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Elizabeth Wood, PhD

@lizbwood.bsky.social
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Founder & CEO @jura.bsky.social | Full-stack probabilistic machine learning for the development of genetic medicines | Copenhagen & Basel & Boston

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Kasper Krunderup Jakobsen @kkj15.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We further validated LIDS on protein language model (PLM) oracles in silico. It is very fast. Here, LIDS can find the optimum in 2 experimental rounds (median), while individual synthesis alternatives need an order of magnitude more experiments.
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Kasper Krunderup Jakobsen @kkj15.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do lab-in-the-loop ML systems learn most efficiently? How can you pack as much information as possible into an experiment? We explored this in our new preprint “Information-Dense Synthesis for Molecular Discovery” (arxiv.org/abs/2610.08495).
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Information-Dense Synthesis for Molecular Discovery
Machine learning can accelerate molecular discovery by designing molecules and planning experiments. However, many scientific challenges demand molecules with very rare properties, and in this sparse ...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Introducing: continuous variational synthesis 📄 jurabio.com/s/cvs.pdf We’re pleased to announce a new advance in our ability to synthesize generative model-designed DNA sequences at petascale.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
On model ablations: Linear models plateau on this data (dashed), even with foundation model representations (colors). We needed big transformers (solid) to scale.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Can we achieve the same scaling laws in biological AI as we have in the rest of machine learning? We found that @jura.bsky.social's mix of designed data generation and training produce robust scaling laws: more data reliably lead to better predictions over many orders of magnitude.
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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Overall, I am excited about geometric causal models' potential for bringing causal machine learning methods and ideas into new areas of science, including especially the molecular sciences where symmetries abound.
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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2607.051.... This is joint work with David Blei @bleilab.bsky.social
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Geometric Causal Models
Scientists often seek to draw causal inferences from structured data that is not independently and identically distributed, such as spatial data, network data, or molecular data. We develop geometric ...
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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our new preprint pushes causal machine learning into new scientific domains using probabilistic symmetry and geometry.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are hiring at @jura.bsky.social both on the ML team (worldwide) and the wetlab team (Boston). Please get in touch if you've been thinking about it. ⏩ careers@jurabio.com
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 17/03/2026
Manufacturing-aware generative models enable petascale synthesis of designed DNA - @lizbwood.bsky.social @jura.bsky.social go.nature.com/3NxXt1I
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Manufacturing-aware generative models enable petascale synthesis of designed DNA - Nature Biotechnology
A generative modeling framework enables large-scale designed DNA synthesis, yielding candidate cell therapies.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ever wondered what it'd be like to run a de novo antibody campaign against 100 of the hardest targets, simultaneously, with 76% success rate, and have the complete wetlab validated results days from the project's start? We show you what that looks like, too: www.jurabio.com/mesa
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
JURA is launching a new target intelligence dashboard called MESA jurabio.com/mesa with a nice interactive case study from our recent TCRm campaigns. Go check it out -- we'll open to crowd-sourced targets soon. @jura.bsky.social
An interactive dashboard displays a UMAP of the tested generative samples, and various properties of the discovered landscape.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
For most of the history of molecular biology, the experimental bottleneck has been so severe that we've learned to work around it rather than through it. The workaround is prediction. If you can only physically test a small number of molecules, you need to be good at guessing which ones to make.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are at the #StartupVillage at #EurIPS today — come say hi 👋 @jura.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The race to first-in-human is accelerating globally. The obvious response is to scale up: more automation, more cells, more sequencing, more capital. This will until it doesn't. At @jura.bsky.social we've been building approaches beyond the obvious.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our LeaVS preprint is up! We demonstrate empirically & prove theoretically that LeaVS can dramatically accelerate learning, increasing the effective dataset size by orders of magnitude. Really useful biological assays have intractable bottlenecks: make the most of what you can get. @jura.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Let's say all of a sudden you found yourself with 100,000+ wetlab validated, de novo AI designed, fully human GLP1R binding antibodies? Could you turn the patent suite into a financial instrument? Anyone who thinks about this you could connect me to?
