How to train your model bootcamp at Summer RosettaCon 2025

An advanced protein design Bootcamp / Hackathon software developer event

Summer RosettaCon 2025 – Bootcamp / Hackathon – Application is open, apply here

This immersive, hands-on event is designed for researchers who are ready to move beyond “out-of-the-box” machine learning models for protein design. Participants will gain practical experience in training models tailored to their specific research needs, learning about the process, key variables, limitations, and possibilities of model development with a project-based learning experience. 

Unlike traditional bootcamps, this program combines elements of both a bootcamp and hackathon—there is no formal instruction. Instead, participants will work in a high teacher-student ratio environment with a diverse team of experts providing guidance. Students must come prepared with a well-scoped project, a suitable dataset, and a solid understanding of existing models. This is not a novice-level course—prior ML experience is required. (For those new to ML, we offer an introductory bootcamp in the fall.)

A series of required preparatory meetings will help participants scope their project, prepare training/validation/testing data, and ensure readiness to dive in. The bootcamp bookends Summer RosettaCon (SRC), with model training development occurring on the Sunday & Monday before the conference, and results analysis, troubleshooting, and next-step planning happening the following Friday.

Participants are encouraged to install all necessary tools and resources on their lab or company clusters, but compute resources from Leviate Bio may be available as an alternative.

Application & Registration:

• Rosetta trainees: Lodging (but not other travel) costs will be covered by the Rosetta Commons.
• Industry participants: modest registration fee of $400 will support event sustainability.
• All participants must co-register for SRC.

Timings:

• Sunday 8/3 from 1 pm to 10 pm
• Monday 8/4 from 7 am to 2 pm 
• Friday 8/8 from 9 am to 10 pm
• Saturday 8/9 – Travel