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.
PEBBLE BioFusion is hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Westlake University. Fangzhou Xiao organized the 2026 camp, with Zilin Zhu as program coordinator.
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.