Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Meeting
About this Event
75 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02142
https://www.broadinstitute.org/talks/spring-2025/miaPlease join us on Wednesday, November 19 for our MIA meeting featuring Nicholas F. Polizzi (Harvard Medical School)!
🎤 Predicting small-molecule binding sites in proteins using the pair representation of AlphaFold2
🏫 Harvard Medical School
Hosted by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, the MIA Initiative (Models, Inference & Algorithms) supports learning and collaboration across the interface of biology and medicine with mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and computer science. We bring together scientists every Wednesday in Acadia (Broad Institute – 75 Ames St., M1) and virtually. A primer starts at 9:00 am, followed by a seminar and discussion at 10:00 am and 10:50 am, respectively.
💌 Join our mailing list for Zoom links: bit.ly/MIACast
🧑🏫 Read the abstracts: broad.io/MIA
📺 Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist
🗓️ View our calendar: broad.io/mia-calendar
❓ Ask questions: mia-team@broadinstitute.org
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🍂 Fall 2025 Schedule ☕
All events are held in Acadia (75 Ames St., M1) and virtually, unless noted otherwise
📅 Wednesday, September 24
🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: Infrastructure and modeling challenges in single-cell omics
🏫 Polytechnic University of Turin
🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: When more isn’t better: rethinking scale in single-cell foundation models
🏫 Microsoft Research New England (MSR)
📅 Friday, October 3
Co-hosted with IDMP
📍Broad Auditorium – 415 Main St.
🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: From Sequence to Structure: Fundamentals of Protein Sequence and Structure Analysis
🏫 Seoul National University
🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: Exploring the Protein Universe via Highly Accurate Structural Predictions
🏫 Seoul National University
📅 Wednesday, October 8
🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: Ultra-secure computing with homomorphic encryption for genome privacy
🏫 Columbia University
🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: Privacy-Preserving Approaches to Knowledge Discovery in Biomedicine
🏫 Columbia University
📅 Friday, October 17
🎉 MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
📺 Watch Caroline’s opening remarks
📺 Watch the MIA overview: reflecting on the past 10 years of MIA
📍Broad Institute – 300 Binney St. (2110 - Charles)
📝 Agenda:
9:30 - 10:00 am: Welcome, breakfast
10:00 - 11:00 am: Panel discussion
11:00 - 11:30 am: Lightning talks from Tavor Baharav (Schmidt Center, Broad Institute) and Jiaqi Zhang (Schmidt Center, Broad Institute), networking
👩🔬 Panelists:
🏫 Broad Institute (MIA co-founder and co-chair)
🏫 University of Toronto
🏫 Genentech
🏫 Generate:Biomedicines
📅 Wednesday, October 22
🎤 First talk, 9:00 am: AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery: Specialized Builds and General Methods
🏫 Stanford AI Lab, Genentech
🎤 Second talk, 10:00 am: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent
🏫 Stanford Computer Science
📅 Wednesday, October 29
🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: Inferring transcription factor binding from base-pair level chromatin accessibility using deep learning contribution scores
🏫 UMass Chan Medical School
🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: Programmatic design and editing of cis-regulatory elements using deep learning
🏫 UMass Chan Medical School
📅 Wednesday, November 5
🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: Permutation Enhances the Rigor of Genomics Data Analysis
🏫 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: mcRigor: a statistical method to enhance the rigor of metacell partitioning in single-cell data analysis
💬 Pan Liu
🏫 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
📅 Wednesday, November 19
🎤 Predicting small-molecule binding sites in proteins using the pair representation of AlphaFold2
🏫 Harvard Medical School
📅 Wednesday, December 10
🎤 Artifacts: Fact and Fiction
🏫 Broad Institute
**If you do not have a Broad badge, please arrive at the 75 Ames Street entrance 10 minutes early with an ID to check in with security. We will escort folks up at 8:55 am and 9:55 am; please email mia-team@broadinstitute.org if you arrive outside of these times.