News

May, 2024 The lab hosts Dr. Andrew Adey from the Oregon Health and Science University as an invited speaker at the NEB seminar series.

April, 2024 Sean and collaborators’ work on "Computational Scoring and Experimental Evaluation of Enzymes Generated by Neural Networks" published in Nature Biotechnology.

April, 2024 The lab hosts Dr. Reuben Harris Chair from the University of Texas Health San Antonio and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator as an invited speaker at the NEB seminar series.

April, 2024 The lab hosts Dr. Kevin Yang from Microsoft Research as an invited speaker at the NEB seminar series.

March, 2024 NEB hosts "The Future of Structural Biology" symposium in Cambridge, co-organized by Zhi-Yi Sun.

March, 2024 Our work on "Sensitive remote homology search by local alignment of small positional embeddings from protein language models" published in eLife.

February, 2024 Our work on "Discovery of cytosine deaminases enables base-resolution methylome mapping using a single enzyme" published in Molecular Cell.

February, 2024 Zhi-Yi attends AGBT general meeting and presents a poster on the Single-Enzyme Methylation sequencing (SEM-seq) method enabled by a novel methylation-sensitive deaminase in Marco Island, Florida.

February, 2024 A paper that Vladimir and Sean contributed to “Highly Parallelized Construction of DNA from Low-Cost Oligonucleotide Mixtures Using Data-Optimized Assembly Design and Golden Gate” published in ACS Synthetic Biology.

January, 2024 Zhi-Yi and Sean attend the Deaminet 2024 conference in San Diego. Zhi-Yi co-chair the session on “New Deaminases and Biotechnologies” and gives a talk on our work on cytosine deaminase discovery and applications.

October, 2023 Zhi-Yi presents our recent work on novel deaminase enabled enzymatic sequencing methods for epigenetics research at the 1st Epigenetics Society International Meeting in Rome, Italy.

October, 2023 Vladimir Potapov joins the group as a Bioinformatics Scientist.