Historically, protein engineering required extensive time & resources, relying heavily on trial & error. Research from Sarah Wait & uwberndtlab looks at how machine learning models can more efficiently guide protein sensor design, with exciting results! bit.ly/berndtai

'We were able to circumvent the trial-and-error approach by using machine learning algorithms to predict how different mutations would perform in the real world.' Sarah Wait uwberndtlab UW Bioengineering bit.ly/3vHgQMT Nature Computational Science

How machine learning was applied to speed the engineering of brighter fluorescent proteins that quickly dim, ready to shine again, with potential as improved biosensors for studies of rapid neuron firing Sarah Wait uwberndtlab UW Bioengineering Nature Computational Science tinyurl.com/3vpe44fu

Ending my several year long Twitter (X?) hiatus to celebrate my first-first author paper, out today in Nature Computational Science!

Our manuscript on our HT-sensor engineering platform is available on BioRxiv. Big thanks to PhD candidate Michael Rappleye and the groups of Drs. Bruchas, Stuber, and Fowler who made this fantastic interdisciplinary project possible! doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

This is not how Allen School — or any of us — imagined kicking off winter quarter, but we want to amplify this statement calling out the misogyny of an emeritus (retired) faculty member.

God grant me the confidence of an ivy league university that says with a full chest that PhD students work less than 20hr/week

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A person called OwlKitty changed the Business Card scene from “American Psycho” to the guys showing each other pictures of their cats on their phones… and it could possibly be the greatest masterpiece ever 😂

'how much is our stimulus check gonna have?'

congress:

Submitted: Nature

Accepted: Nature Total Landscaping

The best one I’ve seen so far

Watch John McCain’s notable concession speech from the 2008 election

guys look i made my first friend her name is Sarah Wait

One of my biggest science crushes won a big award today 😍

When #NobelPrize laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna investigated the immune system of a Streptococcus bacterium they discovered a molecular tool that can be used to make precise incisions in genetic material, making it possible to easily change the code of life.