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VIB.AI Symposium (1st edition)
20 November 2024, Mechelen, Belgium
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VIB.AI Symposium (1st edition)
VIB.AI Symposium (1st edition)
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Keep me postedAdd to calendarThe inaugural VIB.AI Symposium aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of AI and life sciences, to explore innovative machine learning methods, address the current challenges, foster collaboration, and inspire new concepts in using AI for biological applications. The program spans diverse themes including AI applications in genomics, single-cell and spatial technologies, proteomics, imaging and beyond.
The symposium is organized for researchers affiliated to VIB and its partner universities (KU Leuven, UGent, UAntwerp, VUB and UHasselt) or to other Flemish Strategic Research Centers such as imec and VITO.
Sponsorship packages
We offer a variety of sponsorship possibilities, with the flexibility to select a set sponsorship package or combine individual sponsorship options to suit your event budget. More info here.
Confirmed speakers
Program
Program - Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
08:30
09:15
Registration and coffee
09:15
12:20
Plenary session 1: AI in Biology
Chair: Stein Aerts
09:15
09:35
Opening remarks
Stein Aerts
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
09:35
10:05
DNA language models reveal functional genomic elements
Julien Gagneur
Technical University of Munich, DE
10:05
10:35
Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense
Žiga Avsec
DeepMind, UK
10:35
10:50
DeepSCENIC: Gene Regulatory Network Discovery with Genomic Foundation Models
Gabriele Partel
VIB.AI Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
Selected from abstracts
10:50
11:20
Coffee break
11:20
11:50
Looking for quantitative foundations for biology 2.0
Amos Tanay
Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
11:50
12:05
A deep manifold-regularized learning model for improving phenotype prediction from multi-modal data
Duc Nam Nguyen
VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology, BE
Selected from abstracts
12:05
12:20
Poster Flash talks
12:20
14:20
Lunch and poster session
14:20
15:35
Plenary session 2
14:20
14:50
Invited speaker
Oliver Stegle
EMBL Heidelberg & the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DE
14:50
15:20
Functional profiling of antibody sequences and structures: class switching, assembly and conformational flexibility
Franca Fraternali
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UK
15:20
15:35
PIDgeon: An explainable AI model for improved flow cytometry-based screening of lymphoid primary immunodeficiencies
Annelies Emmaneel
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, BE
Selected from abstracts
15:35
16:00
Coffee break
16:00
17:30
Plenary session 3
16:00
16:30
Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale
16:30
17:00
Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation
David Kelley
Calico, US
17:00
17:30
De Novo Protein Design - From New Structures to Controllable Dynamics to Synthetic Cellular Signaling
Tanja Kortemme
University of California, San Francisco, US
17:30
19:00
Networking reception
Organizing committee
Stein Aerts
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
Liesbeth Aerts
Beakon, BE
Jonas Demeulemeester
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, BE
Valeriya Malysheva
VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology, BE
Irina Matetovici
VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, BE
Manon Van Nuffel
VIB Headquarters, BE
Anastassia Vorobieva
VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, BE; VIB.AI, BE
Abstracts
The full list of abstracts will be available on 05-11-2024 until 20-02-2025
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
Attendees
The full list of attendees will be available on 05-11-2024 until 20-02-2025
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
This list will only be available for registered attendees of the event.
