Workshop: From Dry Lab to Wet Lab: An End-to-End Protein Design Workshop
This workshop will provide an introduction to the full protein engineering pipeline, bridging computational design and experimental validation. Participants will explore how proteins can be designed in silico using modern computational tools and how these designs are subsequently tested and refined in the wet lab.
The session will walk through key steps of the design–build–test cycle, highlighting practical considerations, common challenges, and how to effectively integrate computational and experimental approaches.
Designed for students and early-career researchers, this workshop offers a comprehensive overview of how modern protein engineering workflows operate in both academic and industry settings.
Speaker Bio
Benedikt Singer is a PhD candidate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working at the interface of computational biology and protein engineering. His research focuses on developing advanced computational tools and pipelines, including rfdiffusion3, AlphaFold3, and BoltzGen, to enable and accelerate modern protein design.
Before starting his PhD, Benedikt completed internships at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington in the lab of David Baker, where he worked on fine-tuning structure prediction networks for antibody interactions, and at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria developing software for cryo-electron tomography data pipelines.
He holds master's degrees in Technical Chemistry from TU Wien and Bioinformatics from FH Campus Wien. His work combines machine learning, structural biology, and software engineering to support modern protein engineering workflows from computational design to experimental implementation.