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SynBioBeta Speaker

Aaron Blotnick

SynBioBeta

Bay Area Community Manager

Meet Aaron Blotnick. He drinks coffee and he learns things.As Bay Area Community Manager at SynBioBeta, Aaron works to reconnect a fractured bioeconomy — spanning biotech, agriculture, materials, climate, and medicine.At SynBioBeta 2026, he'll be moderating two sessions: "Hypothesis Machines," on multi-agent AI systems for scientific discovery, and "The Feedstock Revolution," on next-generation inputs for biomanufacturing.Outside SynBioBeta, he co-leads the SF Chapter of Bits in Bio, a nonprofit community at the intersection of biology and data.Every Sunday he publishes a roundup of 10-20 in-person and virtual biotech events happening across the Bay Area.Follow him at linkedin.com/in/aaronblotnick

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8:30 AM

Human Health

From Cells to Patients: Solving the Scale Mismatch in Virtual Biology

Drug discovery often measures biology at the cell level while interventions work at the tissue, organ, or whole-patient scale. This mismatch can make accurate cell-level predictions irrelevant in the clinic. This session dives into strategies to bridge that gap: multiscale modeling that nests single-cell dynamics within organ-level simulations, spatial transcriptomics that preserve context, and surrogate models that translate cell-level outputs into clinical biomarkers. Speakers will ask: how do we ensure virtual biology reflects not just what cells do in isolation, but how biology behaves in the real complexity of patients?

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