Nobel laureate David Baker lectures at Royal Society and Oxford on de novo enzyme design
mmbronstein · x · 2026-11-05
Michael Bronstein shares photos of David Baker (2024 Chemistry Nobel) giving back-to-back lectures at the Royal Society and Oxford. Slides on "creating de novo enzymes" show the RFdiffusion / ProteinMPNN toolchain and catalytic-activity gains plotted against designs per GPU-hour, drawing a packed hall.
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