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JURA Bio, Inc. @jura.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
How do you train AI on protein data when functional sequences are astonishingly rare? Traditional iterative optimization fails because most measurements show zero. Our newly announcing learning system, LeaVS, shows a way.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A fundamental lesson of modern AI is that scale is essential: training bigger models on bigger datasets unlocks new capabilities. A fundamental lesson of AI engineering is that scaling up isn't trivial: it is not just a matter of spending more money and resources.
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henrietteautzen.bsky.social @henrietteautzen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
🚨 One week left to apply! I am hiring a fully funded PhD fellow and a postdoc to work on membrane protein structural biology and pharmacology at Univ Copenhagen Come work with a great team and exciting projects in a collaborative environment! 🔗 Links to the ads in comments #CryoEM #AcademicJobs
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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'm looking for my first PhD student! We will push the frontiers of probabilistic machine learning for the molecular sciences, and study how to design new algorithms that exploit the unique properties of molecular systems to learn about the world. efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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PhD scholarship in Machine Learning for Molecules - DTU Chemistry
Advance large scale data generation for chemical and biological AI in a 3 year PhD. Work on the frontier of active learning, and develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques for experiment ...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Want to work at the frontier of active learning and AI-guided experimentation? @eliweinstein.bsky.social is hiring PhD students at @dtu.dk DTU Chemistry. Full job link: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Thanks for re-sharing widely!
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PhD scholarship in Machine Learning for Molecules - DTU Chemistry
Advance large scale data generation for chemical and biological AI in a 3 year PhD. Work on the frontier of active learning, and develop novel probabilistic machine learning techniques for experiment ...
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Chris Thorpe @drchristhorpe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Totally agree that standard biological data isn't built for AI. We need to think strategically about how we build better, less biased richer datasets specifically for machine learning
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Mattia Gollub @mgollub.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thrilled to demonstrate VISTA, our platform for creating high quality, AI-ready biological data loops at massive scale!
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Great coverage of VISTA by the wonderful @faylinphd.bsky.social over at GEN: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif... Read about VISTA: www.jurabio.com/blog/vista
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Jura Bio’s AI Data Loop Enables Large-Scale De Novo Antibody Design
VISTA, an AI-controlled data loop system, guides large-scale antibody design from scratch for applications in cancer therapy.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
When AI drives your data generation, learning is more efficient and effective. Take a deep dive into VISTA:
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Eli Weinstein @eliweinstein.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So excited about this - we did iterative generative design at large scale with variational synthesis, and got human scFv candidates against some of the hardest therapeutic targets around.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The biggest challenge for AI in biology isn't just models, it's the data used to train them. Standard biological data isn't built for AI. To unlock generative AI for drug discovery, we must rethink how we generate and capture data. 1/
Hardware/wetware codesigned data loop VISTA makes use of generative model sampling and synthesis "on chip" on-board by leveraging oligosynthesis setup shown here.
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Alan Amin @handle.invalid · 25/06/2025
We can make population genetics studies more powerful by building priors of variant effect size from features like binding. But we’ve been stuck on linear models! We introduce DeepWAS to learn deep priors on millions of variants! #ICML2025 Andres Potapczynski, @andrewgwils.bsky.social 1/7
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This week is the BIO conference in Boston's Seaport. If you are in town for it and are interested in meeting to learn more about @jura.bsky.social please feel free to send a DM! Would love to see you.
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. The main focus will be on AI research and other areas in which the University has a strategic focus.” www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund...
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Lund University launches largest-ever global recruitment drive for researchers
Lund University. Lund University’s body of researchers is getting reinforcements. If all goes according to plan, no fewer than 25 new researchers from all over the world will arrive in Lund this autum...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I think we’ve now manufactured more AI drug designs than OpenAI has generated responses, but plenty of bottlenecks remain to be innovated upon ‘til delivering the safest and most effective therapeutic is as easy as clicking print. DM if you’re interested in joining us at @jura.bsky.social.
