Lily James Olds

Dude, these images from Sleep Token look insane.

I'm looking at the photo.

I'm like fascinated.

Yeah, they're good.

Okay, I gotta listen.

This is like pretty epic.

That's amazing.

So you talk about how using AI for protein engineering is like, I like how you say giving nature a little push, you know, speeding up the process.

Can you give me one or two concrete examples where AI engineered proteins are being used to help solve a problem and what impact they're having?

That's so wild and futuristic to someone like me who is not doing this every day in a lab.

I'm thinking about a conversation we had before, Cesar, where you spoke about kind of being inspired by snails and being inspired by natural processes and then putting that into your work in the lab.

I love that so much.

I remember that with snails in the backyard as well.

I'm curious, is there a particular local challenge in Chile or Latin America that you think protein engineering is especially well suited to tackle?

And what's a new protein designer structure that you are really excited about right now and why and what will it help to change or make better, do you think?

The advances that I've learned about from you are just so incredible.

I'm curious, with all of these examples you're giving and how much AI is making protein design more successful, where do you see the field of protein design in three to five years from now?

What do you think will be possible?

You've outlined a little bit of that, but what does that future look like in your best imagination?

Yeah.