Science Exchange Topics:

• Drug optimisation and discovery
• Applications of AI/ML in protein design
• Confronting data integration as a barrier to ML
• ML in protein design and 3D model prediction
• Leveraging synthetic biology as opposed to pre-existing modalities

Science Exchange Leaders:

• Vitor Bernardes Pinheiro: Associate Professor, KU Leuven

• Jessica Louie: Visiting Researcher at Boston University

• David Gallegos: Scientist II at Takeda

Science Exchange Topics:

• What types of spatial omics technologies are available?
• And which can be adapted into the biomedical and clinical lab setting?
• Opportunities and challenges for applying spatial technologies to oncology/cancer clinical applications
• Opportunities and challenges for neurological and neurodegenerative disease applications
• Opportunities and challenges for immunology and infectious diseases
• Moving towards using spatial biology as a diagnostic/precision medicine tool

Science Exchange Leaders:

• Paul Keown, Professor of Medicine, Director of Immune Sciences at the University of British Columbia
• Raffaele Calogero, Professor, University of Torino

Science Exchange Topics:

• State-of-the-art spatial analysis: imaging-based and sequencing-based technologies
• Single tissue slices versus multiple tissue slices
• What are the new analytical strategies for different tissue structures?

Science Exchange Leaders:

• Jingyi Jessica Li, Professor of Statistics at University of California
• Hongyuan Cao, Associate Professor at Florida State University
• Jiliang Tang, University Foundation Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University

Science Exchange Topics:

• When should we use high throughput CRISPRi and CRISPRa?
• What are the available applications?
• Overcoming implementation challenges

Science Exchange Leaders:

• Professor Rob Krams, Chair in Molecular Bioengineering, Scientific Director at Queen Mary University

• Rafi Emmanuel, Executive Vice President, R&D at Emendo Research & Development

Science Exchange Topics:

• Biological image analysis

• Overcoming imaging challenges

Science Exchange Leaders:

• Min Xu, Principal Investigator at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science