It is our pleasure to invite the scientific community to our upcoming 1-Day AITHYRA Symposium “The Next Generation: AI for Biomedical Science”. This international meeting focuses specifically on early-career scientists and will take place in the IMBA Lecture Hall, Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna on 2 November 2026, from 9:00 – 15:15.
AITHYRA is a research institute at the intersection of life sciences and artificial intelligence/machine learning, with the mission to bridge cutting-edge computational approaches with biomedical discovery to advance human health. The Symposium Program is tailored to connect our growing community with a group of exceptional early-career researchers at the frontier of AI and biomedicine.
No registration is needed.
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Monday, 2 November 2026
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Remarks by the AITHYRA Directors Michael Bronstein, Georg Winter
Session 1: Structural Biology & Generative Molecular Modeling
9:10 – 9:45 Janani Durairaj, University of Lausanne “Context-aware deep learning for protein structure, interaction, and design”
9:45 – 10:20 Marta Skreta – University of Toronto “On the Selectivity of Generative Models in Structure-Based Drug Design”
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break
Session 2: Protein Design & Genomic Language Models
10:50 – 11:25 Kieran Didi, University of Oxford “What we can and cannot learn from general GenAI: Universal Molecular Design with Proteina models”
11:25 – 12:00 Ernest Mordret, Institut Pasteur “Genomic oracles: AI for functional discovery in microbiology"
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
Session 3: Single-Cell Representations & Spatial Biology
13:30 – 14:05 Zoe Piran, Genentech “Tracing by visual reasoning”
14:05 – 14:40 Gokul Gowri, MIT “Learning the dynamics of developmental trees”
14:40 – 15:15 Johann Wenckstern, EPFL “Virtual Tissues: From Atlas to Foundation Model for Spatial Proteomics"
End of Symposium
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