Lydia Freddolino, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
1150 W. Medical Center Dr.
Ann Arbor
MI, 48109-0600 United States
[email protected]

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Lydia Freddolino, PhD
Associate Professor
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  • About

    The regulatory networks of bacteria play a key role in their information processing capabilities, coordinating and executing interactions with their environments. Quantitative, predictive models of these networks would be tremendously beneficial for facilitating the development of new antimicrobial therapies, enabling synthetic biology applications, and understanding bacterial evolution and ecology. Ultimately, the aim of my laboratory is to build a multiscale framework enabling modeling of bacterial regulatory networks at any level of detail, from atomistic to cellular. To this end, we develop and apply high-throughput experimental methods for measuring biomolecular interactions and cellular regulatory states in vivo, and for profiling the phenotypic consequences of regulatory changes. In tandem with these experimental approaches, we use molecular simulation and mathematical modeling to obtain high-resolution insight into the biomolecular interactions driving regulatory networks, and the systems-level effects of altering them.

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    • Freddolino Lab
    Qualifications
    • Postdoctoral fellow
      Columbia University, Systems Biology, 2014
    • Postdoctoral researcher
      Princeton University, Molecular Biology, 2011
    • PhD
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 2009
    • BS
      California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2004
    Research Overview

    The regulatory networks of bacteria play a key role in their information processing capabilities, coordinating and executing interactions with their environments. Quantitative, predictive models of these networks would be tremendously beneficial for facilitating the development of new antimicrobial therapies, enabling synthetic biology applications, and understanding bacterial evolution and ecology. Ultimately, the aim of my laboratory is to build a multiscale framework enabling modeling of bacterial regulatory networks at any level of detail, from atomistic to cellular. To this end, we develop and apply high-throughput experimental methods for measuring biomolecular interactions and cellular regulatory states in vivo, and for profiling the phenotypic consequences of regulatory changes. In tandem with these experimental approaches, we use molecular simulation and mathematical modeling to obtain high-resolution insight into the biomolecular interactions driving regulatory networks, and the systems-level effects of altering them.

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Regulation of the Drosophila transcriptome by Pumilio and the CCR4-NOT deadenylase complex.
      Haugen RJ, Barnier C, Elrod ND, Luo H, Jensen MK, Ji P, Smibert CA, Lipshitz HD, Wagner EJ, Freddolino PL, Goldstrohm AC. RNA, 2024 Apr 16; DOI:10.1261/rna.079813.123
      PMID: 38627019
    • Journal Article
      Enricherator: A Bayesian method for inferring regularized genome-wide enrichments from sequencing count data.
      Schroeder JW, Lydia Freddolino P. J Mol Biol, 2024 Apr 5; 168567 DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168567
      PMID: 38583516
    • Preprint
      Nucleoid-associated proteins shape the global protein occupancy and transcriptional landscape of a clinical isolate of Vibrio cholerae.
      Rakibova Y, Dunham DT, Seed KD, Freddolino PL. 2024 Mar 25; DOI:10.1101/2023.12.30.573743
      PMID: 38260642
    • Journal Article
      Improving deep learning protein monomer and complex structure prediction using DeepMSA2 with huge metagenomics data.
      Zheng W, Wuyun Q, Li Y, Zhang C, Freddolino PL, Zhang Y. Nat Methods, 2024 Feb; 21 (2): 279 - 289. DOI:10.1038/s41592-023-02130-4
      PMID: 38167654
    • Journal Article
      BioLiP2: an updated structure database for biologically relevant ligand-protein interactions.
      Zhang C, Zhang X, Freddolino PL, Zhang Y. Nucleic Acids Res, 2024 Jan 5; 52 (D1): D404 - D412. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkad630
      PMID: 37522378
    • Preprint
      FURNA: a database for function annotations of RNA structures.
      Zhang C, Freddolino PL. 2023 Dec 19; DOI:10.1101/2023.12.19.572314
      PMID: 38187637
    • Journal Article
      Integrating deep learning, threading alignments, and a multi-MSA strategy for high-quality protein monomer and complex structure prediction in CASP15.
      Zheng W, Wuyun Q, Freddolino PL, Zhang Y. Proteins, 2023 Dec; 91 (12): 1684 - 1703. DOI:10.1002/prot.26585
      PMID: 37650367
    • Journal Article
      Integrating end-to-end learning with deep geometrical potentials for ab initio RNA structure prediction.
      Li Y, Zhang C, Feng C, Pearce R, Lydia Freddolino P, Zhang Y. Nat Commun, 2023 Sep 16; 14 (1): 5745 DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-41303-9
      PMID: 37717036
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