Protein Design Scientist @generate_biomed, PhD from Baker and King Labs @UWproteindesign 🧬 🦠 | Semi retired triathlete (she/her)
Seattle, WA
Joined April 2019
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Finally our work on designing pH responsive antibody nanoparticles capable of disassembling at ~tunable~ pH, packaging and releasing cargo, and targeting specific cell surface receptors is out in @NatureSMB! nature.com/articles/s41594-0…
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Thrilled to share that today we report our human protein interactome in @ScienceMagazine! Predicting which pairs of proteins in the human proteome is a great challenge due to the shallow eukaryotic evolutionary signals but hugely important to understand. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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🎉 Thrilled to share our paper just out in @NatureMedicine! We propose VaxSeer, a machine-learning framework that predicts how well vaccine strains will antigenically match future circulating viruses. nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
w/ @jeremyWohlwend @menghua_wu @BarzilayRegina
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Excited to present CryoBoltz ❄️⚡, a multiscale guidance approach for steering AlphaFold3/Boltz-1 to sample structures that are consistent with experimental cryo-EM density maps. 🧵1/7
arxiv.org/abs/2506.04490
Joint work with @axlevy0 @GordonWetzstein & @ZhongingAlong!
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🚀 Excited to release a major update to the Boltz-1 model: Boltz-1x!
Boltz-1x introduces inference-time steering for much higher physical quality, CUDA kernels for faster, more memory-efficient inference and training, and more! 🔥🧵
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Excited to share our preprint “BoltzDesign1: Inverting All-Atom Structure Prediction Model for Generalized Biomolecular Binder Design” — a collaboration with @MartinPacesa, @ZhidianZ , Bruno E. Correia, and @sokrypton.
🧬 Code will be released in a couple weeks
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🔥 Benchmark Alert! MotifBench sets a new standard for evaluating protein design methods for motif scaffolding.
Why does this matter? Reproducibility & consistent evaluation have been lacking—until now.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12479 | Repo: github.com/blt2114/MotifBenc…
A thread ⬇️
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@Latent_Labs comes out of stealth today with $50M funding. Our goal? To push the frontiers of generative biology, giving partners instant access to tools capable of accelerating drug design.
Every biotech or pharma company searching for the best therapeutic molecules understands the role AI can play - but not all are in a position to develop their own advanced models. That’s where @Latent_Labs comes in.
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Anna and Sam are X-less but they’ve done some excellent work with this project. It’s a very exciting time for enzyme designers!
New research in Science represents a notable step forward in designing enzymes from scratch.
With a new approach, researchers designed an enzyme that uses a covalent intermediate to catalyze a two-step reaction, analogous to what many proteases do when breaking apart proteins.
Learn more: scim.ag/4hU7O1H
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“Science is a human activity.”
The week before chemistry laureate David Baker visited Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, his 101st PhD student had just graduated from his lab. For Baker, doing great science is about collaboration – he puts great effort into fostering a diverse, vibrant and sociable community of scientists that he works with. One hundred and thirty of those students and researchers joined him in Stockholm – perhaps the ultimate lab celebration!
More about Baker and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: bit.ly/4iz7B56
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Best read of the day - innovative design, and great science to generate large virus-like protein cages by breaking symmetry 🎉
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Quinton Dowling,
@lsmin0152
@kribler
@KingLabIPD
@UWproteindesign
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Excited to finally share Perceptein, a PERCEPtron made of proTEINs: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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We are all born with a genetic lottery. Millions of T cell receptors are what we have with a hope to defend all cancer and viruses. What if that's not enough? Hope our work can give an interesting answer to you. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Can we use deep learning models to specifically target cancer cells? In our new preprint from the Baker lab we report how we can design fully de novo TCR mimics to distinguish antigenic peptides from “self” peptides on MHC class I and activate T cells biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Huge congratulations to @DemisHassabis and John Jumper on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction with #AlphaFold, along with David Baker for computational protein design.
This is a monumental achievement for AI, for computational biology, and science itself. 🧬
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Congrats all!! It’s been remarkable to watch the field grow and now I can’t imagine this field without AI-based protein design and structure prediction. There was one day I remember watching David’s willingness to pivot to new ideas that I won’t forget 😉
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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Here’s our human protein-protein interactome. We mined the SRA, devised a new distillation dataset for protein complexes, trained a new version of RF2 to screen millions of protein pairs, and identify > 18k binary interactions. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
An incredible scientist, mentor, and human.
Welcome back @ParisaH_Lab ! 🙂
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Super excited to share that ENGRAM is out today! ENGRAM cells are programmed to write their histories into the genome, recording the intensity, duration, and order of biological events simultaneously.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Thanks to all the coauthors for their awesome collab on this work including but not limited to @UWBiochemistry @UWproteindesign and @KingLabIPD. This could not have been done without the advice and suggestions of everyone - Congrats! 🏃♀️🥂