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Ben Lehner
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Head of Generative Genomics @sangerinstitute; Systems + Synthetic Biology @CRGenomica; Co-founder allox.bio barcelonacollaboratorium.com
Barcelona | Cambridge
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    Ben Lehner
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    Jul 24, 2019
    Dear Germany, Photos on CVs = not a good idea. Thank you The rest of the world.
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Jan 7, 2020
    We are recruiting a group leader in quantitative or computational biology. 9 years of core funding and freedom to do something important. Probably the best combination of genomics, quantitative and mechanistic biology in Europe. Deadline soon! pls RT nature.com/naturecareers/…
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    Ben Lehner
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    Apr 6, 2022
    Mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of protein binding domains Step 0.1 in solving molecular biology @aj4re @JuliaDiumenge @JoernSchmiedel @cristonah @Guillaume_Diss
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    Mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of protein binding domains
    From nature.com
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    Ben Lehner
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    Jun 17, 2019
    Determining protein structures using deep mutagenesis. ⁦@JoernSchmiedel⁩ ‘s beautiful paper
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    Determining protein structures using deep mutagenesis
    From nature.com
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Nov 1, 2022
    Hello @sangerinstitute !!!
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    Matt Hurles
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    Nov 1, 2022
    Truly delighted to welcome @BenLehner to the Human Genetics faculty at @sangerinstitute. I’ve long been a fan of Ben’s creative and wide-ranging science and we are all really excited to work with him over the coming years.
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Oct 5, 2023
    Start the engines!
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    Wellcome Sanger Institute
    @sangerinstitute
    Oct 5, 2023
    We are thrilled to launch our new programme, Generative and Synthetic Genomics! 🎉 Led by @BenLehner, we’ll use big #data & #AI to understand & predict the effects of mutations, and engineer biological systems 🧬 With support from @wellcometrust sanger.ac.uk/news_item/pred…
    Quotegraph with image of Ben Lehner, Head of Generative and Synthetic Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, on right hand side
Quote on left reads "We believe that the transformation of biology into a programmable engineering science will be the most important technological revolution of this century"
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    Ben Lehner
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    Sep 26, 2024
    The genetic architecture of protein stability by @aj4re @ainamartiaranda @cristonah @ToniBeltran13 @JoernSchmiedel nature.com/articles/s4158… @CRGenomica @sangerinstitute @ALLOXbio
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    The genetic architecture of protein stability
    Nature - By experimentally sampling from sequence spaces larger than 1010 and using thermodynamic models, the genetic structure of at least some proteins can be well described, indicating that...
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Jan 30, 2023
    Excited to start recruiting postdocs + research assistants to my lab @sangerinstitute Massive mutagenesis to make biophysics + human genetics predictive? allostery, affinity, stability, splicing, receptors, TFs, cancer. pls RT tinyurl.com/bmb9vv5s tinyurl.com/49f3ubc3
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Jun 30, 2022
    One huge structural problem of Catalan/Spanish research is the non-diverse leadership. Institute directors, heads of funding bodies, senior faculty are nearly all Spanish (+ men). It is not like this in other countries. A system with such a bias cannot possibly be meritocratic.
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    Ben Lehner
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    Dec 19, 2023
    My life in one sentence
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    No Context Brits
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    Dec 18, 2023
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    Ben Lehner
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    Oct 30, 2023
    The genetic architecture of protein stability Experimental exploration of >10^10 sequence spaces => protein genetics is simple and intelligible New pre-print by the formidable @aj4re, Aina Martí-Aranda, @cristonah, @JoernSchmiedel
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    The genetic architecture of protein stability
    There are more ways to synthesize a 100 amino acid protein (20100) than atoms in the universe. Only a miniscule fraction of such a vast sequence space can ever be experimentally or computationally...
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    Ben Lehner
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    Dec 9, 2022
    Here it is: the allosteric map of a protein. Want to find all the sites to target in your favourite undruggable protein? Here's how you can do it. >22k biophysical measurements for one protein (KRAS) Congratulations to @WengChenchun and @aj4re
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    The energetic and allosteric landscape for KRAS inhibition
    Thousands of proteins have now been genetically-validated as therapeutic targets in hundreds of human diseases. However, very few have actually been successfully targeted and many are considered...
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Apr 30, 2024
    Introducing the Domainome... Site saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains reveals the contribution of protein destabilization to genetic disease by @ToniBeltran13 @CRGenomica @sangerinstitute @BGI_Genomics
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    Site saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains reveals the contribution of protein...
    Missense variants that change the amino acid sequences of proteins cause one third of human genetic diseases[1][1]. Tens of millions of missense variants exist in the current human population, with...
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    Ben Lehner
    @BenLehner
    Jul 1, 2022
    Female PIs in Spanish biomedical institutes (approx. numbers): @CRGenomica 12/30 @cnag_eu 1/7 😱 @IRBBarcelona 5/28 😱 @IBECBarcelona 7/24 😱 @CNIOStopCancer 21/43 🙌 @CNIC_CARDIO 9/33 @EMBLBarcelona 4/7 🙌
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