🚀Applications are open for the 2025 edition of our EMBL Deep learning course for microscopy image analysis. This time, we will focus on more advanced methods so if so if you already know how to train models you will be in for a treat! Deadline Nov 25th

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Nice benchmark of single cell "foundation models" (scGPT, scFoundation) and GEARS (a GNN model) further hyped as "virtual cell models" against linear baselines on perturbation prediction. Long-story short: they can't beat the linear baselines. 1/

Jensen Huang says the single greatest potential of AI is to transform biology from a life science into life engineering to improve healthcare and he "can't imagine" what the field will be like in 10 years

On my way to #ECCV24 in Milan! 🔬Our workshop on bioimage computing will be Sun 29th 9am-1pm Amber 5, please join! bioimagecomputing.com/program/detail… 📜Ben Gallusser will present his work on transformer based cell-tracking Poster #323 on Tue 1st 10:30am 🤝DM if you want to meet :)

Interested in quantitative biology? Apply to the qBio PhD program Université de Lausanne. My lab (vastenhouwlab.org) is among the ones offering positions through this program. Email me for more info and hope to see you in December. @cig_unil UNIL Quantitative Biology PhD program.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the CellMap Segmentation Challenge set to go live at the end of October 2024! Sign up for email announcements and be the first to know when the challenge officially launches: cellmapchallenge.janelia.org

As Nature Methods celebrates #20th #Bday, they have a nice feature about the tools they published, incl. Fiji. Such article cannot be fair to the all the contributors (Albert Cardona was on vacations). It is what it is. Fiji is great. 🙏 #NM nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our latest paper from the Boyden lab describes an Expansion Microscopy protocol that takes samples to 20X expansion in a single step. Ed Boyden nature.com/articles/s4159…

The desynchronization of cell divisions in early mammalian embryos—once seen as a random process—instead plays a crucial role in ensuring robust development, shedding light on how embryos maintain precision despite biological noise, researchers report in Science.

(1/n) Are you ready to plunge into depths of our oceans with us! This is the story of “hidden comet tails” & our discovery of how a crucial biological process across our planet can put brakes on carbon capture in our oceans. Latest in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We just released François Chollet keynote talk from #AGI24. He challenges LLM hype, discusses ARC-AGI benchmark, and proposes merging deep learning with program synthesis for true AGI progress.

🚀 Thrilled to announce #inTRACKtive: a web-based tool for exploring massive cell-tracking datasets, no software installation required! Just open your browser and dive into terabytes of developmental biology data. We used it to build the virtual embryozoo.org of

🔬✨ Opening of the #LatsisSymposium on Smart Microscopy EPFL with Laurène Donati, Martin Vetterli, Suliana Manley 🔬🗜🧫 & Andy Oates oaties! 🌍🔗 A fantastic event uniting 150 top scientists to explore the future of microscopy through #AI, #MachineLearning, and #Automation.

2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find. It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.

🚨Big news! Five years in the making, our Zebrahub paper is now published in #Cell 🎉. We’ve built a timecourse atlas of zebrafish embryonic development, combining #scRNAseq data and #lightsheet live imaging, and delved deep into the dynamics of key progenitors.

Thrilled to announce that our lab is relocating to the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society Max Planck Society and @MPI_Bio in winter 2025. We’ll have open positions— please help us spread the word and stay tuned for more updates! 🐸 🐁 🥳

A nice advance for imaging-based spatially resolved transcriptomics from the Weigert and La Manno labs. Spotiflow uses deep learning for subpixel-accurate spot detection in diverse 2D and 3D images. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Spotiflow, our deep learning based spot detection method for microscopy, is now published in Nature Methods! Since the pre-print, we have added many cool features, notably native 3D detection! Martin Weigert (maweigert.bsky.social) Gioele La Manno EPFL Life Sciences EPFL Center for Imaging Paper: rdcu.be/epIB7 (1/N)

Had an enjoyable 2.5 hrs (!) talking to Gita Wirjawan on his Endgame Podcast, riffing on my usual themes: biography, energy, space, and metascience, with a bit of economics, geopolitics, and AI thrown in. Thanks Gita! youtu.be/Y-wsDaK5zp0?fe… via YouTube

Do you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! DM/email for details! #PhD tinyurl.com/34ytw2yu