My first😉first author paper just came out in Nature today🎉thank you to all the co-authors, collaborator Mike Bassik, and my co-advisors Polly Polly Fordyce & Lacra Bintu Lab. Check out the supplement that contains plots of every protein's tiling results! tinyurl.com/CRTFNature

Would you like to design de novo proteins and protein machines? 💻🔬🧬 There is an open PhD position in my group! Please RT and share! Application deadline is 15th of May.

To regulate cellular processes in #syntheticbiology it is useful to bring 2 proteins into proximity, to reconstitute function, guide localization, transcription... We report that from a single 4 helical bundle several pairs can be made. Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵

Two new posts from Benjamin Maier! One highlights a #preprint Georg Seelig that reports high-throughput sequencing of protein-protein interactions, quantifying more than 100,000 interactions simultaneously. 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/mas… Includes a summary of approaches to study PPIs!

New preprint from our lab and a great collaboration with Georg Seelig ! The anti-cancer compound JTE-607 reveals hidden sequence specificity of the mRNA 3' processing machinery biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share our new paper published online at @nature! Congrats to the team, led by super talented students Jordan Kesner and Ziheng Chen nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our latest study reveals an exciting new link between codon usage, cellular energy, and gene regulation. Ready for a short pitch? Go! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Excellent collaboration with Yongsheng Shi, Liang Liu, Johannes Linder, and Georg Seelig on sequence specificity of the anti-cancer compound JTE-607! Our ML model, Cleavage and Counteraction with Compound 2 on Polyadenylation Outcomes (C3PO), captures polyA sites' JTE-607 sensitivity. 🤖

I argued that an overreliance on "kitchen table" politics makes it harder to combat the extremism of today's Republican officials. wapo.st/3mGIEws

I am tremendously proud of my University of Washington - MSTP Allen School student Joseph D. Janizek who developed an explainable AI approach for unsupervised gene expression modeling, which led to an exciting collaboration with Matt Kaeberlein's lab on understanding the Alzheimer's disease. genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

.Secretary Jennifer Granholm has it wrong. We can’t greenlight the Mountain Valley Pipeline or any new fossil fuel project if we’re serious about moving to renewable energy. The idea that we’ll get to clean energy by tying ourselves to dirty energy for years to come is divorced from reality.

Dear Senator Dick Durbin, John Roberts has already shown you he does not care and will not do anything. The Supreme Court will not check itself. That's your job. Please do it.

Vector databases and similarity search are a cornerstone of ML systems, finally getting broad attention. Can't resist sharing some research results from a few years ago on using DNA-based molecular systems for very low energy large-scale similarity search. nature.com/articles/s4146…

It has been tremendously rewarding to work with outstanding Allen School students, Hugh Chen, Ian Covert, and Scott Lundberg. Our paper that reviews and unifies 26 distinct algorithms to estimate Shapley values is just published in Nature MI! nature.com/articles/s4225…

Stochasticity or memory that decides cell fate in daughter cells? "Both" seems to be the answer to this. They found "patterns" in daughter cell fates could explain many biologies. Lineage motifs: developmental modules for control of cell type proportions biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Now on bioRxiv find our paper describing how random sequences (N50) significantly affect splicing efficiency in yeast. We identified context specific secondary structure, motifs, and k-mers were most important in determining splicing, 1/

Have you ever wondered how embryos coordinate translation? Our new preprint shows that 5′ UTRs confer translational dynamics during early #zebrafish embryogenesis! 🐟biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread 1/6