🧵 What does single-cell transcriptomics reveal about individual patients with acute (AKI) and chronic (CKD) kidney 🫘 disease? Can we use it to find new biomarkers? In our new preprint 👇, we asked this using biopsies from 150+ participants from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project.

🧵 See 👇 our new preprint on shared and organ-specific gene expression programs of fibrotic diseases 🧬 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... 📊 Explore the data: organfibrosis.saezlab.org

Interested in kinase-driven signaling interactions? Check out our (now peer-reviewed) paper together with @savitski-lab.bsky.social on reconstructing signaling networks from phosphoproteomics data and prior knowledge: ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

This month we welcomed Francisca Gaspar Vieira, PhD student from @brittavelten.bsky.social's lab, to visit us at @ebi.embl.org for 6 months 🎉 She will continue to develop probabilistic factor models explicitly incorporating uncertainty in the estimation of perturbation effects in single-cell data

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Happy to share new work led by @miraburtscher.bsky.social, together with colleagues from @savitski-lab.bsky.social, @saezlab.bsky.social (shout-out to @martingarridorc.bsky.social), @zimmermannlab.bsky.social and others. Original post + paper below! 👇

On March 4th, our @ricoramirez.bsky.social will share how we can currently study tissue remodelling with spatial transcriptomics data at a webinar from @training.ebi.embl.org. This webinar series includes a great lineup of speakers. For free registration see link below ⬇️

New preprint from my team! led by @remitrimbour.bsky.social in collaboration with the @saezlab.bsky.social, we developped ReCoN a new method to model multicellular coordination and its underlying molecular mechanisms. 📜 Paper: lnkd.in/eJ8SfFNH 💻 Code: lnkd.in/e-qx2iNp

This month we welcome 2 new members and 1 visitor to our lab! 🎉 Veronika Kedlian as a postdoc, Hugo Hakem as a PhD student, and @francescadrummer.bsky.social as a visiting PhD student 🎉

Congrats! We’re happy to have contributed to the Atlas of Human Inflammation, improving the interpretability of inflammatory signatures through inference of transcription factor activity (Jose Liñares Blanco, @ricoramirez.bsky.social and @juliosaezrod.bsky.social) www.linkedin.com/posts/holger...

We recently posted a "2025 Publication Countdown" series on LinkedIn. See here ➡️ www.linkedin.com/company/saez...

See 👇 our new manuscript introducing SpaCEy, an explainable method for predicting clinical outcomes from spatial omics data 🧬 📄 Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💻 Code repo: github.com/saezlab/SpaCEy

🤗 We welcome Jay Chow (Chi Lung), our new Scientific Database Curator. Jay will be joining a collaborative effort between SaezLab, @ebi.embl.org FG team, and GSK for the curation of fibrosis datasets and integration into the Expression Atlases and ArrayExpress collection in BioStudies.

📍 Latest OmniPath paper is out now! ➡️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

It was an honor to speak about Systems Biology of Kidney Disease at the American Society of Nephrology meeting www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLVs... reflecting from my perspective as patient-scientist (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) & sharing work of @saezlab.bsky.social sp. within www.iganatlas.org

📄 BioContextAI is now slightly updated and published @natbiotech.nature.com ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our revised consensus transcriptional patient map of human heart failure across patient cohorts and single-cell and bulk technologies is now published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bonjour! Masters students in France 🇫🇷, we’ve got an internship for you, in collaboration with the French Embassy in London. Aimed at students of computer science, statistics or bioinformatics. Deadline: 7 December 2025 Find out more and apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...

👋 @veronicalombardi.bsky.social has completed her 6-month visit period with us. She is a PhD student from the University of Rome La Sapienza, and her contribution focused on generating single-cell and patient-specific networks of pancreatic cancer using our tools LIANA+ and CORNETO. All the best! 🍀

We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK). Focus: methods to study cell–cell communication from sc/spatial omics data (building on LIANA+ and NicheNet), in collab with @yvansaeys.bsky.social VIB/Ghent. Details & apply by 13/10/25: tinyurl.com/4shdw8dk

🚨 New preprint We present an extended version of ScAPE, the method that won one of the prizes 🏆 in the @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2023 Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction challenge. 📄 preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧬 code: github.com/scapeML/scape

🥁 Check out our new preprint on OmniPath, the prior knowledge resource for #SystemsBiology, and its brand-new OmniPath Explorer web app! 🥳 📖 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🔍 Explorer: explore.omnipathdb.org OmniPath integrates 160+ resources for multi-omics analysis & modeling. 🧶⬇️

Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. 🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io

@embl.org PhD programme just open - many interesting projects, including two with us @saezlab.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org - one on #host-microbiome interactions using #spatial omics, and one on #AI in #proteomics 👇

👋 Time to say goodbye to another one of our PhD students, @smuellerdott.bsky.social. She was working on the integration of phosphoproteomics and transcriptomics data and will now join the Computational Oncology Team at Merck. We wish her all the best for this new chapter! 🚀 ✨

We present our MetaProViz #Rpackage for #metabolomics analysis & prior knowledge integration to generate mechanistic hypotheses on how metabolic changes affect metabolite classes, pathways & environment interaction 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 📦 saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/ 🧵 Thread ⬇️

👀 we are involved in projects 1 & 6 on the list: 1️⃣ Multicellular molecular characterisation of inflammatory bowel disease 6️⃣ Designing Efficient Single-Cell Perturbation Experiments with Lab-in-the-Loop AI Agents 📅 Application deadline is 30th September ❗

Glad to contribute to this collaborative community platform. A case study shows MCP servers working together - combining BioContextAI Knowledgebase with our omnipath omnipathdb.org MCP (work in progress) to showcase interoperability. Looking forward to see how the ecosystem evolves!

🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form 🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 💻 Code: corneto.org 🧵 Thread 👇

Four more days to apply to our postdoctoral position 👇

Four more days to apply to our curator position 👇

Don't miss talks in our sponsored Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods – DREAM – session, kicking off with a talk by our Head of Research, @juliosaezrod.bsky.social on benchmarking foundation models in biology www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... #ISMB2025

Our group @ebi.embl.org‬ is a host for the ARISE2 MSCA-funded post-doc fellowship, in collab with @bioimagearchive.bsky.social‬ and ‪@scilifelab.se (esp. A Mezger and S. Giacomello) to support the development of next-gen spatial data infrastructures. Apply by 30/09 www.embl.org/training/ari...

Postdoc position in our group at @ebi.embl.org about analyzing single cell data sets to better understand and treat neurodegen diseases, in collab with A Bassett, M Lotfollahi, @bayraktarlab.bsky.social, M Strauss and others within Open Targets. Deadline 20/07. Please share tinyurl.com/87wj466m

We have a curator position at @ebi.embl.org to work with GSK within a project to understand fibrotic processes (no PhD required). Deadline 20th July. Please share 🙏 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

I wrote a short piece on how becoming an IgA Nephropathy patient has changed my perspective on biomedical research, developing an appreciation for the challenges in data interpretability & availability and the importance of patient engagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The final version of our multi-omics study on kidney fibrosis is out now (tinyurl.com/kidneyfibMSB). Together w/ Pepperkok + Savitski labs @embl.org, we present a time-resolved #multiomics + computational network modeling approach in combination w/ phenotypic assays to study #kidneyfibrosis

👋 Wishing @paubadiam.bsky.social all the best as he leaves our lab to join the Stanford Department of Genetics in @anshulkundaje.bsky.social lab‬! Looking forward to his future contributions to understanding gene regulation through sequence-to-function deep learning models 💻

🔧 decoupler 2.0.6 is out thanks to @paubadiam.bsky.social‬, now as a core @scverse.bsky.social package scverse.org This release includes a streamlined API aligned with scverse standards, updated vignettes, and a new one on pseudotime enrichment analysis 👇 decoupler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

In this Voices article, our @martingarridorc.bsky.social & @juliosaezrod.bsky.social discuss key strategies for building context-specific molecular networks: knowledge and data-driven methods, + future directions in the field bridging to structures and perturbations tinyurl.com/z8t6yych

Ever wondered which method to use to infer kinase activities from phosphoproteomics data? 💻💭Our revised comprehensive evaluation of kinase activity inference tools, done in collaboration with the Zhang lab @bcmhouston.bsky.social, is now out @natcomms.nature.com 🔬 tinyurl.com/4twuc6z4

Great work by @bayraktarlab.bsky.social , @oliverstegle.bsky.social , and @moritzmall.bsky.social ! Happy that our @ahmetrifaioglu.bsky.social contributed to this study by mapping CCC events between spatially co-localized TME and malignant cells using LIANA+ 🧠 github.com/saezlab/lian...

Happy Birthday @scverse.bsky.social - Our @juliosaezrod.bsky.social has just joined scverse's Management Committee and we look forward to further using & contributing to the ecosystem github.com/saezlab/deco... github.com/saezlab/lian... & more

join us at ISMB iscb.bsky.social & @dreamchallenges.bsky.social - benchmarking foundation models w. @anshulkundaje.bsky.social @oldbap.bsky.social G. Stolovitzky @bowang87.bsky.social @mariabrbic.bsky.social K. Kalantar, J. Guinney supported by @ebi.embl.org @cziscience.bsky.social Tempus AI

The latest version of the Kasumi manuscript is now published in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41... Kasumi identifies patterns in tissue patches, enabling analysis of disease progression and treatment response while providing insights into spatial coordination at cell-type or marker level

We have an opening for a PhD/Postdoc in Spatial Omics for Cardiology in Heidelberg 🫀 #job #academicjob #phd #postdoc #cadiology 👇 jobrxiv.org/job/heidelbe...

🚨 New preprint: Topography Aware Optimal Transport for Alignment of Spatial Omics Data We present our new alignment framework TOAST www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats & Good luck to our @slobentanzer.bsky.social as he starts his group @diabresearch-dzd.bsky.social & @comphealthmunich.bsky.social - he is hiring 👇

Wrapping up in beautiful Ascona ☀️ for the Modern Benchmark Conference sites.google.com/view/ascona2.... Great to see the community discussing a field that’s essential yet often overlooked and challenging @smuellerdott.bsky.social @barbarazpc.bsky.social @ivanovaos.bsky.social @paubadiam.bsky.social

Congrats to our @juliosaezrod.bsky.social and all other elected fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as part of the 2025 Class