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Damiano Sgarbossa

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PhD in Computational Biology & ML for Proteins @EPFL sites.google.com/view/damiano-sgarb…

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Michael Jendrusch @mjendrusch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
With this, the last bit of my PhD at @embl.org is finally out! We developed salad (sparse all-atom denoising), a family of blazing fast protein structure diffusion models. Paper: nature.com/articles/s42256-… Code: github.com/mjendrusch/salad Data: zenodo.org/records/14711580 1/🧵
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Umberto Lupo @umbislupo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Two exciting openings with us! 🤖🧬🆎🧫💉 - AI Scientist 👉 lnkd.in/eDXHH4E8 - AI Scientist, Drug Creation 👉 lnkd.in/eEvGyaTR You'll work on antibody sequence/structure design, antibody-antigen co-folding, antibody-antigen binding prediction, physics-based methodologies, and more! DMs welcome!
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Damiano Sgarbossa @damianosg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🎉 Excited to share that the last paper of my PhD is now published in PRX Life! We introduce RAG-ESM, a retrieval-augmented framework that makes pretrained protein language models (like ESM2) homology-aware with minimal training cost. 📄 Paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Cyril Malbranke @cyrilmalbranke.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
[1/8] 📄 New preprint! With Gionata Paolo Zalaffi & Anne-Florence Bitbol, we introduce ProteomeLM, a transformer that processes entire proteomes (prokaryotes and eukaryotes), enabling ultra-fast protein–protein interaction (PPI) prediction across the tree of life. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ProteomeLM: A proteome-scale language model allowing fast prediction of protein-protein interactions and gene essentiality across taxa
Language models starting from biological sequence data are advancing many inference problems, both at the scale of single proteins, and at the scale of genomic neighborhoods. In this paper, we introduce ProteomeLM, a transformer-based language model that reasons on entire proteomes from species spanning the tree of life. Leveraging protein language model embeddings, ProteomeLM is trained to reconstruct masked protein embeddings using the whole proteomic context. It thus learns contextualized protein representations reflecting proteome-scale functional constraints. We show that ProteomeLM spontaneously captures protein-protein interactions (PPI) in its attention coefficients. We demonstrate that it screens whole interactomes orders of magnitude faster than amino-acid coevolution-based methods, and substantially outperforms them. We further develop ProteomeLM-PPI, a supervised PPI prediction network that combines ProteomeLM embeddings and attention coefficients, and achieves state-of-the-art performance across species and benchmarks. Finally, we introduce ProteomeLM-Ess, a supervised predictor of gene essentiality that generalizes across diverse taxa. Our results highlight the power of proteome-scale language models for addressing function and interactions at the organism level. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, https://ror.org/0472cxd90, 851173
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Damiano Sgarbossa @damianosg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Happy to announce that our paper, "ProtMamba: a homology-aware but alignment-free protein state space model", has been published in Bioinformatics! 🎉 doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Damiano Sgarbossa @damianosg.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I'm really happy to share with you that after 4 years at EPFL I'm finally a PhD! 🎉🎓 Last Friday I defended my thesis titled: "Revealing and Exploiting Coevolution through Protein Language Models". It was an amazing journey where I met some incredible people. Thank you all ❤️
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Danica Milovanović @1995dana.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New preprint of @trono-lab.bsky.social and my PhD work! By modulating SWI/SNF remodeling at ancient transposable elements - LINE/L2s and SINE/MIRs, a "noncanonical" KZFP called ZNF436 protects cardiomyocytes from losing their identity. 🫀heartbeat on 🔁 repeat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #TEsky
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Arne Elofsson @handle.invalid · 05/05/2025
In this evaluation of AlphaFold3 (and other methods), we show that (i) accurate predictions are limited to RNA structures/complexes with structural similarity to PDB and (ii) that current methods are bad at estimating the accuracy of the predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Limits of deep-learning-based RNA prediction methods
Motivation: In recent years, tremendous advances have been made in predicting protein structures and protein-protein interactions. However, progress in predicting the structure of RNA, either alone or...
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Damiano Sgarbossa @damianosg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
📢 Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv! We introduce RAG-ESM, a retrieval-augmented framework that improves pretrained protein language models like ESM2 by making them homology-aware with minimal additional training costs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 💻 github.com/Bitbol-Lab/r... 1/7
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Karsten Kreis @karstenkreis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢📢 "Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models" #ICLR2025 (Oral Presentation) 🔥 Project page: research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/... 📜 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00710 🛠️ Code and weights: github.com/NVIDIA-Digit... 🧵Details in thread... (1/n)
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Tristan Bepler @tbepler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Excited to share PoET-2, our next breakthrough in protein language modeling. It represents a fundamental shift in how AI learns from evolutionary sequences. 🧵 1/13
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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 19/12/2024
I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
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Charlie Harris @harrisbio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Extremely pleased to announce that after *checks notes* 2 years, our paper on Structure-based Drug Design with diffusion models has been published in Nature Computational Science (@natcomputsci.bsky.social)!! Thanks a lot to the great co-authors! Esp @rne.bsky.social & Yuanqi Du.
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Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models - Nature Computational Science
This work applies diffusion models to conditional molecule generation and shows how they can be used to tackle various structure-based drug design problems
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Amy Lu @amyxlu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
1/🧬 Excited to share PLAID, our new approach for co-generating sequence and all-atom protein structures by sampling from the latent space of ESMFold. This requires only sequences during training, which unlocks more data and annotations: bit.ly/plaid-proteins 🧵
overview of results for PLAID!
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EvolutionaryScale @evolutionaryscale.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Introducing ESM Cambrian, a new family of protein language models, focused on creating representations of the underlying biology of proteins.
Model Scale vs. Performance curves for ESM C models, with comparisons to ESM2 and other protein LMs. ESMC performs better than existing state of the art for the same model parameter scale.
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Damiano Sgarbossa @damianosg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We’re happy to announce that our track "AI & the Molecular World" at @appliedmldays.org will take place this year too! Join us in Lausanne on February 13, 2024! The call for talks is now open! Submit your abstract by January 5, 2024, at: forms.gle/hu6BEWMN1BcR...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
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Gabriele Corso @gcorso.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thrilled to announce Boltz-1, the first open-source and commercially available model to achieve AlphaFold3-level accuracy on biomolecular structure prediction! An exciting collaboration with Jeremy, Saro, and an amazing team at MIT and Genesis Therapeutics. A thread!
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