative AI designs new antibiotics effective against superbugs
🍄 Shorkie: a fungal DNA LM that predicts gene expression from sequence alone
October 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This work introduces MIMA, a powerful AI framework for integrating spatial & single-cell multi-omics data while removing batch effects, revealing new molecular patterns & linking omics to histopathology.

Big step toward AI-driven digital pathology and precision oncology.
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🐀 4 amino acids in mole-rat cGAS supercharge DNA repair
🔥 Tumor acidosis drives metabolic rewiring
🧠 Benchmarking 40 multimodal integration tools
📊 Self-supervised models face domain gaps in spatial data
🤖 scConcept, MrVI, & gReLU push single-cell AI & genomics design forward
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM