Agenda
Schedule
8:30 - 9:00 AM
9:00 - 9:15 AM
9:15 - 10:00 AM
10:00 - 11:30 AM
11:30-11:40 AM
11:40-12:40 PM
12:40-1:40 PM
1:40-2:40 PM
2:40 - 2:50 PM
2:50 - 4:50 PM
4:50 - 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)
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. Leo Wan -TBA. (Baylor College of Medicine)
• Dr. Will Cao -AI-Driven Discovery and Engineering of High-Performance Phi29 Variants with Superior Thermostability, Processivity, and Fidelity (Pando Bioscience)
Break
Oral Presentations - Round 1
Lunch
Oral Presentations - Round 2
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
• Dr. Daniel Bedinger - HT-SPR Technology as a Data Engine for AI-Driven Drug Design (Carterra)
• Devan Shah - TBA. (RNAV8 Bio)
• Allison Colthart -Multi-Objective Optimization Methods for Immunogenicity Reduction and Function Preservation in Protein Therapeutics (Seismic Therapeutic)
Awards & Closing Remarks
Reception