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Janani Durairaj

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I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology at the University of Lausanne.

We work on context-aware deep learning for protein structure, interaction, and design.

See our group page.

news

Sep 2026 Started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology at the University of Lausanne. Group website.
Nov 1, 2024 Started as an Ambizione Project Leader, bringing biochemical context to protein deep learning models
Aug 30, 2024 Spoke about PLINDER at the Generative AI in Drug Discovery series
Apr 9, 2024 The Protein Universe Atlas was selected as one of the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2023
Sep 13, 2023 ‘A Pandora’s box’: map of protein-structure families delights scientists
Jun 28, 2022 Winner of the BioSB Young Investigator Award “for a young researcher who has significantly contributed to the bioinformatics or the systems biology research community in the Netherlands.”
Nov 6, 2021 Kickstarted a structural bioinformatics newsletter with the group: FoldedWeekly
Sep 15, 2021 Defended my PhD thesis entitled “Computational approaches to discover novel enzymes for fragrance and flavour”, cum laude!
Sep 1, 2021 Started as a postdoc at the Protein Bioinformatics in 3D research group
Jun 30, 2021 Talked about what I’ll be working on as part of the LIGATE project