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Cole DeForest
@coledeforest.bsky.social
Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering, University of Washington | User-Programmable Biomaterials | Photochemistry | Optogenetics | Protein Engineering

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Mike Regnier, Farid Moussavi-Harami, Nate Sniadecki, and their respective labs also played instrumental roles on these exciting efforts!
September 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This has been a huge collaborative effort overseen by Jennifer Davis and driven by co-first authors Ross Bretherton (co-advised between the DeForest and Davis labs) and Bella Reichardt.
September 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Congrats, @nrichbourg.bsky.social ! Looking forward to watching your lab grow at FASU-FSU!
May 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fantastic! This is such great news. Congrats on the new position, @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social !
May 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Would love to be included here! Thanks for organizing!
November 21, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Thank you, on all accounts!
November 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
It’d be great to be added here! Light-activated SpyLigation (LASL) is a recent optogenetic tool from our team: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Spatiotemporal functional assembly of split protein pairs through a light-activated SpyLigation - Nature Chemistry
Techniques to specifically modulate protein activity are needed to interrogate spatial effects in cellular processes. A genetically encoded method for site-specific protein–protein conjugation based o...
doi.org
November 12, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Great idea! We work in this space!
November 12, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Great idea! Thanks for helping coordinate this transition!
November 10, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Great idea! Glad to see the biomaterials community starting to come together here on Bluesky.
November 10, 2024 at 1:34 PM