Aviv Spinner

The MLSB workshop will be in San Diego, CA (co-located with NeurIPS) this year for its 6th edition in December 🧬🔬 Stay tuned @workshopmlsb as we share details about the stellar lineup of speakers, the official call for papers, and other announcements!🌟

Just over a week left! We’re hiring a Research Associate to help run GROQ-seq at BU’s @DAMPLab. High-impact, automation-driven role in Boston. Apply by July 31. 👉 hubs.la/Q03yjpHX0

I love the trend of companies publishing technical reports / blogs instead of spending a year+ in peer review publishing detention - get your research OUT THERE!!!! v excited to read

1/4 🔬We just published the 1st-year update on GROQ-seq: an open access, high-throughput experimental platform capable of testing hundreds of thousands of protein variants per run. It’s now running at @NIST and the @Damp_Lab, and scaling fast. Here’s what we built, what we…

Shrink proteins — I mean …..shrkprtns

We find that low copy number accelerates fixation of beneficial mutants while high copy number lets more deleterious alleles hitchhike in cells with fit alleles. High copy number also promotes a form of functional robustness through maintenance of allelic diversity.

This looks like fun ngl

3/4 The tournament has two phases: 🔹 *Predictive* (Nov 3 – Dec 23): Predict PETase sequence properties 🔹 *Generative* (Jan 5 – Apr 10): Design novel sequences to maximize enzyme activity. Every submission is synthesized and tested.

Let us test your proteins design - free for you & cash prizes for winners ~

Whose protein design model reins supreme? You design, we test, science wins 😛 Protein Engineering Tournament 2025 registration is live!!!!

📢 AI-enabled drug discovery reaches clinical milestone rdcu.be/eugUu Few AI-designed drug candidates have gone beyond in silico benchmarks. Now, a study in @NatureMedicine @biogerontology reports a successful phase 2a trial of rentosertib, an AI-discovered drug and…

4/ Even more wild: DBXN didn’t evolve from a pigment gene. It’s a chopped-up version of vitellogenin. A yolk protein best known for nourishing embryos. Evolution took a nutrition gene… and turned it into paint.

🚨 new paper alert! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… During my PhD, one of the most frustrating challenges was trying to interpret genes labeled as “hypothetical proteins.” 1/n

I wonder if the gym membership for ProteinGym covers RNAGym as well?? oh wait, it's all free and 100% open source!

1,000 strains x 1,000 conditions, what will we learn??

Israel is just warning people to immediately evacuate a large patch of Tehran. Say the equivalent of Williamsburg. My septuagenarian mother lives in the equivalent of Brooklyn, 2 miles from this boundary. Many of my friends live inside that patch.

⏰Timeline: Deadline: Jun 20th Decisions: Jun 25th Attend ICML: July 13-19, Vancouver Pls share to help researchers find this opportunity. 🙏

What we're looking for: - PhD students/postdocs at US institutions - Presenting authors at ICML 2025 - Lost lab travel funding - Work in agentic AI, foundation models, or AI for science Apply here: pillar.vc/icml-2025-trav…

My friend @c_sheare has a spotlight talk at ICML and @Harvard halted all travel-related $$$. Travel grants promised to PhD students: gone. I asked @kulesatony if there was anything Pillar could do, one day later he posts this. F*cking awesome -- thank. you @pillar_vc !!!!!

that's so funny I wonder where they found the extra funding...??