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Publications
Research programs
Three connected programs: discovering function in undercharacterized systems, learning across protein sequence space, and integrating broader biological evidence.
Functional discovery and nitrogen fixation
Work connecting microbial physiology, comparative evidence, and machine learning to questions of oxygen-tolerant nitrogen fixation.
Nitrosomes: protein language modeling and live-cell imaging reveal condensate-like nitrogenase organization in heterocysts
Nitrogen-Responsive Extracellular Proteomics Reveals Evidence for a Novel Heterocyst-Specific Protein Secretion Pathway in Anabaena
Harnessing Nitrogen Fixing Plants for a Bio-Solar Nitrogen Economy
Beyond nif: protein-family modeling reveals the accessory systems of cyanobacterial diazotrophy
Secondary Metabolites Predict Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria: A Model-Based Cheminformatic Approach
Discovery of Photosynthetic Oxic N₂-Fixation in Cyanobacteria Using Wet Lab and Machine Learning Approaches
Harnessing Solar-Powered Oxic N₂-fixing Cyanobacteria for the BioNitrogen Economy
Unicellular Cyanobacteria Exhibit Light-Driven, Oxygen-Tolerant, Constitutive Nitrogenase Activity Under Continuous Illumination
Identification of Cell Surface Sugars in N₂-Fixing Cyanobacterium Cyanothece ATCC 51142 Using Fluorescein Labeled Lectins
Protein learning and engineering
Protein representation and active-learning approaches for narrowing experimental search spaces.
Active Learning on Protein Language Model Embeddings Accelerates Rubisco Variant Discovery for Desired Traits
Comparative genomics and broader computational biology
Collaborative work spanning genome assembly, multi-omic prediction, and biological data integration.