📅 Wednesday, May 20

🎤 Parameter representations outperform single-cell foundation models on downstream tasks

💬 Pankaj Mehta

🏫 Boston University

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.

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❓ Ask questions: mia-team@broadinstitute.org

**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.

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Bears hibernate. Deep-diving seals stay submerged for over an hour. Fruit bats live on pure sugar. Over millions of years, these exceptional mammals evolved to thrive under conditions that make humans sick. What can the genetic changes behind their abilities teach us about our own genome? Join molecular biologist Elinor Karlsson as she explains why studying other mammals' genomes can unlock the secrets of our own.

This free talk is open to the general public and appropriate for high school students and beyond.

Elinor Karlsson

Elinor Karlsson is the director of the Vertebrate Genomics Group at Broad and a professor in bioinformatics and integrative biology at UMass Chan Medical School. She is excited by the potential for using our own evolutionary history to understand how the human genome works, and in how that knowledge can lead to advances in healthcare. Her key projects include the Zoonomia Project, an international effort to compare hundreds of different mammalian genomes and identify critically important segments of DNA; and Darwin's Ark, a community science nonprofit that engages pets and their people in scientific research.

Broad Discovery Series

The Broad Discovery Series brings researchers to the stage to discuss and answer questions about some of the most pressing topics in science and medicine today. Held in-person and virtually at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, these free public events explore the genetic and biological roots of human health and disease, the mechanisms that govern how our cells and bodies function, new technologies that are changing what's possible in science, and the progress being made to translate these findings into treatments for common and rare diseases.

Please visit broad.io/DiscoveryLive to access the event live stream at the time of the event.

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📅 Wednesday, May 27

🎤 Flashtalks

💬 Speaker names coming soon

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.

💌 Email us to join our mailing list for Zoom links: mia-team@broadinstitute.org

🧑‍🏫 Read the abstracts and see the full schedule: broad.io/MIA

📺 Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist

🗓️ View our calendar: broad.io/mia-calendar

❓ Ask questions: mia-team@broadinstitute.org

**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.

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📅 Wednesday, June 3

🎤 Talk title coming soon

💬 Alex Holehouse

🏫 Washington University School of Medicine

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.

💌 Email us to join our mailing list for Zoom links: mia-team@broadinstitute.org

🧑‍🏫 Read the abstracts and see the full schedule: broad.io/MIA

📺 Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylist

🗓️ View our calendar: broad.io/mia-calendar

❓ Ask questions: mia-team@broadinstitute.org

**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.

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Human Cell Atlas is turning 10 years old! Join us June 16 - 18 as we reflect on the monumental progress made in building HCA 1.0. We will celebrate our achievements and the lessons that have brought us to HCA 1.0, while mapping plans to mobilize our global community in driving forward HCA 2.0—globally representative, spatially resolved, and clinically applied atlases.

To learn more about the meeting, please visit our event website or email meetings@humancellatlas.org.

Meeting Co-Chairs: Alexandra-Chloé Villani‌ and Jose Ordovas-Montanes‌

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Human Cell Atlas is turning 10 years old! Join us June 16 - 18 as we reflect on the monumental progress made in building HCA 1.0. We will celebrate our achievements and the lessons that have brought us to HCA 1.0, while mapping plans to mobilize our global community in driving forward HCA 2.0—globally representative, spatially resolved, and clinically applied atlases.

To learn more about the meeting, please visit our event website or email meetings@humancellatlas.org.

Meeting Co-Chairs: Alexandra-Chloé Villani‌ and Jose Ordovas-Montanes‌

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Human Cell Atlas is turning 10 years old! Join us June 16 - 18 as we reflect on the monumental progress made in building HCA 1.0. We will celebrate our achievements and the lessons that have brought us to HCA 1.0, while mapping plans to mobilize our global community in driving forward HCA 2.0—globally representative, spatially resolved, and clinically applied atlases.

To learn more about the meeting, please visit our event website or email meetings@humancellatlas.org.

Meeting Co-Chairs: Alexandra-Chloé Villani‌ and Jose Ordovas-Montanes‌

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