Thrilled to share that my former student, Alex Braun, has been awarded the Rainer Rudolph Prize 2024 for his master's thesis on designing artificial enzymes with language models! Immensely proud of him. A toast all the way from Mexico! 🎉👏🌟 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How does collagen fold? Very carefully! (And with some help from electrostatics.) Our latest collaborative study uncovers kinetic mechanisms where interchain electrostatic interactions act as molecular clamps to promote proper folding. Check it out! 🎉🌟🧬🧫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Archea and bacteria have collagen-like proteins? I didn't know that! 🤯 Congrats @romeritos.bsky.social and everyone involved in this work! Deciphering the folding code of collagens rdcu.be/eed6e

The first original research paper from my lab is now out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Tracheal development is an amazing model to study morphogenesis. There are great works out there that show how this tissue elongates, interconnects, and forms branches (1/n)