Annual Conference 2026: Announcing our Hot Topic
Jon Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada. His research focuses on the development and application of leading-edge machine learning techniques for novel drug discovery and design tasks, with an emphasis on antibiotics. Jon is also co-founder and CSO of Stoked Bio.
On the opportunity to present the Hot Topic at the Microbiology Society’s Annual Conference 2026, Jon said: “AI”, as just a term even, gets a lot of attention and stirs up a lot of emotion. Sometimes that attention is positive, and other times (maybe even most of the time?) not so much. I’m excited for this super cool opportunity to have an open and honest discussion about what AI can and can’t do to help us invent new antibiotics.”
Don’t miss Jon’s Hot Topic on ‘What AI can and can’t do for antibiotic discovery’ – register for Annual Conference 2026.
You can find Jon Stokes on LinkedIn.
