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Julian Grünewald

@grunewald.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at TUM. CRISPR tech dev, cardiovascular gene & cell therapies. www.cos.tum.de/en/cos/research/grue…

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Julian Grünewald @grunewald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In 2025, one child got a CRISPR therapy made for him. Gene therapy's "moon landing". My #ERCStG ONE2MANY asks how editing scales from n=1 to many, in the heart: one edit for a group of mutations, AI-guided protein engineering & delivery. Thanks @erc.europa.eu & my fantastic team in the lab!
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Jan Mathony @jmathony.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Publication alert: Our paper on domain insertion predictions in proteins is now out in @natmethods.nature.com in its final form: rdcu.be/ey7w3 Also check out the nice perspective by @noahholzleitner.bsky.social and @grunewald.bsky.social : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rational engineering of allosteric protein switches by in silico prediction of domain insertion sites
Nature Methods - ProDomino is a machine leaning-based method, trained on a semisynthetic domain insertion dataset, to guide the engineering of protein domain recombination.
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Dominik Niopek @dominikniopek.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Our work on rationally engineering allosteric protein switches is now out in Nature Methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks a lot to @grunewald.bsky.social and @noahholzleitner.bsky.social for the comprehensive news and views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rational engineering of allosteric protein switches by in silico prediction of domain insertion sites - Nature Methods
ProDomino is a machine leaning-based method, trained on a semisynthetic domain insertion dataset, to guide the engineering of protein domain recombination.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 02/06/2025
Dual SORT LNPs for multi-organ base editing go.nature.com/3HC9EHt
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Dual SORT LNPs for multi-organ base editing - Nature Biotechnology
Optimized SORT LNPs enable precise and long-lasting base editing in dual organs in a disease mouse model.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025
For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.
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A promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a rare disorder
For the first time, doctors have created a customized treatment using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to treat a baby with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —from decades of NIH funded research www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 07/05/2025
Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo - @zhangf.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @hhmi.org go.nature.com/44XVBph
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Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo - Nature Biotechnology
A combination of engineering approaches is used to improve the function of IscB for a variety of editing activities in vivo.
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 23/04/2025
By combining high-throughput protein engineering with machine learning, bespoke SpCas9 enzymes are identified that outperform evolution-based and engineered nucleases and base editors in human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBTHighlight
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Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning - Nature
Nature - Custom CRISPR—Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊 In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃 Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/... Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
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Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski Lab @kajastelab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We are super excited to share our work on #InnateImmune sensing of #AAV 🦠🧬 in the 🧠, just out in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🤩 Huge congratulations to all the team and collaborators 💪🏻 And our funders 💰 @erc.europa.eu #FondazioneTelethon and #FNIH 🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AAV vectors trigger DNA damage response-dependent pro-inflammatory signalling in human iPSC-derived CNS models and mouse brain
Nature Communications - Costa-Verdera et. al describe a mechanism by which AAV vector genomes activate P53-mediated signalling in CNS cells involving downstream STING activation and...
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our latest work now online in Cell: Rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression Our new method (Variant-EFFECTS) uses high-throughput prime editing + flow sorting + sequencing to precisely measure effects of noncoding variants on gene expression Thread 👇
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
RFDiffusion2: a diffusion model that scaffolds enzyme active sites at the atomic level enables the generation of functional de novo enzymes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong @earthnut89.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... ENVLPE, our system for VLP-based delivery of gene editors, is now published in @cellcellpress.bsky.social. We showed efficient delivery of base- and prime-editors in primary T cells & in vivo retinal models. All core constructs are available from @addgene.bsky.social.
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Engineered nucleocytosolic vehicles for loading of programmable editors
Engineered nucleocytosolic vehicles for loading of programmable editors (ENVLPE) with enhanced CRISPR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) loading and stabilization enable the efficient delivery of gene-editing ef...
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Cress Lab @cresslab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Dive into our lab’s first peer-reviewed publication—co-led with our friends @benadler.bsky.social and Muntathar Al-Shimary from the @doudna lab! If you’ve already read the preprint, don’t miss the new updates: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
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CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d - Nature Microbiology
Leveraging RNA-targeting dCas13d enables selective interference with phage protein translation and facilitates measurement of phage gene fitness at a transcriptome-wide scale.
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@tim_stasevich @tim-stasevich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ali Maximilian Erturk @erturklab.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Twitter: LNP/mRNA therapeutics and AAV-based approaches require cell-level precision to achieve success without significant toxicity to other cells. To enable this, we developed SCP-Nano: an AI and tissue-clearing-based technology for precision nanotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New paper from our lab (@erturklab.bsky.social) We show how tissue clearing, light sheet microscopy, and AI-based image analysis can be combined to determine the biodistribution and drug delivery efficiency of nanocarriers throughout entire mouse bodies with single-cell resolution.
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Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning - Nature Biotechnology
An integrated experimental and deep learning pipeline reveals cell-level targeting of nanocarriers in whole bodies.
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AndreaVentura @andreaventura.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🧪1/ 🚨New paper on ecDNAs from our lab! We reveal a strategy to engineer extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplifications in cells & mice. Let's dive in! Let’s dive in! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Engineered extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications promote tumorigenesis - Nature
Large extrachromosomal DNAs are engineered using a CRISPR- and Cre–loxP-based approach and shown to drive cancer in mouse models, with potential applications in determining the role of oncogene a...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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Ali Maximilian Erturk @erturklab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Imagine seeing a disease's impact on every cell in the body. Now, you can! We introduce MouseMapper, an AI tool to reveal system-wide disease perturbations. It reveals obesity-induced changes in facial nerves & body-wide inflammation 👉🧵https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.18.608300v1.full.pdf
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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our new preprint is out - please share! We asked: How can we make CRISPR knockouts in vivo more efficient? And set up an assay that enables detection of CRISPR cutting with 100s-1000s of sgRNAs over entire chromosome arms in living animals. Grab a ☕ and let’s dive in. 🧵🧪 1/n #CRISPR #geneediting
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Christa Buecker @chribue.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
By definition, enhancers can activate from a distance. But with increased distance between enhancer and promoter, the activation drops. To study this systematically, we build a synthetic locus: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... 1/12
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
2X #DilatedCardiomyopathy GWAS MATG #NatGenet 2024 reveal novel genes/cellular players PROX1 - #LymphaticEndothelialCell ERG - #EndothelialCell DGKG - #SmoothMuscleCell MAPT/Tau validated in both studies >9k case www.nature.com/articles/s41... >14k case www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 29/11/2024
Online @cellpress.bsky.social, we reveal a protein shell that helps diatoms fix 20% of global #CO2 🧪🌊🌾🧶🧬🌍 Shimakawa et al: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Nam et al: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @biozentrum.bsky.social press release: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/... Read on for more... 1/🧵
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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Interesting concept. Recruiting Cas9 to nascent transcripts allows coupling of editing efficiency to expression of the target gene. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CRISPR
Figure from the linked paper showing that recruitment of Cas9 to nascent RNA via MS2 or boxB increases targeting of nearby cut sites.
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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is really interesting. It's probably a great way to deal with resistance mutations in the future.
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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New paper from our lab @erturklab.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to long-lasting neurological sequelae, but underlying mechanisms are unclear. Rong et al. report that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein persists in the skull-meninges-brain axis, ...
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Julian Grünewald @grunewald.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Very excited about the first preprint from our lab at TUM! This is a fun gene & cell therapy collaboration led by @schmidts.bsky.social's lab. We use generative #AI to design new #CARTcell therapies. Check out Andrea's thread & thanks to the whole team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Andrea Schmidts @schmidts.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Cancer escapes immunotherapies by mutating its surface, meaning even groundbreaking #CARTCell therapies fail too often. But what if #GenerativeAI could design CAR-T with de novo binders faster, targeting resistant tumors? 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1)
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Kevin Davies @kevinadavies.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On this day 75 years ago, Linus Pauling published his classic report on abnormally charged hemoglobin in #sicklecelldisease in Science, hence the first “molecular disease”. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The typeset version of our article, "Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation", is now online. This thread will provide an overview of how gene duplications have shaped modern variation in the amylase locus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation
Previous studies suggested that the copy number of the human salivary amylase gene, AMY1, correlates with starch-rich diets. However, evolutionary analyses are hampered by the absence of accurate, seq...
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 22/11/2024
A few more letters... and we can finally write amino acid sequence with protein structure encoded by amino acid sequence? 🧬🤔😀 @chrisfrank662.bsky.social , Dominik Schiwietz, Lara Fuss, Hendrik Dietz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 22/11/2024
Lipid nanoparticle-mediated mRNA delivery to CD34+ cells in rhesus monkeys go.nature.com/3CGO1Dy
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Lipid nanoparticle-mediated mRNA delivery to CD34+ cells in rhesus monkeys - Nature Biotechnology
A lipid nanoparticle is used to deliver mRNA to hematopoietic stem cells in macaques.
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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@grunewald.bsky.social told me about this amazing tool yesterday: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Seems worth checking out!
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Multiple Protein Structure Alignment at Scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Quite a few new entries on the CRISPR list incl. @nevillesanjana.bsky.social @grunewald.bsky.social @sdomcke.bsky.social @rosswilsonlab.bsky.social @leopoldparts.bsky.social @bkleinstiver.bsky.social @mgdurrant.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DEwe6ZD
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Josh Tycko @joshtycko.com · 18/11/2024
New here and excited to share our new paper on transcriptional effectors! Interested to discuss context-specificity of gene regulation? Or how to get CRISPRi/a working in new contexts? 👋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput measurements in diverse contexts - Nature Biotechnology
Improved effectors for CRISPRi/CRISPRa are developed following high-throughput screening of transcriptional domains.
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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Totally missed this when it came out. Very cool!
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