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Next stop, Geneva! Krysia is heading for a postdoc 🇨🇭🎓🚀
Team

Krysia will soon begin a postdoc at the University of Geneva, working with Jeffrey Näf 🇨🇭📊! We’re celebrating her next scientific chapter, while trying to work out how to…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 21, 2026

BioGenies at PTBI 2026 in Poznań! 🧬🎤🇵🇱
Conferences & events
Poland
PTBI

Michał, Krysia, Valen and Mariia represented BioGenies at PTBI 2026 in Poznań 🇵🇱🎤! From AI governance to amyloid–antibody interactions, imputation scoring and TickPacket.…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 18, 2026

Asia conquers the SLOPE and defends her MSc! 🎓📊🥳
Achievements
Team

Asia has successfully defended her MSc thesis at the University of Wrocław! 🎓📊 Her work brings Adaptive Bayesian SLOPE to binary classification, with Michał as…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 11, 2026

Michał talks reproducibility at Bioinformatics Community Meetup #5 💻🧬 🇵🇱
Poland
Conferences & events

Michał joined Bioinformatics Community Meetup #5 in Kraków 🇵🇱 as a panelist discussing reproducible bioinformatics research. From good code and data sharing to the…

BioGenies Lab
Jul 11, 2026

BioGenies at the 4th ML4NGP Meeting in Warsaw! 🧬🤖🇵🇱
Poland
COST Actions
Conferences & events

Valen, Jarek, Mariia, Damian and Oriol joined the 4th ML4NGP Meeting in Warsaw 🇵🇱 - with posters, Oriol’s Thursday talk, sightseeing, craft beers, social dinner, good…

BioGenies Lab
Jun 8, 2026

HaDeX2: HDX-MS analysis tool for protein dynamics (Bioinformatics 2026) 🧬
Publications

HaDeX2 is a bioinformatics tool for hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) data analysis, enabling multi-dimensional statistical analysis and visualization…

BioGenies Lab
Mar 16, 2026

Jarek and Julia escape winter at the ML4NGP Training School in Seville! 🧬🤖🌞🇪🇸
Spain
COST Actions
Conferences & events

Jarek and Julia attended the ML4NGP Training School in Seville 🇪🇸, learning about machine learning for non-globular proteins 🧬🤖 and temporarily escaping the -15°C Polish…

BioGenies Lab
Mar 6, 2026

BioGenies shine at the Rector’s Awards! 🏆🎓✨
Achievements

A proud day for BioGenies! 🎉 Michał and Jarek received First Degree Rector’s Awards for publications 🏆📚, Valen earned a Second Degree award, Michał was additionally…

BioGenies Lab
Dec 16, 2025

Oriol visits BioGenies from sunny Barcelona! 🇪🇸🧬🕷️
Team
NAWA

Our collaborator Oriol from the Autonomous University of Barcelona 🇪🇸 visited Białystok through the NAWA STER programme 🇵🇱 to work with Michał on StriFi — a…

BioGenies Lab
Dec 8, 2025

Michał hacks away at BioHackathon Europe 2025 in Berlin! 💻🧬🚀
Conferences & events
Germany
ELIXIR

Michał joined BioHackathon Europe 2025 in Berlin, organised by ELIXIR Europe 💻🧬, an intense week of coding, data wrangling and open science, and a huge opportunity for…

BioGenies Lab
Nov 13, 2025

Weronika defends her PhD with distinction! 🎓🌟
Team
Achievements

Huge congratulations to Weronika, who defended her PhD thesis on high-resolution H/D exchange MS data 🎓🔬 with distinction! Weronika celebrated first at IBB PAS and then…

BioGenies Lab
Nov 12, 2025

BioGenies at PTBI 2025 in Białystok! 🧬🎤🥞
Conferences & events
PTBI
Poland

BioGenies rocked PTBI 2025 in Białystok! 🎉 Michał and Valen gave talks, Mariia, Asia and Jarek flash talks + posters, we joined PTBI 🇵🇱, voted for a new CEO 🗳, and…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 18, 2025

Mariia starts her PhD at UMB! 🎓🦠
Team
Achievements

🎉 Huge congratulations to Mariia, who just joined the international PhD programme at the Medical University of Białystok! 🌍 She’ll be developing cutting-edge…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 17, 2025

Sonor defends his MSc with flying colors! 🎓🥳
Team
Achievements

Huge congratulations to Sonor, who just defended his MSc thesis Biomedical Text Classification with Pre-trained Language Models with the best possible grade 💯🌟! His work…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 16, 2025

