Abby Burtner

undergrad studying biochemistry @UW 👩‍🔬👟🏔 she/her

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

.@UWBiology undergrads @JohannahRickman & @AbbyEBurtner's first (co)first author paper is now published in @iobjournal! Here, we (with Tate Linden & @SESantanaM) examined the shape and structural properties of squirrel humeri & femora. 🧵 1/x

https://t.co/PM0juUc5Wy

[Sharlene Santana @SESantanaM]

2/2: talks!
(@AbbyEBurtner presenting her work with the King lab)

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

Proud mentor moments this month: @AbbyEBurtner received a Goldwater Scholarship for her undergraduate research (1/413 across the nation!) and @EmilyABlackwell received an NSF GRF for her graduate research!

https://t.co/dMqTeWpt35

[King Lab @KingLabIPD]

Congrats to very talented undergraduate researcher @AbbyEBurtner on receiving a prestigious Goldwater Fellowship! @GoldwaterSC

[Institute for Protein Design @UWproteindesign]

Today we're making RF Diffusion, our guided diffusion model for protein design with potential applications in medicine, vaccines & advanced materials, free to use. The software has proven much faster and more capable than prior protein design tools.

https://t.co/lhkhBZNzYc

[Helen Eisenach O'Brien @HelenEisenach]

@KeystoneSymp on computational design of biomolecules was ‼️‼️ Thanks to the organizers for an incredible meeting, full of amazing science, and inviting me to give a short talk.
Sneaking in a few turns ⛷️between sessions wasn't too bad either... 😉

[King Lab @KingLabIPD]

Greasy proteins ? Cells not spitting them out ? Clean them up with the Degreaser ! @khmelinskaia and John's paper - 'Improving the secretion of designed protein assemblies through negative design of cryptic transmembrane domains' has been published on PNAS https://t.co/7x9Ro6jcdj

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

Happy #WomenInScience Day! Lucky to work w/ amazing undergrad & postbac scientists!

Check out some of their work:
🦇🦴 evolution: https://t.co/iJA648QUHi
🐿️🦴 evolution:
https://t.co/uBTRT75umW
🐿️ body shape: https://t.co/0gDl8gZfoZ
💀 evolution: https://t.co/20RNwvmpFU

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

Excited to release paper #2 by #TeamSquirrel as a preprint! Co-led by undergrads @JohannahRickman & @AbbyEBurtner, we examined how locomotor mode & allometry affected the external shape and internal structure of squirrel humeri & femora w/ @SESantanaM

https://t.co/uBTRT75umW

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

The first #TeamSquirrel paper is published! Led by Tate Linden, we tested scaling patterns of body shape, body size, & limb lengths among squirrel ecotypes and described the underlying morphological components that contribute to body shape evolution 🧵1/x https://t.co/0gDl8gZNex

[Phil Leung @definitelyphil]

Preprint is up! Grateful to have co-led this work with @SusanaVazTor , Isaac and @PreethamVi

Thread soon but for now, rest 😂 #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/Edv4vfJxN5

[David Juergens @DaveJuergens]

We’re very happy to announce that our RFdiffusion manuscript is now on bioRxiv! A lot can change in a week - we’ve now tested over a thousand designs and there’s so much exciting new data! 🧵

[Joseph Watson @_JosephWatson]

DALL-E’s amazing images are popping up all over the web. That software uses something called a diffusion model, which is trained to remove noise from static until a clear picture is formed.

Turns out diffusion models can design proteins too!

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

The first #TeamSquirrel preprint is out! Led by Tate Linden (as an incoming sophomore!), we test relationships between body shape, size, and limbs among squirrel ecotypes! Check it out!

w/ @AbbyEBurtner, @JohannahRickman, @annikam321, and @SESantanaM

https://t.co/y7Jzf0hgtD

[Abby Burtner @AbbyEBurtner]

Thanks to all of my amazing mentors!! 🦇💜💛 @Chris_J_Law @SESantanaM

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

Congrats to undergrad extraordinaire @AbbyEBurtner for submitting her first manuscript 🥳🎉😎 We tested the gliding to flying hypothesis to understand to origin of bat flight. Check out the preprint below! Work with @SESantanaM & Dave Grossnickle

https://t.co/iJA648RswQ

[Abby Burtner @AbbyEBurtner]

@Chris_J_Law @JohannahRickman .@Chris_J_Law The chaos is real😭

[Institute for Protein Design @UWproteindesign]

Our Institute was founded ten years ago with a small team and a big vision. Now both are larger than ever! Thank you to everyone who helped make this first decade so much fun. Here's to many more 🎉

[Alena Khmelinskaia @khmelinskaia]

Happy to release the “degreaser” into the world! If you need your proteins to secrete, perhaps this is something for you. Checkout the preprint! https://t.co/XHcYFNRvhP

[Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton]

Really cool sculpture of Top7 by @mtyka . Celebrating 10 years of IPD @UWproteindesign

(check out the reflection in the glass) 🤯

[Chris Law @Chris_J_Law]

And that wraps up two years of #TeamSquirrel at the @burkemuseum! Will miss my undergrads 😭 But now time for them to start the fun writing part 🤓

@AbbyEBurtner @JohannahRickman @annikam321