We are very excited to share the first preprint of a new direction for our group. Led by the fearless duo of @arthurwchow.bsky.social and @hoyinchu.bsky.social, our foray into computational protein design—

1/ We are making progress towards finding a cure for HIV. In a trial @UCSF led by Steve Deeks and @michaelpelusomd.bsky.social, 7/10 participants who received a combination of immunotherapies achieved partial control of HIV after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART).🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Work I co-led with @jnoms.bsky.social is now online at @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! We revealed a previously unrealized diversity of viral immune-evasion proteins that selectively destroy different cyclic nucleotide signals used in bacterial immunity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Thrilled to share our latest work, published online today @nature.com in which we decipher mechanisms underlying the enigmatic VEXAS syndrome - a huge team effort @mskcancercenter.bsky.social led by superstars Varun Narendra + @tandriladas.bsky.social 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to release BoltzGen which brings SOTA folding performance to binder design! The best part of this project is collaborating with a broad network of leading wetlabs that test BoltzGen at an unprecedented scale, showing success on many novel targets and pushing the model to its limits!

We train machine learning models on millions of proteins. But when it comes to making predictions, do we need them to understand all proteins at once? Often, we need an accurate model for the specific protein we are studying or designing. We address this with ProteinTTT arxiv.org/abs/2411.02109 1/🧵

Super excited about first Shendure/Baker Lab collaboration & preprint on a multiplex sequencing-based strategy for screening de novo proteome editors in mammalian cells. Kudos to the brilliant Chase Suiter (not here) & @greenahn.bsky.social on the work! Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Had a blast this weekend at the Badger Trail Races— super ULTRA mega congrats to @colehoneycutt.bsky.social and @paulklauser.bsky.social on their first 100M finishes!!!! Together, we ran 303.3 miles in under 75 hours, burning 50,000+ calories along the way!

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @sherrynyeo.bsky.social, @erinmayc.bsky.social, and friends, we continue our journey to find viral DNA in our favorite place-- the overlooked and discarded reads in existing data! 1/

Unexpectedly, @jurgjn.bsky.social found that running Alphafold3 predictions for protein interactions can yield ipTM scores that are more predictive of true interactions when run in pools of proteins instead of pairwise predictions. Presumably, this reflects some sort of "competition effect".

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

Feeling invigorated after hearing from patients and their families while riding with @cycleforsurvival.bsky.social. I am SO grateful to work with this talented and motivating team at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who participated in and donated to this outstanding cause!

Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease? I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵

Curiosity-driven research is the bedrock of discoveries of factors that shape our health. The NIH has been the discovery engine for thousands of labs, and I'm grateful for NIH support of our group's first grant to study the virome. @idemsky.bsky.social has the scoop: www.mskcc.org/news/msk-res...

Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First annual Manhattan perimeter run with this crew! HBD @paulklauser.bsky.social and thanks to @isabelfulcher.bsky.social for planning a perfect route!