Schedule

Fall 2025

Topic 1: DNA/Protein Engineering

Session 1: October 2nd 2025

Speaker: Dr. Abhisek Dwivedy

Research Associate at the Nucleic Acids Programming Lab

Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: "De novo design of aptamers using computational approaches"

Note: This session will be held at the Siebel Center for Computer Science, room 3124 instead of the usual room in Everitt Laboratory

Session 2: October 16th 2025

Speaker: Chaoran Cheng

Fourth-year Ph.D. Student, Prof. Ge Liu's Group,

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: TBA

Session 3: October 30th 2025

Brainstorming session

Attendees will get together in groups to discuss potential ideas involving the use of AI to address challenges in the field based on the talks. The best idea, as judged by Prof. Dave Zhao, Director of Computational Genomics at the IGB and the organizers will win a prize (details on prize coming soon!). Ideas to be submitted as a Word document (limited to 2 pages, not including figures). Further details on submissions and deadlines will be announced shortly.

Spring 2026

Topic 1: Virtual Cell. Dates and speakers TBA.

Topic 2: TBA

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