From microbes to medicine 💊🦠, Valen’s NCN Miniatura grant success!
Grants
NCN

Congrats to Valen 🎉 for receiving an NCN Miniatura grant! The LIMAD project will explore how microbes 🦠 influence harmful protein build-up in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 15, 2025

LLPS datasets & benchmarking: bringing order to condensate chaos 🧬📊
Publications

We present curated datasets of proteins involved in liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS), enabling robust benchmarking and improved machine learning predictions in…

BioGenies Lab
Jul 9, 2025

🎓 Career highlights: Mariia at UMB and Jarek’s NCN Poland Miniatura grant!
Team
Grants
NCN

Big news, Mariia starts at UMB and applies for a PhD, while Jarek gets NCN Miniatura to grow his imputomics project! 🎉

BioGenies Lab
Jul 4, 2025

🏅 Ronja wins BTU Women’s Advancement Award! 🌟!
Achievements
Erasmus+

Celebrating Ronja Tittel’s outstanding contribution in her praxissemester with us and her award at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg!

BioGenies Lab
Jul 2, 2025

🌡️ Jarek, Michał & Krysia at Metabolomics 2025 in Prague!
Conferences & events
Czech Republic
Metabolomics

Our team flew out to Prague for the Metabolomics 2025 meeting—posters, gifts, air conditioning and plenty of food!

BioGenies Lab
Jul 1, 2025

🌳 BioGenies retreat in Wrocław from June 4 till 7, 2025
Team
Poland

Team fun and productivity at our Wrocław retreat: pizzas, stamp hunt at Arboretum, seminars, hiking, cocktails (healthy, non-alchocholic) and more 😄

BioGenies Lab
Jun 23, 2025

🌍 Welcoming Krzysztof Poterlowicz from ELIXIR‑UK! 🚀
ELIXIR
Team

Excited to host Prof. Krzysztof Poterlowicz (University of Bradford & ELIXIR‑UK) to support our lab’s journey toward full ELIXIR integration.

BioGenies Lab
Jun 18, 2025

🌟 Highlights from the 3rd ML4NGP Conference in Vilnius!🌟
Conferences & events
COST Actions
Lithuania

Michał, Jarek, Valen and Mariia presented posters at the ML4NGP Meeting, a fantastic mix of science, food and networking!

BioGenies Lab
Jun 17, 2025

Amyloid cross-interactions: how proteins influence each other’s aggregation 🧬🧊
Publications

A comprehensive review of experimental methods to study amyloid cross-interactions, highlighting how proteins modulate each other’s aggregation and why combining techniques…

BioGenies Lab
May 21, 2025

🎉 OneTick project awarded MSCA Staff Exchanges grant!
Grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Horizon Europe

Another huge win for BioGenies! Our first MSCA Staff Exchanges project, OneTick, officially funded by the European Commission!

BioGenies Lab
May 20, 2025

🎉 Jarek awarded Horizon Europe ERA Talents grant!
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Horizon Europe
WIDERA

From MSCA near-miss to ERA Talents success, BioGenies score again! 🇪🇺💪 . Next stop: Life Sciences Center at Vilnius University

BioGenies Lab
May 19, 2025

HRaDeX: high-resolution HDX–MS analysis made simple ⚙️🧬
Publications

A new R package and web server (HRaDeX) enabling high-resolution analysis of HDX–MS data by reconstructing residue-level deuterium uptake rates from peptide-level…

BioGenies Lab
May 19, 2025

Jakub joins Google! 🚀 Our ML beast in the big leagues
Team
Achievements

From BioGenies to Google, Jakub is now working on C++ projects for OpenAI but he’s still part of the family!

BioGenies Lab
May 18, 2025

Ticks, trails & travel, Science and short city break adventures 🧬🧗‍♀️🌍
Conferences & events
France
Germany
Team

Michał shared urban tick research in Weimar, while Jarek, Weronika, and Krysia took a well-earned adventure break in Montpellier!

BioGenies Lab
Apr 1, 2025

Farewell to Ronja, our first Erasmus+ student! 🇩🇪💙
Erasmus+
Team

Ronja’s Praxissemester with us has come to an end. From food feasts to cultural trips and a dramatic train station farewell – here’s how we spent the last days together!

BioGenies Lab
Feb 24, 2025

OneTick proposal submitted & Michał’s well-deserved break! 🚀🌴
Grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

We’ve officially submitted our OneTick proposal for MSCA Staff Exchanges and Michał is finally taking a holiday after seven years!

