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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After 17 years, the EMBO Young Scientists' Forum returns to Croatia as the EMBO Scientists' Forum. Dubrovnik, 28 to 30 October, for PhD students, postdocs and early-stage PIs. You asked for more time, so registration and abstracts are open until 5 October: event.fourwaves.com/eysf

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EMBO Scientists’ Forum (ESF) 2026

Join EMBO Scientists’ Forum (ESF) 2026, October 28-30, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Early-bird registration for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum closes today! Join us in Dubrovnik, 28–30 October, for three days of science, discussion and new connections across the European life-science community. Abstracts and registration: event.fourwaves.com/eysf/pages #EYSF2026 #EMBO

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EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026

Join EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026, October 28-30, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If you're a PhD student, postdoc or early-career researcher with something worth presenting, submit your abstract before 15 July! 🔗 event.fourwaves.com/eysf/pages #EMBO #ComputationalGenomics #LifeSciences

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EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#EYSF2026 is where a poster becomes a conversation and a question finds the right audience — and this year, for the first time, that room is in Dubrovnik. 🇭🇷

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This October I'll be chairing the session on Computational Genomics from Cell Fate to Genome Function — bringing together early-career researchers across molecular biology, biomedicine, genomics, immunology, cell biology, computational biology, ecology & evolution.

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Step out of the lab — bring your science to EMBO! 🧬 Meet me at the EMBO Young Scientists' Forum 2026 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. 📍 28–30 October 2026 🗓️ Early-bird deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 event.fourwaves.com/eysf/pages #EYSF2026

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EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026

Join EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026, October 28-30, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

📢PhD position open in our lab in the group of Anja Baresic at @institutrb.bsky.social, within @daniorecode.bsky.social Purely computational project linking gene regulation, regeneration, and disease. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/416714%... #PhD #Bioinformatics #Genomics #MSCA

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Glad to have contributed to this work, and big thanks to @amathelier.bsky.social, @damlaob.bsky.social, and @ievarau.bsky.social (and the whole JASPAR crew) for this great effort. #JASPAR #TFmotifs #DeepLearning #Genomics 🧵2/2

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

JASPAR 2026 is out 🎉 The new release massively expands the TF motif collections and adds a dedicated DeepLearning collection of motifs learned from deep learning models. Database: jaspar.elixir.no Paper (NAR): doi.org/10.1093/nar/... 🧵1/2

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JASPAR: An open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

JASPAR is the largest open-access database of curated and non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles from six different taxonomic groups.

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Jana Helsen @helsenjana.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery? Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Congrats on the amazing work @jgahan.bsky.social and the team!

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I am very proud to see @kkajan.bsky.social and Marta Bosnjakovic from my group presenting their exciting results obtained from #CAGE data! #CroAGE #nextGenerationEU

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

To recognise and celebrate @svobodalab.bsky.social's pivotal contribution to Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science, #TCTeAC, I am starting this "What Petr Svoboda did at Woodstock?" thread. If you were there - #contribute and #retweet. "Petr Didn’t Submit an Abstract. #TCTeAC Submitted to Him."

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🐦 @kkajan.bsky.social is exploring promoter usage during early avian development in #EvolCompGen. #ISMBECCB2025

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📈 Scaling CAGE analysis across tens of #DANIO-CODE samples with the @nf-co.re inspired CAGEflow pipeline —big data meets promoters. Catch Ira's poster D-515! 🦓🐠

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🦓🐠 Building the first promoter atlas of adult zebrafish organs—expanding #DANIO-CODE. Visit Marta at poster C-514. #zebrafish #CAGE

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🤖 @da-bar.bsky.social is exploring AI-driven promoter architecture characterisation from CAGE! Come chat at poster D-507 at #ISMBECCB2025 @iscb-regsys.bsky.social

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🚀 The CroAGE team is attending to Liverpool for #ISMBECCB2025! Catch our CAGE & promoter research posters all week at ACC Liverpool. Thank you #nextGenerationEU for the opportunity🧵

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Do we really need large language models to tell us that the germline residue is the optimal one? One of the questions Charlotte Dean tackled in her talk at #ISMBECCB2025, and how she and her team addressed the problem of germline bias in antibody target prediction 🧬🔬💻🤖

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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today marks the start of the #RegSys @iscb-regsys.bsky.social track at ##ISMBECCB2025! Very much looking forward to listening to the exciting science that will be presented. Join us in room 11BC today and tomorrow.

