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Nick Polizzi

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Asst prof at HMS, PI at DFCI Designing proteins polizzilab.org

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Magnus Kjærgaard @proteinmagnus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How does the extreme thermostability of de novo designed proteins arise? We aimed to answer this question by combined chemical and thermal denaturation of de novo designed minibinders in a paper out now in Protein Science (@proteinsociety.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro....
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you use self-labeling proteins (SLPs) like HaloTag and SNAP-tag? Then check out Jody's new preprint to learn about LUCI-tag! Jody built LUCI-tag starting from K-Ras(G12C), using protein design to erase K-Ras from biology 🤯!
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 21/09/2026
We moved our next meeting up by 2 weeks so Chris Norn can come present while he's in town! Join us on Wednesday, September 30th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 6055, Longwood Center, @danafarber.bsky.social "De novo design of miniproteins targeting GPCRs" bpdmc.org
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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston USA, BPDMC is also a global online community open to everyone. Please send us an email and
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A new intracellular system that binds to and recognizes glutathione adducts is uncovered during a screen for glutathione degraders. What’s its function and what other proteins participate?
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Not The Glue They Thought It Was
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/
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Alan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Millions of beating cilia keep airways clean. At the base of each is the transition zone (TZ), a gate that controls which proteins enter and leave. In our paper out today in Science, we used cryo-FIB-ET to image the TZ inside human airway cells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In situ structure of the human ciliary transition zone links linker defects to primary ciliary dyskinesia
The ciliary transition zone (TZ) regulates ciliary proteome composition, yet its molecular architecture, protein content, and contribution to motile ciliopathies remain poorly defined. We applied in situ cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging ...
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 02/09/2026
Come join us on Wednesday, September 9th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 181, Building 68, @mit.edu to see Natasha Murakowska! "Quantitative Affinity Data at Scale: Addressing the Data Bottleneck in AI-Enabled Protein Design"
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Rosetta Commons @rosettacommons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧬 Want to stay updated on protein science? Check out the @bpdmc.org monthly presentation series! Recent topics: • Computational antibody design • Energy-based models & structure • De novo small-molecule induced changes Learn more, watch past presentations, and join the community at bpdmc.org.
 An announcement of the Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club’s monthly presentation series. It includes a picture of the Boston skyline with the club’s name over it. The text below it states, “Proteins, Presentations, and Peers; Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is an open community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. Visit their website to watch their monthly presentation series and to join the club. Learn more at bpdmc.org.” The background is a light teal with some hexagons on it. The Rosetta Commons logo is in the upper right corner.
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 14/08/2026
If you weren't able to make it out for Jeffrey Chang's marvelous seminar this week, you can check out the recording 👇 youtu.be/q3Xn2-TIZEo
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De novo design of small-molecule-induced conformational change
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Ruth Huttenhain @rhuttenhain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My lab at Stanford University School of Medicine is recruiting! We are looking for a postdoc at the interface of quantitative proteomics, structural biology and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Ruth Huttenhain | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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Paola Laurino @paolalaurino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We're seeking a motivated postdoc candidate to join us at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology to work on the structural and functional characterisation of plant enzymes that break down polysaccharides, exploring sequence space to understand the emergence of enzyme function using AI tools
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 05/08/2026
Next week, Jeffrey Chang from @nickpolizzi.bsky.social's lab will present cutting-edge work from a pre-print that just came out today! Wednesday, August 12th 2026, 7pm EDT in Room 6055, Longwood Center, @danafarber.bsky.social "De novo design of small-molecule-induced conformational change"
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De novo design of small-molecule-induced conformational change
Many biological proteins function by changing shape upon small-molecule binding. Here, we present a general strategy for designing de novo proteins that undergo small-molecule-induced conformational c...
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We can design "static" binders routinely now, but design of "dynamic" shape-changing proteins has remained quite hard. Jeffrey Chang and I asked: why can't we couple small-molecule binding to shape change? After all, natural proteins do it every day. In a new preprint, we show how it can be done. 🧵
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Roberto Chica Lab @chicalab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can protein dynamics help guide protein engineering? Our latest paper shows that a simple NMR peak intensity analysis can reveal functional dynamics hotspots, helping to uncover promising engineering targets. With @thompson-lab.bsky.social and Natalie Goto. doi.org/10.1093/prot...
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Mapping functional dynamics hotspots for protein engineering with NMR peak intensity analysis
Abstract. Structural dynamics play a crucial role in protein function, and tuning these dynamics through mutagenesis has emerged as a promising strategy fo
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 06/07/2026
I hope everyone had a great 4th of July, and we've got a great seminar for you this week by James Roney from @sokrypton.org's lab! Join us this Wednesday, July 8th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 181, Building 68, @mit.edu "Energy-Based Models of Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Folding" bpdmc.org
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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston...
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Khmelinskaia Lab @akhmelinlab.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
De novo designed oligomers that respond to copper, small molecules, and phosphorylation... Using a single design strategy? 🧬⚙️ 🎉 Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint—a collaboration between the Khmelinskaia, Correia, Schoeder and a Tinnefeld labs! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A generalizable interface-seeded framework for de novo design of functional oligomers
Protein oligomers are ubiquitous in biological systems and essential for function. However, the de novo design of oligomers that controllably assemble in response to exogenous stimuli remains challeng...
