Amelie on Nobel Week

During Nobel Week, much has revolved around this year's Nobel Laureates and all the activities carried out in connection with their visit to Stockholm. Even for those of us who were not invited to the festivities in the Concert Hall and City Hall on Tuesday, there has been a lot to take part in.

On Sunday, you could follow the Nobel lectures live on YouTube and I took the opportunity to listen to both the physics and chemistry laureates' lectures, where I found it particularly exciting to hear the chemistry laureates David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. Their amazing research has led to completely new possibilities to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins and design new proteins. One example is the development of the AI tool AlphaFold, which is currently used by many researchers at our school. Within the Human Protein Atlas project, led by Mathias Uhlén, which aims to map all human proteins, AlphaFold is used to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.

On Monday, an event was organized in the Reaktorhallen at KTH, on the theme “AI for Science”, where a panel discussion was held with, among others, Lila Ibrahim from Google DeepMind and Mathias Uhlén from the CBH School. It was an interesting discussion about the use of AI in research and what developments we can expect in the future.

Amelie