Bence Kövér
bencekover.bsky.social
Bence Kövér
@bencekover.bsky.social
PhD student at King’s College London
@pituitarylab.bsky.social

Previously at UCL (2019-23) working on multicellularity in fission yeast, and exchange student at Caltech (2021-22)
Pinned
Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The protein concentration in the cytoplasm is so high that the average protein has a water hydration shell with a thickness of only ≈ 10 water molecules separating it from the adjacent protein hydration shell.

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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This Tuesday I attended the annual @londonomics.bsky.social symposium at the @crick.ac.uk , and presented a methods-focused version of some of the research I’ve done this past year.
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...
Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project
An analysis of TCGA whole-genome sequencing samples yields a comprehensive resource for investigating the role of microbes in cancer.
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
June 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I had a great time presenting a poster of my research project at the Joint Congress of @esendocrinology.bsky.social and ESPE in Copenhagen.
May 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Between serious research, our lab took some time out today for a fun hormone-themed activity.
Endocrinology escape room- all about hormones!
#BecauseHormonesMatter
#WorldHormoneDay
#pituitary #adrenal #endocrineresearch
@esendocrinology.bsky.social @ese-eyes.bsky.social @pituitaryorg.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll get.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I miss when the biggest controversy about mRNA was whether it correlated with protein or not.
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Best lab with the best coffee mornings
CCRB Coffee Morning, with @bencekover.bsky.social @jameskcl.bsky.social
We take it seriously
January 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM