The Align Foundation is hosting a tournament to design better versions of PETase, an enzyme that breaks down Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), a type of plastic. Bijoy Desai, a program manager from the foundation, talked about the tournament and answered questions. There are two funding ...
The Align Foundation is holding a tournament this year (2025-26) to create an improved PETase. Improved PETases could help address problems in recycling PET plastics. PETase is an enzyme from that breaks down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic. PET is often found in pop bottles and packaging. The source of PETase was Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium found near a Japanese recycling site for PET bottles ( Wikipedia). Students, faculty, startups, and scientists are welcome to participate, either as individuals or in teams. Registration is open until October 17th. You can download the flyer ...
Modern-day Oracles or Bull**** Machines is the provocative title for a new class that describes itself as "How to thrive in a ChatGPT world". The course is led by Dr. Carl Bergstrom and Dr. Jevin West at the University of Washington and covers Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT ...
Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion. View the whole series of Spring 2025 ATE project talks. Talk: Using Hackathons to Catalyze Research Projects in ...
Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion. View the whole series of Spring 2025 ATE project talks. Register today! Talk 1: Generative AI tools for ...
Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion. View the whole series of Spring 2025 ATE project talks. Talk 1: Antibody Engineering and NexLAB Description ...
The Genetics Society of America is sponsoring a two day virtual workshop on AI in the classroom. You are invited to participate in the 2024 BREWMOR (Bridging Research and Education with Model ORganisms) workshop entitled “AI: Friend or Foe? How to work with AI in the classroom”. Thursday, July 25th from 2-5 pm US EST with a workshop component on Friday, July 26th from 2-4 pm US EST If you have experience with using AI in the classroom that you would like to share with a broader community of educators, you are encouraged to submit an abstract to be considered for a talk. AI usage in the ...
Wow, that was fun. I just spent almost 4 hours on a Thursday night with a diverse, exciting, and talkative bunch of scientists, software engineers, and other folks who are interested in the intersection of the life sciences and artificial intelligence. The event (AI in Biotech Engage & Connect) was ...
Wow, there is a lot going on with applications of Artificial Intelligence to text. Will it make human writers obsolete? Will students use it to cheat? Can it help scientists understand the onslaught of papers we see everyday? The answers to those questions, in my opinion at least, are no ...
