Student Spotlight: Ananya Basu

Student Spotlight: Ananya Basu

Ananya Basu, a third-year PhD student, is using innovative approaches to overcome previously intractable targets in the Zhang Lab. Appointed to the CLP Predoctoral Training Program, she is being co-mentored by Zhang (chemistry) and Horvath (molecular biosciences)....
Transfer learning paves the way for new disease treatments

Transfer learning paves the way for new disease treatments

Technological advances in gene sequencing and computing have led to an explosion in the availability of bioinformatic data and processing power, respectively, creating a ripe nexus for artificial intelligence (AI) to design strategies for controlling cell behavior. In...
Inside the chase after those elusive proteoforms

Inside the chase after those elusive proteoforms

Human cells contain crowds of protein variants, but, especially in a time of funding challenges, chasing these proteoforms takes dogged persistence. Biology delivers a massive number of puzzles to proteoform hunters1,2. Proteoforms are the droves of protein variants...