About the talk:

Dr. César de la Fuente and the machine biology lab at the University of Pennsylvania use ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate their work and to explore ideas, connect perspectives across disciplines, and expand who can participate in computational research.

Join us in the OpenAI Forum to hear how the lab uses ChatGPT to help chemists, biologists, engineers, and computer scientists connect ideas across disciplines. Dr. de la Fuente will also discuss how Codex is making coding more accessible to experimental scientists and expanding who can contribute to computational research. The conversation will explore how these tools are opening new paths to discovery and giving scientists more time to think creatively, develop hypotheses, and pursue new ideas. A live audience Q&A will follow.

About the Speaker:

César de la Fuente is a Presidential Associate Professor and Director of the Machine Biology Group at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence to discover new antibiotics, having developed the first computer-designed antibiotic shown to be effective in animal models. His computational approaches have compressed the identification of promising preclinical candidates from years to hours, potentially offering new ways to treat life-threatening infections for which existing therapies are increasingly ineffective. He has also pioneered computational peptide design, advancing the idea that peptides can be treated as programmable molecules and engineered for applications across medicine and biotechnology. De la Fuente is among the youngest tenured professors in the history of Penn Medicine. He has received an honorary doctorate and numerous international distinctions, including the Princess of Girona Prize and the Fleming Prize. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, including work in Science and Cell, and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, becoming one of the youngest scientists elected.