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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

@jasonzxzhang.bsky.social
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Computational designer of molecular tools for intracellular signaling. Assistant Professor at UCLA Bioengineering. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com Lab’s Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/jasonzhanglab.bsky…

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Jason Zhang Lab @ UCLA @jasonzhanglab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It was great to host Amgen for a joint meeting between the Zhang lab and @yamadahunter.bsky.social lab!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I just finished teaching my first class: AI-driven protein engineering!
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Jason Zhang Lab @ UCLA @jasonzhanglab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Excited to announce another publication (review) on de novo protein design! We cover the status quo, challenges, and future directions of protein design. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The past, present and future of de novo protein design - Nature
A Review of de novo protein design highlights key methodological advances and achievements, current challenges and future applications.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Two of our senior scientists haven’t tried in-n-out so we went as a lab!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@jasonzhanglab.bsky.social the lab is growing!
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Jason Zhang Lab @ UCLA @jasonzhanglab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The first publication while at UCLA! We developed and utilized generative AI protein design methods for targeting the disordered and highly charged C-terminus of RAS to generate RAS isoform specific binders/inhibitors: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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De novo design of Ras isoform selective binders
The four major isoforms encoded by RAS proto-oncogenes are differentially associated with cancer, but there are few isoform-specific binding reagents …
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It was such a fun journey working with Krishna’s lab and @kinasekid.bsky.social! Really excited to see where this phospho-binder technology goes!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The downfall of America
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984 It is rare for a murder to be captured live on multiple cameras. Yet DHS persists with the obvious lie this was self defense. There are no more red lines.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Come to my talk on generative AI for biosensor design on Friday!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
My lab website is now live! My lab feels a bit real now 🥺. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com
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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
First lab meeting at UCLA joint with @yamadahunter.bsky.social lab!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Excited to share our latest work in expanding AI-based protein design into targeting PTMs! I’m particularly excited in this work as there is so much we don’t know about PTMs despite their central role in signaling and hopefully we can start to decode their rules and functions.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Incoming from David Baker lab! New faculty at @riceuniversity.bsky.social and @uclaengineering.bsky.social with @linnaan.bsky.social and I, respectively. Last meal before we get “real world” jobs 😭.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 01/08/2025
Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
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Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school discriminates in admissions and has failed to protect the civil rights of Jewish students.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Excited to share that I’ll be joining UCLA Bioengineering as a tenure-track professor! My lab will focus on AI-driven molecular engineering to study cellular signaling. As someone 100% educated in US public schools, I’m proud to continue working in public education and inspiring future scientists!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I’ve been trying to find some reliable news about this. Are there funding cuts to NIH and NSF proposed in the Big Beautiful (really Ugly) Bill? If so, how much are the cuts?
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Was so nice to meet up with @grocklin.bsky.social and talk about science! So much to learn from him. Hopefully we can be neighbors soon!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Excited to share my recent work on designing new Hsp70 activators to regulate condensates, and thus reveal their functions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @uwproteindesign.bsky.social @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social
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De novo designed Hsp70 activator dissolves intracellular condensates
Protein quality control (PQC) is carried out in part by the chaperone Hsp70 in concert with adapters of the J-domain protein (JDP) family. The JDPs, a…
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Very cool work from my undergrad buddy! If you are interested in virology, high throughput techniques, and biochemistry, please take a read!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I made a protein designer starter pack ⚛️👨‍💻👩‍💻! Please feel free to DM me if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/JcMhjLw
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My favorite probe is the one I made: Ras activity sensors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Computationally designed sensors detect endogenous Ras activity and signaling effectors at subcellular resolution - Nature Biotechnology
Computationally designed sensors map the activity and signaling environment of Ras.
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We love signaling!
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Jason Zhang 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Just started my BlueSky account! Wondering how this will go 🤔. Will still post on my Twitter (@jasonzxzhang) as well for the time being.
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