Wenjun Xie
@EvoCatalysis
Assistant Professor @UFPharmacy, understanding how natural enzymes are evolved to design reaction-based drugs
Our research and recent publication on evolutionary catalysis have been featured by UF News. Advancing enzymology by exploring the language of naturally evolved enzyme sequences. news.ufl.edu/2025/03/ai-to-…
I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver…
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above…
This is part of our ongoing series on predicting enzyme chemistry from protein sequences. Stay tuned for a more comprehensive study on this topic, led by Dr. Wenqiang Cui! @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
Our #SERMACS2024 symposium "the Role of Data and Modeling in Life Processes" is off to a great start organized with @ZhongyueY, Qianyi Cheng @memphis_chem @VanderbiltChem. @cd_sherrill @kamerlinlab and @EvoCatalysis crushed it as the first set of speakers! @sermacs2024 1/2
Congrats, Andrew! @ADHansonLab
Eminent @UF scholar and @ufhorticulture professor @ADHansonLab is now a member of @theNASciences! Join us in congratulating him on joining this select group of scholars and learn more about his contributions to science ➡️ bit.ly/4bcLmxN
So honored and happy to be a recipient of the Stanford Science Fellowship. humsci.stanford.edu/feature/2024-c…
Recap the 6th @UF Drug Discovery Symposium in pictures: ufcollegeofpharmacy.smugmug.com/6th-Drug-Disco…
Honored to be part of this amazing cohort! @ACSCOMP @OpenEyeSoftware
Congratulations to Cadence/Openeye Junior Faculty Award winners presenting at @ACSCOMP Awards session #ACSSpring2024. Join us 4.30-530PM today, Hall B Room03 for a career panel discussion on landing that first tenure track faculty appointment and the challenges of getting tenure!
What an honor! Thanks @ACSCOMP and @OpenEyeSoftware
Congratulations to Cadence/Openeye Junior Faculty Award winners presenting at @ACSCOMP Awards session #ACSSpring2024. Join us 4.30-530PM today, Hall B Room03 for a career panel discussion on landing that first tenure track faculty appointment and the challenges of getting tenure!
Thanks to the efforts of our group members. This new work provides a new role of micropolarity in condensates.
A new paper from Songtao Ye @ye_songtao44002 and Xin Zhang @kfzhangxin @Westlake_Uni reveals the critical role of micropolarity in controlling the structure and miscibility of subcompartments in #biomolecular condensates. Read it here rdcu.be/driFa
It is our great pleasure to announce that Michelle Chang has joined @PrincetonChem as the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry. Welcome, Michelle, we are thrilled to have you. Read here: bit.ly/3R69meh
Led by the Shao group at @UofOklahoma, we extended the idea of energy decomposition analysis to QM/MM free energy calculations for enzyme-catalyzed reactions recently. Great pleasure to be part of this work: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
Our review is out! Thank you @gagliardi8 and @JCIM_JCTC for the invitation!! Mutexa: A Computational Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… my students and I appreciate the support from @VanderbiltChem @NIGMS @VanderbiltCSB @VUDataScience !
Presented a seminar at @UFGenetics today and secured some collaborations on new enzymes. The perks of being at a large university!