Alessandro Torri

Open-Source Developer for Deep Learning Antibiotic Discovery Platform - Research Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most urgent global health threats projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050. The AI4AMR project brings together teams from I...

We are hiring a postdoc to build open-source tools for deep learning–based antibiotic discovery in @chzimmer.bsky.social lab at Institut Pasteur.
Part of the AI4AMR consortium with HZI and University of Würzburg.

Details: research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...

Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase subgr...

Very happy to share our latest work “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” out in @science.org !

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

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Just wondering... The second chart is from 2025, is o3-pro trained on data that recent?

Intergenic polyA/T tracts explain the propensity of yeast de novo genes to encode transmembrane domains Abstract. New genes can emerge de novo from non-genic genomic regions. In budding yeast, computational predictions have shown that intergenic regions harbo

Why do yeast #de_novo genes have so many transmembrane domains? It's because the genomic regions from which they evolved are super enriched in stretches of A's and T's ! Our work with @timothyfuqua.bsky.social is now published in @jevbio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry - Nature The root of the eukaryote Tree of Life is estimated from a new, larger dataset of mitochondrial proteins including all known eukaryotic supergroups, showing it lies between two multi-supergroup assemb...

I'm pleased to introduce our new paper rooting the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) that resulted from a collaboration led by PhD student Kelsey Williamson and a large group of collaborators doi.org/10.1038/s415...htt

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Blood-powered toe tips help this animal master life in the treetops Discover the surprising secret behind the climbing abilities of salamanders. Scientists reveal how transparent toe tips help them adjust grip and detachment.

This is AWESOME.

studyfinds.org/blood-powere...

Francis Crick Was Misunderstood The Central Dogma is not a

Once more on Crick and the Central Dogma! press.asimov.com/articles/crick