Congratulations USA Cricket for winning bilateral series vs Bangladesh and now defeating Pakistan in T20 Cricket World Cup! Looking forward to the match against India!

THIS WEEK: Join us for the AASF webinar on trends in research funding and awards for Asian scholars in the U.S. Key findings include the impact of research grants and awards on academic careers, equity, and representation. 🗓 June 21 ⏰ 7PM EST 🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/aasfweb

Farewell to summer interns, Arkajyoti Bannerjee from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and Sayan Patra from IIT Bombay! Thanks to the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum IUSSTF for supporting their work as Khorana Scholars in our group!

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

Ying Diao of University of Illinois / @@ChBE_Illinois will receive the 2024 AIChE Allan P. Colburn Award, which is awarded to early-career members for excellence in publications. bit.ly/3MavAIU DuPont Ying Diao #AIChEAnnual

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…

An incredible article that touches on so many aspects of our work to improve photosynthesis to prepare food crops for the changing climate! bit.ly/4eBR5y8

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.

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…

We had a housefull workshop session on AI in molecular plant sciences today at #PlantBio2025!

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…