Tian Du

The GRC Venom Evolution, Function and Biomedical Applications is back for 2026! The conference and corresponding ECR seminar will be held in Barcelona in May 🐍🐜🐌🐝🦂🐡🪼🕷️🐞🇪🇸🌞

19.08.2025 12:09 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A chimeric viral platform for directed evolution in mammalian cells - Nature Communications Directed evolution is a process of mutation and artificial selection to breed biomolecules with new or improved activity. Here the authors develop a directed evolution platform (PROTein Evolution Usin...

New research co-lead by Chris Denes in our lab. PROTEUS is a mammalian directed evolution platform that can better tailor proteins for specific uses.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.05.2025 01:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks @katequinlan.bsky.social for convening such a great meeting!

20.02.2025 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lorne Genome was my first ever conference in 2022, fast forward and I'm delighted to have been awarded the #lornegenome2025 Student Award on Tuesday! This community has helped me grow so much as a researcher and I always leave enriched and inspired to continue to do cool science!

20.02.2025 05:25 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Happy year of the snake!! A very auspicious year for me to submit my PhD on snakebite venom. Since my undergraduate a big goal was to write a conversation article. Here's a throwback!

theconversation.com/how-a-centur...

30.01.2025 05:47 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Got to meet #Putricia, Sydney Botanic Gardens' famous Corpse Flower yesterday! What an honour. You can still watch her livestream now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mryl...

24.01.2025 03:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 Revolutionising Snakebite Treatments with AI-Designed Proteins 🐍

I'm proud to share our latest study published in hashtag#Nature, driven by Susana Vazquez Torres, and co-led by David Baker (Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington) and myself.

15.01.2025 20:16 — 👍 27    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Next-generation snakebite therapies could reduce death toll Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. Treatments that are simpler to administer and more effective than conventional antivenom could curb this number.

A neat article highlighting some great work!

Next-generation snakebite therapies could reduce death toll www.nature.com/articles/d41...

24.11.2024 03:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0