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Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If I was applying for PhD positions, Eli’s group would be at the top of my list.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I couldn't be more excited to be moving to Copenhagen in the fall with @eweinstein.bsky.social as he joins @dtu.dk as an assistant professor of chemistry. @jura.bsky.social wilI add one more to our sites in Boston, Basel and Oslo. If you're building a startup in CPH I'd love to hear from you!
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Simon Olsson @smnlssn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We are looking for someone to join the group as a postdoc to help us with scaling implicit transfer operators. If you are interested in this, please reach out to me through email. Include CV, with publications and brief motivational statement. RTs appreciated!
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Don’t upload other people’s confidential manuscripts or grants to third party tools without permission.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If there's such a thing as AI for drug design & development on easy mode, then it's probably in being able to build and test every design. Check out our journey to the 10 quadrillion AI-designed antibody library now; we're going to be sharing some big updates soon: ▶️ www.jura.bio/blog/variati...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This Thursday, 1PM, @eweinstein.bsky.social is headed back to CMU, this time to the Machine Learning Department. He'll be sharing his work on hierarchical causal models. If you're on campus, I encourage to you check it out! www.ml.cmu.edu/calendar/
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Calendar - Machine Learning - CMU - Carnegie Mellon University
Calendar of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tomorrow -- another chance to learn about variational synthesis, probabilistic experimental design methods, & ways to capture scaled functional data for model training: this time with zoom access for those of you remote, 1pm at @cmu.edu Computer Science. Details at: www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/181...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today at UPenn's CIS Seminar: a chance to hear about variational synthesis, probabilistic experimental design methods, and ways to capture modern ML-scale functional data for biology: events.seas.upenn.edu/event/13596/
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Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Aithyra is hiring! We are looking for multiple starting PIs in life sciences and AI/ML. We offer highly competitive packages and salaries among the highest in Europe. www.oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news...
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Search for LIFE SCIENCE and AI/ML Starting Principal Investigators (m/f/d) at AITHYRA, Vienna
If you are an ambitious early-career scientist ready to propel your research to new heights, we invite you to be part of AITHYRA’s founding generation of Principal Investigators. Together, we will sha...
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
⏰ Two weeks left to register for our Benzon Symposium on Protein structure prediction and design 🧶🧬🖥️ Meeting will take place in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Sept. 1–4, 2025, and will feature an amazing list of speakers 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬👩‍💻👨‍💻 Submit your application via: benzon-foundation.dk/benzon-sympo...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I had a fantastic time presenting at the Future of Care Conference this weekend at Rockefeller -- besides getting to present @jura.bsky.social's biologics development platform, VISTA, which allows us to rapidly and reliably develop clinical-outcome-based biologics against targets with acute need,
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Excited to be one of the keynote speakers at this weekend's Future of Care 2025 conference, hosted at The Rockefeller University in NYC. If you're in town, it would be wonderful to see you there! Details in comments.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This Thursday, @eweinstein.bsky.social is traveling to the University of Chicago to give a joint Statistics & Data Science colloquium. If you've been interested in learning more about #variationalsynthesis and are local, I encourage you to attend! Event link: stat.uchicago.edu/events/event...
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Tuesday at noon at @upenn.edu, @eweinstein.bsky.social will present on #variationalsynthesis and other experimental design systems. www.bio.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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Synthesizing Biological Sequences Designed by Generative Models at Petascale | Department of Biology
Abstract: Generative models offer a powerful paradigm for designing novel functional DNA, RNA and protein sequences. In this talk, I introduce a method to efficiently synthesize designs from generative models in the real world. The method involves a combined machine learning and wet lab procedure that implements generative sampling algorithms physically, through controlled stochastic chemical reactions.
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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🔎 Asking for a friend (really): What are the best health-tech/diagnostics incubators out there? US-focussed but world-wide is okay, too. First-time entrepreneur with lots of Pharma experience is looking to get started building and wants to do so in that kind of environment.
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