Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

I figured I'd start my journey here by sharing my recent preprint from my postdoc research, where we use de novo protein design to re-engineer a natural signal transduction receptor with a fully de novo sensor domain. The project sought to test whether our design capabilities and understanding 1/4

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