MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND DESIGN: from Computational Models and Machine Learning to Biological and Medical Applications

 Cargèse, France 

 August 18-29, 2025 

This summer school will cover different topics in protein and RNA design as listed below, and will focus on teaching modern modeling approaches in this domain, from statistical physics, computer science, and machine learning fields to recent experimental approaches. Main lectures will consist of 2 mornings of about 3 hours each, followed by afternoon seminars in the same domain and student projects.

The main topics are:

Techniques: Statistical Physics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, experimental techniques related to gene synthesis, screening, mutagenesis and experimental evolution.

The venue

The Summer School will be held in the Institute D'études Scientifiques De Cargèse, located in the island of Corsica, in France.
Google maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/muHWjzHjbvSKtsdk7

Buses from Ajaccio to the institute will be organized on the arrival and departure days:

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Otherwise you will have to cover your own taxi or rental car. See this link for further traveling suggestions.

Registration

Please apply by filling this form. If your application is accepted, you will also be required to fill a form in the website of the Institute D'études Scientifiques De Cargèse for lodging. For now it is not necessary to specify travel details, this will be done after acceptance. There is no registration fee, but travel, housing, and food expenses will be covered by yourself.

The deadline to apply is: 15 March 2025. Priority will be given to early applicants.

Attendants are expected to stay for the full duration of the school.

Confirmed speakers

Lecturers:

Joseph W. Thornton (Chicago U.)

Sergey Ovchinnikov (MIT)

Jérôme Tubiana (Tel Aviv U.)

Rémi Monasson (ENS, Paris)

Francesco Zamponi (ENS, Paris)

John Paul Barton (Pittsburgh)

Seminars:

Bikard, D. (Pasteur, Paris)

Bolognesi, B. (IBEC, Barcelona)

Boussau, B. (U. Lyon)

Carbone, A. (U. Sorbonne, Paris)

Choudhury, A. (CEA, France)

Dal, M. Peraro (EPFL, Lausanne)

De Los Rios, P. (EPFL, Lausanne)

Goldstein, R. A. (UCL, London)

Greiff, V. (U. Oslo)

Nghe, P. (ESPCI, Paris)

Nourmohammad, A. (U. of Washington)

Ribezzi, M. (ESPCI, Paris)

Suess, B. (TU Darmstadt)

Šulc, P. (Arizona State U., & TUM)

Tenaillon, O. (Institut Cochin, Paris)

Weghorn, D. (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

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Program

Program available at this link.

Organizers