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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Symposium: Biomedical Science and AI
Wednesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 1, 2025 in Cambridge, MA

‍Bringing together researchers who develop the foundations of machine learning and apply the resulting methods to understand the programs of life and how they connect across scales - from proteins to cells to tissues and organisms. 

Experts in the field will discuss how machine learning is revealing important insights into the most pressing biomedical questions of our time and, conversely, how these biomedical questions are driving foundational advances in machine learning.

Wednesday, April 30

8:00 - 8:40 am -- Registration and breakfast

8:40 - 8:50 am -- Opening remarks

Todd Golub -- Director, Founding Core Institute Member, Broad Institute

8:50 - 9:00 am -- Schmidt Center Introduction

Caroline Uhler -- Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, Core Institute Member, Broad Institute

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9:00 - 9:30 am -- Invited talk: title TBD

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus

9:30 - 10:00 am -- Invited talk: title TBD

Michael Bronstein, University of Oxford / Aithyra Institute

10:00 - 10:15 am -- Speaker selected from abstracts

10:15 - 10:30 am -- Speaker selected from abstracts

10:30 - 11:00 am -- Coffee break

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11:00 - 11:30 am -- Invited talk: Foundation models for biology, across scales

Jean-Philippe Vert, Owkin & Bioptimus

11:30 am - 12:00 pm -- Invited talk: Toward a holistic and quantitative stem cell state landscape

Susanne Rafelski, Allen Institute for Cell Science

12:00 - 12:30 pm -- Flash talks

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12:30 - 2:00 pm -- Lunch and poster session

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2:00 - 2:30 pm -- Invited talk: Genomes & AI: from Packing to Regulation

GV Shivashankar, ETH Zurich

2:30 - 3:00 pm -- Invited talk: title TBD

Dana Pe'er, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

3:00 - 3:15 pm -- Speaker selected from abstracts

3:15 - 3:30 pm -- Speaker selected from abstracts

3:30 - 4:00 pm -- Coffee break

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4:00 - 5:30 pm -- Panel discussion on Novel large-scale data creation: Genomes, Cells, Tissues, Organisms

Fei Chen, Broad Institute

Anne Carpenter, Broad Institute

Mark Daly, Broad Institute

Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University

Moderator: Eric Lander, Broad Institute

5:30 pm -- Closing remarks

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Thursday, May 1

8:30 - 9:00 am -- Registration and breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 am -- Invited talk: Computational challenges in functional genomics

John Marioni, Genentech - Roche

9:30 - 10:00 am -- Invited talk: Decoding human cell and tissue architectures - from spatial proteomics to whole cell modeling

Emma Lundberg, Stanford University

10:00 - 10:15 am -- Speaker selected from abstracts

10:15 - 10:30 am -- Speaker selected from abstracts

10:30 - 11:00 am -- Coffee break

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11:00 - 11:30 am -- Invited talk: title TBD

Maria Brbic, EPFL

11:30 am - 12:00 pm -- Invited talk: Deep learning the cis-regulatory code at single base and single cell resolution

Anshul Kundaje, Dept. of Genetics, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University

12:00 - 12:30 pm -- Flash talks

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12:30 - 2:00 pm -- Lunch and poster session

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2:00 - 2:30 pm -- Invited talk: Toward AI-Driven Digital Organisms: Multiscale Foundation Models for Predicting, Simulating, and Programming Biology at All Levels

Eric Xing, GenBio AI, CMU, MBZUAI

2:30 - 3:00 pm -- Invited talk: title TBD

Patrick Hsu, Arc Institute, UC Berkeley

3:00 - 3:15 pm -- Speaker selected from abstracts

3:15 - 3:30 pm -- Speaker selected from abstracts

3:30 - 4:00 pm -- Coffee break

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4:00 - 5:30 pm -- Panel Discussion on Foundation models in biology: DNA, Protein, Cells, Tissues, Organisms

Faisal Mahmood, Harvard Division of Medical Sciences

Shirley Liu, GV20 Therapeutics

Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT

Moderator: Caroline Uhler, Broad Institute

5:30 pm -- Closing remarks

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