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 02/07/2026
If you weren't able to make it out to MIT last month for Foster Birnbaum's outstanding seminar, you can now check out the recording 👇 youtu.be/w-NddBw2FJk
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Beyond sequence recovery: Improved modeling of the sequence-energy landscape of protein structures
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Check out the nice commentary on our paper from @dereklowe.bsky.social Thanks for the spotlight, Derek! www.science.org/content/blog...
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Here's a Ligand, Go Design a Protein
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Dan Jones @daniel-jones.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Out now as a preprint, “Molecular basis of mitochondrial leucine transport by human Sideroflexin 1”. #CryoEM #Mitochondria #StructuralBiology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our lab's paper on the de novo design of small-molecule binding proteins is out! In it, we show how neural nets can be trained and used to design binders to drugs with very high success rates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins via neural iterative selection−expansion - Nature
 By pairing two neural networks in an iterative optimization algorithm, small-molecule binding proteins can be designed from scratch with high accuracy, affinity and success rates, showing p...
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Dana-Farber News @danafarbernews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New research published in @nature.com by @danafarber.bsky.social’s @nickpolizzi.bsky.social describes a deep-learning-based algorithm that accurately designs drug-binding proteins from scratch, which could make cancer therapy safer. Read more: bit.ly/4wbEURV
Nicholas Polizzi, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Come join the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design as a group leader Cool science in a great scientific environment in wonderful and very family friendly Copenhagen There are two positions that can either be at TT assistant or associate prof level employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of De novo Protein Design
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Design at the University of Copenhagen seeks to appoint two new group leaders in de novo protein design from 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. These positions will be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level and associated with the Department of Biology (Faculty of Science) or the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences).
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 08/06/2026
We've got an outstanding seminar for you this Wednesday, June 10th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 181, Building 68, @mit.edu Foster Birnbaum from @keatinglab.bsky.social "Beyond native sequence recovery: Improved modeling of the sequence-energy landscape of protein structures" bpdmc.org
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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston...
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bioRxiv Biophysics @biorxiv-biophys.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Spin-Dependent Extracellular Respiration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Hannah Wayment-Steele @hkws.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In the W-S lab's first preprint, we describe how genomic language models know something about RNA thermodynamics. Though we think this is cool, things get tricky! A growing practice for interpreting LMs is to perturb input tokens, often called "Categorical Jacobian": 👇
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Caroline Lynn Kamerlin ☀️ @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Are you interested in understanding protein dynamics and allostery in biomedically relevant "loopy" enzymes? We are looking for postdocs to join our group at GT for both applied and method development work. If you are interested, please email me your CV, cover letter, and details of 2-3 referees.
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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Researchers pioneer method to rapidly design proteins Their strategy revealed new details that open the door to designing proteins with powerful abilities that could ultimately benefit medicine and manufacturing.
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Researchers pioneer method to rapidly design proteins
Their strategy revealed new details that open the door to designing proteins with powerful abilities that could ultimately benefit medicine and manufacturing.
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Alan Brown @alanbrownhms.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One, perhaps two, of our postdocs are moving on to faculty positions this year (more news soon!). While they're truly irreplaceable, it does mean that we have openings for new members to join our team studying #cilia. If interested, please apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526
Advert for postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School studying cilia
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Gabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Happy to share this in its published form! More than any project I've worked on, this was a huge team effort, so thank you so much to that team! Especially @ajrferrari.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large-scale discovery, analysis and design of protein energy landscapes - Nature
An analysis of 5,778 domains 28–64 amino acids in length reveals hidden variation in conformational fluctuations, even between sequences sharing the same fold and global folding stability.
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bioRxiv Biochemistry @biorxiv-biochem.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
De novo design of transmembrane accessory subunits for fold stabilization and expansion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 15/05/2026
Ariel Tennenhouse gave a stellar talk this week! Don't fret if you weren't in the room last Wednesday night because you can check out the recording 👇 youtu.be/cQu6yUZINgo
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute @danafarber.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How can AI help accelerate cancer research? Our researchers have developed an AI tool that could help speed up the search for drug targets, potentially overcoming a major bottleneck in cancer drug discovery.
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AI Tool Could Speed Discovery of New Cancer Drug Targets 
Al tools could speed discovery of new cancer drug targets by analyzing complex data, helping researchers identify treatments faster and more precisely
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 06/05/2026
We managed to line up another fantastic speaker from out of town this month thanks to #PEGSBoston! Come see Ariel Tennenhouse present on Wednesday, May 13th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 181, Building 68, @mit.edu "Computational design of antibody repertoires" bpdmc.org
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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston...
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Chris Parker @chrisgparker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happy to share the final version of this work is now out in @natchembio.nature.com. Lots of additional exciting data! Congrats to all the authors!
