Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ending my two weeks conference marathon: last week Single Cell Spatial Omics #SCSO 600 year #KULeuven edition & now #SCG2025 - learned so much & am now already searching for the next one! Any recommendations for biodiversity, non-model organisms & genetics in 2026? 🪰🦋🐛🐌

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

1/ First preprint from @jdemeul.bsky.social lab 🥳! We present our new multi-modal single-cell long-read method SPLONGGET (Single-cell Profiling of LONG-read Genome, Epigenome, and Transcriptome)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of two new preprints from the lab: 1) CREsted: to train sequence-to-function deep learning models on scATAC-seq atlases, and use them to decipher enhancer logic and design synthetic enhancers. This has been a wonderful lab-wide collaborative effort. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Make sure to also check out the preprint on the new CREsted package: many more sequence-to-function models across different species! … and it works with HyDrop v2 data as well. Congrats to @niklaskemp.bsky.social & @seppedewinter.bsky.social & all the others working on this super cool project!

Our new preprint is out! We optimized our open-source platform, HyDrop (v2), for scATAC sequencing and generated new atlases for the mouse cortex and Drosophila embryo with 607k cells. Now, we can train sequence-to-function models on data generated with HyDrop v2! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...