Schedule BioSB Summer School on Advanced Machine Learning and AI for Life Sciences (August 23-27, 2026)
The schedule may still be subject to minor changes (and, of course, there will be breaks in the long sessions :-).
L: lecture; HO: hands-on session. All sessions take place in room ‘Water‘.
See the summer school GitHub repository for all the materials (lecture slides and computer practicals).
| Day | When | What | Who |
| Sunday 23 August | 15:00 – 18:00 | Arrival and check-in | |
| Sunday 23 August | 18:00 – 20:00 | Dinner (Brasserie) | |
| Sunday 23 August | 20:00 – 23:00 | Bar open | |
| Monday 24 August | 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Monday 24 August | 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome (room ‘Water‘) | Perry Moerland |
| Monday 24 August | 09:15 – 10:30 (L) | Explainable AI (xAI): feature attribution (PDP, LIME, SHAP) | Pavel Sinitcyn |
| Monday 24 August | 10:45-12:30 (HO) | Intro and xAI | Pavel, Yiting Shen, Catherine Chia |
| Monday 24 August | 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Monday 24 August | 13:30 – 16:30 (HO) | xAI: prediction of extracellular vesicle-associated proteins | Pavel, Yiting, Catherine |
| Monday 24 August | 16:30 – 17:00 | Break | |
| Monday 24 August | 1700 – 18:30 | Poster session I | Aalt-Jan van Dijk, Pavel, Perry |
| Monday 24 August | 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner (Brasserie) | |
| Monday 24 August | 20:00 – 23:00 | Bar open | |
| Tuesday 25 August | 07:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Tuesday 25 August | 09:00 – 12:30 (L) | Generative models: variational autoencoders, normalizing flows, diffusion models (room ‘Water‘) | Stavros Makrodimitris |
| Tuesday 25 August | 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Tuesday 25 August | 13:30 – 16:30 (HO) | Protein design with generative models | Amelia Villegas-Morcillo, Larissa de Ruijter, Stavros |
| Tuesday 25 August | 16:30 – 17:00 | Break | |
| Tuesday 25 August | 17:00 – 18:30 | Poster session II | Amelia, Perry, Shauna O’Donovan, Stavros |
| Tuesday 25 August | 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner (Brasserie) | |
| Tuesday 25 August | 20:00 – | Pub quiz (room ‘Fire 2‘) | Tom Kuijpers |
| Wednesday 26 August | 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Wednesday 26 August | 09:00 – 10:30 (L + HO) | Hybrid modelling – combining machine learning and knowledge-based models for biological data (room ‘Water‘) | Shauna O’Donovan, Petrus Bult, Joshua Müller |
| Wednesday 26 August | 10:45 – 12:30 (L + HO) | Uncovering unknown biology – using universal differential equations and symbolic regression to extend mechanistic models using data | Shauna, Petrus, Joshua |
| Wednesday 26 August | 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Wednesday 26 August | 13:30 – 15:00 (L) | Multi-modal learning | Wilson dos Santos Silva |
| Wednesday 26 August | 15:15 – 17:00 (Journal club) | Multi-modal xAI | Wilson, Perry |
| Wednesday 26 August | 17:30 – 19:00 | Outdoor activity: mountain biking/climbing/guided walk (start at front desk) | |
| Wednesday 26 August | 19:00 – 20:30 | Dinner (Restaurant) | |
| Wednesday 26 August | 20:30 – 23:00 | Bar open | |
| Thursday 27 August | 07:00 – 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Thursday 27 August | 09:00 – 10:30 (L) | Foundation models (room ‘Water‘) | Sanne Abeln |
| Thursday 27 August | 10:45 – 12:30 (HO) | Foundation models: ESM2 protein language model to predict peptide aggregation | Sanne, Yiting, Catherine |
| Thursday 27 August | 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Thursday 27 August | 13:30 – 14:45 (L) | Fine-tuning foundation models | Sanne |
| Thursday 27 August | 15:00 – 16:30 (HO) | Fine-tuning foundation models: ESM2 & peptide aggregation | Sanne, Yiting, Catherine |
| Thursday 27 August | 16:30 – 16:35 | Wrap up and goodbye | Perry |