
SynBioBeta Speaker
Frederic Poitevin
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Staff Scientist
Frédéric Poitevin is the Head of the recently created AI for Science and Operations Department at the Linac Coherent Light Source where he leads a R&D group developing Machine Learning and Computer Vision methods to help support LCLS Operations as well as facilitates the integration of agentic AI within LCLS Instruments. Frédéric was trained as a Computational Chemist / Structural Biologist (Pasteur Institute, Paris; Stanford) and is still pushing to develop new methods that shed light on how the molecules of life works!
Sessions Featuring
Frederic
This Year
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Tools & Tech
Building SLAC BioLabs: Your Partner for Structure, Dynamics and Discovery
Join leaders from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and partners for a working lunch on what is already possible today—and what we are building next. We will survey real, on-site capabilities across the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and LCLS-II, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), and Stanford–SLAC cryo-EM and cryo-ET (S2C2 and SCSC): how they reveal molecular interactions and dynamics from time-resolved and equilibrium structure to in-cell context, and the large, rich datasets that connect experiments to models. We will also share our ambition to scale “BioLabs” so that teams in synthetic biology and AI4BIO can treat SLAC as a one-stop environment to design campaigns across modalities, from atoms to cells, and from data acquisition to AI-ready pipelines—in open science and, where policy allows, proprietary partnerships. Whether you are building strains, platforms, or computation on top of structural and imaging data, come discuss how to plug into existing user pathways and help shape the next generation of industry-facing programs. Who should attend: founders, R&D leaders, and investors in synbio, biopharma, tools, and AI who care about defensible data, throughput, and cross-scale biology.
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Tools & Tech
Building SLAC BioLabs: Your Partner for Structure, Dynamics and Discovery
Join leaders from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and partners for a working lunch on what is already possible today—and what we are building next. We will survey real, on-site capabilities across the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and LCLS-II, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), and Stanford–SLAC cryo-EM and cryo-ET (S2C2 and SCSC): how they reveal molecular interactions and dynamics from time-resolved and equilibrium structure to in-cell context, and the large, rich datasets that connect experiments to models. We will also share our ambition to scale “BioLabs” so that teams in synthetic biology and AI4BIO can treat SLAC as a one-stop environment to design campaigns across modalities, from atoms to cells, and from data acquisition to AI-ready pipelines—in open science and, where policy allows, proprietary partnerships. Whether you are building strains, platforms, or computation on top of structural and imaging data, come discuss how to plug into existing user pathways and help shape the next generation of industry-facing programs. Who should attend: founders, R&D leaders, and investors in synbio, biopharma, tools, and AI who care about defensible data, throughput, and cross-scale biology.
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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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