Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 AM
9:00 - 9:15 AM
9:15 - 10:00 AM
10:00-10:15 AM
10:15 - 11:45 AM
11:45-12:00
12:00-1:00pm
1:00-2:15pm
2:15-2:30 PM
2:30 - 4:30 PM
4:30 - 5:00 PM
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Registration
Opening Remarks
Opening Keynote
• Dr. Diane Joseph-McCarthy - Leveraging AI together with physics-based approaches for antibody design. (Boston University)
Break
Session 1: Industry Innovation & Platforms
• Dr. Matthew Bakalar -EDEN: a metagenomic foundation model for AI-programmable gene insertion enables site-specific large-payload integration with large serine recombinases. (Basecamp Research) -Keynote
• Dr. Daniel Bedinger - HT-SPR Technology as a Data Engine for AI-Driven Drug Design (Carterra)
• Dr. Will Cao -AI-Driven Discovery and Engineering of High-Performance Phi29 Variants with Superior Thermostability, Processivity, and Fidelity (Pando Bioscience)
Industry Spotlight
• Rajleen Gogar, PhD - Bridging the AI-to-Biology Gap: High-Throughput Reagents & Wet-Lab Scale for AI-Generated Biotherapeutics
Lunch
Oral Presentation Competition
Break
Session 2: Advanced Platforms & Next-Gen Engineering
• Dr. Abigail Lytton-Jean -Spatial Biology vs Electron Microscopy: why choose when you can have both? (Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research)-Keynote
• Devan Shah - Beyond Codons: The Structural and Regulatory Logic Governing mRNA Translation. (RNAV8 Bio)
• Dr. Leo Wan -Your Data, Your Models: Deep Mutational Scanning and Agentic Design in the Protein Engineering Loop. (Ranomics)
• Dr. Allison Colthart -Multi-Objective Optimization Methods for Immunogenicity Reduction and Function Preservation in Protein Therapeutics (Seismic Therapeutic)
Awards & Closing Remarks
Reception
Join us on the roof for drinks and networking!