AITHYRA Symposium “AI for Life Science”
8 September 2025, 12.00 pm - 10 September 2025, 2.00 pm
House of Industry, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1030 Vienna 
350 attendees including speakers

By registering for the symposium you agree:

• to pay a one-off registration fee of €150 before the end of August 2025, regardless of whether you attend one lecture or the entire symposium, which we highly recommend. The bank details are included in the confirmation email, and you will receive an official receipt once the money has arrived.
• that event photos might be used on AITHYRA communication channels.
• that there is a limited amount of poster presentations, the organizers will inform the applicants about the outcome by 25 August 2025. 

The registration link had to be closed as the maximum number of attendees has been reached. 
Thank you for the interest.

Organizers:

Michael Bronstein (AITHYRA/Oxford), Gabriele Corso (MIT), Bruno Correia (EPFL), Anita Ender (AITHYRA/CeMM), Andrew White (Future House), Georg Winter (AITHYRA/CeMM)

Keynote Lecture:

Nobel Laureate Frances H. Arnold (Caltech) 

Speaker line up:

Mohammed AlQuraishi (Columbia) 
Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital)
Alex Bronstein (ISTA)
Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, Genentech)
John Chodera (MSKCC)
Erika DeBenedictis (Align Bio)
Miquel Duran-Frigola (Ersilia)
Tony Hyman (MPI Dresden)
Cigall Kadoch (Dana Farber) 
Ben Lehner (Sanger)
Prisca Liberali (FMI) 
Fan Liu (Leibniz FMP) 
Mo Lotfollahi (Sanger)
Emma Lundberg (Stanford)
Matthias Mann (MPI Munich)
Debbie Marks (Harvard) 
Brian Paegel (UC Irvine) 
Dana Pe’er (MSKCC) 
Silvi Rouskin (Harvard)
Neville Sanjana (NYU)
Philippe Schwaler (EPFL)
Mikko Taipale (Uni Toronto)
Nico Thomä (EPFL) 
Barbara Treutlein (ETH)
Gregory Verdine (LifeMine Tx) 
Marinka Zitnik (Harvard) 

Tentative Program:

Monday, September 8, 2025
11:00 | Registration
12:00 | Opening and Welcome
12:15 | Session 1: From Sequences to Structures – AI and the Protein Universe
14:15 | Coffee Break
14:45 | Session 2: One Cell at a Time – AI and the Single-Cell Revolution
16:45 | Coffee Break
17:15 | Keynote Lecture
18:30 | Poster Session & Flying Dinner

Tuesday, September 9, 2025
9:00 | Session 3: Cracking the Code –Genomics, Chromatin and RNA Regulation
11:00 | Coffee Break 
11:30 | Session 4: New Models & Data Sources  
13:00 | Lunch
14:15 | Session 5/1: Molecules by Design – Strategies for AI-Driven Drug Discovery
15:45 | Coffee Break 
16:15 | Session 5/2: Molecules by Design – Strategies for AI-Driven Drug Discovery
17:45 | Snacks and Drinks

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
9:30 | Session 6: Life in Motion – Condensates, Cellular Dynamics, & Beyond
11:00 | Coffee Break
11:30 | Session 7: Making a Dent – Industrial, NPO & Business Perspective
13:30 | Closing Remarks
13:45 | Farewell Lunch

Download (pdf) Conference Poster