First New England Computational Biology Symposium opens at Microsoft Research with agentic AI track
lucapinello · x · 2026-10-01
The inaugural New England Computational Biology Symposium (NECB 2026) runs October 1–2, 2026 at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, MA — a two-day, student-friendly in-person event.
Topics span bioinformatics, ML, genomics, systems biology, protein design, and spatial/single-cell omics, with a dedicated track on "Agentic AI for Biology" covering autonomous agents, reasoning systems, and agent-scientist collaboration.
The symposium aims to connect New England universities, hospitals, and institutes, boost junior researcher visibility, and seed collaborations. Organizer lucapinello noted the date coincides with the 10th anniversary of founding his lab.
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