Sam Berry
Harvard Biophysics PhD candidate studying protein evolution with a focus on transporters in the Gaudet and Marks labs. Occasional fiction writer. Proud cat dad.
- Reposted by Sam BerryNew paper “Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics” is now live at Nature Genetics: rdcu.be/eRu7K popEVE (pop.evemodel.org) finds the needles in the haystacks of human genetic variation:
- Reposted by Sam BerryI’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year. All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
- Reposted by Sam Berry1/14 Happy (but mostly relieved) to share my dream project with @boudkerlab.bsky.social, now published in @natsmb.nature.com! We used evolution, protein engineering & cryoEM to uncover how ion coupling in glutamate transporters works, and how it evolved.🧵 Free article: go.nature.com/4oRUC1q
- Reposted by Sam BerryRFK Jr. is not a vaccine skeptic. He's a vaccine denier whose anti-science extremist views and actions are destroying one of humanity's greatest scientific achievements. He's going to kill a lot of people, and those deaths are on the 52 Republican senators who confirmed him and those enabling him.
- This is a very cool ancestral reconstruction study by @krishnareddy.bsky.social et al. that I recommend reading! @rachellegaudet.bsky.social and I thought it was so interesting that we wrote a News & Views about it, check it out: rdcu.be/eCfyl
- Reposted by Sam Berry🚨New paper 🚨 Can protein language models help us fight viral outbreaks? Not yet. Here’s why 🧵👇 1/12
- Reposted by Sam Berry🚨 New paper 🚨 RNA modeling just got its own Gym! 🏋️ Introducing RNAGym, large-scale benchmarks for RNA fitness and structure prediction. 🧵 1/9
- Couldn't be prouder of my incredibly talented mentee Camille and glad to see her hard work has been acknowledged by winning *both* the Hoopes and Henderson prizes for her undergraduate thesis!
- Senior MCB, CPB, and Neuroscience Concentrators Receive the Thomas Temple Hoopes and Henderson Prizes #AcademicSky www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sam Berry(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Sam Berryread this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- Lovely article from our colleague Kseniia Petrova, who has been wrongfully imprisoned for months: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- Reposted by Sam BerrySuper excited to share a new preprint from our lab on design of small-molecule binding proteins using neural networks! The paper has a bit of everything. A new graph neural network, new design algorithms, and experimental validation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵🧪
- I think it says everything here that the locked-away industry version of AlphaFold3 they want to build is based on... OpenFold, which was developed to be open-source by academics. Industry is built on the advances of open-source research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Sam BerryThis week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
- Reposted by Sam Berry"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
- Publishing this *now* is so embarrassingly tone-deaf and anti-science I almost can’t believe it - just as this exact ideology is being used in a fascist takeover of the US and the accompanying wholesale attack on science and free speech
- Reposted by Sam BerryFriends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Sam BerryStructural biology is in an era of dynamics & assemblies but turning raw experimental data into atomic models at scale remains challenging. @minhuanli.bsky.social and I present ROCKET🚀: an AlphaFold augmentation that integrates crystallographic and cryoEM/ET data with room for more! 1/14.
- Reposted by Sam BerryToday in @nature.com we share our back-to-back stories with Ning Zheng’s lab revealing chemical-genetic convergence between a molecular glue degrader & E3 ligase cancer mutations. 1/5
- Reposted by Sam BerryI can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵
