Institute for Protein Innovation

New Robo/Slit antibodies just joined the IPI collections 🧪 Recommended for flow cytometry, immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry, these chimeric recombinant proteins are specific to human and mouse targets and do not cross-react with other protein family members. Find out more: https://buff.ly/Q2o2dS6

📣LAST CHANCE! Applications for our 2026 Yeast Display Technology for Antibody Discovery course are due TODAY 📣 Join us to learn the basics of yeast display library preparation, MACS and FACS sorts, and AI-enabled antibody discovery in just 5 days — directly from yeast display leaders and working scientists. Apply now! https://buff.ly/e04F8wO

Don't have a favorite part of antibody discovery? Maybe you'll find it in our 5 day course this summer! Apply now — applications close March 30th ⏲️ https://buff.ly/xOkQYkB Robert May

We’re excited to partner with the Institute for Protein Innovation on this course and to offer two fully funded scholarships. Opportunities like this matter because hands-on experience with technologies like yeast display helps scientists move faster, design better experiments, and push discovery forward. Apply below to be part of it 👇

We’re excited to announce that our partner, Alloy Therapeutics, Inc., will fund two full scholarships to attend IPI's upcoming five-day course on yeast display technology for antibody discovery! The course is open to postdocs, advanced grad students, faculty/principal investigators, and industry scientists interested in learning how to prepare libraries, conduct MACS and FACS sorts, and integrate yeast display methods into their research programs. The Alloy Scholarships will be awarded to top candidates who apply by March 30th ➡️ https://buff.ly/av8zOGo

Our automation team is running a short course at #PEGSBoston on May 12 for scientists looking to gain skills in automated liquid handling and see integrated systems for protein & antibody engineering in action. Early bird registration ends March 27th & spots are limited. Check it out! https://buff.ly/MHgLfXV Curtis Walton, Eloy Salinas, Emily McMains, MaryAnn Brown

We have developed our own mammalian expression vector called pTipi at the Institute for Protein Innovation, which is optimized for transient mammalian cell expression. We have minimized its size and used only essential elements including a chimeric intron and WPRE element. The vector is described in our preprint on codon optimization: https://lnkd.in/eFfS5p-9 This vector is available at Addgene for general academic and commercial use, and does not require any licensing to IPI as we aim to support academic labs and startups alike. The link to the plasmid page on Addgene is embedded in the preprint. I also wanted to use the opportunity to alert you to this unique opportunity to learn about yeast display in a hands-on course: https://lnkd.in/e2wMbBSs Please hurry if you would like to join, the deadline is 30th of March!

💫Preprint alert 💫 A new IPI study suggests scientists may be overestimating the value of codon optimization when producing mammalian proteins in mammalian cell lines, throwing the value of these strategies into question. Read more: https://buff.ly/88zX9vZ Congrats to Chang Yang, Raina Soni, Sarah Visconti, Mina Abdollahi, Filmawit Belay, Anita Ghosh, Sam Duvall, Curtis Walton, Rob Meijers & Haisun Zhu!

⚠️ ONE WEEK until applications for our yeast display course are due ⚠️ Join us this summer to gain experience designing yeast display libraries, sorting antibodies with MACS and FACS & discovering top antibody candidates in a hands-on course at IPI. Apply now: https://buff.ly/3eJMcHV Big thanks to our sponsors Alloy Therapeutics, Inc., Twist Bioscience and Sony Biotechnology Inc. for making this possible, and to our speakers Karl Dane Wittrup, Surge Biswas and Justin Peruzzi for lending their expertise. It's going to be an exciting week!

Learn the ins and outs of yeast display discovery, from antigen biotinylation to antibody identification, in our 5 day summer course. Apply by March 30th: https://buff.ly/FaTq0Z6 Fabbiha Hossain