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.

2025 Schedule

January 15th 2025

speaker: Ben Fry

location: Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

title: Design of small molecule binding proteins using deep learning

February 12th 2025

speaker: Jeremy Wohlwend & Gabriele Corso

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: Boltz-1 and the Future of Biomolecular Foundation Models

March 12th 2025

speaker: Seth Fraden

location: TBD

title: TBD

April 9th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: TBD

May 14th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: TBD

title: TBD

June 11th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: TBD

July 9th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: TBD

title: TBD

August 13th 2025

speaker: Martin Pacesa

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: BindCraft: one-shot design of functional protein binders

September 10th 2025

speaker: Marinka Zitnik

location: TBD

title: TBD

October 8th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: TBD

November 12th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: TBD

title: TBD

December 10th 2025

speaker: TBD

location: Room 181, Building 68, MIT

title: TBD