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Winter RosettaCon on March 6-8 2024

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Winter RosettaCon Schedule

Day 1 - Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Meeting Check In

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm: Session 1: Protein design with generative AI

Session Chairs: Brian Kuhlman, Dan Kulp

    • 5:00 - 5:10: Welcome: Dan Kulp, Brian Kuhlman
    • 5:10 - 5:15: Alexander Klenov, CTO & Aidan Tinafar, CEO, Liberum Bio
      • Announcement of Protein Design Competition
    • 5:15 - 5:50: Gevorg Grigoryan, Generate Biosciences
      • "Programmable generative protein design"
    • 5:50 - 6:15: Jason Yim, MIT
      • "MultiFlow: : A Unifying Model for Multimodal Protein Structure and Sequence Co-generation"

6:15 pm: Dinner on Site

Boston Marriott Cambridge

7:30 - 9:30: Poster Session 1

Day 2 - Thursday, March 7th, 2024

9:00 am - 11:55 am: Session 2 - Structure Prediction

Session Chairs: Minjae Park, Cristina Martina

    • 9:00 - 9:25: Richard Shuai, Stanford
      • “Hallucinating multiple sequence alignments with AlphaFold2 for predicting multiple conformations”
    • 9:25 - 10:00: Rohith Krishna, University of Washington
      • “Generalized Biomolecular Modeling and Design with RoseTTAFold All-Atom“
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Break (Snacks and Coffee)
    • 10:30 - 11:05: Phil Bradley, Fred Hutch
      • "Predicting and designing T cell receptor interactions"
    • 11:05 - 11:30: Arielle Tycko, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
      • Deciphering AlphaFold’s Ability to Predict the Energetic Effects of Single Point Mutations
    • 11:30 - 11:55: Zachary Drake
      • “DMS-Fold: Incorporating structural information from deep mutational scanning experiments to enhance OpenFold predictions”

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch

On your own

2:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Headshot Sessions

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2:00 pm - 4:50 pm: Session 3 - Antibodies, TCRs and designed antigens

Session Chairs: Daniel Bader, Hope Woods

    • 2:00 - 2:35: Vladimir Gligorljevic, Genentech
      • "Generative AI for antibody optimization and de novo design"
    • 2:35 - 3:10: Joe Watson, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
      • Title - "A pipeline for de novo antibody design"
    • 3:10 - 3:35: Tomoaki Kinjo, UNC
      • “Computational design of bispecific T-cell receptors for cancer therapeutics”
  • 3:35 - 4:00: Break (snacks)
    • 4:00 - 4:25: Helen Eisenach/David Juergens, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
      • “Methods development for antigen-tailored nanoparticle vaccine design with RFdiffusion”
    • 4:25 - 4:50: Mihai Azoitei, Duke University
      • Rational Vaccine Design to Target Conserved Regions of Coronavirus Spike Proteins

4:50 pm - 5:55 pm: Session 4 - AI and Biosafety

    • 4:50 - 5:15: Jeff Gray (Johns Hopkins University), Alex Rives (Evolutionary Scale), Ian Haydon (University of Washington/Institute for Protein Design)
      • "Community principles for the responsible use of AI in protein design"
    • 5:15 - 5:35: Samuel Curtis, Nick Randolph, Matt Schultz
      • "A Glance at the Intersection of LLMs and Biological Design Tools"
    • 5:35 - 5:55: Jonas Sandbrink (UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, AI Safety Insitute)

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Dinner on Site + Biosafety Discussion Tables

Boston Marriott Cambridge

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Poster Session 2

Day 3 - Friday, March 8th, 2024

9:00 am - 11:55 am: Session 5 - Peptide and Protein Design

Session Chairs: Odessa Goudy, Sebastian Swanson)

    • 9:00 - 9:25: Daniella Pretorius, Imperial College
      • “Into the Darkness: Exploring and Expanding the Solenoid Protein Universe”
    • 9:25 - 10:00: Amy Keating, MIT
      • “Putting sequences on backbones and putting peptides on proteins“
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Break
    • 10:30 - 10:55: Patrick Finneran, Menten AI
      • “Design of Drug-like Cyclic Peptides Using Generative AI”
    • 11:05 - 11:30: Kevin Yang, Microsoft
      • “Deep learning for protein engineering“
    • 11:30 - 11:55: Amy Guo, UCSF
      • “Engineering Ca2+-modulated local conformational dynamics”

11:55 am - 1:15 pm: Lunch On Site

Boston Marriott Cambridge

1:15 pm - 3:00 pm: Session 6 - Protein design applications

Session chairs: Fatima Hitawala, Amelia McCue

    • 1:15 - 1:40: Emily Wrenbeck, Gingko Bioworks
      • “Labels are all you need - functional enzyme discovery & engineering with applied ML & Foundry-scale data”
    • 1:40 - 2:15: Chris Bahl
      • "Better medicines, created rapidly through de novo miniprotein design"
    • 2:15 - 2:40: Vidar Sarma, Rutgers
      • "Profiling, predicting and designing viral 3C protease substrate specificity using high-throughput yeast surface display"
    • 2:40 - 2:50: Closing remarks

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