Anika's poster presentation at EMBO | EMBL Symposium and BSI's annual Oxford Immunology Symposium

The recent EMBO | EMBL Symposium on AI and biology brought together researchers from across fields to discuss the intersection and synergy between AI and biology. The four-day symposium took place from from 10-13 March and was held at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany included many keynote lectures, talks, and poster presentations on diverse topics such as the potential for AI-based methods to augment experimental design, data analysis, simulation, and modelling, and the application AI-based analytics on sequencing, imaging and structural biology. 

The British Society for Immunology’s annual Oxford Immunology Symposium is a one-day showcase of the fantastic immunology research happening across Oxford. This year’s symposium took place on the 1st of April, with topics ranging from autoimmunity to immunometabolism to human tissue immunology, with many invited speakers, selected short talks, and poster presentations on all topics.

At both conferences, Anika presented her poster on the application of AlphaFold3 on antibody epitope prediction for the blood-stage malaria antigen RH5. Her work demonstrated how computational methods capable of predicting epitopes can enable deeper insights into vaccine-induced antibody responses and inform the design of next-generation vaccines.