FLAIR Lab Publications PreprintStructure-Aligned Protein Language Model Can Chen , David Heurtel-Depeiges , Robert M Vernon , Christopher James Langmead , Yoshua Bengio , and Quentin Fournier arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16896, 2025 PreprintProtein language models: Is scaling necessary? Quentin Fournier , Robert M Vernon , Almer Sloot , Benjamin Schulz , Sarath Chandar , and Christopher James Langmead bioRxiv, 2024 External Collaborations PreprintCoPeP: Benchmarking Continual Pretraining for Protein Language Models Darshan Patil , Pranshu Malviya , Mathieu Reymond , Quentin Fournier , and Sarath Chandar arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00253, 2026 PreprintNovoMolGen: Rethinking Molecular Language Model Pretraining Kamran Chitsaz , Roshan Balaji , Quentin Fournier , Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt , and Sarath Chandar arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.13408, 2025