Manuel Roag

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YouTube video by MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Structure Prediction and Design using AlphaFold – Sami Chaaban

Great talk by @sami-c.bsky.social about the proper use and caveats of AlphaFold2/3 predictions, highly recommended to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7vy...

SEA-AD DREAM Challenge - Predicting Alzheimers Pathology from snRNA-seq Data 'SEA-AD DREAM Challenge - Predicting Alzheimers Pathology from snRNA-seq Data' (Synapse ID: syn66496696) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations cen...

You can join this challenge to try and predict Alzheimer's pathology from transcriptomic data!

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It launches July 27! #hackathon @alleninstitute.org

ScaDS.AI Summer School LLM Training This is a collection of Jupyter Notebooks about basic and advanced LLM usage, focusing on what’s practicslly possible with Large Language Models. We demonstrate most utilities using the ScaDS.AI Large Language Models (LLM) Servicer (TU Dresden VPN required). Most exercises should also work with other providers such as GWDG KISSKI and Helmholtz Blablador. The tutorial aims at Python programmers who want to dive into LLMs for generating text, code and data using open source/weights models. After this course they will be able to integrate LLMs into their software applications. Contributions and feedback are very welcome! In case you see room for improvement, please create a github issue and/or consider contributing. Topics The notebook collection aims covering these topics: Large Language Models (LLMs) Text/Code/Data generation Prompt Engineering Retrieval-augmented-generation Vision Function calling Agents Covered Python libraries and software In these notebooks we use libraries from the GenAI field: bia-bob llama-index ollama openai Slide decks Also training slides can be downloaded from zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15743126 Videos The materials provided here were also discussed in a couple of recorded Online Lectures Large Language Models for Bio-image Analysis (ScaDS.AI Living Lab lecture 2024) Large Language Models – an introduction for life scientists (GloBIAS Seminar 2024) Bio-image Analysis Code Generation (I2K Conference 2024) Generative Artificial Intelligence for Bio-image Analysis Related resources The notebooks presented here were partially taken from other places or inspired by code in these resources:

I just finished a full-day hands-on tutorial about applications of LLMs as part of the @scadsai.bsky.social Summer School. Big thanks everyone for the lively discussions about prompt engineering, code&data generation, RAG, vision, function calling and #AI agents 🖥🤖🚀
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Time to get signed up for the Symposium on Structural Proteomics! This time at @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 6th-8th October Full speaker lineup announced. Thanks to @thermofishersci.bsky.social @brukercorporation.bsky.social, Affipro and MSVision for support
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9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter - Newton Gateway to Mathematics Background The Edwards Symposium Series reaches its ninth year in 2025. The Symposium will be an in-person event, but with some limited virtual...

9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter | Registration open
📆 Jul 22, 2025

Doktorand i bioinformatik Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik SciLifeLab ( SciLifeLab ) är ett nationellt center för molekylära biovetenskaper med fokus på forskning inom hälsa och miljö. Centret kombinerar ledande

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Design of intrinsically disordered region binding proteins Intrinsically disordered proteins and peptides play key roles in biology, but a lack of defined structures and high variability in sequence and conformational preferences have made targeting such syst...

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We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years.

Read more in our blog:
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🔬 Shaping Tomorrow 🌍
📅 25–27 Nov 2025 |📍27th EMBL PhD Symposium

🧠 Curious about the future of science?
Submit your abstract now to present a talk or poster!
🌟 Share your research, get global feedback, and join three days of inspiring science.
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🎉 Great news: Our Machine Learning and Physical Sciences workshop will be back again this year! 🎉
Keep an eye out for updates on deadlines etc, we will be updating the website soon
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The AI+Science Summer School 2025 has had a lasting impact on my development-both as a scientist and as a person. I am deeply grateful to everyone who made it possible, and to the brilliant, kind people I had the joy of meeting. It was an incredibly enriching experience! ❤️‍🩹

EMBO PhD Course: Empower Your Research Journey The EMBO PhD Course is a dynamic two-week training experience designed to empower you with the essential skills needed to thrive in your research career—and beyond. Week 1, in-person : M…

Application deadline extended to 15 July for the EMBO #PhD Course in #Chile! 🧪

"All parts of the course were very useful and I learnt a lot. The exchange of ideas as well as feedback received were immensely helpful," says a former course participant.

Apply now:
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AI for protein design In the last 5 years, the scientific community has witnessed the development of several AI-based tools for groundbreaking advances in protein science. These tools have enabled scientists to predict pr…

Learn about #AI tools in #protein #science, including design and engineering, at the EMBO Practical Course "AI for protein design" in Puerto Varas, Chile, 3–9 November 2025.

Deadline: 1 August

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#LifeSciences #research #training #ProteinStructure #EMBOevents 🧪

Members of EU Rosetta Con 2024

Early bird registration for 𝐄𝐔 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is open! 🎉🎉🎉

Come join us for three days of protein design fun! (October 20-22, 2025)

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We are looking forward to seeing you!

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New Danish research centre to make designed proteins with vast potential - Novo Nordisk Fonden

New €94M research centre for protein design will open at the University of Copenhagen and be led by Dek Woolfson

Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the centre will operate across the Departments of Biology and & Drug Design and Pharmacology

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Don't miss our July funding deadlines! Apply by 1 July for a General Travel Grant, Lab Visit Grant, Online Attendance Grant or Travel Award for International Skills and Knowledge Exchange! 🧪 View the full eligibility criteria and application form here: www.biochemistry.org/grants-and-a...

𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀: finishing my thesis writing and preparing this work for publication—stay tuned for updates!

Feel free to share your thoughts or ask questions! 😃

#CD #Proteins #AI #Bioinformatics #Biophysics #MachineLearning

🚀Excited to share that as part of my 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀, I applied 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 to 𝗞𝗖𝗗 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗺 (𝗖𝗗) 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀.

𝗡𝗼𝘄, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳!
Explore 𝗞𝗖𝗗-𝗔𝗜 here:
👉 kcd.cinvestav.mx

🚀 Super excited to share our new work, led by @vschnapka.bsky.social bAIes, a Bayesian framework for generating accurate atomic-resolution ensembles of IDPs using #AlphaFold info! Now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social → feedback welcome! @pasteur.fr @erc.europa.eu

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Five protein-design questions that still challenge AI Tools such as Rosetta and AlphaFold have redefined the protein-engineering landscape. But some problems remain out of reach — for now.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The external speakers are set and ready to navigate the intersection of #AI & #StructBio for the Bridging Atoms and Algorithms: A Symposium on AI and Structural Biology.
🗓️Tuesday & Wednesday, March 17–18, 2026
🏫Campus of Vanderbilt University
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Great course on drug discovery!

Enrollment deadline: 30 July
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🚨 Applications are open for the 63rd Hands-on Workshop on Computational Biophysics at Auburn University!

📍 Auburn University | 📅 Aug 4–8, 2025
🔬 Learn #NAMD, #VMD from experts in #moleculardynamics
👩‍💻 In-person | Free to apply | 35 spots only
⏳ Deadline: June 20
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Excited to unveil Boltz-2, our new model capable not only of predicting structures but also binding affinities! Boltz-2 is the first AI model to approach the performance of FEP simulations while being more than 1000x faster! All open-sourced under MIT license! A thread… 🤗🚀

Just under two weeks left to apply for PhD positions at the Crick 🔬🧬 Check out this video featuring @sarahwillich.bsky.social for some application tips youtu.be/XjW4LqwKNFs