Pedro Beltrao
@pedrobeltrao
Associate professor at ETH (@IMSB_ETH) studying the cellular consequences of genetic variation. Part of @theLoopZurich.
Enough people moved over to Bluesky so I will stop posting here. I will keep the account but probably won't be active. I will be at bsky.app/profile/pedrob…
There are a few AI tools that you can use to turn dense research papers (or even a whole PhD thesis!) into easy-listening podcasts. For @NatureIndex, I asked scientists to share their exeprience using these tools for sci comm and keeping up with the lit. nature.com/articles/d4158…
The activity in bluesky seems to be picking up recently. There is still a lot more here but it could be closer to a tipping point.
🚀 New preprint from our lab, @ekrym2 and @fabian_theis : UniversalEPI, an attention-based method to predict enhancer-promoter interactions from DNA sequence and ATAC-seq🌟 🔬 Key Highlights: - Predicts chromatin interactions across unseen cell types with no retraining. -…
My team at Deepmind (protein design) is hiring an experimentalist with enzyme expertise. Please RT and/or apply! I'm happy to answer any questions as well. boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…
Very happy to share we were awarded the SNSF Starting Grant 2024 for our PACMAN project on phage-antibiotics combination to mitigate antibiotic resistance...stay tuned for open positions (and cool science) ! 🥳🍾
🔒 🕯️ 📖 Generating ultra-secure #passwords and understanding the destruction of religious images in modern #democracies: these are among the many topics that the 61 researchers who have been awarded an #SNSFStartingGrant 2024 will investigate. sohub.io/737e
Many congrats to Lisa (@lab_maier) for getting selected as one of the @CellCellPress 50 Scientists that Inspire! Inspiring for many years to come! @uni_tue @CellPressNews @embl cell.com/news-do/50-ins…
Today in @NatureBiotech we report on the use of base and prime editing for high throughput interrogation of genetic variants in cancer. Excellent work by first authors @olivier_belli & @k_karava. 🧵👇 tinyurl.com/2js9dwyp @ETH_en @ETH_BSSE
🚨 Very happy to announce the publication of my PhD work @NatureBiotech where we combined base and prime editing screens to investigate the impact of genetic variants in cancer. 🧵⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158…
Another function of endogenous peptides, products of protein degradation, is guarding from autoimmune disease. How many functions of peptidomes are still unknown? #peptides #guardpeptides nature.com/articles/s4158…
Join us @Roche's Institute of Human Biology (IHB) as a Scientific Group Leader! Lead innovative research in #HumanModelSystems such as #Organoids. We especially seek applications aligned to our commitment to diversity and inclusion. More go.roche.com/11jc8 #TeamIHB #pRED
For many traits there is a correlation between the number of duplications or loss-of-function (LoF) mutations someone carries, and their phenotype. Curiously, for most traits, these effects are aligned in the SAME direction. Why?
The #AlphaFold 3 model code and weights are now available for academic use. We @GoogleDeepMind are excited to see how the research community continues to use AlphaFold to address open questions in biology and new lines of research. github.com/google-deepmin…
We love the excitement & results from the community on AlphaFold 3 and are doubling the AF Server daily job limit to 20. Happy to also share that we're working on releasing the AF3 model (incl weights) for academic use, which doesn’t depend on our research infra, within 6 months.
Protenix - Yet another reproduction of AF3 github.com/bytedance/Prot…
Protenix: Protein + X | ByteDance - A trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3 GitHub: github.com/bytedance/Prot…
📢 Last chance to submit your abstract for #EMBOinsitu! ⏰ Deadline is on 12 Nov – you only have 5 more days! 📜 Topics: 🔸Molecular machines and macromolecular assemblies 🔸Novel technologies 1: advanced imaging 🔸Organelles and compartments 🔸Single cell systems 🔸Cellular…
How did the characteristic pattern of embryonic cell divisions during animal development evolve? nature.com/articles/d4158…
Our latest #Ichthyosporean #EvoDevo story, led by M. Olivetta @ChandniBhickta @NChiaruttini & in co. with @burnsajohn is finally out @Nature . Link⏩: nature.com/articles/s4158… Preprint⏩: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5)
Very happy and excited to announce that I'll be starting my own research group at @emblebi! The group will focus on lineage tracing, somatic evolution and the origins of cancer. Interested in doing a postdoc in the group or know someone who is? Please reach out!