Personal update: Super excited to receive a $25K Fast Grant from the Biswas Family Foundation, one of 20 projects funded this cycle for our work on generative foundation models for viral outbreaks! 🧬🤖 ​Grateful to @unl_engrgrad for the write-up. ​Full story linked below 👇

New preprint: NativeReady predicts whether a protein will give usable native mass spectrometry data, from sequence alone. Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.03.… Live tool: nativeready.netlify.app 1/6

How do you ensure biological foundation models aren't just memorizing data? 🧐 ​Happy to announce our abstract acceptance for ISMB MLCSB! We leveraged DNABERT-2 to study Flavivirus host-range determinants through a "leakage-aware" lens. ​📍 Catch me in D.C. this July to chat about genomic embeddings and evaluation integrity. ​#BioML #AI #Research #ISMB2026

Excited to share NativeReady: A screening tool I developed to predict protein suitability for native ionization before you hit the bench. 🧬 ​Native MS is powerful but time-consuming. This is a first-pass sanity check to save days of failed sample prep. ​🔗 nativeready.netlify.app/ (1/3)