Research in AI for Protein Design @Harvard | Prev. CS PhD @UniofOxford, Maths & Physics @Polytechnique

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Joined September 2020
Binder design is nice and all, but here we have three agents sharing data and autonomously controlling a lab to design enzymes with shifted substrate scopes and high activity! @cobanbrooks @NotinPascal @romerolab1
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I’m really excited to share our new preprint, out today, where we built a fully autonomous system for enzyme engineering — integrating a self-driving lab with a generative protein language model that worked together over a month to engineer substrate specificity in glycoside hydrolase (GH1) enzymes. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… [1/n]
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Now available as its peer-reviewed version in Nature: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Quite pleased to hear that one of my submitted proteins placed #5 out of 1200 that were tested in this lovely competition. The approach: pure rational design. Nice to see that human + Microsoft Word is still competitive with state-of-the-art AI methods 🙂
The results of the Nipah Protein Design Competition are out! 🧬 1200 proteins experimentally validated (3x more than last year) 📈 99 novel binders against the target protein (a challenging tetramer with little prior work) 💪 26 single digit nM or better binders, with the best ones at single-digit picomolar affinity! All data now available open-source on Proteinbase! Let's take a look at the results ⬇️
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Super excited to share that I will join @Princeton @omenndarlingbio this Fall as an assistant professor. We combine syn bio and AI to program macromolecules and cells for therapeutics engineering and drug target discovery. jianglab.bioengineering.prin…
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New paper “Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics” is now live at Nature Genetics: rdcu.be/eRu7K popEVE (pop.evemodel.org) finds the needles in the haystacks of human genetic variation:
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Reminder - PhD applications for OATML are now open The first funding deadline is December 2 - candidates interested in developing Bayesian deep learning methodology, applications of ML, AI security, and understanding ML methodology are encouraged to apply More info: oatml.cs.ox.ac.uk/apply.html
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Thrilled to announce I'm starting as a Principal Investigator at #Aithyra in Vienna! We'll be developing generative models to understand cell biology and design proteins. I'm hiring PhDs, Postdocs, & Visiting Researchers! PhD applications by Sept 10: apply.cemm.at
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Our paper on generalizable antibody-antigen binding affinity prediction has been featured on the cover of the August Issue of @NatComputSci! 📔🎉
🚨Our August issue is now live and includes research on antibody-antigen binding, molecular screening for zeolite synthesis, psychological experiments with LLMs, and much more! nature.com/natcomputsci/volu…
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I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading two (VERY!) recent papers that model protein sequences by retrieving evolutionary information (dynamically) at inference time, and there's a lot to unpack! [1] arxiv.org/abs/2506.08954 [2] biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/n)
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A generative artificial-intelligence tool has designed a synthetic CRISPR system that successfully edits human DNA go.nature.com/3JadkRy
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1/5 Biological data is noisy, redundant, and ever-growing. 🗣️ In our new paper (first paper of my post doc!! ⚡️), we track model performance across 14 years of UniRef100 snapshots to ask: how does pLM performance scale with training data?
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AI expands the repertoire of CRISPR-associated proteins for genome editing @NatureNV preview by @NotinPascal nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @thisismadani profluent.bio/ @jeffruffolo @AadyotB et al nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
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Save the date! Machine Learning for Drug Discovery (MLDD) is happening soon on Monday 30 June, 2025. MLDD aims to bring together ML for drug discovery experts, innovators, and enthusiasts from the machine learning, biotechnology and drug discovery domains in London, UK to converge, exchange ideas, and forge new paths in revolutionizing therapeutic development. This year, we are very fortunate to feature keynotes by: - Charlotte Brunne (EPFL) - John Chodera (Achira / MSKCC) - Kexin Huang (Stanford University) - Jacob Kimmel (NewLimit) - Marinka Zitnik (Harvard University) To accommodate the worldwide community, the event will be held fully remotely this year - a link to join and further information are provided at the MLDD website (link in thread below!) Looking forward to seeing you there!
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I wonder if the gym membership for ProteinGym covers RNAGym as well?? oh wait, it's all free and 100% open source!
🚨 New paper 🚨 RNA modeling just got its own Gym! 🏋️ Introducing RNAGym, large-scale benchmarks for RNA fitness and structure prediction. 🧵 1/9
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As sequence databases get bigger and more diverse, retrieval-based methods provide an interesting alternative to scaling successively bigger protein language models. (1/5)
🚨ICML Paper Alert🚨 What if finding the right protein homologs wasn't a slow search, but a learned part of the model itself? We introduce 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, an end-to-end framework that learns to retrieve the most useful homologs for self-supervised reconstruction! (1/12)
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End-to-end differentiable homology search for protein fitness prediction. @ruben_weitzman @lood_ml @yaringal @deboramarks @NotinPascal
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🚨 New in @ImmunityCP ! EVE-Vax, an AI model that anticipates future viral evolution and designs antigens to proactively test vaccines + therapeutics—before variants even emerge. We envision this work will help make future-proofed vaccines and therapeutics. 👇 (1/7)
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