Dr. Ferruz: As a researcher in protein research, I particularly enjoyed talks about variant prediction in proteins. I learned a great deal from the presentations by Pascal Notin, Julia Domingo, Albert Escobedo, Charles Pugh, Polly Fordyce… But also, Patrick Hsu’s talk about training large genomic language models was outstanding, and I was surprised to see how many DNA-related presentations turned out to be relevant to my work. Choosing a single favourite would be impossible!
Dr. Fayer: The 2025 MSS meeting was the best one yet. The talks were amazing and much of what was presented was cutting-edge unpublished data. The organizers did an excellent job putting together an agenda with a great balance of new technologies (both experimental and computational), MAVEs with mechanistic insights, and translation of MAVE and computational data in clinical settings.
