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Mingfei Zhao’s polypeptoid review article featured as front cover of Biopolymers

Mingfei’s terrific new single-author review article summarizes recent advances in the hierarchical self-assembly of polypeptoid-based nanomaterials. Terrific work, Mingfei!

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Antimicrobial neuropeptide collaboration with Wong and Yeaman Labs highlighted in PNAS Commentary

Our collaborative study with Gerard Wong and Michael Yeaman on the identification of the PACAP neuropeptide as an ancient antimicrobial protector of the brain and published in PNAS was highlighted …

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Nikša Praljak joins Ferguson and Ranganathan Labs

Nikša Praljak joins the Ferguson Lab and Ranganathan Lab as a co-advised graduate research assistant. Nikša will use deep learning techniques to perform data-driven protein design. Welcome, Nikša!

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Kate Johnson joins Ferguson and Chevrier Labs

Kate Johnson joins the Ferguson Lab and Chevrier Lab as a co-advised graduate research assistant. Kate’s work will use machine learning tools to understand immunological signaling pathways within cells and …

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Max’s paper published in 2020 J. Chem. Phys Emerging Investigators in Science Collection

Max’s paper detailing the use of deep learning, dynamical systems, theory, and statistical thermodynamics for the reconstruction of atomistic folding trajectories from experimentally-measurable time series comes out in the J. …

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Prof. Ferguson co-editor of new J. Phys. Chem. Virtual Special Issue on Machine Learning in Physical Chemistry

Check out the new Virtual Special Issue on Machine Learning in Physical Chemistry in J. Phys. Chem. A/B/C co-edited with Jim Pfaendtner, Tom Miller, and Johannes Hachmann.

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Hythem and Wei publish molecular latent space simulators paper in Chemical Science

Hythem and Wei’s new Chem. Sci. paper reports the use of three back-to-back specialized deep learning networks to perform continuous atomistic simulations at 6 orders of magnitude lower cost than …

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Prof. Ferguson winner of 2020 Dreyfus Foundation Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Award

Prof. Ferguson received a 2020 Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Award, a new honor presented by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation that recognizes projects with potential …

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Kirill’s paper on data-driven synthetic peptide design selected for journal cover and ACS Editors’ Choice

Kirill’s paper using coarse-grained molecular simulation, deep representational learning, Gaussian process regression, and Bayesian optimization was selected to be featured on the front cover of J. Phys. Chem. B and …

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Walter Alvarado joins Ferguson and de Pablo Labs

Walter Alvarado joins the Ferguson Lab and de Pablo Lab as a co-advised graduate research assistant. Walter will work on molecular simulation and machine learning of nucleosome dynamics and assembly. …

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