Montag, 20.04.2026
Interfacing with biology using protein design
14:30 - 16:00 Uhr
MZA Hörsaal (1-G0-144), Anichstraße 35, Innsbruck
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Basile Wicky
Basile Wicky is currently assistant professor for Biomolecular Design at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, where his group works on developing and deploying methods in protein design for application in synthetic biology and cellular engineering. He was previously a postdoc with David Baker (University of Washington), and did his PhD in molecular biophysics at the University of Cambridge.
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Recent advances in de novo protein design are transforming biology into an increasingly generative discipline. Fueled by progress in machine learning, we can now generate novel proteins in silico with increasing precision—expanding the design space beyond what evolution has explored. In my talk, I will describe how protein structure prediction networks, originally built for inference, can be re-purposed as generative models through strategies like hallucination. Beyond generating isolated proteins, we are now exploring how to compose them into functional systems.
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Faculty of AI and Scientific Computing in Medicine (AISCM)