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Anthony Mathelier @amathelier.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚨 We're hiring! NCMBM @ncmbm.bsky.social is looking for 2 new group leaders to join our vibrant research community. Ready to build your own group with strong support and a solid startup package? Interested and attending #ISMBECCB2025? Let’s connect! 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Group Leader (282908) | University of Oslo

Job title: Group Leader (282908), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Day 3 of #ISMBECCB2025 started with an excellent talk from @jameszou.bsky.social which presented how AI can form virtual labs to discuss problems, how can AI reanalyse research data to get new biological results, and how we can interpret complex AI predictions 💻🤖

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Today's keynote at #ISMBECCB2025 Amos Bairoch talking about 45 years of data curation #swissProt #cellosaurus

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Eagerly waiting for the start of #ISMBECCB2025 with @croage.bsky.social team, @kkajan.bsky.social, Marta and Ira, with the great company of @damlaob.bsky.social and @ferenckata.bsky.social for a keynote talk from John Jumper 🧬🔬

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Meet our team! 👨‍🔬 Dr. Damir Baranašić – Project Leader @da-bar.bsky.social 🔬 Dr. Matija Piškorc – Research Associate 👩‍🔬 Dr. Katarina Kajan – Postdoc @kkajan.bsky.social 🧬 Marta Bošnjaković & Ira Renko – PhD candidates

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Using cutting-edge technologies like CAGE (Cap Analysis of Gene Expression) and AI-driven algorithms, we aim to develop tools to explore promoter architecture & identify novel antitumor targets.

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CroAGE Project @croage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

🚀 Introducing CroAGE – a #NextGenerationEU project advancing regulatory & comparative genomics in 🇭🇷 Croatia! We study gene promoters to understand how they control development & how tumours disrupt transcription. 🔗 croage.eu/en

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CroAge Project, Founded by the Europe Union

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Now, I hope to see you at #ISMBECCB2025! Please make sure to come to poster D-507 to say "Hi"! 😀🧬🔬

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Finally, as a new member of the @embo.org YIP, it was an excellent opportunity to meet fellow EMBO YIP members and network with my peers through excellent science at the #EMBO YIP Annual Meeting in Heidelberg. I am looking forward to exciting new collaborations

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Then, at the Origin of Metazoans in @sbroscoff.bsky.social I presented the promoter features of a Metazoan relative, Creolimax fragrantissima. The result of collaboration with @alexdemendoza.bsky.social, @borislenhard.bsky.social and @bzunar.bsky.social

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It all started with the legendary #TCTeAC where I presented how we rediscovered TATA box using AI!

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Oh boy, what an intensive and exciting June is behind me!! After three excellent meetings, including #TCTeAC, the Origin of Metazoans at @sbroscoff.bsky.social, and finally the @embo.org YIP annual meeting, #ISMBECCB2025 you are next!!! 🧵

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Extremely proud to be part of this story! 🧬🔥 Our @nature.com paper, led by Will Scott @mrc-lms.bsky.social , maps 171k nuclei in human fat. Weight loss reverses senescence & reignites metabolic flux, but macrophages remain primed—clues for future therapies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Selective remodelling of the adipose niche in obesity and weight loss - Nature

An atlas study of adipose tissue in people with obesity undergoing weight loss and their lean counterparts reveals that weight loss reduces cell senescence but cannot reverse all the metabolic problem...

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I am glad to announce that the #DANIO-CODE Data Coordination Center is back online at a new home: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net Thank you all for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience!

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I am happy and extremely proud to be able to contribute to this work with Irène Amblard and @vmetzis.bsky.social, where by changing one motif we completely rewired the function of a regulatory element!🔬🧬 Now out in Developmental Cell!

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Valeriy Kutsyna @valeriyk1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What do you write at the end of the #TCTeAC survey email?

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It was my pleasure to be a part of the birth of a legend at the #TCTeAC

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

No, you are the best my friend 💪 He would never got this far without your help 😎 looking forward to working with you again

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Bojan Žunar at the Woodstock Night Science #TCTEAC

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The second day of @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social starts with the session "Don't anthropomorphize genes - they don't like it"! Excited to see what the organisers have in store for us today! #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

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Damir Baranasic @da-bar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I am excited to see the method we used in DANIO-CODE now fully developed as #IPP — and successfully tested on heart enhancers between chicken 🐔 and mouse 🐭! 🧬 Thanks to @danielibrahim.bsky.social for leading this. Proud to be part of it! Exciting times for future comparative regulatory analyses 🚀

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Saez-Rodriguez Group @saezlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

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Postdoctoral fellow - Saez-Rodriguez Group

Your group Saez-Rodriguez Research Group Your supervisor Julio Saez-Rodriguez Your role As a postdoctoral fellow in the Saez Rodriguez group, you will develop and apply computational methods and tools...

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Failure is always in the background of any creative project; when the experiments are not working or the results don’t seem to make sense. But for discovery, you can’t deny yourself the permission to fail, and we should better teach failure in all its glory.

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