Lecture Schedule


Subject to change

Date
Lecture
Speaker
Info
Feb 03
Lecture 01 Logistics & AI basics
Bonnie Berger
Feb 05
Lecture 02 GenAI Fundamentals
Bonnie Berger
PSET 0 Out
Feb 10
Lecture 03 Neural nets: under the hood
Eric Alm
Feb 12
Lecture 04 Neural nets 2, Applications in biology
Eric Alm
PSET 0 Due PSET 1 Out
Feb 17
President’s Day
Feb 19
Lecture 05 SAEs and biological interpretability
Onkar Gujral
Feb 24
No Class (weather)
PSET 1 Due PSET 2 Out
Feb 26
Lecture 06 Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
Eric Alm
Mar 03
Lecture 07 Transformers
Eric Alm
Mar 05
Lecture 08 LLMs for proteins I
Bonnie Berger
Mar 10
Lecture 09 LLMs for proteins II
Bonnie Berger
Mar 12
Lecture 10 CNNs for DNA
Eric Alm
PSET 2 Due PSET 3 Out
Mar 17
Lecture 11 GNNs for Chemistry
Eric Alm
Mar 19
Lecture 12 GNNs for single cell genomics
Bonnie Berger
Mar 24
Spring Break
Mar 26
Spring Break
Mar 31
Lecture 13 Diffusion Generative Models I
Bowen Jing
PSET 3 Due PSET 4 Out
Apr 2
Lecture 14 Diffusion Generative Models II
Bowen Jing
Apr 7
Lecture 15 Protein Structure Prediction
Eric Alm
Apr 9
Lecture 16 Protein Design
Mihir Bafna
Apr 14
Lecture 17 Invited talk
TBA
Apr 16
Lecture 18 Invited talk
TBA
PSET 4 Due
Apr 21
Lecture 19 Deep learning for epigenomics
Ruochi Zhang
Apr 23
Lecture 20 MSA in the Era of PLMs
Minh Hoang
Apr 28
Lecture 21 Invited talk
TBA
Apr 30
Lecture 22 Invited talk
TBA
May 5
Final Project Presentations
Project Due
May 7
Final Project Presentations
May 12
Final Project Presentations