Come be a fellow at NSF-Simons NITMB if you are interested in math, theory, or bio (or any combination)! Great opportunity for independent research + supportive community + mentorship + pot. collaborations with folks across Northwestern The University of Chicago! nitmb.org/research/nitmb…

Very nice article by Danielle Gerhard on “The Dynamic Lives of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins” with quotes from Gabi Heller, Alex Holehouse and myself about our shared love of and fascination with these proteins the-scientist.com/the-dynamic-li…

If you are an assistant professor whose group uses AI/ML for chemical or materials problems, join our slack! It's a way to ask questions about grants, advertise conferences, and partake in a community of people also going through this bonkers process. forms.gle/bnBibnhGhoJpSo…

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

An amazing and well-deserved recognition. Highlighting Hopfield's introspective meditations on the scientific path - an essay that I find deeply motivating and inspiring. pni.princeton.edu/document/1136

A thing every interdisciplinary scientist hears: "how is this X?" (X=physics, math, chemistry...) Here is Hopfield's (thoughtful) perspective from his fabulous essay "Now What".

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

Generalized design of sequence-ensemble-function relationships for intrinsically disordered proteins biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_biophys

The 2024 CSB Annual Retreat is in full swing! How lucky are we to have such a talented, fun and collaborative community! #syntheticbiology

Generalized design of sequence-ensemble-function relationships for intrinsically disordered proteins • The paper presents a computational framework for the de novo design of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), leveraging molecular simulations to design IDPs with tailored

Exciting time for #synbio education Northwestern CSB! Krishna Shrinivas and I are revamping the intro to synbio course and incorporating excellent content from EBRC education modules: ebrc.org/curriculum-mod… CC license open to all to use!

I am super excited that my friend and collaborator Wilton Snead will be in the Chicago area soon. He is a thoughtful, careful scientist and a supportive mentor. Excited about all the amazing things from the future Snead lab & for more fun science-ing together :)

Finally, out in Science Magazine today, our work on de novo protein design. Together with Motoyuki Hattori (服部素之) , Sergey Ovchinnikov & @hendrik_dietz we showed how we can drastically improve AF2 based hallucination, surpassing, or reaching SOTA diffusion models doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Our paper on the role of cell division in early embryonic development is out online! nature.com/articles/s4155… Lot more controls + some additional experiments to assess how changes in cell type proportions are reflected in embryo morphology.

Join the Northwestern CSB Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and work on cutting-edge research with top experts in synthetic biology. Three positions available. Apply now: bit.ly/4fZU5ph #Postdoc #SyntheticBiology #ResearchOpportunity #CareerDevelopment #NorthwesternUniversity

Read this #preprint on Research Square: DNA sequence-induced solid phase transitions as a solution to the genome folding paradox researchsquare.com/article/rs-544… Not how I had imagined Richard Axel's olfactosome, but so proud of Joan Pulupa , Natalie G. McArthur, Olga and the team!