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Protein Eng ML Research Fellow @Align_Bio Previously PhD w/ @deboramarks, ML Researcher @Flagship_PI, investor @pillar_vc & scientist @scribetx. 🧬🧑💻 🏳️⚧️
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RT @marinkazitnik: 📢 AI-enabled drug discovery reaches clinical milestone . Few AI-designed drug candidates have g….
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RT @davidNbreslauer: 4/ Even more wild: DBXN didn’t evolve from a pigment gene. It’s a chopped-up version of vitellogenin. A yolk protein b….
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RT @Micro_Yunha: 🚨 new paper alert!.During my PhD, one of the most frustrating challenges was trying to interpret g….
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I wonder if the gym membership for ProteinGym covers RNAGym as well?? oh wait, it's all free and 100% open source!.
🚨 New paper 🚨 RNA modeling just got its own Gym! 🏋️ Introducing RNAGym, large-scale benchmarks for RNA fitness and structure prediction. 🧵 1/9
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1,000 strains x 1,000 conditions, what will we learn??.
🚨 (1/2) Align × @officialatcc are partnering to build the world’s largest public microbial phenotyping dataset. ✅ 1K strains. ✅ 1K conditions. ✅ 1M reproducible experiments. ✅ Open access.Built using high-throughput automation and linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes,
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RT @samsinai: Israel is just warning people to immediately evacuate a large patch of Tehran. Say the equivalent of Williamsburg. My septuag….
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RT @kulesatony: ⏰Timeline:.Deadline: Jun 20th.Decisions: Jun 25th.Attend ICML: July 13-19, Vancouver. Pls share to help researchers find th….
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RT @kulesatony: What we're looking for:. - PhD students/postdocs at US institutions.- Presenting authors at ICML 2025.- Lost lab travel fun….
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My friend @c_sheare has a spotlight talk at ICML and @Harvard halted all travel-related $$$. Travel grants promised to PhD students: gone. I asked @kulesatony if there was anything Pillar could do, one day later he posts this. F*cking awesome -- thank. you @pillar_vc !!!!!.
University budgets everywhere are getting slashed, and we hear many PhD students with accepted ICML papers can no longer afford to attend. We are stepping in to offer travel grants for researchers who lost funding. Sponsored by Pillar VC, Ormoni Bio, Latent Labs, and Cimulate
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that's so funny I wonder where they found the extra funding. ??
Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.
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What would our data landscapes look like if we could biochemically characterize 100s, 1000s, 10^n evolutionary sequences? . Papers like this make strides towards that moonshot dream!! Such neat work from @MargauxPinney lab!.
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RT @srikosuri: I’m going to rewrite all my best papers and call them Sri’s version to regain copyright control.
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RT @NotinPascal: 🧬 😴 TIRED: Scaling protein models to billions of parameters hoping they'll memorize all of evolution and generalize beyond….
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is Protriever the end of MSAs??? excited about this @ruben_weitzman . also, @NotinPascal has a phenomenal substack that I can't recommend enough. He goes through this paper and does a deeeeeep dive on the rationale! .
🚨ICML Paper Alert🚨.What if finding the right protein homologs wasn't a slow search, but a learned part of the model itself?.We introduce 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, an end-to-end framework that learns to retrieve the most useful homologs for self-supervised reconstruction! (1/12)
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Can protein expression be ‘solved’?. We review current methods for measuring and predicting protein expression (wet lab + ML techniques!) & propose how this ubiquitously interesting problem could be solved. What do you think? .
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RT @Align_Bio: Align's GROQ-seq platform just turned 1🎂 it now supports 7 protein function projects across 6 labs worldwide. 300k variants….
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We are hiring!! Bioinformatics Scientist & Director of Protein Projects.
1/4: Biology is ready for a revolution. Despite advances in AI, progress lags because of a lack of high-quality data. At Align, we’re putting in the work to change that, and we’re hiring:.🧬 Bioinformatics Scientist.🧪 Director of Protein Projects.📍 Remote .🔗 Details & links👇.
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RT @nooryoussef03: 🚨 New in @ImmunityCP !.EVE-Vax, an AI model that anticipates future viral evolution and designs antigens to proactively….
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RT @deboramarks: Can AI enable safe vaccines at scale that last? .Can we anticipate immune response? .We tested this . See .
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