Another paper publication celebration joined by Lena and HongKee from the Scientific Computing Facility. Thank you very much for your help and contribution. This time we had lunch on the CSBD rooftop.

Cedric Landerer, Maxim Scheremetjew, HongKee Moon, Lena Hersemann, Agnes Toth-Petroczy
deTELpy: Python package for high-throughput detection of amino acid substitutions in mass spectrometry datasets.
Bioinformatics, Volume 40, Issue 7, July 2024, btae424, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae424

Long Night of Science 2024

This year we participated @ The Long Night of Science. We had a science station together with the Von Appen Group, exploring different protein structures and functions among other things. Some of the interactive experiments at the station added some extra spice. We hope that we brought science a little closer to the public.

Goodbye Cedric!

Cedric left our group after 5 very productive years to start a new job in industry. We wish you all the best on your new journey and for your future.

Tails for proteins

The genetic material, the DNA, is like a recipe book for making proteins. Sometimes, when cells are reading these recipes, they make mistakes. When they come across a stop sign that tells them to halt the production of a certain protein instead of stopping, the cells accidentally ignore the sign and keep making the protein, creating a longer version of the protein, which looks like a protein with a “tail”. These longer proteins might not work the same way as normal ones, leading to changes in how the cell behaves and to a change in how the cell functions. Continue reading the full news article here.

Original Publication:

Romero Romero, M.L., Poehls, J., Kirilenko, A. et al. Environment modulates protein heterogeneity through transcriptional and translational stop codon readthrough. Nat Commun 15, 4446 (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48387-x

Sisi's paper celebration at Altes Wettbüro Dresden

Another paper publication celebration. Well done to everyone involved! This time we had a wonderful evening at the Altes Wettbüro in Dresden-Neustadt.

Maria Luisa Romero Romero, Jonas Poehls, Anastasiia Kirilenko, Doris Richter, Tobias Jumel, Anna Shevchenko, Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Environment modulates protein heterogeneity through transcriptional and translational stop codon readthrough.
Nat Commun, 15(1) Art. No. 4446, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48387-x (2024)

Cedric's paper celebration pizza party

We had a great pizza party night celebrating Cedric's paper publication. Well done Cedric and everyone involved!

Cedric Landerer, Jonas Pöhls, Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Fitness effects of phenotypic mutations at proteome-scale reveal optimality of translation machinery.
Mol Biol Evol, 41(3) Art. No. msae048 doi: 10.1093/molbev/msae048 (2024) 

ERC Starting Grant for our lab

Agnes has received an ERC Starting Grant to study the Evolution of Biomolecular Condensates!

Congratulations!

Click here for press release of MPI-CBG and the European Research Council.

We are going to hire new computational and experimental PhD students/scientists. If you are passionate about evolution and condensates, send applications to toth-petroczy@mpi-cbg.de.

Goodbye Deep!

Deep is leaving after working here for 3 years, first as a HiWi, Master student and then as a software engineer. We had many successful projects and fun activities together! 

Good luck with your new adventure as a software engineer in Berlin!

PICNIC is online

Our model, PICNIC (Proteins Involved in CoNdensates In Cells) was trained to recognize proteins involved in in vivo biomolecular condensates.

PICNIC enables systematic detection of condensate proteins across organisms. See precomputed predictions for 14 common model organisms picnic.cd-code.org

 

Link to our preprint bioRxiv

Congratulations to Anna and all co-authors, Deep, Nadia and special thanks to Hari from Hyman lab for testing some top predictions in human cells!

 

 

Our new tool for clinical variant interpretation is published

Congratulations to Federica and big thank you to our collaborators at HMS, Ivan and Chris!

DeMAG predicts the effects of variants in clinically actionable genes by integrating evolutionary and structural features. Nature Comm 2023

 

Celebrating CD-CODE

CD-CODE is published @Nature Methods. Congatulations to all CD-CODE team members, especially to the first authors, Deep and Nadia!

This project was a beautiful collaboration of software engineers and computational and experimental biologists.

Read the story behind the paper.

 

Phenotypic mutations contribute to protein diversity and shape protein evolution

Our review about phenotypic mutations is published in Protein Science.

 

Gongratulations to Sisi, Cedric and Jonas!

Master Thesis Defense of Soumyadeep Ghosh (December 2021)

Congratulations to Deep for defending his Master thesis at the Computational Modeling and Simulations program at TUD!

Goodbye Anastasiia!

Congratulations for defending your Master thesis at TUD and good luck with your PhD in Berlin!

Master Thesis defense of Alejandro (November 2020)

Alejandro successfully defended his Masters thesis at TU Dresden. Congratulations!!! And good luck!