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Cyntia Taveneau

@cyntiat.bsky.social
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Structural Biologist Monash University (Melbourne) 🇦🇺 🇨🇵 CryoEM & Protein Design

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 04/06/2026
L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de "Persepolis", est décédée à 56 ans Ah bordel merde, ça fait chier ça... www.rts.ch/info/culture...
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L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de "Persepolis", est décédée à 56 ans | RTS
L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, qui s'est fait mondialement connaître avec la bande dessinée et le film "Persepolis", est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans, a appris l'AFP jeudi auprès de son ento...
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Finally out 🎉 New paper in Nature Chemical Biology! Using RF-diffusion, we designed protein inhibitors that bind the CRISPR Cas13a active site, something very hard to find in nature. Thanks to everyone involved for the hard work! 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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De novo design of potent CRISPR–Cas13 inhibitors - Nature Chemical Biology
Taveneau et al. leverage artificial-intelligence-driven protein design to create inhibitors that control RNA-targeting enzymes in cells, revealing a strategy to rapidly design off-switches for RNA-edi...
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Big news! 🎉 The CRISPR Down Under 2026 speaker line-up is out. Join us in Melbourne (24–25 Mar) for two days of exciting CRISPR science, great talks & great people ! Early-bird & abstracts close 30 Jan ! 🔗 crispr.org.au
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
CRISPR Down Under 2026 is here! 📍 Melbourne | 📅 Mar 24–25 2026 Early-bird ends Jan 30! Register & Abstracts : crispr.org.au Join us for cutting-edge CRISPR research! #CRISPR #MelbourneEvents
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CRISPR Down Under
Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053 Tuesday 24th - Wednesday 25th March, 2026
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Big milestone for the AI Protein Design Program last November: our first AI binder design workshop! Proud of the team and grateful to @kmichie.bsky.social for her amazing talk. This is just the beginning… excited for what’s next! #AI #ProteinDesign #AIPDP
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to share our new review on AI-driven protein design - from its origins to today’s breakthroughs, methods, potential, and challenges ahead ! www.cell.com/structure/fu...
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Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design
In this review, Fox et al. discuss how artificial intelligence has transformed our ability to design new-to-nature proteins that bind target proteins with high affinity and specificity. The authors de...
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Thrilled to be part of this great @ausbiocommons.bsky.social initiative : a webinar serie on AI-based binder design :) I’ll be sharing a case study on using deep learning to design programmable CRISPR inhibitors 12 August 12pm AEST, love to see you there ! www.biocommons.org.au/events/prote...
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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🦠🧍‍♀️From bacterial to human immunity. We report in @science.org the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of animal innate immunity. Co-led wt @enzopoirier.bsky.social by D. Bonhomme and @hugovaysset.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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CCeMMP Outreach @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Big news! 📢CCeMMP is holding the 2nd 'Bench to Art' Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural biology. Share your creations to be displayed in a virtual gallery during National Science Week & for a chance to win cash prizes 💰! More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c... #CryoEM #Membranes
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
ASBC and Biocommons are building opportunities for researchers to discuss and explore protein design tech. First up is @rhyswg.bsky.social. Excited for this!
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WEBINAR SERIES: Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding proteins — Australian BioCommons
Be inspired by case studies that show you how deep learning methods are speeding up the process of designing proteins with desirable biophysical properties. More information Register
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Daniel Fox @danielrfox.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Proud to share some of the work from my PhD is now out in Nature Communications! Very grateful to all coauthors who helped make this happen, especially my supervisors @rhyswg.bsky.social and @knottrna.bsky.social for their support. 🩸 🦠 🔬
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out
Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold
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Nature @nature.com · 30/05/2025
An epic sky, singing cicadas, and a solar explosion. See this and more in this month's best science shots go.nature.com/3ZaM0rD
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See the Milky Way dazzle during a lunar eclipse — May’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 20/03/2025
We're on the cover of @science.org this week. Awesome work by @florentwaltz.bsky.social. #CryoET is reaching crazy resolutions inside cells, and this is just the beginning. Fantastic interpretation of the proton motive force by @verenaresch.bsky.social. Always a pleasure making #SciArt with you!🧪🧶🧬🌾
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 17/03/2025
"Nous devons attaquer honnêtement et agressivement les universités de ce pays." Ces mots sont ceux du vice-président américain J.D. Vance en 2025. Claire Mathieu, mathématicienne à l’ENS et membre de l’Académie des sciences, alerte : la science et la quête de vérité sont menacées aux États-Unis.
