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Bijoy Desai (He/Him)
@bijoy-desai.bsky.social
Scientist turned biotech professional interested in enabling platforms and technologies at the interface of AI x Bio.
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To ensure the highest impact and participation, we are adjusting the timeline of the Protein Engineering Tournament. The Tournament will now begin on December 1st, 2025.
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So excited to have EvolutionaryScale as one of our sponsors for the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament! Now anyone with a great idea for protein design/engineering can compete with a powerful computational resource by their side. 💡 💪 🏆
📣 Evolutionary Scale is supporting the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament!

Teams get sponsored ESM inference through
@evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition.

Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
August 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament.

This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️

#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Q1 at Align =
✅ Team doubled
✅ 65k GROQ-seq datapoints
✅ Genotype-by-Phenotype platform
✅ Global conf. circuit
✅ Tournament prep underway

Get the full download → hubs.la/Q03hT_V60
#ProteinEngineering #AIxBiology #SynBio #OpenScience
April 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚀 New proposal from Align! The experimental platform aims to standardize #microbial #phenotyping & support predictive modeling. 🦠 Capturing data across 1k strains & 1k conditions; using BacterAI; generating high-quality datasets for ML @jensen_lab
Genotype to Phenotype: Design of an Extensible Experimental Platform for Characterizing Microbes
zenodo.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Hello,

We are excited to host the Protein Engineering Tournament again this year! 🏆

If you participated in the past or are interested in participating, please fill out this brief survey: forms.gle/PAkb8Zx39NYt...

Cheers!
The Align Team.
Protein Engineering Tournament Participant Survey
Brief survey for past and future participants of Align to Innovate's Protein Engineering Tournament
forms.gle
February 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We are gearing up for our 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament! 🧬 🏆

Have ideas on what the next community benchmarking competition for protein engineering should look like? 💡

Join our organizing committee! 💪

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https://share.hsforms.com/1SdiWRQ8TQnCD3EvULfrilQqw7v5
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February 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM