Elisabeth Bobkova
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Elisabeth Bobkova
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PostDoc at Erb Lab, science policy enthusiast, scientific illustrator, metalhead. Yay to using ML, physics and molecular biology to engineer new synbio systems
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December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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With this, the last bit of my PhD at @embl.org is finally out!
We developed salad (sparse all-atom denoising), a family of blazing fast protein structure diffusion models.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s42256-…
Code: github.com/mjendrusch/salad
Data: zenodo.org/records/14711580
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embl.org EMBL @embl.org · Sep 24
‘Salad’ – a new AI model from EMBL scientists – offers major improvements in synthetic protein design.

Salad is significantly faster than comparable methods, and designing proteins that don't exist in nature can have applications in many scientific fields.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just submitted my PhD thesis. Feeling kinda empty now...
September 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Excited to share a main project from my PhD, out now in
@naturecomms.bsky.social! 📝
We've designed and brought to life the “CORE cycle” – a new-to-nature pathway that provides a novel route for biological CO2 capture 🦠🌱
nature.com/articles/s41...
Take a look! Thread below... 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thrilled to have been part of the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium! Huge thanks to @gbmev.bsky.social for organizing such an engaging conference! @anastasiagtz.bsky.so and I were excited to share our insights on differential transport across membranes, and we're truly honored to receive the poster award!
March 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Really happy to share that our work on constructing six glyoxylate / glycolate sensors covering a three order of magnitude concentration range is out now in Nature Communications ! 🔥

Read below to see how we developed the sensors and what they are good for 🥳.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computation-aided designs enable developing auxotrophic metabolic sensors for wide-range glyoxylate and glycolate detection - Nature Communications
Auxotrophic metabolic sensors (AMS) are vital for bioengineering but are often time-consuming to develop. Here, the authors present a workflow for designing versatile AMS, demonstrating their use for ...
www.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Super excited to see my main PhD project finally out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We show for the first time that a synthetic and engineered pathway can indeed exceed nature at one-carbon fixation.
One-carbon fixation via the synthetic reductive glycine pathway exceeds yield of the Calvin cycle - Nature Microbiology
An engineered one-carbon-fixation pathway increases biomass yields of Cupriavidus necator compared with the Calvin cycle and can support future, sustainable bio-based production.
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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New protein ML preprint from my PhD project.
We describe salad (sparse all-atom denoising), a family of efficient protein structure diffusion models and show that it works well on a bunch of protein design task previously described in the literature.

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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February 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM