Time

Description

9:00–9:45

Arrival and Registration

9:45–10:00

Welcome
Thomas Gorochowski (University of Bristol, UK)

10:00–11:00

Bottlenecks to Biological Progress
Niko McCarty (Asimov Press, USA)

11:00–11:30

Break

11:30–12:00

Cell-Machine Interfaces for Control and Learning
Jean-Baptiste Lugagne (University of Oxford, UK)

12:00–12:30

Scaling Genetic Tractability Across the Tree of Life
Henry Lee (Cultivarium, USA)

12:30–13:15

Rapid Fire Poster Talks

13:15–14:30

Lunch + Posters + Exhibits

14:30–15:30

Molecular Machine Learning for Sustainable Molecular Designs (remote)
Jana M. Weber (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

15:30–16:00

Generative and Multimodal AI for Protein Design and Interaction Screening
Haiping Lu (University of Sheffield, UK)

16:00–16:30

Break

16:30–17:00

A Slice of Infinity: Building Robust, Interpretable AI for Open-ended Biodesign
Michiel Stock (Ghent University, Belgium)

17:00–17:50

Open-Ended, Quality Diversity, and AI-Generating Algorithms in the Era of Foundation Models (remote)
Jeff Clune (University of British Columbia, Canada)

17:50–18:00

Closing Remarks for the Day
Thomas Gorochowski (University of Bristol, UK)

18:00–late

Dinner (self-organised)

Time

Description

8:30–9:00

Arrival and Registration

9:00–9:10

Welcome
Natalio Krasnogor (Newcastle University, UK)

9:10–10:10

AI for Synthetic Biology
Huimin Zhao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

10:10–10:20

Development of an AI-Native Open Data Lakehouse for Automated Synthetic Biology
Matt Burridge (Newcastle University, UK)

10:20–10:30

Protein Design Enables Highly Accurate Sequence-to-Expression Models for an Integral Membrane Protein
Paul Curnow (University of Bristol, UK)

10:30–10:40

Computational Inference of Complex Feedstock Composition
Charlotte Merzbacher (Differential Biology GmBH, Germany)

10:40–11:00

Break

11:00–11:30

RNA Strand Exchange Circuits as a General-Purpose Molecular Programming Language for Synthetic Biology
Samuel Schaffter (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

11:30–11:40

Iterative NAND Hybrid Riboswitch Design by Deep Batch Bayesian Optimization
Erik Kubaczka (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

11:40–10:50

AI, Engineering Biology and the BBSRC - a Funder’s Perspective
Daniela Hensen (UKRI-BBSRC, UK)

11:50–12:00

AI, Engineering Biology and Bristol - a Regional Perspective
Kerstin Kinkelin & Kathleen Sedgley (University of Bristol, UK)

12:00–12:10

Twist Bioscience – Changing How We Explore Sequence Space In The AI Era
Sarah Jackson (Twist Bioscience, USA)

12:10–12:20

FateView: AI-Powered, Non-Destructive Live Cell Analytics and Cell Fate Forecasting
Christopher Gribben (CellVoyant, UK)

12:20–12:30

TBC
Vittorio Bartoli (BIOHM, UK)

12:30–14:00

Lunch + Posters + Exhibits

14:00–15:00

Toward AI-Driven Genetic Circuit Design
Caleb Bashor (Rice University, USA)

15:00–15:10

Upscaling Bacteriophage Therapy: AI and Synthetic Biology Driven Framework
Victor Németh (Ghent University, Belgium)

15:10–15:20

Generative Design and Construction of Functional Plasmids with a DNA Language Model
Angus Cunningham (University College London, UK)

15:20–15:30

Deep Mutational Learning for Effective Enzyme Engineering
Alperen Dalkiran (University of Edinburgh, UK)

15:30–15:50

Break

15:50–16:20

Engineering Swarms Across Scales
Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol, UK)

16:20–16:30

Reprogramming Development through Morphogenetic Perturbations
Elias Najarro (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

16:30–17:00

Prize Giving and Closing Remarks

17:00

Conference End