Biographica

Yesterday, our Co-Founder & CTO, Dominic Hall, spoke at the launch of AWS's GenAI Loft, an event hosted by AWS, General Catalyst, NVIDIA and Anthropic. The event focused on the transformative impact of Generative AI in the life sciences industry. Dom shared how Biographica is using ML & generative models to design next-gen seed genetics aimed at making crops more productive, nutritious and climate-resilient 🌾 If you're curious about our work, check out graphica.bio or get in touch!

I'll be speaking at the "Turning Vision into Action: GenAI for Health" symposium on October 17th in London, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), General Catalyst & Anthropic. I'll be sharing thoughts & insights on how Biographica is leveraging generative models within our target-ID platform and some of the opportunities and pitfalls we see going forward. If you're interested then come join at AWS GenAI Loft in Shoreditch, London on October 17th! 🌿

Biographica CEO, Cecy Price, took to the World Agri-Tech stage this morning to pitch Biographica's ML-driven platform for precision design of next-generation seed genetics. Cecy will be in the Startup Arena today - stop by and say hi 👋 #worldagritech

We are thrilled to share that Nir Arbel has recently joined the Biographica team! For the past year, Nir has been an invaluable advisor to Biographica, supporting us on early collaborations with some of the world’s leading seed companies and helping develop our product and commercial strategy. We're extremely excited that he has decided to join us full time. Nir brings over a decade of international experience in R&D, product and management within the biotech, medtech and agtech sectors. He has taken several companies from concept to commercial product, invested in deep tech companies, and most recently led product as CPO of Evogene, a public company using computational biology to revolutionalise product discovery in the life sciences. Welcome, Nir Arbel! 🚀

We're extremely excited to have Liz Broderick join the Biographica team as our Operations Lead! After spending 5 years looking after Platform & Network at Kindred Capital, one of Europe's leading VCs, Liz brings a wealth of experience helping companies scale across multiple verticals. We're very lucky to have her and can't wait to see her turbocharge our capabilities as we grow. Welcome Liz! 🎉

We're very lucky to have two incredibly talented new hires join the team over the past few weeks. Introducing Felix Homma and Victoria Auyeung! Felix joins us as a principal bioinformatician after completing his computational biology PhD and postdoctoral research at University of Oxford, specialising in plant-pathogen interactions. Victoria joins us as a computational biologist after spending three years as a postdoctoral research scientist at Astra Zeneca and completing her PhD at University of Cambridge. Welcome onboard!

🌱 We're hiring! Join Biographica as Our First Operations Lead! 🌟 We're looking for a visionary Operations Lead to oversee day-to-day ops, streamline our workflows and support company growth. You'll work directly with our CEO and play a crucial role in driving forward our mission: to accelerate the development of productive, sustainable, and climate-resilient food sources. If you're looking for a dynamic, cross-functional operations role with real-world impact, check out the full job description and apply here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eqyG35yF #BiographicaCareers #Hiring #OperationsLead #AgTech #Sustainability #StartUp

🌱 Recent Developments at Biographica - Advancing ML in Crop Improvement Last month, we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Crop Innovation and Business in Gent, sharing some of our recent breakthroughs in ML-driven crop improvement. Our mission? To harness ML for the genetic design of next-generation food & farming solutions that are more productive, resilient & sustainable. If you didn't catch the action in Gent, here's a summary of some recent highlights: 🔬 Breakthrough in Protein Function Prediction. Our team has developed state-of-the-art models that can predict any plant protein function directly from sequence with unparalleled accuracy, outperforming orthology-based methods such as BLAST by more than 328%! 🎯 Novel Target Discovery. This leap in predictive capability allows us to unearth a vast array of novel candidates with high confidence. An example is the protein ABR1 (A0A178UFQ7), for which we predicted a novel role in drought resistance which was later validated by findings from 2 independent 2023 publications. 🌽 Empowering Seed & Trait R&D. Our models provide unprecedented insights into the biological mechanisms of targets. This means that, beyond a ranked list of candidates, we can provide our partners with actionable biological hypotheses to streamline downstream R&D. It's an exciting time for ML in agritech. If you're involved in crop improvement and intrigued by the potential of ML, let's chat. We're doing something truly transformative, and we're looking for forward-thinking partners ready to join us on our journey 🚀 Thanks to our epic team for making it all happen, and to CIB partners for inviting us to speak! Dominic Hall Cecy Price Dennis Schwartz Paride Antinucci Guy Aglionby Linhao Luo Felix Homma #AgTech #MachineLearning #CropImprovement #Innovation #Biographica

📣 Calling all bioinformaticians - we're hiring! 📣 At Biographica, we’re on a mission to accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious & climate-resilient crops. Our discovery platform uses cutting-edge deep learning and knowledge graph technology to decode crop genetics, identifying valuable gene targets for crop improvement. Strong data foundations are essential to what we do. Recognising this, we're seeking a highly skilled bioinformatician to lead our bioinformatics activities, designing powerful, modular bioinformatics pipelines and contributing to our state-of-the-art ML pipelines for protein analytics and target identification. This position offers the chance to be at the forefront of a truly global and transformative mission, within a fast-growing, venture-backed agbiotech startup. If you're passionate about bioinformatics, plant sciences, food security and impact, we'd love to hear from you! Full job description below ⬇ https://lnkd.in/embkT8Us #biotech #agtech #hiring #techtalent #bioinformatician #computationalbiology

🎉 A belated welcome to our newest team members! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce the addition of three exceptional talents to the Biographica team: Guy Aglionby, Paride Antinucci and Dennis Schwartz. Their expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Graph Machine Learning (ML), and Data Engineering is instrumental in advancing our mission: to uncover the genes responsible for more productive, sustainable, and climate-resilient crops. 📕 With a PhD in NLP from Cambridge, and multiple publications on knowledge graph design and graph ML for NLP, Guy is pioneering integration of literature into our knowledge graphs to enhance our gene discovery processes. 📈 Paride has a multidisciplinary background in molecular biology and computational neuroscience (PhD, King’s College London; Postdoc, UCL), as well as ML research for drug target discovery. He's now applying this expertise to design graph-based methods for target discovery in plants. 💽 Dennis has a wealth of experience as a data engineer and bioinformatician, with 7+ years in biotech startups and an MSc in bioinformatics from TU Munich. At Biographica, he leads development of robust, efficient and scalable data infrastructure. In just two months, Guy, Dennis and Paride have had a huge impact: enhancing our protein analytics, literature ingestion pipelines, and overall data and codebase efficiency. We're hugely excited for the next chapter. Welcome aboard, Guy, Paride, and Dennis! #techtalent #machinelearning #NLP #graphML #biotech #genediscovery #cropscience #feedthefuture