Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center

🎊 This #GraduateStudentAppreciationWeek, we're celebrating our incredible Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center PhD fellows. Thank you for your dedication, research contributions, and the many ways in which you enrich our community. 🧑🔬 Meet our fellows: https://lnkd.in/e44cAcqM 🎉 We're also thrilled to share that two of our MIT MEng students – Ryan Welch and Divya Nori – have accepted offers to begin their PhD studies at Stanford University this fall! Congratulations, Ryan and Divya — we cannot wait to see your future impact at the intersection of AI and biology. Ryan is currently advised by Caroline Uhler, Schmidt Center Director and Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering at MIT, and mentored by Aldo Pacchiano, Assistant Professor at the Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences and a Visiting Scientist at the Schmidt Center. Divya is advised by Caroline and Wengong Jin, Assistant Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University and a Visiting Scientist at the Schmidt Center. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard MIT EECS #SchmidtCenter #BroadInstitute #MIT #MITEECS #StanfordUniversity #RyanWelch #DivyaNori #MEng #Engineering #ComputerScience #AI #AIinBio #ScienceNews

Tomorrow – Wednesday, April 8 – we are thrilled to host guests all the way from Finland at our Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) meeting who will present on structural priors in generative AI, applied across all scales of biomedical data: from health records, to single cells, to small molecules. 📅 April 9 💬 Alexandru Dumitrescu, Dani Korpela 🏫 Aalto University 💡 Diffusion for molecule generation 💬 Harri Lähdesmäki 🏫 Aalto University 💡 Structured variational autoencoders for prediction and optimization 🗓️ Add to your calendar: https://lnkd.in/eMn_awT2 Both talks will be in person at the Broad (Acadia, M1) and broadcast over Zoom. If you do not have a Broad badge, please arrive at the 75 Ames St. entrance 10 minutes early with an ID to check in with security. We will escort folks up at 8:55 and 9:55 am; please email mia-team@broadinstitute.org if you arrive outside of these times. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #SchmidtCenter #ModelsInferenceAlgorithms #MIA #AlexandruDumitrescu #DaniKorpela #HarriLahdesmaki #AaltoUniversity 🧑🏫 Read the abstracts: broad.io/MIA 💌 Join our mailing list for updates and Zoom links: bit.ly/MIACast 📺 Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist  🗓️ View our calendar: broad.io/ewsc-calendar

Check out the Whitehead Innovation Initiative’s symposium – AI: Advancing Foundational Biology – today (Tuesday, April 8), from 2 - 5:00 p.m. at the Whitehead Institute, followed by a poster session and reception at 5 p.m. Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Director Caroline Uhler will be keynoting at 2:15 p.m. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eXgBxvVD Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #WhiteheadInnovationInitiative #AIinBio #MLinBio #CarolineUhler #MIT

Thank you to Kathryn Hess Bellwald for a fabulous colloquium today! Missed Kathryn’s talk? Stay tuned for the recording, coming soon. MIT EECS Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #SchmidtCenter #ScienceNews

This is not a joke – we’ve got a great MIA meeting planned for tomorrow – Wednesday, April 2 – featuring Gokcen Eraslan and Surag Nair from Genentech! 📅 April 2 💬 Gökçen Eraslan 🏫 ReLU, BRAID, Genentech 💡 A primer on DNA foundation modeling 💬 Surag Nair 🏫 ReLU, BRAID, Genentech 💡 Nona, a novel multimodal masked modeling framework for functional genomics 🗓️ Add to your calendar: https://lnkd.in/eWb8j6vE Both talks will be in person at the Broad (Acadia, M1) and broadcast over Zoom. If you do not have a Broad badge, please arrive at the 75 Ames St. entrance 10 minutes early with an ID to check in with security. We will escort folks up at 8:55 and 9:55 am; please email mia-team@broadinstitute.org if you arrive outside of these times. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #Genentech #SchmidtCenter #ModelsInferenceAlgorithms #MIA #GokcenEraslan #SuragNair 🧑🏫 Read the abstracts: broad.io/MIA 💌 Join our mailing list for updates and Zoom links: bit.ly/MIACast 📺 Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist  🗓️ View our calendar: broad.io/ewsc-calendar

A week from today – Monday, April 7 – join us at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (or virtually) from 4:00 - 5:00 pm (refreshments at 3:30 pm) for Kathryn Hess Bellwald's colloquium. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eTXhJkFQ #SchmidtCenter #BroadInstitute #MITEECS #EPFL #SNSF #KathrynHessBellwald #ML #AI #ComputationalBiology #SingleCellRNASeq #SystemsBiology

Whether you are following along in real time with our Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) meetings or catching up during spring break, we encourage you to review our playlist of past MIA talks. As you watch the videos, check out our fall 2024 recap. We look forward to seeing you at our next Wednesday meeting! https://lnkd.in/emGzaF9Q Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #BroadInstitute #SchmidtCenter #ModelsInferenceAlgorithms #MIA #MLinBio #BiomedicalResearch

📢 Excited to announce the #ICML2025 workshop on Scaling Up Intervention Models (SIM)! We have an amazing lineup of speakers Anish Agarwal, Charlotte Bunne, Amir Feder, Jason Hartford, Mengyue Yang! Let’s bring together state-of-the-art ideas on modeling novel interventions and distribution shifts. :) 🙌🏻 Submissions are welcome! Link: https://lnkd.in/e_2a4gKx — Production by the wonderful team with Jialin Yu, Niki Kilbertus, Cheng Zhang, Caroline Uhler, Ricardo Silva

🎉 Congratulations to recent Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center alum David Fischer (current assistant professor at the Medical University of Vienna) on his new perspective paper in Nature Reviews Genetics, co-authored with Martin Villanueva, Peter Winter, and Alex K. Shalek! The paper explores how systems biology can decode complexity in the single-cell era. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8nPd5Dj Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard #SchmidtCenter #BroadInstitute #ShalekLab #DavidFischer #MIT #SystemsBiology #SingleCell #HumanDisease #BiomedicalResearch #AIinScience #ScienceNews

Join us on Monday, April 7 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm for our next colloquium featuring Kathryn Hess Bellwald, professor of mathematics and life sciences at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Member of the Academic Board of the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, on CocycleHunter: a topological and geometric tool for phase estimation in single-cell RNA-seq data. This colloquium is part of a series hosted jointly by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and MIT EECS. It will be held at the Broad Institute in Yellowstone as well as virtually via YouTube Livestream: broad.io/ewsc. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm. All are welcome! If you do not have a Broad badge, please show up at the 415 Main Street entrance 10 minutes early to be escorted to the talk. Register today: https://lnkd.in/eTXhJkFQ #SchmidtCenter #BroadInstitute #MITEECS #EPFL #SNSF #KathrynHessBellwald #ML #AI #ComputationalBiology #SingleCellRNASeq #SystemsBiology