Exciting news part 2: I’m honored and delighted to announce that the Praetorius lab for Biomolecular Design @ISTAustria has been awarded an #ERCStG (before even starting) for “Design of Nucleic Acid-templated Ordered Protein Assemblies”. @ERC_Research

Anna and Sam are X-less but they’ve done some excellent work with this project. It’s a very exciting time for enzyme designers!

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS, indeterminate dendritic cell histiocytosis or other (non-LCH) histiocytic sarcomas cases. I'm trying to understand non-surgical chemo and targeted therapy options, new pathology markers to better diagnose subtypes/treatments, and any data on progression in pediatric patients. Please feel free to share – I’m trying to cast a wide net due to the rarity of this condition and how little is known. People can contact me directly at my first name (as written in my profile) at octant.bio.

“Science is a human activity.” The week before chemistry laureate David Baker visited Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, his 101st PhD student had just graduated from his lab. For Baker, doing great science is about collaboration – he puts great effort into fostering a diverse, vibrant and sociable community of scientists that he works with. One hundred and thirty of those students and researchers joined him in Stockholm – perhaps the ultimate lab celebration! More about Baker and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: bit.ly/4iz7B56

After showing that AF2 can be used to design very large proteins by performing #RSO, I am happy to share another fun project we did: the #af2cycler @sokrypton @hendrik_dietz biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Excited to announce our new #proteindesign strategy for allosterically controlling the kinetics of protein-protein interactions! Read on for cool applications in cytokine signaling, biosensing, and protein circuits. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Finally, out in @ScienceMagazine today, our work on de novo protein design. Together with @HattoriLab , @sokrypton & @hendrik_dietz we showed how we can drastically improve AF2 based hallucination, surpassing, or reaching SOTA diffusion models doi.org/10.1126/science.adq1…

So delighted to have this finally online! In our newest preprint we are detailing the computational design of a catalytically active helical barrel protein with a highly engineerable central channel. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Excited to join the Gene Center at LMU @GeneCenter_LMU @LMU_Muenchen as a professor, looking forward to design some cool and unusual de novo proteins here!

I am looking for a partner in crime who actually understands biology in Vienna — join Aithyra to make some magic oeaw.ac.at/aithyra/news/sear…

#MERS vaccines built on our two-component protein nanoparticle platform induce robust neutralizing antibody responses and protect mice against vaccine-matched challenge. This collaborative project was led by @chao_cara and is out now on @biorxivpreprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Three @ISTAustria scientists have won @erc_research Starting Grants #ERCStG! A combined 4.8 million euros will go to @MMondelli, @aliciakmichael, and @lisa_Bugnet. Read more about the scientists and their projects 🔗 bit.ly/3XvfQXo

Hot off the press: New paper about computational design of oligomeric proteins that can be triggered to change size and shape through allostery. Check out the beautiful thread by @ArvindSPillai1 !