Practical AI for Biomedical Researchers

Held on 19 October 2026

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Program

  1. Morning coffee
  2. Introduction to AI and the Use of Large Language Models for Research Ole Winther
  3. How LLMs Work: The Transformer Architecture Open slides Download HTML, 1.9 MB
  4. Coffee break
  5. Security, Privacy and Deployment Options Diana Andrejeva Open slides Download HTML, 29.7 MB
  6. Risks, ethics and trade-offs of AI Suze Roostee Download PDF, 2.2 MB
  7. Lunch
  8. Hallucinations, Limitations and Critical Evaluation Alba Refoyo Martínez Download PDF, 2.0 MB
  9. LLMs for Literature Search, Summarization and Ideation Stefano Pupe Open slides Download HTML, 7.6 MB
  10. Coffee break
  11. AI for Programming Stefano Pupe Open slides Download HTML, 17.4 MB
  12. Discussion: Trends, Predictions and Expectations

Next edition of this course

29–30 April 2027

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Coming up this autumn

Bulk RNAseq
26–29 October
Python II
2–4 November
GWAS
9–12 November

Consulting

Free consultations ranging from data analysis to information security questions. We are starting to advise on AI models.