BioGenies Lab
Feb 10, 2025

Farewell to Eva, our first departing Erasmus+ student! 🎓💙
Erasmus+
Team

After an amazing Erasmus experience, Eva says goodbye to our lab. A week full of memories, pierogi, karaoke, and adventures!

BioGenies Lab
Jan 30, 2025

Valen Featured on NAWA Podcast! 🎙️
Team
NAWA

Valen discusses our lab’s exciting science and research projects on the NAWA podcast.

BioGenies Lab
Jan 10, 2025

Writing OneTick Grant for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges 🎯
Grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Michał, Jarek, and Valen are hard at work preparing a OneTick grant for the MSCA Staff Exchanges application with a potential consortium of 11 participants!

BioGenies Lab
Jan 9, 2025

Michał receives First Degree Award from Rector of Medical University of Białystok 🎉
Achievements

Congratulations to Michał on being honored with the prestigious First Degree Award for his outstanding publications from 2023!

BioGenies Lab
Dec 6, 2024

Celebrating our successes 🎉
Team
Conferences & events

On November 14 Michał organised a small party to celebrate our achievements and thank amazing people supporting our journey!

BioGenies Lab
Nov 19, 2024

Welcome Mariia, from BTU to the BioGenies!
Team
Erasmus+

We’re excited to welcome Mariia Solovianova from BTU, a biotechnology master with wet lab expertise, joining our lab to work on a bioinformatics project involving antibodies…

BioGenies Lab
Nov 12, 2024

Welcome Eva Arribas to the Lab!
Team
Erasmus+

We’re thrilled to welcome Eva Arribas, a master’s graduate from Salvador Ventura’s lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as she joins us for her Erasmus traineeship!

BioGenies Lab
Nov 4, 2024

Michał and Jarek secure PARP ‘Granty na Eurogranty’ grant! 🎉
Grants
PARP

Exciting news! Michał and Jarek have received a grant from PARP (Polish Agency for Enterprise Development) to support the preparation of their MSCA Staff Exchanges…

BioGenies Lab
Nov 1, 2024

Amyloid databases: mapping the aggregation universe 🧬📊
Publications

A comprehensive review of amyloid-related databases, highlighting how experimental data and bioinformatics resources drive advances in protein aggregation research.

BioGenies Lab
Oct 30, 2024

HUPO 2024 Conference Wrap-Up
Conferences & events
HUPO
Germany

Highlights from an inspiring week in Dresden with the BioGenies team, filled with scientific sessions, networking, and a taste of Dresden’s culture.

BioGenies Lab
Oct 28, 2024

🎉 Valen signs a contract with Medical University of Białystok! 🎉
Team

From now on, Valen is an official employee of the Clinical Research Centre at the Medical University of Białystok 🏢🎓.

BioGenies Lab
Oct 18, 2024

Post-doc position in the AmyloGraph 2.0 project
Team
NCN
Recruiting

We are looking for a post-doc to join our team in AmyloGraph 2.0 project (2023/51/D/NZ7/02847)

BioGenies Lab
Oct 1, 2024

Arrival of Ronja, our new collaborator
Team
Erasmus+

Welcoming Ronja, our new collaborator from Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, who joins our group for her practical semester.

BioGenies Lab
Sep 30, 2024

PTBI 2024 Conference wrap-up
Conferences & events
PTBI
Poland

The PTBI 2024 conference brought together brilliant minds 🧠, exciting discussions 💬, and memorable moments with colleagues 🤝. From insightful talks 🎤 to fun reunions 🎉…

BioGenies Lab
Sep 13, 2024

BioGenies are heading to Warsaw!
Conferences & events
PTBI
Poland

🌟 BioGenies will reunite at the PTBI conference in Warsaw! 🇵🇱🌟

BioGenies Lab
Sep 4, 2024

Big annoucement!
Team
NCN
Recruiting

We are thrilled to announce that we are looking for two talented students to join our team for AmyloGraph 2.0 project (2023/51/D/NZ7/02847)

BioGenies Lab
Aug 27, 2024

BioGenies on adventure
Team
Italy

Jarek and Krysia conquer the Dolomites on their short summer vacations!

