Congratulations to Hassan Nadeem, graduate student Illinois BIOE for receiving the Mavis future faculty fellowship from the college of engineering! @uofigrainge

Congratulations to Xuenan Mi for winning the Graduate student excellence award from ACS COMP #ACSFall2024! You can read more about it here: shuklagroup.org/events/xuenan-…

Congratulations to Susanna Susanna Barrett from Mitchell group Chemistry at Illinois and Song from Shukla Group ChBE Illinois for their work on understanding how enzymes tie the lasso knot in peptides published in Nature Chemical Biology Nature Chemical Biology! igb.illinois.edu/article/resear…

Thanks to Tracy Lawson & Andrew Leakey for leading the ASAP center, and U.S. National Science Foundation for funding our research on plant synthetic biology!

LassoESM: A Tailored Language Model for Enhanced Lasso Peptide Property Prediction • LassoESM is a specialized protein language model (PLM) developed to improve predictions for lasso peptides, which are challenging due to their unique threaded structures and limited

Congratulations to Prateek Bansal Prateek Bansal for winning the ACS PRIDE Merck Graduate Research Award from American Chemical Society! American Chemical Society ChBE Illinois U of I College of LAS chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/b…

It was our pleasure (Swanson Group) to highlight the latest on lasso peptide folding and substrate–cyclase tolerance from the Shukla, Burk, and Mitchell teams at Chemistry at Illinois ChBE Illinois lassogen: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to the newest doctor from our group, Dr. Xuenan Mi! She will join Johnson & Johnson as a research scientist in January! ChBE Illinois Diwakar Shukla

Congratulations to Joseph Clark, undergraduate researcher in our lab and his mentor, Xuenan Mi for publication of their paper on peptide language model, PeptideESM! U of I School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Diwakar Shukla

.@shuklagroup & Diwakar Shukla and colleagues report the transport mechanism of an alanine-alanine peptide through the PepTSo transporter by MD simulation nature.com/articles/s4200…

Congratulations to CHBE Professor Ying Diao, one of three Illinois researchers who have received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Love the beautiful illustration🥰! Our work published Science Advances , featured by Daily Texan News! 私達の最新の研究成果がローカル大学新聞にて取り上げられました🤠🤘🌱🦠 "UT researchers discover communication between growth, immunity pathways in plants" thedailytexan.com/2025/02/19/ut-…

A cannabinoid bitopic, biased and peripheral agonist analgesic with limited tolerance and tetrad in Nature. Work led by Vipin Rangari with Rob Gereau Dror Lab kaavya Krishna Kumar Center for Clinical Pharmacology WashU Medicine Anesthesiology A short thread nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to professors Guironnet, Rogers and Shukla who have been named James W. Westwater professorial scholars in recognition of their excellence in teaching and research! Learn more: chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/G…

Two for the Price of One: Integrating Large Language Models to Learn Biophysical Interactions 1. This study presents a framework to combine large language models (LLMs) to learn biophysical interactions, particularly focusing on binding affinity and specificity between

With a new five-year, $15M award, the U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed its support of the Molecule Maker Lab Institute Lab Institute, which develops AI tools for discovery and synthesis of molecules for uses in medicine, energy, industry and more. chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/n…

How can we use biological datasets to accelerate design for synthetic biology applications? We developed an ML-driven, multi-objective framework—powered by augmented directional tokens—to engineer proteins for specificity and selectivity. w/Shukla Group biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ESMDynamic: Fast and Accurate Prediction of Protein Dynamic Contact Maps from Single Sequences 1. A novel study introduces ESMDynamic, a deep learning model that predicts dynamic residue-residue contact probability maps directly from protein sequences. This innovation leapfrogs

1/ 🔬 Thrilled to share our new preprint: ESMDynamic: Fast and Accurate Prediction of Protein Dynamic Contact Maps from Single Sequences 📄 Now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really happy to have taken part as a Binding Illini in Shukla Group!