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