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Masaru Nobu @masarunobu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Eukaryotes' closest relatives are internally simple syntrophic archaea
Eukaryotes are theorized to have originated from an archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota (formerly 'Asgard' archaea)1,2. The first cultured representatives revealed valuable insight3,4 but are distantly ...
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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Session 9 Cyntia Taveneau: De novo design of crispr-cas inhibitors. CRISPR system degrades DNA from phage; phage escape with antiCRISPR. Can we design them?? AIcrs designed to block active site of Cas13. #RFdiffusion Scoring top 96. Expr and purify. Biolayer interferometry. #LorneProteins2025
Cas activity assay. 3 strongest inhibitors characterised. Mimic RNAs. Xtallised one. Two others wouldn't xtallise, CD agrees with prediction; also checked folding/stability. Nice candidates for regulation of Cas.

Functional in bacteria. Rescue phage infection as designed. As a crispr off switch - 8 weeks from AI design to targeted inhibitor.
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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Petit reportage de France Inter sur notre utilisation de l'IA au labo: - Combiner prédictions informatiques et validations expérimentales - Un nouveau monde à explorer - Des utilisateur.rice.s divers doivent s'approprier l'IA pour inventer des usages divers. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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"On est entré dans un nouveau monde" : comment l'IA révolutionne la microbiologie
En permettant de prédire la structure d'une protéine à partir d'une séquence d'ADN, Alphafold, le système mis au point par Google DeepMind, a ouvert en grand le champ des possibles pour les chercheurs...
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AI x Bio Discovery @aixbiobot.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Scaling data analyses in cellular cryoET using comprehensive segmentation [new] Comprehensive segmentation of cryoET data enables ontology-based voxel ID, used for context-aware particle picking and faster template matching.
Scaling data analyses in cellular cryoET using comprehensive segmentationFigure 1Figure 2Figure 3
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Chen Davidovich @davidovichlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We used cryoET and biophysical approaches in vitro together with molecular biology in differentiated cells to show that chromatin compacted by PRC1-CBX8 is porous and accessible while PRC1 is dynamic in it. 🧪🧬 #cryoET #Epigenetics #Polycomb www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dynamic PRC1–CBX8 stabilizes a porous structure of chromatin condensates - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Here the authors show that a gene-inactivating protein complex packs inactive genes into a dynamic and accessible structure. The study challenges the traditional views that restricted accessibility an...
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 18/10/2021
After a decade in the oven🧑‍🍳, we’re happy to finally share our preprint on the in situ architecture of the ciliary base. 📜 dir.lat/41qAY4 We used #CryoET to resolve transition zone structures and reveal the stepwise assembly of IFT...
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Philippe Van der Stappen @phaips.vd.st · 29/12/2024
More than 1'800 tomograms available for the community. Towards visual proteomics using our favorite organism Chlamy! Check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Find it on EMPIAR (11830) and fully annotated on the CZI data portal: cryoetdataportal.czscience.com #TeamTomo
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Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
In situ cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as the method of choice to investigate structures of biomolecules in their native context. However, challenges remain in the efficient production...
