I'm happy to share some good news: I finished my PhD after many great years at @molgen.mpg.de Next, I am starting my own group on AI for Biology at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social as an Independent Fellow. I will continue my work on designing biology-inspired AI models for gene regulation and single cells.

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The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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40 years ago today, the BDSC made its 1st shipment. To celebrate, Trudy Kaufman, who packed the 1st shipment, boxed up the same kinds of flies for John Roote at Cambridge, who placed the 1st order. Watch for pics of the arrival next week. We’ve shipped 4,882,378 vials total. That’s a lot of flies!

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IMO the paper of the year in the gene regulation field - such a clean and clear study, showing how promoter-enhancer contacts mediate transcriptional activation. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Our cover design for Molecular Cell did not get selected this time, but I still wanted to share the artwork celebrating our latest paper identifying an unexpected role for ZC3H18 in cap-dependent first intron splicing article: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

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