The fact we can see this machine factory frozen in time (and space), happily making molecular machines, effectively at an atomic level is just jaw dropping.
Every time I see these images I am blown away by it. Great work by Xiaohan and what a way for Christoph Müller to retire from @embl.org
Congratulations to @gautamdey.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social - so well deserved
Transcriptformer - training on 12 species from human to Sponge including classic model organism. Models are quite good on cell types. Interestingly T-cells. Also some cool sponge to metazoa space
Steve goes through the single cell maps - Tabula xxx (Tabula is definitely a Steve term). How do you go beyond Cell x Gene. Question - can you build a distance metric between cells? They generate an embedding space to handle this (with genes as ESM2 models)
📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics.
Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch.
You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney
'Species' is a useful term, but one that we have imposed to make sense of the diversity of life. Nature deals in genetic lineages, haplotypes and ancestral recombination graphs. Speciation researchers should be (and increasingly are) doing the same. And using as much genomic data as they can get!
Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/
Ewan Birney
Last talk before lunch - Steve Quake - His talk title: How many cell types arise from one genome? - he gives a teaser that he wont give an answer. Then the famous Brenner quote "Biology is drowning in a sea of data and starving for knowledge".
EMBO
22/n On a personal note, I’ll soon start an independent research group in the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg. If you enjoy this type of work and want to engineer genomes at the largest scale, please reach out!
jonas-koeppel.github.io/koeppellab/
www.embl.org/groups/koepp...