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Max Bonomi @bonomimax.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do you want to work at the interface of molecular simulations, structural biology experiments and #AI? Come to Paris for a PhD at @pasteur.fr 1 PhD position is available in our lab funded by ERC_Research. Please repost!! #compchem #compbio Info 👇 research.pasteur.fr/b/15Hr
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One PhD thesis in integrative structural biology | Research - Institut Pasteur
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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Interactive Program now live for the Lorne Protein Conference 2025! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! www.lorneproteins.org
Lorne Protein Meeting poster
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Terradot lab @laurentterradot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A postdoctoral position is available in our team to study the type VI secretion system. Biochemistry, X-ray cryst and some cryoEM with @fronzeslab.bsky.social team Reposts appreciated 😊
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is such a cool initiative! DL4Proteins is democratizing deep learning for protein design and prediction at a pivotal time in science—a fantastic step toward making advanced protein engineering accessible to all! github.com/Graylab/DL4P...
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GitHub - Graylab/DL4Proteins-notebooks: Colab Notebooks covering deep learning tools for biomolecular structure prediction and design
Colab Notebooks covering deep learning tools for biomolecular structure prediction and design - Graylab/DL4Proteins-notebooks
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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Antiviral signaling of a type III CRISPR-associated deaminase
Prokaryotes have evolved diverse defense strategies against viral infection, such as foreign nucleic acid degradation by CRISPR-Cas systems and DNA/RNA synthesis inhibition via nucleotide pool depleti...
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Structura Biotechnology @structurabio.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
1/ A new series of #CryoSPARC tutorial videos from this year’s S2C2 #cryoEM image processing workshop are now online! These videos will be interesting to all users and especially those newer to #cryoEM. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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2024 S2C2 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Workshop - YouTube
This playlist contains six recordings covering single particle cryo-EM data processing in CryoSPARC from the 2024 Single-Particle Cryo-EM Image Processing Wo...
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Marija Dramicanin @dramarija.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
To get the things going on this platform, I decided to start sharing some interesting de novo protein design papers! Hope you find them useful! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Development of a De Novo Protein Binder that Inhibits the Alpha Kinase eEF2K
Elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) is calmodulin activated and phosphorylates eEF2, a GTPase, that regulates global translation. When eEF2K phosphorylates eEF2, protein translation is halted. This pro...
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 12/12/2024
Moins de réseaux sociaux, moins de télé : pour beaucoup, réduire le flux d’informations est devenu une nécessité, et certains choisissent même de TOUT éteindre. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/ktX
L’exode informationnel, c’est la formule mise en avant dans une enquête publiée ce mercredi par la Fondation Jean Jaurès, Arte et l’Obsoco, l’Observatoire société et consommation. Menée avant et après les élections européennes, elle poursuit celle initiée en 2022. Explications d'un chargé d'études.
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Cyntia Taveneau @cyntiat.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Excited to share my first-author preprint from the Knott Lab! Using de novo protein design, we developed anti-CRISPRs to potently inhibit CRISPR-Cas13. Thanks to my amazing co-authors ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #CRISPR
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De novo design of potent CRISPR-Cas13 inhibitors
CRISPR-Cas systems are transformative tools for gene editing which can be tuned or controlled by anti-CRISPRs (Acrs) - phage derived inhibitors that regulate CRISPR-Cas activity. However, Acrs that ar...
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Charles Bayly-Jones @charlesbj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The PDBs for our TSC structure are now available! To put the size of TSC in perspective, here's a ribosome... this thing is enormous. 🤩 #cryoEM #mTORC1 #TSC rcsb.org/3d-view/9CE3 science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr5807 @luptoncj.bsky.social
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
CRISPR, via Peter Fineran at the other place - 📢 Calling all Early Career Researchers! 🌟 Apply now for travel grants to attend the CRISPR 2025 Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿 💰 Up to US$500 for travel/accommodation Deadline: Dec 6, 2024 🗓️ 👉 crispr2025.org/grant
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ECR Travel Grant — CRISPR 2025 Conference, Christchurch New Zealand
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