Bay Area Frontier Research Club #33 | AI x Bio Series (dinner + research discussion @ Amplify Partners)
How do we go from biological measurement to a prediction we can trust, and what would count as evidence?
This is the last Frontier Research Club session of the year: an AI x Bio night at Amplify Partners' San Francisco office, alongside the Amplify Bio team. We'll look at current work at the intersection of machine learning and biology, from models trained on cellular and molecular data to the experiments that would actually change what a lab or a drug-discovery team does next.
Presenters and papers will be announced soon. Pre-reads will be shared with confirmed guests before the session.
The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley and leading startups to examine concrete work (papers, methods and results) with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence.
Each session features 2 talks selected for rigor and discussion value. Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for questions and critique. Papers and supporting materials are shared in advance to ensure a high-baseline conversation.
Agenda
5:30pm: Doors open
5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner
6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion
8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking
Presenters & topics
Talk 1: TBA
Talk 2: TBA
Want to present your work?
If you have a research paper you'd like to discuss at one of our next sessions, please submit it for consideration.
Who should attend
Experimental biologists working across cancer biology, functional genomics, perturbation screens and wet-lab systems
Computational biologists and bioinformaticians working with single-cell and atlas-scale data
ML researchers building foundation models, generative models and benchmarks for biological data
Drug-discovery and translational teams from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies
Research engineers and laboratory-automation teams building the layer between the model and the bench
Founders building in AI × bio and the investors backing them
Capacity is limited.
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The Frontier Syndicate is a venture community connecting frontier tech researchers, builders, and investors through curated convenings and early-stage capital. Across the Bay Area, we host a recurring series of research forums, builder nights, and intimate investor dinners — and back exceptional companies emerging from the labs, communities, and technical networks we convene.
Amplify Bio is Amplify Partners' dedicated fund for technical founders in the life sciences, backing them from the earliest stages as they build the digital platforms and infrastructure necessary to accelerate biological progress. They partner with a new generation of founders equally fluent in compute and biology — and support the researchers, builders, and companies at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.