Discovery Engines – with Nabil

Gabriele Corso, CEO and co-founder of Boltz, believes the most powerful AI models for drug discovery should be accessible to all, starting with the open models his team has put in the hands of over 100,000 scientists. In this episode, I sit down with Gabriele to explore the leap from predicting protein structures to designing new molecules with Boltz-1, Boltz-2, and BoltzGen, why he champions open...

Jason Kelly, CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, believes the future of life science R&D is autonomous, starting with the 52-cart lab he and his team have built in Boston. In this episode, I sit down with Jason to explore Ginkgo's autonomous biology lab, its collaboration with OpenAI, the POTUS-backed Genesis Mission, and where autonomous physical systems could take science next. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. See...

Riya and Gatlen are board members of MIT AI Alignment, an organization focused on reducing risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Join us as we map the AI safety landscape, define key risks, examine generational perspectives, and explore how we can work together to build a safer future for humanity. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. 🙏🙌 Episode...

Jesse Thaler is Director of the National Science Foundation's AI for Physics "Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions" (IAIFI), and Professor of Physics at MIT's Center for Theoretical Physics. In this episode we explore how AI is reshaping physics, how physics is reshaping AI, and mind-bending implications of theoretical physics. Join us!" See below for episode links, c...

Rick Wierenga is creator of PyLabRobot, an open-source, hardware-agnostic Python SDK that's lowering the barriers to lab automation for scientists, startups and hackers. See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter: www.discoveryengines.co . Thanks for watching 🙏🤙 Episode Links: Rick's Twitter Rick's LinkedIn Py...

Alishba Imran is a deep learning researcher at UC Berkeley's BAIR AI Lab, a Research Fellow at the Arc Institute, a former Research Intern at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, co-founder of battery tech startup Voltx, and co-author of "AI for Robotics: Toward Embodied and General Intelligence in the Physical World" See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support...

Nicholas Larus-Stone is the Founder & CEO of Sphinx Bio, a startup helping life science labs unlock the full potential of their data to accelerate discovery. He’s also the Founder of Bits in Bio, a global community advancing science through software. See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter: www.discoveryengin...

David Milsted is a postdoctoral researcher at the “A-Lab” for autonomous materials discovery, located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Please note: The views expressed in this video by David are his own and not those of his colleagues. See below for episode links, chapters, and our socials. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newslette...

Transon Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eigen Therapeutics, a biotech startup leveraging AI and lab automation to develop priming therapies that make cancer easier to find and eliminate. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. My guest co-host is Jimmy Sastra! This episode is sponsored by Monomer Bio . See below for episode links, chapters, and how to connect with us. Thanks for watching 🙏🤙 Episode Links:...

Sudha Gollapudi & Madeline Wolf (ex Genentech, Ginkgo Bioworks, Calico/Alphabet) are lab automation experts and co-founders of The Automated Lab: an open resource and contract engineering service for building automated labs. See below for episode links and chapters. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter . Thanks for watching 🙏🤙 Episode Links: The Automated Lab Open Source Resource Pag...

Hani Goodarzi is Quantitative and Computational Biologist, Core Investigator at the Arc Institute, Associate Professor at UCSF, and co-founder of Exai Bio and Vevo Therapeutics. Episode links and chapters below. Hosted by Nabil Laoudji. Support the podcast! Subscribe to our newsletter . Thanks for watching 🙏🤙 Episode Links: Arc Institute Goodarzi Lab Exai Bio Vevo Therapeutics UCSF Cancer Center...

Hemai Parthasarathy is a neuroscientist (Johns Hopkins, MIT), Editor (Nature, PLOS), and expert at helping deep tech startups build and scale (Thiel Foundation, Google X, MIT The Engine). See below for episode links, chapters, our socials, and how to send us feedback. Want to dig deeper?  Check out our newsletter . Thanks for hanging with us 🙏🤙 Episode Links: Hemai's Linkedin Google X Breakout V...

Luis Villa co-founded Bay Area Lab Automators, and is a Senior Automation engineer at cell therapy manufacturing startup Cellares. See below for episode links, chapters, our socials, and how to send us feedback. Want to dig deeper?  Check out our newsletter . Thanks for watching 🙏🤙 Episode Links: Bay Area Lab Automators Luis' LinkedIn Luis' BlueSky SF Hardware Meetup Cellares Carnegie Mellon MS...

Michael Kaca is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Olden Labs, a startup bringing animal research into the modern age through a suite of custom hardware and ML algorithms. See below for episode links, chapters, our socials, and how to send us feedback. Want to dig in deeper? Check out our newsletter . Thanks for hanging with us 🙏 Episode Links: Olden Labs Michael's LinkedIn Organs On a Chip...

Cristian Ponce and Théo Schäfer are the co-founders of Tetsuwan, a startup building AI scientists to accelerate life science research. See below for episode links, chapters, our socials, and how to send us feedback. Want to dig deeper?  Check out our newsletter . Thanks for hanging with us 🙏🤙 Episode Links: Tetsuwan Scientific Cristian's LinkedIn Théo's LinkedIn Accelerate Conference Symbolic AI...