We’re recruiting for a Director position in our Process Chemistry team at Merck. jobs.merck.com/us/en/job/R208…

Self-assembling nanoparticle technology created at King Lab is the basis for a #COVID19 vaccine approved in South Korea. Now, an #RSV vaccine with the same platform is in clinical trials through @icosavax. UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design UW Biochemistry bit.ly/3UMUfWQ

Are you ready to learn about the most exciting innovations in #synbio #SB? The 2023 SEED Conference was just announced from May 30-June 2 Mikhail Shapiro (same on bsky) 🇺🇦 Christopher Voigt Northwestern CSB + more synbioconference.org/2023

Twitter fam, thank you for helping me to find the family of the 9 year old girl from NJ who had the police called on her by her neighbor for collecting lantern flies. I connected with them & invited them to @yale for a Black girl led Science Tour! Yesterday—HISTORY was MADE (1/)

[PLEASE RT] With my awesome co-chairs, I'm excited to share the (nearly complete) program for one of my FAVORITE meetings: Synthetic Biology Gordon Research Conferences 2023. This meeting is special -- I highly encourage folks to register and attend! MicroDynamic 🌱 grc.org/synthetic-biol…

Our preprint on OpenFold, our trainable reproduction of AlphaFold2, is finally up (biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…)! Since we open-sourced parameters in June, we've trained the model to high accuracy more than 50 times, on a variety of datasets. Here's what we learned (a lot) -> (1/19)

Data scientists going from bronze to silver to gold data bricks in one step!

Excited for the #SyntheticBiology Based Therapies Summit to kickoff in a few minutes in Boston this morning

This is how Banksy announces his biotech is moving out of stealth mode

Interested in protein design, deep learning, computational biophysics? Or computational RNA folding, vaccines, enzymes, antibodies, biomaterials, machine learning? Become a Rosetta Commons undergraduate summer intern (U.S. National Science Foundation #REU) or a postbaccalaureate fellow (#RaMP)! [thread!]

We are hiring for a new Program Director for a Synthetic Biology Center that will focus on materials and engineering environmental microbes. The Center spans Stanford, MIT, Northwestern and several other institutions. Please email me or Christopher Voigt if it is of interest.

Want to have your engineered proteins measured for free? Now's your chance! 🧪 Let's finally see how different design methods stack up in the Protein Engineering Competition 🧬 Register to compete this summer☀️😎

The latest Link lab paper is out J. Am. Chem. Soc. today led by Brian Choi: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…. In this work we show that ATP grasp enzymes that usually make esters can also make thioesters.

Merck Discovery Biologics is #hiring! Come join us if you are passionate about using cell free expression systems to impact the discovery and engineering of therapeutic #proteins! jobs.merck.com/us/en/job/R294…

Happy Pride Month!!

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.”