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Dimitris Volteras

@dvolteras.bsky.social
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Computational biology at the Briscoe lab @crick.ac.uk. Previously PhD @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Modelling gene regulation in heterogeneous cell populations.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
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Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...
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Zena Hadjivasiliou @zenahadjivasiliou.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Fresh from the press💥 We asked what happens when you evolve gene regulatory networks computationally at scale. Do general principles of GRN evolution jump out? Is the process predictable? Read on to find out @prxlife.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @ucl-ipls.bsky.social 👉 journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...
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Gene Network Organization, Mutation, and Selection Collectively Drive Developmental Pattern Evolvability and Predictability
The historical order in which mutations appear during evolution determine the evolutionary trajectory of gene regulatory networks and influence how developmental patterns change and diversify over tim...
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Dimitris Volteras @dvolteras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Proud to have contributed to this work! We built a stochastic agent-based model, revealing that axonal injury promotes retention in white matter leading to dense wild-type tumours, while absence of axonal injury leads to disseminated tumours and delayed glioblastoma progression.
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Ruben Perez-Carrasco @perez-carrasco.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We wrote this introductory review on how concepts from dynamical systems can help us understand developmental biology, hope it’s useful to somebody! It was a lot of fun to put together, and great to collaborate with brilliant colleagues across theory and experiments
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Andrew Leduc @andrewleduc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Help me build a virtual version of my apartment by training a hugeee (like so huge) neural network on temperature data from my stove. Call to action from the community to achive this ambitious goal!
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Two years ago, I've completely reoriented my research to try to make AI safe by design. In this TIME op-ed, I present my team's new direction called "Scientist AI"; a practical, effective and more secure alternative to the current uncontrolled agency-driven trajectory. time.com/7283507/safe...
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A Potential Path to Safer AI Development
Yoshua Bengio warns that the current approach to developing AI models carries potentially catastrophic risks.
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Quite an indictment of some of the current single cell "virtual cell" foundation models. Even for the relatively mundane applications, cell labeling, batch correction etc, they are poor compared to much simpler & cheaper methods.
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Zero-shot evaluation reveals limitations of single-cell foundation models - Genome Biology
Foundation models such as scGPT and Geneformer have not been rigorously evaluated in a setting where they are used without any further training (i.e., zero-shot). Understanding the performance of mode...
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
EFL-3/E2F7 modulates Wnt signalling by repressing the Nemo-like kinase LIT-1 during asymmetric epidermal cell division in C. elegans Read this @reviewcommons.org transfer Research Article by @mar-ferrando-marco.bsky.social & Michalis Barkoulas @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev....
figure 3 (C) Representative images of LIT-1::GFP following the L2 asymmetric division in controls (WT), tissue-specific efl-3 mutants [efl-3(−)] and animals containing the lit-1(icb164) CRISPR deletion. Seam cell nuclei are circled in white. Hypodermal nuclei are labelled with blue arrowheads. a, anterior daughter cell; p, posterior daughter cell.
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Andrew Leduc @andrewleduc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Proteins degrade at different rates. These rates can span 2-3 orders of magnitude. When cells are not growing, this allows proteins that degrade slower than others to preferentially accumulate. This accumulation imparts influence on protein concentrations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Protein degradation and growth dependent dilution substantially shape mammalian proteomes
Cellular protein concentrations are maintained through a balance of synthesis and clearance. Clearance occurs through both protein degradation and growth-dependent dilution. At slow growth, clearance ...
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