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

The Virtual Seminar Series takes place via Zoom. To take part in the seminar, you can register for the online Zoom conference. Your personal join link will be valid for all upcoming lectures of 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: Reading and writing the language of life

3 September 2025 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Central European Time

Speaker: Hani Goodarzi, Arc Institute, UCSF

Abstract:

Evo 2 is a nucleic acid foundation model trained on over 9 trillion base pairs from genomes across all domains of life. With 7B and 40B parameter versions, Evo 2 operates at single-nucleotide resolution and supports context windows up to 1 million tokens. It achieves strong zero-shot performance in predicting the functional impact of genetic variation—including noncoding, splice-altering, and BRCA1/2 mutations—without requiring task-specific finetuning. Mechanistic interpretability reveals that Evo 2 learns biologically meaningful features, from regulatory elements to protein structure. The model also enables genome-scale sequence generation and controllable epigenomic design via inference-time search. Evo 2 is fully open, including model weights, training data (OpenGenome2), and code, offering a scalable platform for predictive genomics and generative biology.

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