Abby Burtner

.@UWBiology undergrads @JohannahRickman & @AbbyEBurtner's first (co)first author paper is now published in @iobjournal! Here, we (with Tate Linden & @SESantanaM) examined the shape and structural properties of squirrel humeri & femora. 🧵 1/x doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…

2/2: talks! (@AbbyEBurtner presenting her work with the King lab)

Proud mentor moments this month: @AbbyEBurtner received a Goldwater Scholarship for her undergraduate research (1/413 across the nation!) and @EmilyABlackwell received an NSF GRF for her graduate research! washington.edu/uaa/2023/04/04…

Congrats to very talented undergraduate researcher @AbbyEBurtner on receiving a prestigious Goldwater Fellowship! @GoldwaterSC

Today we're making RF Diffusion, our guided diffusion model for protein design with potential applications in medicine, vaccines & advanced materials, free to use. The software has proven much faster and more capable than prior protein design tools. bakerlab.org/2023/03/30/rf-…

@KeystoneSymp on computational design of biomolecules was ‼️‼️ Thanks to the organizers for an incredible meeting, full of amazing science, and inviting me to give a short talk. Sneaking in a few turns ⛷️between sessions wasn't too bad either... 😉

Greasy proteins ? Cells not spitting them out ? Clean them up with the Degreaser ! @khmelinskaia and John's paper - 'Improving the secretion of designed protein assemblies through negative design of cryptic transmembrane domains' has been published on PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Happy #WomenInScience Day! Lucky to work w/ amazing undergrad & postbac scientists! Check out some of their work: 🦇🦴 evolution: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🐿️🦴 evolution: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🐿️ body shape: peerj.com/articles/14800/ 💀 evolution: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Excited to release paper #2 by #TeamSquirrel as a preprint! Co-led by undergrads @JohannahRickman & @AbbyEBurtner, we examined how locomotor mode & allometry affected the external shape and internal structure of squirrel humeri & femora w/ @SESantanaM biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The first #TeamSquirrel paper is published! Led by Tate Linden, we tested scaling patterns of body shape, body size, & limb lengths among squirrel ecotypes and described the underlying morphological components that contribute to body shape evolution 🧵1/x peerj.com/articles/14800/

Preprint is up! Grateful to have co-led this work with @SusanaVazTor , Isaac and @PreethamVi Thread soon but for now, rest 😂 #AcademicTwitter biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’re very happy to announce that our RFdiffusion manuscript is now on bioRxiv! A lot can change in a week - we’ve now tested over a thousand designs and there’s so much exciting new data! 🧵

DALL-E’s amazing images are popping up all over the web. That software uses something called a diffusion model, which is trained to remove noise from static until a clear picture is formed. Turns out diffusion models can design proteins too!

The first #TeamSquirrel preprint is out! Led by Tate Linden (as an incoming sophomore!), we test relationships between body shape, size, and limbs among squirrel ecotypes! Check it out! w/ @AbbyEBurtner, @JohannahRickman, @annikam321, and @SESantanaM biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks to all of my amazing mentors!! 🦇💜💛 @Chris_J_Law @SESantanaM

@Chris_J_Law @JohannahRickman .@Chris_J_Law The chaos is real😭

The mad rush to get three undergraduate manuscripts in submission form by the start of classes @AbbyEBurtner @JohannahRickman

Our Institute was founded ten years ago with a small team and a big vision. Now both are larger than ever! Thank you to everyone who helped make this first decade so much fun. Here's to many more 🎉

Happy to release the “degreaser” into the world! If you need your proteins to secrete, perhaps this is something for you. Checkout the preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really cool sculpture of Top7 by @mtyka . Celebrating 10 years of IPD @UWproteindesign (check out the reflection in the glass) 🤯

And that wraps up two years of #TeamSquirrel at the @burkemuseum! Will miss my undergrads 😭 But now time for them to start the fun writing part 🤓 @AbbyEBurtner @JohannahRickman @annikam321