PEBBLE BioFusion 2026 is designed from the ground up for the age of AI. We are not adding AI as a tool on top of a traditional curriculum. Instead, we are rethinking what a workshop should train when AI makes tutorials, literature review, coding, and draft generation available on demand. In this new landscape, three things become critically important:
- Taste the ability to ask deep, well-chosen questions. Which problems are alive? Which framings reveal new structure?
- Rigor the ability to develop a full, in-depth chain of logic that tells a complete, convincing story.
- Courage the willingness to ask bold questions, and the determination to pursue them all the way through.
These are precisely what AI does not reliably provide. They are what PEBBLE BioFusion trains.
36
talks over 11 days
14
tutorial sessions
16
student manuscripts
45
student authors
The camp, day by day
Full schedule →Week one opens five live questions. Week two hands the hours over to the students. The last day is theirs to present. Every day below links to its talks and the files that go with them.
Week oneIgnition: five questions
07.25
Sat
Q1: Cellular Information Processing
8 talks · 12 files
07.26
Sun
Q2: Complex Cellular Behaviors
7 talks · 18 files
07.27
Mon
Q3: Noise, Fluctuation & Diversity
6 talks · 18 files
07.28
Tue
Q4: Aging, Damage & Asymmetry
6 talks · 7 files
07.29
Wed
Q5: Spatial Organization & Multicellularity
5 talks · 8 files
Week twoSynthesis: research sprint
07.30
Thu
Project Kickstart
2 talks
07.31
Fri
Research Sprint: Work
Panel · clinics · group work
08.01
Sat
Recharge: Rest Day
No sessions
08.02
Sun
Research Sprint: Analysis
1 talk
08.03
Mon
Research Sprint: Polish
1 talk
FinaleDemo day
Explore
Research with AI
The method we taught
The four commandments for working with an AI agent, the PCAPS chain
of logic, and a worked example carrying one idea from a sentence to a manuscript.
Tutorials
14 sessions, 61 files
Slides, notebooks, data and worksheets from the hands-on studios,
written by the teaching assistants. Every file downloadable, each one runs on its own.
Student work
16 manuscripts
What the teams produced during the sprint week, with the posters and
graphical abstracts that went with them.
Gallery
The camp itself
Photographs from the two weeks in Hangzhou.