The Carbon Fellowship
An AI x Biology Hackathon at the Frontier
A selective one-day hackathon where early-career biologists and technologists build working solutions to urgent scientific challenges.
Programme partners
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
The Carbon Fellowship
An AI x Biology Hackathon at the Frontier
A selective one-day hackathon where early-career biologists and technologists build working solutions to urgent scientific challenges.
Programme partners
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
The Carbon Fellowship
An AI x Biology Hackathon at the Frontier
A selective one-day hackathon where early-career biologists and technologists build working solutions to urgent scientific challenges.
Programme partners
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
DNAForge
Replit
BenchFlow
PROGRAMME THEMES
Where teams will focus
Teams work on carefully scoped scientific problems that can be tested against evidence, baselines and unseen cases.
01
Therapeutics
Investigate a bounded target–disease question. Build tools that retrieve and compare evidence, surface conflicting findings and explain uncertainty with clear sources.
02
Agricultural resilience
Test how crop-image models behave across changing field conditions. Measure failures by location, improve robustness and report uncertainty alongside performance.
03
Biosecurity
Develop monitoring tools that can spot unusual signals in noisy biological data. Compare against statistical baselines and measure false alerts, missed events and detection delay.
PROGRAMME THEMES
Where teams will focus
Teams work on carefully scoped scientific problems that can be tested against evidence, baselines and unseen cases.
01
Therapeutics
Investigate a bounded target–disease question. Build tools that retrieve and compare evidence, surface conflicting findings and explain uncertainty with clear sources.
02
Agricultural resilience
Test how crop-image models behave across changing field conditions. Measure failures by location, improve robustness and report uncertainty alongside performance.
03
Biosecurity
Develop monitoring tools that can spot unusual signals in noisy biological data. Compare against statistical baselines and measure false alerts, missed events and detection delay.
PROGRAMME THEMES
Where teams will focus
Teams work on carefully scoped scientific problems that can be tested against evidence, baselines and unseen cases.
01
Therapeutics
Investigate a bounded target–disease question. Build tools that retrieve and compare evidence, surface conflicting findings and explain uncertainty with clear sources.
02
Agricultural resilience
Test how crop-image models behave across changing field conditions. Measure failures by location, improve robustness and report uncertainty alongside performance.
03
Biosecurity
Develop monitoring tools that can spot unusual signals in noisy biological data. Compare against statistical baselines and measure false alerts, missed events and detection delay.
Why Carbon?
Why Carbon?
Why Carbon?
Carbon focuses ambitious scientific and technical talent on problems that matter. Participants leave with credible, evaluated work; partners see how strong teams reason, build and perform under pressure.
Carbon focuses ambitious scientific and technical talent on problems that matter. Participants leave with credible, evaluated work; partners see how strong teams reason, build and perform under pressure.
Cambridge
Cambridge
First workshop · 20 selected participants
First workshop · 20 selected participants
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
14 November 2026
14 November 2026
London
London
January 2027
January 2027
FAQs
FAQs
FAQs
Carbon brings together biology and technology in a deliberately practical format. Here are answers to the most common questions about the programme, applications and what teams will build.
Biology meets technology. Learn about the programme, applying and what teams will build.
What is the Carbon Fellowship?
Is Carbon a fellowship or a hackathon?
Who should apply?
Do I need experience in both biology and machine learning?
What will teams build?
What does every team produce?
What support will participants receive?
When and where are the next programmes?
The Carbon Fellowship
The Carbon Fellowship
An AI x Biology Hackathon at the Frontier.
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