Generative AI for Life Science

About the event:

Generative AI has become both highly prevalent and highly divisive. While public opinion varies, rapid advancement in GenAI is transforming the life sciences, enabling new approaches to understand biological systems, predict molecular structures and advance clinical diagnostics.

In this workshop, we will demonstrate how GenAI is applied across key life science domains through four interactive sessions. Participants will train models, explore biological datasets and generate real outputs such as synthetic cell images, protein structure predictions, and mRNA sequences for vaccines. By the end of the workshop, you will have hands-on experience in developing GenAI techniques and applying them to solve real-world life science problems.

Who is this for?

This workshop is intended for:

• Researchers, computational biologists and data scientists working in life science, biomedical research, or healthcare.

• AI/ML practitioners interested in biological or medical applications.

• Users of imaging, omics or clinical datasets who want to apply generative models.

• Anyone with an interest in beneficial GenAI, interpretable models and multimodal learning in science.

• Beginners to generative AI who want a practical, application-focused introduction.

Key takeaways for participants:

• Understand what generative AI is and how generative models (autoencoders, transformers and multimodal systems) are applied to biological data.

• Hands-on experience training and using models for:

  • Image analysis and reconstruction (autoencoders).

  • Protein feature extraction and structure prediction (protein language models).

  • Drug discovery (codon prediction).

• Understand key concepts such as latent space representations, intermediate embeddings and attention mechanisms.

• Experience with real biomedical datasets including X-ray images and protein sequences.

• Methods for evaluating models with practical metrics, visualisations and interpretability tools (e.g. saliency maps).

Prerequisites:

Basic familiarity with Python is expected. Experience with machine learning is preferable but no prior experience with generative AI is required.

Participants should:

• Have a laptop with Windows, macOS or Linux.

• Be able to access a web browser and use Google Colab.

Instructors and Teaching Assistants

• Luca Panconi – AI Application Specialist in the Life Science Team at Sweden AI Factory.

• Ivan Cucchi – AI Application Specialist in the Life Science Team at Sweden AI Factory.

• Ashwin Mohanan – Training Team Coordinator at Sweden AI Factory.

Schedule

October 7, 2026

October 8, 2026