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Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Meeting

Friday, October 3, 2025 9:00am to 12:00pm EDT

415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142

https://www.broadinstitute.org/talks/spring-2025/mia
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Please join us on Friday, October 3 for our MIA meeting featuring Martin Steinegger and Sooyoung Cha (Seoul National University)!

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πŸ“… Friday, October 3

Co-hosted with IDMP

πŸ“Broad Auditorium – 415 Main St.

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Talk title coming soon

πŸ’¬ Sooyoung Cha

🏫 Seoul National University

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Exploring the Protein Universe via Highly Accurate Structural Predictions

πŸ’¬ Martin Steinegger

🏫 Seoul National University

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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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πŸ’Œ Join our mailing list: bit.ly/MIACastΒ 

πŸ§‘β€πŸ« Read the abstracts: broad.io/MIAΒ 

πŸ“Ί Watch previous talks: broad.io/MIAPlaylistΒ 

πŸ—“οΈ View our calendar: broad.io/mia-calendarΒ 

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❓ Ask questions: mia-team@broadinstitute.orgΒ 

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πŸ‚ Fall 2025 Schedule β˜•

All events are held in Acadia (75 Ames St., M1) and virtually, unless noted otherwise

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πŸ“… Wednesday, September 24

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Infrastructure and modeling challenges in single-cell omics

πŸ’¬ Davide D'Ascenzo

🏫 Polytechnic University of Turin

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: When more isn’t better: rethinking scale in single-cell foundation models

πŸ’¬ Lorin Crawford

🏫 Microsoft Research New England (MSR)

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πŸ“… Friday, October 3

Co-hosted with IDMP

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πŸ“Broad Auditorium – 415 Main St.

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: From Sequence to Structure: Fundamentals of Protein Sequence and Structure Analysis

πŸ’¬ Sooyoung Cha

🏫 Seoul National University

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Exploring the Protein Universe via Highly Accurate Structural Predictions

πŸ’¬ Martin Steinegger

🏫 Seoul National University

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πŸ“… Wednesday, October 8

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Ultra-secure computing with homomorphic encryption for genome privacy

πŸ’¬ Jacob BlindenbachΒ 

🏫 Columbia University

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Privacy-Preserving Approaches to Knowledge Discovery in Biomedicine

πŸ’¬ Gamze GursoyΒ 

🏫 Columbia University

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πŸ“… Friday, October 17

πŸŽ‰ MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

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πŸ“Broad Institute – 300 Binney St. (2110 - Charles)

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πŸ“ Agenda:

9:30 - 10:00 am: Welcome, breakfast

10:00 - 11:00 am: Panel discussion

11:00 - 11:30 am: Lightning talks from young scientists, networking

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πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬Panelists:

πŸ’¬ Aleksandrina Goeva

🏫 University of Toronto

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πŸ’¬ Alex BloemendalΒ 

🏫 Broad Institute (MIA co-founder)

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πŸ’¬ Aviv RegevΒ 

🏫 Genentech Research

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πŸ’¬ Gevorg GrigoryanΒ 

🏫 Generate Biomedicines, Inc.

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πŸ“… Wednesday, October 22

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Talk title coming soon

πŸ’¬ Hanchen Wang

🏫 Stanford University, Genentech

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Talk title coming soon

πŸ’¬ Kexin HuangΒ 

🏫 Stanford University

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πŸ“… Wednesday, October 29

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Talk title coming soon

πŸ’¬ Gregory Andrews

🏫 UMass Chan Medical School

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Programmatic design and editing of cis-regulatory elements using deep learning

πŸ’¬ Jacob Schreiber

🏫 UMass Chan Medical School

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πŸ“… Wednesday, November 5

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🎀 Primer, 9:00 am: Talk title coming soon

πŸ’¬ Pan Liu

🏫 UCLA

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🎀 Seminar, 10:00 am: Permutation Enhances the Rigor of Genomics Data Analysis 

πŸ’¬ Jingyi Jessica Li

🏫 UCLA

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πŸ“… Wednesday, November 19

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πŸ’¬ Nicholas F. Polizzi

🏫 Harvard University

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πŸ“… Wednesday, December 3

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πŸ’¬ Ophelia Venturelli

🏫 Duke University

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πŸ“… Wednesday, December 10

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πŸ’¬ Aziz Al'KhafajiΒ 

🏫 Broad Institute

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**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.