BioGenies Lab
Aug 12, 2024

BioGenies went to Canada for a conference
Conferences & events
ISMB
Canada

Krysia and Weronika at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference

BioGenies Lab
Jul 17, 2024

🎓 Celebrating Eva’s MSc Defense! 🎓
Team
Achievements

We are thrilled to announce that Eva has successfully defended her MSc thesis! 🏆📚

BioGenies Lab
Jul 12, 2024

BioGenies from University of Wrocław and Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, PAS visit BioGenies HQ in Białystok
Team

🌟 BioGenies reunion at HQ and visit beyond! 🌟

BioGenies Lab
Jul 4, 2024

BioGenies went to Japan on a conference
Conferences & events
Metabolomics
Japan

Krysia attends Metabolomics 2024 in Osaka, Japan! 🌏🇯🇵

BioGenies Lab
Jun 21, 2024

ML + metabolomics in the clinic: promise vs reality 🧠🧬
Publications

A critical review of machine learning-based clinical decision support systems built on metabolomics data, highlighting opportunities, pitfalls, and future directions.

BioGenies Lab
Jun 18, 2024

BioGenies visit to our colleagues from the Group of Amyloid Research at Vilnius University
Team
Lithuania

🌍 🇱🇹 BioGenies on the move: Visiting Vilnius University and Trakai Island Castle!

BioGenies Lab
Jun 5, 2024

🎉 Exciting news: Michał awarded NCN Sonata 19 Grant! 🎉
Grants
NCN

Results of the Sonata 19 grant contest organized by the National Science Center Poland were announced today!

BioGenies Lab
May 24, 2024

2nd Machine Learning 4 Non-Globular Proteins Meeting 2024
Conferences & events
Greece
COST Actions

Michał, Valen and Jarek went on a conference 🏛🔱🌊🇬🇷

BioGenies Lab
May 18, 2024

Official beginning of Bioinformatics and Multiomics Analysis Laboratory
Team

🎉 Official launch of Bioinformatics and Multiomics Analysis Laboratory! 🎉

BioGenies Lab
May 1, 2024

NanoString nCounter data analysis: challenges, workflows & best practices 🧬📊
Publications

A comprehensive review of NanoString nCounter data processing workflows, highlighting key steps, challenges and available bioinformatics tools for mRNA and miRNA analysis.

BioGenies Lab
Apr 30, 2024

imputomics: taming missing values in metabolomics data 🧬🧩
Publications

imputomics is a web server and R package providing a unified interface for 40+ missing value imputation algorithms, enabling robust and reproducible metabolomics data…

BioGenies Lab
Feb 20, 2024

aSynPEP-DB: mining peptides against Parkinson’s 🧬🧠
Publications

A database of biogenic peptides predicted to inhibit α-synuclein aggregation, enabling peptide-based therapeutic discovery.

BioGenies Lab
Nov 27, 2023

Amyloids don’t aggregate alone 🤝🧬 Meet AmyloGraph
Publications

AmyloGraph is a curated database of experimentally validated amyloid–amyloid interactions, enabling systematic exploration of cross-seeding and aggregation modulation.

BioGenies Lab
Oct 16, 2023

PlastoGram: decoding protein localization inside plastids 🌿🧬
Publications

PlastoGram is an ensemble machine learning model for predicting subplastid localization and protein origin, enabling more accurate plastid protein annotation.

BioGenies Lab
May 24, 2023

Short amyloids ≠ antimicrobial peptides? 🧬❌🦠
Publications

Experimental validation reveals that predicted antimicrobial amyloids lack real activity, highlighting a major gap in AMP datasets.

BioGenies Lab
Jan 2, 2023

The peptide prediction ecosystem is exploding 🤯🧬
Publications

A large-scale review of peptide activity prediction tools reveals rapid growth, reproducibility issues and emerging trends in ML-based peptide bioinformatics.

BioGenies Lab
Nov 24, 2022

Are AMP models lying to us? 🤖🧬 The benchmarking problem
Publications

A large-scale study reveals that antimicrobial peptide predictors are heavily biased due to how negative datasets are constructed.

BioGenies Lab
Sep 1, 2022

qPCR curves, but make it ML 🤖🧬 Introducing PCRedux
Publications

PCRedux is an R toolkit for feature extraction and machine learning on qPCR amplification curves, enabling reproducible and explainable analysis.

BioGenies Lab
Aug 21, 2022

Can ML predictors detect mislabeled amyloids? 🧠🧬
Publications

A fascinating study showing that amyloid prediction tools can identify misannotated training data, even when those wrong labels were part of the training set.

BioGenies Lab
Apr 26, 2021
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