Kipoi - Seminar

The monthly virtual seminar series is designed as a platform for interested Kipoi users and developers and will host talks on the applications of deep learning on biological data. The seminar is held on every first Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. CET. We are also happy to share the recordings of the seminar on YouTube.

How to take part

Our Virtual Seminar Series is hosted entirely online. To join, please subscribe to the mailing list below; we will send you a single recurring link that provides access to every lecture in the series.

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How to apply as a speaker

The seminar is a great opportunity to present your recent work to a large international audience. If you want to apply as a speaker, please use the contact in the registration confirmation email.

Next seminar

Title: Predicting Viral Evolution to Accelerate Vaccine and Therapeutic Design

6 May 2026 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Central European Time

Speaker: Noor Youssef, Harvard Medical School

Abstract:

Viruses have an enormous impact on humanity, causing billions of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses. Yet our responses to viral threats have largely been, and continue to be, reactive. We wait for a virus to spill over into humans, evolve within individuals, and ultimately spread across the global population before acting. My research aims to build a proactive framework for responding to viral threats aimed at identifying potential dangers before they cause their first human infection and developing medical countermeasures (e.g., vaccines and therapeutic antibodies) before widespread transmission occurs. Achieving this goal depends on three key pillars: Can we predict how viruses will evolve? Can we anticipate how those changes will affect immune recognition and protection? And how can we use this knowledge to design vaccines and therapeutics that protect against both current and future viral diversity? In this seminar, I will highlight how my work has made progress on each of these fronts, and lay out a vision for how the remaining gaps can be closed. Together, these advances point toward a future in which we are no longer chasing viruses, but staying ahead of them.

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