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Sebastian Castillo-Hair

University of Washington
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Machine learning for designing next-generation mRNA therapeutics

SM Castillo-Hair, G Seelig - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over just the last 2 years, mRNA therapeutics and vaccines have undergone a
rapid transition from an intriguing concept to real-world impact. However, whereas some …

[HTML][HTML] An open-hardware platform for optogenetics and photobiology

KP Gerhardt, EJ Olson, SM Castillo-Hair… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… We set the 533 nm LED to 0.40 μmol m −2 s −1 and each bottom LED to 3.21 μmol m −2 s
−1 because CcaS-CcaR has approximately 10-fold greater sensitivity to green than red light (…

FlowCal: a user-friendly, open source software tool for automatically converting flow cytometry data from arbitrary to calibrated units

SM Castillo-Hair, JT Sexton, BP Landry… - ACS synthetic …, 2016 - ACS Publications
… coli and S. cerevisiae gene expression systems and two different flow cytometers. First, … ’s
compatibility with eukaryotic cells by calibrating Venus measurements from a light-inducible S. …

[HTML][HTML] Optogenetic control of Bacillus subtilis gene expression

SM Castillo-Hair, EA Baerman, M Fujita… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… Total LED power output in μmol s −1 was measured using a spectrometer (StellarNet UVN-…
of 20 μmol m −2 s −1 or more for red LEDs and 50 μmol m −2 s −1 or more for green LEDs. …

Design principles for robust oscillatory behavior

SM Castillo-Hair, ER Villota, AM Coronado - Systems and synthetic biology, 2015 - Springer
… An activating interaction catalyzes the conversion of an enzyme’s inactive form into the active
form. For example, an activating interaction of component A over component B, denoted by …

An Engineered B. subtilis Inducible Promoter System with over 10 000-Fold Dynamic Range

SM Castillo-Hair, M Fujita, OA Igoshin… - ACS synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… A one-sample Student’s t test was conducted for every sample to evaluate whether sfGFP
fluorescence was significantly different from zero (one-sided, p < 0.05). Fluorescence of …

How to train your microbe: methods for dynamically characterizing gene networks

SM Castillo-Hair, OA Igoshin, JJ Tabor - Current opinion in microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
… This study demonstrates that the S. cerevisiae TF Msn2 translocates to the nucleus with
different dynamics depending on the nature and magnitude of the stress. 1-NM-PP1 is also used …

Communicating structure and function in synthetic biology diagrams

…, S Bhakta, M Bissell, S Castillo Hair… - ACS synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… Diagrams are found at every stage of a system’s development, from idea and requirements
capture to refinement and realization, from analysis and debugging to deployment, operations…

Meeting measurement precision requirements for effective engineering of genetic regulatory networks

J Beal, B Teague, JT Sexton, S Castillo-Hair… - ACS Synthetic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
… predictive accuracy m of a model, the precision μ of property value measurements, the
estimated range r̂ over which a property value will fulfill its specification, and the probability p s

Optimizing 5'UTRs for mRNA-delivered gene editing using deep learning

S Castillo Hair, S Fedak, B Wang, J Linder, K Havens… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
mRNA therapeutics are revolutionizing the pharmaceutical industry, but methods to optimize
the primary sequence for increased expression are still lacking. Here, we design 5'UTRs for …