Please join us on Wednesday, February 4 for our MIA meeting featuring Abdul Muntakim Rafi and Carl de Boer, both from University of British Columbia!

📅 February 4

🎤 Primer, 9:00 am: Characterizing homology-induced data leakage and memorization in genome-trained sequence models

💬 Abdul Muntakim Rafi

🏫 University of British Columbia

🎤 Seminar, 10:00 am: More robust data, models, and benchmarks to solve the genome regulation code

💬 Carl de Boer

🏫 University of British Columbia

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.