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Maya Patel — Junior at Lincoln HS
Hi Dr. Chen — I'm Maya, a junior at Lincoln HS in Chicago. I've been spending my weekends on protein folding, which is why your 2024 ensembles paper made me put my coffee down twice…
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draft readyProf. R. Chen
Stanford
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generating…Prof. A. Wu
Stanford
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queuedProf. L. Singh
Stanford
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Hi Maya — I read through everything you shared. The combo of bio + Python is a strong angle for Stanford's ensemble work.
I'm nervous I'll sound generic. Can we tighten the hook?
Try this: “your 2024 ensembles paper made me put my coffee down twice”. It's specific, it's honest, and it shows you read it.
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RStrong fit
Prof. R. Chen
Stanford · h-index 47 · Computational biology
Conformational ensembles for de novo design (2024)
We introduce a flow-matching model over backbone ensembles…
Latent diffusion for protein–ligand binding (2023)
Your hook: your AlphaFold side-project on bird CASP14 reproductions intersects directly with how she handles conformational diversity.
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Question about your work — from a Lincoln HS student
Hi Dr. Chen, I'm Maya — a junior at Lincoln HS. I've been teaching myself protein folding the past few months. Your recent paper on ensemble methods stuck with me — the way you handle conformational diversity is exactly the kind of work I'd love to learn from. Would you be open to a high schooler joining your group this summer?
92 words · within warm-tone range
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