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Shape rotator and vibes curator at UNC’s Personalized Immunotherapy Research Lab. Generative modeling and representation learning in biology. 👨‍🏫👨‍🔬
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We @prescientdesign.bsky.social Genentech pre-printed our "Lab-in-the-loop for therapeutic antibody design." We built a general ML system to accelerate molecule design for challenging, therapeutically relevant targets. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided! You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Dear TCR researchers of #immunosky, you may be interested to know that our tool Stitchr - for the automated production of full-length T cell receptor sequences - has just had a nice little update: jamieheather.github.io/stitchr/

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Musks method of ruthlessly enforcing efficiency by removing things and adding them back if the system breaks has worked well for pruning complexity of products, pipelines and entire companies. But applying this methodology to govt is dangerous and will result in greater harm to the American people

Good combo! A nasal vaccine with self-amplifying RNA (much less dose required for v potent immune response), complete protection effective vs both H5N1 and H7N9 viruses in experimental models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On the merits of reading papers, attending conferences, preprinting manuscripts… Overseen at the Library of Congress.

Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to adapt to novel tasks.

Unsure if people on bsky are aware of o3s existence. But if anyone wants to talk I’ve been itching all day

How to learn generalizable rules across complex sequence-function maps? 💡In our new preprint we propose a framework for learning two-point statistics and use it to discover biophysical rules of TCR co-specificity that generalize to unseen ligands ! ✨ arxiv.org/abs/2412.13722

Given the subtext here I wouldn’t be surprised if both X and Bsky develop extremely close but distinct niches: the former to blast information and reach broader audiences, and the latter as a place of discourse with members of a particular community.

🧙🪄Summoning Alex to 💙🦋 so the Bio x ML community can celebrate ESM-C with him on here as well

CA Coworking 🌉🌅

Calling all T-cell aficionado's. Come and join us next year (27-28 May 2025) for the fourth Antwerp T-Cell Receptor conference organised by @pmeysman.bsky.social, @krislaukens.bsky.social and Benson Ogunjimi. I'll also be there! www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc... #ImmunoSky

#GoodThingsComeToThoseWait Sorry it's taking us a while. Promise that the wait will be well worth it! #OpenFold3 Love all the great work that's already been done #HelixFold3 #Ligo #Chai1 #Protenix #Boltz1

Surely I misheard. There’s no way Dr. Oz, the OG grifter, president of grift university, has been tapped to lead the largest and most influential US healthcare entity.

My first Skeetorial! 💻🧬TCR-TRANSLATE - A new framework for thinking about the TCR:pMHC specificity problem. TLDR: We pretrained LLMs on ~8M TCR & pMHC seqs Finetuned on sparse pMHC->TCR pair data Validated CDR3b sequences to unseen antigens >> random performance on IMMREP2023 "private" antigens

TCR-TRANSLATE: Conditional Generation of Real Antigen Specific T-cell Receptor Sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.11.623124v1

LLMs are fantastic learners of arbitrary sequence to sequence mappings. Text summarization, Q&A, and machine translation, etc. So what happens if you apply them to the many-to-many mapping of the TCR cross reactivity landscape? Turns out, some pretty cool things. Check it out 😏

The fate of this app hangs in the balance tonight…

Load-based divergence in the dynamic allostery of two TCRs recognizing the same pMHC https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.16.618634v1

Someone should do an autopsy on Twitter. When did it stop being Twitter? I know it’s easy to point at Elon but what really happened? Beyond the obvious what second order phenomena can be traced to its decline? 3rd/4th?

Insane finding: repeat covid infections result in milder symptoms but a greater propensity for long-COVID. Something really interesting is going on here and I want to know if it’s T or B cell mediated

What other keywords should I add to the MLSky feed? It's a tricky balance -- something too technical never triggers but eg #llm #chatgpt even "PyTorch" &c get mostly spam

It appears that my peoples (scientists) are preparing for a mass migration back onto here come election szn so whattup fam, I’m back

Back on here because I’m noticing a dangerous trend on Twitter where among other things bot engagement is being used to silence organic activity, particularly on controversial matters. Gonna try to use my codes to bring people on here as voting szn draws near.

Totally legit question for all the PIs on here: when working on a problem that has a lot of other people publishing on it, how does one write an introduction that doesn’t sound like a paraphrasing of 20 other papers 😩

The UNC Genetics Dept / BCB / GMB retreat was this week in Asheville NC and it was stellar. These two students from @alexr.bsky.social lab gave a hilarious and emotional rollercoaster of a presentation about getting scooped and still pulling through. Poster sessions and talks were all 👌