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Giulio Tesei
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Assistant Prof. at Malmö University; modelling of intrinsically disordered regions, membrane-associated proteins, and biomolecular condensates. He/him
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julianstreit.bsky.social
New preprint with @invemichele.bsky.social, Sandro Bottaro, Kamil Tamiola, and @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social on transiently structured states of IDPs sampled in atomistic simulations with enhanced sampling and integrated with experimental data.
lindorfflarsen.bsky.social Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 17d
Third preprint of the year is from @julianstreit.bsky.social who, with our collaborators at Peptone, show that multithermal On-the-fly Probability Enhanced Sampling (OPES) enables efficient generation of atomistic ensembles for disordered peptides and proteins 🍝

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Integrative structural biology by the sea

The Jan 31st deadline for our FEBS advanced course on integrative structural biology is getting closer, so get your applications in for Lost In Integrative Vol. 2
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January 24, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Looking for something to read over the weekend?

Our review on computational design of intrinsically disordered proteins is now published in final form 🍝

With @giuliotesei.bsky.social & @fpesce.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.sb...
Figure illustrating the role of machine learning in IDP design, showing both the training data, machine learning and applications
January 23, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
First preprint of the year, led by Junjie Zhu from Haifeng Chen’s lab

Extending Conformational Ensemble Prediction to Multidomain Proteins and Protein Complex

doi.org/10.64898/202...
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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mercadantelab.bsky.social
New preprint!🚨 We're finally able to sample secondary structure in coarse-grained simulations of IDPs! 🍝🍝🍝 With an AI-based prediction of NMR chemical shifts in CG simulations, we correct dynamics on the fly, making secondary structure emerge as dictated by expts😍! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇
Capturing secondary structure in coarse grained intrinsically disordered proteins with simulations driven by chemical shifts.
A major challenge when investigating intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) pertains to understanding how secondary structure formation across otherwise disordered ensembles, relates to function. Wh...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
We (@sobuelow.bsky.social) developed AF-CALVADOS to integrate AlphaFold and CALVADOS to simulate flexible multidomain proteins at scale

See preprint for:
— Ensembles of >12000 full-length human proteins
— Analysis of IDRs in >1500 TFs

📜 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
💾 github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Figure showing the AF-CALVADOS restraining and simulation protocol based on AF2 structure, PAE and pLDDT
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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drannaduncan.bsky.social
Registration now open for the '3rd Annual Danish Workshop on Advanced Molecular Simulation'

Join us in beautiful Aarhus for a 2-day workshop on biomolecular simulations!
9-10 December 2025

Link for registration: aias.au.dk/events/show/...
October 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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daviddesancho.bsky.social
Check out our latest, where we investigate the molecular origin of differences between Lys and Arg and their roles in biomolecular #condensates

@dipcehu.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Integrative modelling of biomolecular dynamics

Time-dependent and -resolved experiments combined with computation provide a view on molecular dynamics beyond that available from static, ensemble-averaged experiments

Review w @dariagusew.bsky.social & Carl G Henning Hansen
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Figure 1 from the review. Caption: Comparison of a schematic example showing static, time-dependent, and time-resolved experiments illustrated by a protein folding process. (a) A static experiment measuring the observable O$_{\text{exp}}$ is shown, which can be modelled as a distribution of simulated values, O$_{\text{calc}}$, representing a conformational ensemble of folded and unfolded states. (b) Shows a time-dependent experiment, where the equilibrium dynamics of reversible folding gives rise to measured transition times $\tau_1$ and $\tau_2$. These can be modelled as equilibrium dynamics, illustrated by a free energy (FE) surface along a chosen degree of freedom (D.O.F.) (c) A time-resolved experiment probes a non-equilibrium process, where the system begins at $t_{0}$ in the folded state. During the observation time $t$ the protein unfolds until $t_{\text{max}}$. At each time point, a distinct ensemble average, O$_{\text{exp}}$, can be observed, reflecting the proteins changing structure. This evolution can be modelled as distributions of O$_{\text{calc}}$ at each time point. These are shown together with a FE surface.
October 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
giuliotesei.bsky.social
I'm hiring for a PhD position at Malmö University, Sweden!

The project will focus on molecular modelling of proteins, lipids, and biomolecular condensates at cell membranes.

More details and application form: tinyurl.com/4zm92365

Please feel free to share!

