Yunha Hwang

Yunha Hwang, an assistant professor at MIT and co-founder of Tatta Bio, tackles the enigmatic world of microbial genome function annotation. She discusses the vast unknowns in microbial genes and how her lab is pioneering the application of genomic language models to address this challenge. Yunha highlights innovations like OMG, a machine-learning-ready metagenome, and GLM2, a multimodal genomic model. She shares insights on how these tools could revolutionize our understanding of genome functions and reshape evolutionary perspectives.