Hi all 
Next up in the Horizons in Biosciences & Informatics Seminar Series (HBISS)…
Event: Horizons in Biosciences & Informatics Seminar Series (HBISS)
What: AI Agents and The New Way Biologists Work
When: Thursday, June 25th, 9a PT; 12p ET; 6p CEST; 9:30p IST
Where: Blue Marble Zoom
Who: Kexin Huang; Phylo, Co-founder and CEO
Meeting ID: 890 1280 2600 Passcode: 099433
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Talk Summary
Biology today is slow and manual — scientists stitch together literature, data, code, and wet-lab work by hand. At Phylo, we’ve built Biomni Lab, the first Integrated Biology Environment, where biologists collaborate with AI agents to run real research end to end. In this talk, I’ll demo how Biomni Lab handles drug discovery tasks across design, experiment, analysis, and ideation. I’ll explain how we solved the three hardest problems for science agents: hallucination, scalability, and reproducibility. I’ll close with our vision for agent-native pharma — where cross-functional teams run R&D through shared agent workstreams, and Biomni becomes the organization’s system of record.
Speaker Bio
Kexin Huang is the Co-founder and CEO of Phylo, a research lab focused on advancing agentic biology. Previously, he was a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University advised by Prof. Jure Leskovec, where his research centered on applying AI to enable deployable and interpretable biomedical discoveries while addressing core challenges in multimodal modeling, uncertainty quantification, and agentic reasoning. His work has been published in leading journals including Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, and Nature Biotechnology, as well as top machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR. Kexin has received multiple best paper awards, contributed to research at organizations including Genentech, Pfizer, and Flatiron Health, and has been featured in media outlets such as Forbes, WIRED, and MIT Technology Review.
About HBISS
The purpose of HBISS is to foster interdisciplinary conversation, education, and collaboration. Experts in biosciences and informatics are invited to speak once a month and engage with members of the Open Science Data Repository’s Analysis Working Group (OSDR-AWG) and the public to facilitate discussion of cutting-edge research, techniques, and methodology.
From March 2022 through February 2025, the HBISS series was designed exclusively for an internal NASA audience. Beginning in April 2025, the series was opened to the public and the broader OSDR-AWG community. To stay in the loop, join the AWG.
Questions, or want to be removed from this HBISS listing? Contact me at @rtscott2001 (preferred) or email ryan.t.scott@nasa.gov
Cheers all, -Ryan