We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on AI and Biology which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm in the evening of Monday April 20, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday April 23, 2026.

The conference will include seven oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in AI and Biology . Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Genome x AI 

2. Protein x AI

3. Cell-Tissue x AI

4. BioImaging x AI

5. Disease x AI

6. ML Innovation

7. Future of Biology x AI

Invited Speakers:

Stein Aerts, VIB - KULeuven

Mengjie Chen, University of Chicago

Maria Chikina, University of Pittsburgh

Le Cong, Stanford University

Bianca Dumitrascu, Columbia University

Julien Gagneur, Technical University of Munich

Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University

Guoji Guo, Zhejiang University

Weizhe Hong, University of California, Los Angeles

Peter Koo, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Anna Kreshuk, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Bo Li, University of Pennsylvania

Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania

Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington & Genentech

Jian Tang, Mila-Quebec AI Institute

Alexander Tong, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Mengdi Wang, Princeton University

Yi Xing, University of Pennsylvania 

Makoto Yamada, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)

Feng Yue, Northwestern University

Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Tsinghua University

Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University

Ellen Zhong, Princeton University

Jian Zhou, The University of Chicago

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in April, 2026.