Resources Closing the Loop SF 2026: Designing Functional Proteins With Artificial Intelligence Talk Title: Designing Functional Proteins With Artificial IntelligenceEvent: Closing the Loop SF 2026 Recording Date: June 5, 2026Host: Gator® Bio Sharrol Bachas, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of Onava, presented this talk at Closing the Loop SF 2026, the AI protein design symposium hosted by Gator Bio. He walks through a workflow where generative models and high-throughput screening run as one loop, with each round of experimental data used to retrain the models for the next. In this talk you will learn: How an AI-human-lab-in-the-loop workflow turns protein design into an iterative engineering process How quantitative screening data is featurized and used to retrain design models each round Case studies where this approach rescued poor initial designs and improved developability How rapid AI-lab iterations compress design-build-test cycles