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Google Antigravity adds agentic cheminformatics skills for drug-discovery workflows

Google DeepMind describes Cheminformatics Skills for Google Antigravity that organize literature and compound data, run matched molecular pair analysis, compare molecular machine-learning models and propose rigidified macrocycles with…

Arc/Stanford: Evo 2 can design bacteriophage genomes from a handful of examples in the prompt

Gary Brixi and Brian Hie's teams report that the genome language model Evo 2 can learn from a few examples placed in its prompt (in-context learning, no retraining) and use them to generate proteins, de novo antibodies, CRISPR-Cas9 loci,…

DeepCellMorpho benchmarks self-supervised models for Cell Painting

DeepCellMorpho compares four self-supervised models trained on roughly 1.77 million Cell Painting images. In the Nature Methods study, DINO and DINOv2 performed strongly on compound and mechanism-of-action retrieval, using image…

Global CRISPR SpacerDB links metagenomic spacers with viruses and plasmids

JGI’s Global CRISPR Spacer Database provides downloadable spacer sequences, virus/plasmid matches and example notebooks for exploring microbial interactions. Its accompanying Nature Microbiology study collected 794 million spacers from…

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David Bikard named 2026 Richard Lounsbery Grand Prize laureate

The French Academy of Sciences lists David Bikard as the 2026 Richard Lounsbery Grand Prize laureate in its report on the October 27 awards session. Bikard, a research director at Institut Pasteur, studies bacteria–phage interactions and…

Stanford launches a five-year Digital Brain Project

Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has launched a five-year project to build predictive computational models of the human brain. Researchers will collect complementary brain-imaging and behavioral datasets using 7-Tesla MRI and…

Flagship Pioneering forms Etcelera by merging Cellarity, Etiome and Empress Therapeutics platforms (AI causal-biology drug discovery)

Flagship Pioneering announced on 29 October 2026 the formation of Etcelera, created by merging the platforms of Cellarity, Etiome and Empress Therapeutics with Flagship's in-house AI. Ad Rawcliffe leads it. The platform combines human…

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Events

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SEPIQ–CAPRI Round 66 opens HER2–nanobody structure-prediction challenge

CAPRI Round 66, co-organized with SEPIQ 2026, asks participants to predict three nanobody complexes with the same protein, HER2. Predictions run November 2–20, 2026, with server submissions due November 6 and human…

Nov 2, 2026

7th International Conference on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance (ICBRAR 2026)

ICBRAR 2026 is scheduled for November 3–4 in Hisar, with a November 1–2 pre-conference workshop.

Nov 3, 2026

YC Paper Club: AI for Biology — Mountain View

Y Combinator’s AI for Biology Paper Club takes place in Mountain View on November 4, 2026, 5–9 PM Pacific. The evening brings researchers together to discuss recent AI applications in biology. Apply for a spot through…

Nov 4, 2026

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Postdoc in bacterial genomics and antimicrobial resistance — Uppsala University

Uppsala University seeks a postdoc for wet-lab bacteriology and bioinformatics projects on bacterial genomics, phylogeny and antibiotic resistance. This two-year, full-time role requires a relevant PhD, bacteriological laboratory and…

Master 2 internship in marine viral ecology and bioinformatics — BEEP, Plouzané (France)

Six-month Master 2 internship at the Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes marins Profonds (BEEP) laboratory in Plouzané on the diversity and temporal dynamics of marine viruses in the Bay of Brest: building the first collection of viral…

PhD position in bacteria and materials interactions: living hydrogels with phages and probiotics for wound infections — Biointerfaces Laboratory, Empa (St. Gallen)

Four-year PhD position in Empa's Biointerfaces Laboratory in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in antimicrobial biomaterials, microbiology and bacteriophage therapy. The project develops injectable, self-healing hydrogels that deliver probiotics and…

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Funding & opportunities

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US Army solicitation W900KK27QA004: prototype phage hygiene spray bottles (small-business set-aside, offers due 9 November 2026)

The US Army (Army Contracting Command, contracting office W6QK ACC-APG-ORLANDO in Orlando, FL) posted solicitation W900KK27QA004, "Prototype phage hygiene spray bottles", on SAM.gov on 28 October 2026. It is a total small-business set-aside…

Deadline November 9, 2026, 1:00 PM EST

GenScript and Geodesic open the Beyond Binding Challenge

AI-native biotech companies, academic institutions and qualified protein-design teams can register interest in a two-round antibody design challenge combining binding and developability testing. Registration closes November 12. The proposed…

Expression of interest Registration closes November 12, 2026 (year established by adjacent November 13/16 timeline)

Ashoka Biology PhD admissions: Spring 2027

Ashoka University is recruiting Biology PhD students for Spring 2027, including research in immunity and infection, molecular and structural biophysics, and data science, AI and digital health. Selected candidates receive fully funded…

Deadline November 15, 2026

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