@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social | @mau.se
Snapshot of a condensate near a lipid membrane with Swedish Research Council and Malmö University logos.
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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sarahshammas.bsky.social
Why are transcription factors disordered? Come join us in Oxford as a postdoc and we'll find out together!

Help publish 3 mature projects, AND develop cool new single molecule fluorescence binding assays!

biophysics
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protein:DNA interactions

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October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
giuliotesei.bsky.social
Excited to see our review now on arXiv, written together with @fpesce.bsky.social and @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social

doi.org/10.48550/arX...
lindorfflarsen.bsky.social Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Sep 17
New review on computational design of intrinsically disordered proteins 🖥️🍝 by @giuliotesei.bsky.social @fpesce.bsky.social & 👴

doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Figure 3 from the paper with the caption: "Role of machine learning in de novo design of IDRs. (A) Machine-learning models can be trained on diverse data sources, from molecular dynamics simulations to annotations of cellular localization and protein structures from the Protein Data Bank. (B) Often implemented as neural networks using sequence-encoded features as input, these models can initially be trained on a limited region of sequence space as surrogate models. Through active learning, additional simulations are performed during the design campaign to generate new data, and the surrogate model is retrained on the expanded dataset to progressively improve its accuracy. (C) Machine-learning models have been developed to predict biophysical observables, biological annotations, and protein structures. When combined, machine-learning models can be used to identify a set of sequences that strike a trade-off between multiple design objectives, defining a Pareto front."
September 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Our paper on:

A coarse-grained model for simulations of phosphorylated disordered proteins

(aka parameters for phospho-serine and -threonine for CALVADOS)

is now published in Biophysical Journal

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTcE1SPTB...

@asrauh.bsky.social @giuliotesei.bsky.social & Gustav Hedemark
July 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Arriën & Giulio's paper on

A coarse-grained model for disordered proteins under crowded conditions

(that is the CALVADOS PEG model) is now published in final form:
dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro....

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July 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊

In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃

Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/...
Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia...
April 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
giuliotesei.bsky.social
Happy to share a walkthrough of the applications of our package for simulations using CALVADOS!

Big thanks to @sobuelow.bsky.social, @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, and the whole team for making this possible.

Thrilled to mark this as my first last-author paper!
lindorfflarsen.bsky.social Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Apr 15
Do you like CALVADOS but are not quite sure how to make it?

We’ve got your back!

@sobuelow.bsky.social & @giuliotesei.bsky.social—together with the rest of the team—describe our software for simulations using the CALVADOS models incl. recipes for several applications. 1/5

doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Figure showing the architecture of the CALVADOS package.
April 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Do you like CALVADOS but are not quite sure how to make it?

We’ve got your back!

@sobuelow.bsky.social & @giuliotesei.bsky.social—together with the rest of the team—describe our software for simulations using the CALVADOS models incl. recipes for several applications. 1/5

doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Figure showing the architecture of the CALVADOS package.
April 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Our paper on prediction of phase-separation propensities of disordered proteins from sequence is now published:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The paper has been substantially updated compared to the preprint including new experimental data and using the neural network to finetune CALVADOS. 1/n
March 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
CALVADOS now has parameters for phosphorylated amino acids

@asrauh.bsky.social @giuliotesei.bsky.social and Gustav Hedemark used a top-down approach in which we targeted experimental data to derive parameters or phosphorylated serine and threonine doi.org/10.1101/2025...
March 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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asrauh.bsky.social
Excited to share our PEG model for disordered proteins in CALVADOS!

If you are interested in exploring the effects of a crowder on the global dimensions of an IDP or want to explore the phase separation behaviour of a more weakly PS-prone IDP, have a look at our preprint and give it a try.
lindorfflarsen.bsky.social Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · Mar 6
CALVADOS 🤝 PEG

Work from @asrauh.bsky.social on a simple model for polyethylene glycol to study the effects of crowding on IDPs
March 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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lindorfflarsen.bsky.social
Our review on machine learning methods to study sequence–ensemble–function relationships in disordered proteins is now out in COSB

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Figure from the paper illustrating sequence–ensemble–function relationships for disordered proteins. ML prediction (black) and design (orange) approaches are highlighted on the connecting arrows. Prediction of properties/functions from sequence (or vice versa, design) can include biophysics approaches via structural ensembles, or bioinformatics approaches via other hetero- geneous sources. The lower panels show examples of properties and functions of IDRs for predictions or design targets. ML, machine learning; IDRs, intrinsically disordered proteins and regions.
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM