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Tamina Lebek

@lebektamina.bsky.social
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Postdoc at MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany, studying cell-cell communication in development.

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Mattias Malaguti @matt-mala.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Delighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines. They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern! #DevBio #SynBio
KELPE cells plated on micropatterned extracellular matrix forcing them to arrange in the shape of a kelpie.
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AlphaFold can now predict protein complexes at unprecedented scale. But once we have a predicted complex, the core question of how much we should trust the interface remains. Existing confidence scores are useful, but their meaning is not always obvious. #alphafold
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Pinc is now available as a C program, eliminating interpreter overhead and substantially speeding up computation for large-scale structural analyses. It’s still under active development, so please reach out with any questions, feedback, or issues. 🔗 git.mpi-cbg.de/tothpetroczy... #alphafold
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My first manuscript in MPI colours! With @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social, we show that AlphaFold PAE-derived contact probabilities are well calibrated to the fraction of true interface contacts across experimentally determined protein dimers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Two-panel calibration plot (two benchmark dimer datasets) comparing predicted interchain contact-probability bins (x-axis) with the observed fraction of native interfacial contacts (y-axis). Points follow the diagonal, indicating close agreement between predicted probabilities and true interface-contact fractions.
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Anne Grapin-Botton @anne-grapin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible. If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.
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Tamina Lebek @lebektamina.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Excited to announce that our #PUFFFIN plasmids are finally available on @addgene.bsky.social to make PUFFFIN neighbour labelling even more accessible. You can find the plasmids here www.addgene.org/Sally_Lowell/ and our paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1... Big thanks @cellysally.bsky.social!
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Addgene: Sally Lowell Lab Materials
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We’ve updated the acmgscaler manuscript following reviewer and community feedback. The R package now has a single calibrate() function, and the Colab interface is easier to use. 📄 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪 Colab: edin.ac/4mjzijp #rstats @theacmg.bsky.social
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acmgscaler: An R package and Colab for standardised gene-level variant effect score calibration within the ACMG/AMP framework
A genome-wide variant effect calibration method was recently developed under the guidelines of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/A...
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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A small good thing in these difficult times. The always-impressive Aisling Fairweather treated us to some particularly delicious data in lab meeting today #BakeYourData #NeighbourLabelling
A tasty cheese and veg quiche decorated with a FACS plot. Axis are labelled 530 and 610 using courgettes, the axis are asparagus spears, the data is presented as chopped red pepper (610+ cells) and chopped courgette (530+ cells) and the gate is drawn using rosemary leaves. It is marvellous.  The same data is represented ina more conventional format in the adjacent photo. A FACS plot. Axis are labelled 530 and 610 .  The data shows that 74.6% of cells are expressing mCherry (610+). The same data is represented in the form of a vegetable quiche in the neighbouring photo.
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Tamina Lebek @lebektamina.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So excited to have been at #biologists100! @biologists.bsky.social very family-friendly as always!
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
1/ Excited to share our latest work on the "Prevalence of loss-of-function, gain-of-function and dominant-negative mechanisms across genetic disease phenotypes". @marshlab.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Prevalence of loss-of-function, gain-of-function and dominant-negative mechanisms across genetic disease phenotypes
Molecular disease mechanisms caused by mutations in protein-coding regions are diverse, but they can be broadly categorised into loss-of-function (LOF), gain-of-function (GOF), and dominant-negative (...
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Tamina Lebek @lebektamina.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Honored to be featured in #100biologists alongside so many inspiring scientists! @biologists.bsky.social and @bsdb.bsky.social supported my PhD journey through conferences, seminars, and travel grants. Proud to have two publications in CoB journals and to give back as a BSDB committee member!
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Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
How to make labs more sustainable: energy use in labs www.biologists.com/stories/sust...
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How to make labs more sustainable: energy use in labs
13 January 2025 by Jeroen Dobbelaere Within research labs there are several recognisable appliances which use a considerable amount of energy. These appliances include freezers for storing samples, in...
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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Happy to see our predictive scores integrated into DECIPHER! We hope they will help clinicians uncover the molecular mechanisms driving dominant disease. Huge thanks to the team at @deciphergenomics.bsky.social for their support. A follow-up study is underway to improve predictions—stay tuned!
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The next extraordinary biologist is Anahí Binagui-Casas, an early-career researcher involved in the Biologists @ 100 conference and her research focusses on vertebrate development. #100biologists @abinagui.bsky.social. Register for the conference at 100yearsconference.biologists.com.
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right.
 
Portrait of Binagui-Casas to the left, text to the right
 
100 extraordinary biologists

Anahí Binagui-Casas

Anahí Binagui-Casas is a BSDB early-career representative involved in the Biologists @ 100 conference and a Development Travelling Fellowship awardee. She participated in the 2020 Workshop on human birth defects and investigates vertebrate development at The University of Edinburgh.

#100biologists #biologists100
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🧪The #biologists100 programme includes different scientific tracks. Learn more about each in this thread 🧵. The conference incorporates the BSCB and BSDB @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meetings. View the #CellBio & #DevBio programme and speakers at bit.ly/3B2uflr 📆Abstracts due: 13 December
Biologists @ 100 conference 
Incorporating the Spring Meetings of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) and the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB).
Organisers
BSCB
•	Aymen al-Rawi,
•	Vicky Cowling
•	Viji Draviam
•	Jason King
•	Laura Machesky
BSDB
•	Véronique Azuara
•	Anahi Binagui-Casas
•	Shankar Srinivas
•	Abigail Tucker
Speakers on cell and developmental biology
•	Alexander Aulehla
•	Margarida Cardoso-Moreira
•	Alain Chedotal
•	Jennifer DeLuca
•	Alba Diz-Munoz
•	Anja Geitmann
•	Susana Godinho
•	Matthias Heinemann
•	Myriam Hemberger
•	Maneesha Inamdar
•	Loydie Jerome-Majewska
•	Ana-Maria Lennon-Dumenil
•	Tom MacVicar
•	Marisa Merino
•	Michel Milinkovitch
•	Ewa Paluch
•	Olivier Pourquie
•	Jordan Raff
•	Crystal Rogers
•	Nicolas Rivron
•	Victoria Sanz Moreno
•	Ritwick Sawarkar
•	Hari Shroff
•	Benjamin Steventon
•	Chris Whitewoods
•	Alpha Yap 
Register now
biologists.com/100-years/conference
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social
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Tamina Lebek @lebektamina.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We had a great time at today's Development presents seminar!
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Tamina Lebek @lebektamina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking forward to talking about our PUFFFIN project at Development presents! Have a look at our paper now www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... and tune in tomorrow! #DevBio #PUFFFIN
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PUFFFIN: an ultra-bright, customisable, single-plasmid system for labelling cell neighbourhoods | The EMBO Journal
imageimageWhile there are some options for labeling cellular neighbours, they often have low flexibility, require modification of multiple cells with different plasmids, or are otherwise technically c...
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