BOSTON PROTEIN DESIGN AND MODELING CLUB

introduction and membership

Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston USA, BPDMC is also a global online community open to everyone.

Please send us an email and introduce yourself if you're interested in joining. We use google groups to keep our members informed, which works best with a gmail account. Joining with a personal email account rather than a professional one is preferable, that way people don't lose touch when they graduate or change jobs.


meetings

BPDMC hosts a monthly meeting that begins with dinner, drinks, and an hour-long scientific program. We have seminars, tutorials and workshops, and the occasional moderated group discussion after a major breakthrough is announced. The scientific program is followed by an hour (or so) for additional discussion and networking.

Meetings occur on the second Wednesday of every month and begin at 7pm Eastern Time, and food and drinks are served starting at 6:30pm. The meeting location moves around the greater Boston area month-to-month.


about

BPDMC was founded by Chris Bahl in 2017, and is currently co-organized by Sergey Ovchinnikov, Nick Polizzi and Chris Bahl, with generous assistance from many folks.


nominate a speaker

Do you know someone who is doing exceptional work in the field of protein design and/or modeling?  Please nominate them to give a talk at BPDMC!  We host speakers at any career stage, and self nominations are also accepted.

2024 Schedule

January 10th 2024

speaker: Sarah Gurev & Noor Youssef

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Using the past to predict the future: unsupervised early warning of viral antibody escape for the design and testing of variant-proof therapeutics

February 21st 2024

speaker: Sergey Ovchinnikov

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Recent methods for protein structure generation and design

March 13th 2024

speaker: Erin Yang

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Computational Design of non-porous, pH-responsive antibody nanoparticles

April 10th 2024

speaker: Yunha Hwang

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Shedding light on functional dark matter with genomic language modeling

May 8th 2024

speaker: Rubul Mout

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Designer proteins for stem cell engineering

June 12th 2024

speaker: Sergey Ovchinnikov

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Review and discussion of AlphaFold3

July 10th 2024

speaker: Sarah Alamdari

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Discrete diffusion models for generative protein design

August 14th 2024

speaker: Foster Birnbaum

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Jointly Embedding Protein Structures and Sequences through Residue Level Alignment

September 11th 2024

speaker: Joanna Slusky

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Small But Mighty: What an LSTM Network Reveals About Protein Design and About Machine Learning

October 23rd 2024

speaker: Markus Buehler

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Physics-aware agentic artificial intelligence to model, design and discover proteins

November 13th 2024

speaker: Andrew Savinov

location: Pillar VC

title: Massively parallel discovery of peptides to inhibit cellular protein interactions

December 11th 2024

speaker: Mireia Solà Colom

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: How enumerating entire functional protein sequence landscapes could enable accurate forecasts of pathogen evolution