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: Crossing the chasm between biological foundation models and drug discovery applications

1 October 2025 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Central European Time

Speaker: Brendan Frey, University of Toronto, Deep Genomics

Abstract:

The research community has built over 50 biology foundation models (BioFMs), and the number and quality is growing rapidly. Hundreds of thousands of drug discovery researchers could benefit from BioFMs, but whereas these models speak the language of DNA, RNA and protein, drug developers speak English. This chasm in language makes it cumbersome and slow to use BioFMs for drug discovery. In this seminar, I'll describe three BioFMs we've created (REPRESS, DeepADAR, BigRNA) and how our team has used them for drug discovery. Then, I'll propose a way we can think about crossing the language chasm, and scaling up the interactions between drug discovery researchers, BioFMs and the teams that build them.

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