It’s coming! Following the exhilarating 2023 Alumni Summit in San Diego, the next generation of biotech leaders is converging in the California Redwoods, setting the stage for community, collaboration, and revolutionary ideas 🌲. youtu.be/PQyeT_owT8U?fe…

Very excited by this work applying information theory to understand T cell receptor specificity! Beautiful work by James, Yuta, Martina and Andreas 🖥️✨

Extremely glad for my main PhD project to be published today! We uncovered the details of a very specific use of DNA damage repair/tolerance in germ cells and an unexpected link between this and DNA demethylation! Check out the thread and paper for more 🧬🧬

Check out Episode 8 of the Nucleate Podcast. We were honored to have Sean McClain, CEO of AbSci, as our guest! 🔬💉 #GenerativeAI #Biotech #Podcast YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=DryJT1… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hy16T… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abs…

Martina's elegant new paper defines an important and under-appreciated role for molecular interactions between CDR loops of the TCR !

How to pre-train protein language model to optimize transfer learning? Yuta Nagano’s PhD work shows prior PLMs struggle to predict TCR specificty & uses contrastive learning to overcome this limitation. 👉arxiv.org/abs/2406.06397