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Tian Du
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Genomics and Venom researcher at Usyd CPC 🧬🐍🪼

Let me be your antidote!
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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 🐍🐜🐌🐝🦂🐡🪼🕷️🐞🇪🇸🌞
August 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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...
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...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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!
February 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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...
January 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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...
January 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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🚨 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.
January 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A neat article highlighting some great work!

Next-generation snakebite therapies could reduce death toll www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:15 AM