Upcoming Events & Seminars
Student- & Postdoc-Focused Works-In-Progress Meetings on AI/Automation in Biodesign
Spring 2025 Schedule
Welcome! Are you a grad student/postdoc looking to share your work to the Center for Quantitative BioDesign community? We would love to hear about your work in progress! Please plan on giving a ~20-minute talk + 10 minutes for Q&A, and we’ll provide pizza and drinks
Preferences to presentation dates will be given on a first come-first serve basis! If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Hong (lauren.hong@duke.edu) or Max Golovsky (maximillian.golovsky@duke.edu).
| Date | Presenters |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Presenter 1: Erin Ostrem, PhD – (Venturelli Lab): Dietary Fiber and Host-Derived Glycans Shape Butyrate Production through Modulation of Interspecies Interactions
Presenter 2: Zachary A. Holmes – (You Lab): A foundation model for microbial growth dynamics |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Presenter 1: Benjamin Perry – (Romero Lab): Towards New-to-Nature Enzyme Design: a Learned Joint Representation of Reaction-Sequence Space
Presenter 2: Katie Duncker – (You Lab): Engineering microbial consortia as distributed environmental sentinels |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Presenter 1: Utsuki Yano – (Lynch Lab): Title TBD
Presenter 2: Fred Peng – (Chatterjee Lab): EvoFlow: Generating and Representing Proteins with Language Model Learned from Evolution |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Presenter 1: Shrey Goel – (Chatterjee Lab): MeMDLM: De Novo Membrane Protein Design with Masked Discrete Diffusion Protein Language Models
Presenter 2: Zachary Quinn – (Chatterjee Lab): PepMLM: Target Sequence-Conditioned Generation of Therapeutic Peptide Binders via Masked Language Modeling |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Presenter 1: Xiaoli Chen, PhD – (You Lab): Engineering dual-barcoded populations for quantification of microbiome dynamics
Presenter 2: Ryan Boileau – (Chory Lab): Massively multiplexed and parallel structure-function assays using automation |
| April 11, 2025 | Presenter 1: Dongheon Lee, PhD – (You Lab): Control of Intracellular Biochemical Reactions through Biomolecular Phase Separation
Presenter 2: Vita Zhang – (Gladfelter Lab): Designing Synonymous RNAs with Temperature-Sensitive Physical Properties |
April 25, 2025:
Presenter 1: Pak Lun Kevin Cheung – (Venturelli Lab): System Identification for Microbial Communities Dynamical Systems
Presenter 2: Coban Brooks – (Romero Lab): Automating the process of scientific discovery for protein engineering
Spring 2025 CQB Seminar Schedule
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Day of the Week: Friday (s)
Place: Wilkinson Auditorium 021
| Date | Course | Speaker | Institution | Faculty Host | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2025 | CQB
seminar |
Maria Brbic, Ph.D. | EPFL Institute of Bioengineering | John Hickey, PhD | Generative AI for Unlocking the Complexity of Cells |
| Feb 21, 2025 | CQB seminar | Shriya Srinivasan, Ph.D. | Harvard University | Unlocking the Gut’s Brain with Ingestible Bioelectronics | |
| Mar 7, 2025 | CQB seminar | Rodrigo Reyes, Ph.D. | McGill University | Single-Molecule Tracking of DNA-Binding Proteins: Insights into Cellular Function and Genome Maintenance | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | CQB seminar | Ron Dror,Ph.D | Stanford University | TBD | |
| Apr 4, 2025 | CQB
seminar |
Declan P O’Regan, Ph.D. | Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC) | AI in Cardiovascular Imaging | |
| Apr 18, 2025 | CQB seminar | Li Bowen, Ph.D. | University of Toronto | AI-Driven Design of Lipid Nanoparticles for mRNA Delivery |
