
head of comms & AI policy @UWproteindesign 📝📸🎥 // @AAASMassMedia alum // used to study enzymes // he/him
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2010
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Ian Haydon retweeted
I'm excited to share that I'll be joining @MITBiology as an Asst Prof. in Jan 2024! Come join us! 🤓🧪🖥️🧬
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ICYMI: AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Ian Haydon retweeted
Have you had a chance to use RFdiffusion?
We would love to hear about it! Please share your story here or send us an email: [email protected]
bakerlab.org/2023/03/30/rf-d… – at Seattle, WA
Ian Haydon retweeted
Generative AI for protein design is now one click away. We've launched a new platform that puts powerful tools behind a simple web interface, making #proteindesign accessible to everyone.
Full video ➡️ youtu.be/bS71K2U0amA
Try it here ➡️ huggingface.co/spaces/merle/…
Ian Haydon retweeted
ARE YOU SICK OF AI?! BECAUSE WE DID IT AGAIN IN AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SPACE THAN TEXT OR IMAGES. BUCKLE UP BECAUSE THIS WONT MAKE ANY SENSE UNLESS YOU LIKE PROTEINS 💃💃🧬🧵
Ian Haydon retweeted
Generative AI for protein design is now one click away. We've launched a new platform that puts powerful tools behind a simple web interface, making #proteindesign accessible to anyone.
Try it here ➡️ huggingface.co/spaces/merle/…
Learn more on YouTube ➡️ youtu.be/bS71K2U0amA
The most impactful use of generative AI may not be text, images, or video. My team @UWproteindesign is developing tools that literally generate new genes 🧬
We call this process protein design.
Here’s a beginner’s guide ⬇️
Ready to learn about protein design? Our beginner's guide breaks down this complex field into easy-to-understand concepts. Discover the potential of proteins to transform our world: ipd.uw.edu/2023/05/what-is-p…
Ian Haydon retweeted
It's an incredible day for structure-based vaccine design, and I'm thrilled to see our prefusion RSV F antigen get approved as the first RSV vaccine. Still more work to do to reduce the RSV disease burden, but this will help! Congrats @BarneyGrahamMD! cnn.com/2023/05/03/health/fi…
Ian Haydon retweeted
We are thrilled to share that Dr. Lynda Stuart has joined as our new Executive Director. With her extensive experience and dedication to healthcare as a human right, the future of protein design looks brighter than ever.
Learn more: ipd.uw.edu/2023/05/lynda-stu…
Ian Haydon retweeted
Today we report the use of reinforcement learning, a strategy used to solve games like chess and Go, to a challenge in protein design. This milestone in using #AI for science may enable more effective cancer treatments & new biodegradable textiles.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
.@karaswisher: What's the greatest application of these new AI tools?
.@sama: They will greatly expand our scientific knowledge.
Kara: Isn't that already happening with folding proteins?
Sam: That's the one I am personally most excited about.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… – at Seattle, WA
It's not just #ChatGPT . There’s another facet of the #AI revolution, a marriage of deep learning and #biology , that’s at least as important, but far less widely understood @UWproteindesign @DeepMind @MetaAI wsj.com/articles/biologists-…
Ian Haydon retweeted
It's not just #ChatGPT . There’s another facet of the #AI revolution, a marriage of deep learning and #biology , that’s at least as important, but far less widely understood @UWproteindesign @DeepMind @MetaAI wsj.com/articles/biologists-…
Here's a frightening game:
Ask ChatGPT to write a biography of yourself ➡️ chat.openai.com
Then add up all the correct and incorrect facts ℹ️
Reply to this tweet w the percents ⬇️ – at Seattle, WA
If your online presence isn't huge, it might not work at all. And if you have a common name... good luck.
My ChatGPT biography is ostensibly about me, but 75% of the information is just not true. – at Seattle, WA
It feels like the chatbot train is leaving the station. Those who use words at work need to get familiar with these tools now or risk getting left behind. – at Seattle, WA
Ian Haydon retweeted
We were talking about the March issue in a meeting last week and all agreed we really loved the image in this feature by @ichaydon!

ALT A pink and purple image of a protein model, many coils of protein strand coming together to form a distinct shape that is skinnier in the middle, almost like a barbell shape. The left hand side of the protein becomes more pixelated with 3D building blocks spread further and further apart to represent looking at protein models with ai and neural networks.
Ian Haydon retweeted
NBC’s @DrAkshaySyal explores how protein design — powered by artificial intelligence — could soon lead to medical breakthroughs.
nbcnews.com/now/video/scient…












