Jay
Janani Durairaj
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. |
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| 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 |