Learning outcomes

• Why is antibiotic discovery important?
• How is AI helping us discover new antibiotics?
• What are some important considerations when implementing AI for drug discovery?

Speaker bio

Jon received his BHSc in 2011 and his PhD in antimicrobial chemical biology in 2016, both from McMaster University. From 2017–2021 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, carrying a prestigious Banting Fellowship. Upon completing his postdoc, Jon established his laboratory back at McMaster in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. The Stokes Lab leverages a balance of experimental and computational approaches to discover the next generation of life-saving drugs with novel structures and functions. One of their primary interests, quite broadly, is in the development and implementation of deep learning algorithms to de novo design novel antibiotics.