Yeganeh Foroughijabbari

This study shows that the choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms multicellular sheets through clonal or aggregative mechanisms, adapting to environmental changes in splash pools.

Autoencoder design plus a roughly 24-hour cell-free screen tested 500 candidates over five rounds, finding 30 functional AMPs; six were broad-spectrum with no resistance emerging in E. coli.

The paper introduces METIS, an active learning workflow for optimizing genetic and metabolic networks, demonstrating significant improvements in efficiency with minimal experiments.