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Posttranslational modifications remodel proteome-wide ligandability - Nature Chemical Biology
A chemoproteomic strategy reveals how posttranslational modifications reshape protein ligandability across the human proteome, uncovering more than 400 state-dependent interactions, including phosphor...
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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Really fun and challenging (!) discussion with @cdbahl.com on BindCraft, the state of binder design, the oustanding challenges and perhaps also some misconceptions in the field 💫 www.healthtech.com/the-chain/ma...
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Episode 84 Martin Pacesa on BindCraft An Automated Pipeline for De Novo Protein Binder Design
April 14, 2026 | How is BindCraft, the automated pipeline for de novo protein binder design, changing the protein design industry? Martin Pacesa, assistant professor of pharmacology at the University ...
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 09/04/2026
We just passed an exciting milestone: our one thousandth member just joined @bpdmc.org! Thank you so much to everyone who has made this journey possible, and we're excited to welcome many more wonderful folks to our nerdy protein club! For more info, check out bpdmc.org
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 08/04/2026
Quick reminder to join us at @danafarber.bsky.social tonight for a great talk by Isaac Lutz!
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Here is the talk I gave @asbmb.bsky.social for the DeLano Award in Computational Biosciences in March 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Gv...
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Roland Dunbrack: Structural bioinformatics and protein structure prediction at multiple scales
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 01/04/2026
No joke, we've got an exciting seminar this month from Isaac Lutz Wednesday, April 8th 2026 at 7pm EDT in Room 6055, Longwood Center, @danafarber.bsky.social "Creativity at Scale: Problem Formulation as the Frontier of Protein Design" bpdmc.org
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Roberto Chica Lab @chicalab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Only 2 weeks left to benefit from early-bird registration rate! The 6th Protein Engineering Canada Conference will be held on June 22-24 in Ottawa, Canada. More information here: event.fourwaves.com/pec2026/pages
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6th Protein Engineering Canada (PEC) Conference
Join 6th Protein Engineering Canada (PEC) Conference, June 22-24, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.
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Mohammed AlQuraishi @moalquraishi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New OpenFold3 preview out! (OF3p2) It closes the gap to AlphaFold3 for most modalities. Most critically, we're releasing everything, including training sets & configs, making OF3p2 the only current AF3-based model that is functionally trainable & reproducible from scratch🧵1/9
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our paper with @sokrypton.org using AlphaFold2 to predict small-molecule binding sites in proteins is now out in Nature Methods! 🧵 rdcu.be/e7SnX www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AF2BIND: predicting small-molecule binding sites using the pair representation of AlphaFold2
Nature Methods - AF2BIND is a logistic regression model trained on AlphaFold2 pair features to predict small-molecule binding-site residues in proteins, without multiple sequence alignments,...
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 11/03/2026
Quick reminder to join us at @danafarber.bsky.social tonight for an awesome talk by Jody Mou!
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 05/03/2026
Spring is arriving in Boston and Jody Mou linkedin.com/in/jody-mou has some fresh new data to share! Wednesday, March 11th 2026, 7pm EDT in Room 6055, Longwood Center @danafarber.bsky.social "Computational Design of a Rapid and Orthogonal Self-Labeling Protein Tag for Live-Cell Imaging" bpdmc.org
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Chris Bahl @cdbahl.com · 05/03/2026
I had a great time nerding out about protein design with @nickpolizzi.bsky.social, and an enormous thanks to @biotechtv.bsky.social and @massbio.bsky.social for hosting us! www.biotechtv.com/post/chris-b...
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AI Proteins Founder & CEO Chris Bahl and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Investigator Nick Polizzi discuss the current state of protein design and new innovations that are around the corner
Both experts in the field, one with an academic view and one from industry, they discuss what can be done today with protein design, new innovations coming in the next year or two, and how they think ...
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’m looking to hire a research technician for my lab at Harvard & DFCI, who would primarily work in the wet lab expressing and characterizing designed proteins, starting this summer. A great role for a recent college grad looking for an immersive research experience before grad school.
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 21/02/2026
We've got Jeff Gray (graylab.jhu.edu) coming to present this month!! Wednesday, February 25th 2026, starting at 7pm EST in Room 181, Building 68, @MIT "Antibody language models vs. biology; protein docking denoising diffusion models vs. physics" bpdmc.org
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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston...
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SBGrid Consortium @sbgrid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New Title Alert: LASErMPNN- is an all-atom ligand-conditioned protein sequence design and sidechain packing model that accounts for the presence of small molecules, including hydrogens. Learn more here: buff.ly/cZcOmpC #SBGridSoftware #SBGrid #StructuralBiology
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GitHub - polizzilab/LASErMPNN: All-Atom (Including Hydrogen!) Ligand-Conditioned Protein Sequence Design & Sidechain Packing GNN
All-Atom (Including Hydrogen!) Ligand-Conditioned Protein Sequence Design & Sidechain Packing GNN - polizzilab/LASErMPNN
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Nick Polizzi @nickpolizzi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’m looking to hire a research technician for my lab at Harvard & DFCI, who would primarily work in the wet lab expressing and characterizing designed proteins, starting this summer. A great role for a recent college grad looking for an immersive research experience before grad school.
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