Bits in Bio Belgium // 23.2 // ESM Edition

Bits in Bio Belgium 2023.2 // The ESM edition

👋 Our team is excited about the next edition, as we will be delving into the realm of Large Language Models and Proteins! 🧪

• Talk 1: Tom Sercu co-leads the Protein team (Meta AI, FAIR) known for their disruptive work on Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) & Protein Language Models. Tom will introduce us to the ESM protein language models and their application to accurately predicting protein structure (ESMFold), creating the ESM Atlas, and the most recent work on designing new proteins from scratch using AI. 🚀
  ➡️ https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm

• Talk 2: Alphafold was the breakthrough model to crack protein structure prediction with AI, so we're happy to welcome Xander Steenbrugge as our second speaker this evening! Xander will introduce us to Alphafold, how it's build and used in modern biotech companies.

On these evenings, we bring together a 50/50 mixture of tech/bio experts, get to meet inspiring people, and we all learn together. ➡️ More on Bits in Bio Belgium

Doors open at 7pm, close by 10pm.

Aside from great people and talks, there will be 🍻 and 🍕! Special thanks to ML6 for hosting this edition! 🙏