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Date & Place

October 1, 2026, 9:15 AM
2 Hankiewicza Street, 02-103 Warsaw

About the event

The talk focuses on building computational resources and AI methods for understanding and predicting RNA structure. I present RNA3DB, a curated dataset and framework for organizing RNA 3D structures and creating more rigorous, leakage-resistant training and evaluation splits; RNAHUB, a web server for discovering conserved RNA structures across genomes; and our “AlphaFold for RNA” effort, where we adapt modern deep-learning approaches for RNA 3D structure prediction, integrating evolutionary information, RNA-specific geometry, and increasingly multimodal experimental data.

Speaker

Dr Marcin Magnus

Laboratory of RNA Design and Therapeutics, University of Warsaw
Marcin Magnus is a computational RNA biologist specializing in RNA structure modeling. His research combines artificial intelligence, structural bioinformatics, and experimental biology to understand RNA and ribonucleoprotein complexes and develop predictive models for RNA therapeutics.

He now heads the Laboratory of RNA Design and Therapeutics at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, focusing on computational RNA design, RNA therapeutics, and AI-driven methods integrated with experimental validation.

RACE project: RNA and Cell Biology – from Fundamental Research to Therapies

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.