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SynBioBeta Speaker

Colby Souders

Twist Bioscience

CSO

Colby Souders earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Texas A&M and previously held positions at BrickBio, Abveris, Kanyos Bio and MassBiologics, while contributing to multiple candidates currently in the clinic. At MassBiologics, he worked to advance monoclonal antibodies for the prevention, treatment or diagnosis of various infectious and endogenous diseases, as well as developed related platform technologies to advance and expand the MassBiologics pipeline. Later, he joined the Kanyos Bio Protein Engineering team to develop therapeutics based on a novel antigen-specific immune tolerance platform. Colby has served as Chief Scientific Officer at BrickBio to develop novel antibody drug conjugates and was CSO at Abveris prior to acquisition by Twist Bioscience. He now serves as the CSO of Twist to guide Biologics and Protein Solutions for Twist.

Sessions Featuring

Colby

This Year

Breakout Session

4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

Human Health

The Biology Data Flywheel: From DNA Synthesis to Pharma-Scale AI Discovery

Drug discovery is not limited by models. It is limited by data. While AI is accelerating molecular design and target discovery, the real bottleneck remains the generation, integration, and interpretation of biological datasets that are complex, heterogeneous, and often not yet predictive. Pharma-scale discovery requires more than algorithms. It requires new approaches to building and operationalizing data itself. This session explores how next-generation DNA synthesis, high-throughput experimentation, and integrated data infrastructures are enabling a new biology data flywheel. From experimental datasets that inform translational decisions to emerging standards for capturing real-world and preclinical signals, leaders will discuss how data generation strategies are reshaping discovery workflows. Speakers from pharma, AI-native biotech, and platform providers will examine how biology is becoming a programmable data layer, enabling faster biologics development, more informed portfolio decisions, and new collaborative models that connect experimental systems, computational tools, and pharma-scale discovery pipelines.

Breakout Session

4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

Human Health

The Biology Data Flywheel: From DNA Synthesis to Pharma-Scale AI Discovery

Drug discovery is not limited by models. It is limited by data. While AI is accelerating molecular design and target discovery, the real bottleneck remains the generation, integration, and interpretation of biological datasets that are complex, heterogeneous, and often not yet predictive. Pharma-scale discovery requires more than algorithms. It requires new approaches to building and operationalizing data itself. This session explores how next-generation DNA synthesis, high-throughput experimentation, and integrated data infrastructures are enabling a new biology data flywheel. From experimental datasets that inform translational decisions to emerging standards for capturing real-world and preclinical signals, leaders will discuss how data generation strategies are reshaping discovery workflows. Speakers from pharma, AI-native biotech, and platform providers will examine how biology is becoming a programmable data layer, enabling faster biologics development, more informed portfolio decisions, and new collaborative models that connect experimental systems, computational tools, and pharma-scale discovery pipelines.

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Fireside Chat

12:00 AM

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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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