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Really nice and detailed introduction to spatial transcriptomics by @roserventotormo & @DrAshHaque teams, including experimental design and analyses @GenomeMedicine: genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Vacation time coming up. Key question:

@DanielRueckert about how AI could and already does revolutionize medicine; at our Munich Center for Machine Learning kick-off event.

Outside summer get-together @CompHealthMuc @HelmholtzMunich - truly happy to have the honor to work&party with so many talented, clever and fun people!

Proud to announce that @davidsebfischer took the infinitesimal step yet giant leap from pre-doc to postdoc and is now Dr. David Fischer, congrats for the great PhD work and defense!

Me: how are baby pigs called? My 2 yo daughter: piglet. Me: How about a baby cow? Her: calf. Me: And how about baby chicken? Her: eggs. 🥚

@MariusLange8 leaving for 3months France end-of-PhD fun&work - enjoy!

What’s your favorite cell type?

Congrats @Meshal_Ansari for successful PhD defense yesterday @TU_Muenchen @HelmholtzMunich - what a successful thesis and collaboration together with @SchillerLab! Plus, great presentation, loved the illustration of population averaging.

@xkcdComic has a point - are we doing something relevant, or should we all change to astronomy? :) xkcd.com/2640/

Really happy to join @Wue_SI Systems Immunology Meeting organized by @dominic_grun amongst others, at beautiful location (local winery). Fun to meet colleagues&friends again - and learning that Rahul @satijalab didn’t expect public wine drinking in Bavaria 😂

The extended @OliverStegle scientific family @caina89 @LaraUrban42 @fpcasale !

Panel discussion on how to accelerate translation at #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich, with Stephen Quake @Stanford @cziscience, @MihaelaVDS @Cambridge_Uni and @DonIngber @wyssinstitute. Amongst others, can we speedup drug research using AI and how can we retain talent in academia?

Ido @IdoAmitLab talking at #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich about his approaches in sc immunology - and outlining ideas, for example leveraging single cell analysis for driving drug development and finding adequate model systems, see nature.com/articles/s4159…

Great review by Matthias @labs_mann on unbiased spatial proteomics @MolecularCell with useful technology overviews. cell.com/molecular-cell…

Spatial transcriptomics is becoming increasingly popular, with differential studies coming in a lot. How should we compare multiple spatial images?

@manoliskellis at #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich with gentle and beautiful historical introduction to genetics before tour-de-force across some of his manifold contributions in computational genomics and lately single-cell resolved identification of mechanisms.

@OliverStegle at #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich talking not only about his cool methods but also about the engineering aspects of his work.

@MihaelaVDS at our #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich talking about turning „medicine from art to science“, focusing on the big aim of finding interpretable ML models, in particular governing equations.

Computational people hanging out @HelmholtzMunich’s #BioEng2022 - great to meetup and discuss @MihaelaVDS, @manoliskellis & @OliverStegle!

Elizabeth @HillmanLab @Columbia talking at #BioEng2022 on cool engineering for next-gen microscopy. For me super nice to see good overview slides explaining basics, too :)

@ntziachristos kicking off @NatureConf #BioEng2022 @HelmholtzMunich with impressive translational examples, here from optoaccoustic imaging. Today focus on sensing, tomorrow data analysis. bioeng2022.helmholtz-muenchen.de

We recently asked authors of a paper published at @iclr_conf 2022 (a top ML venue) about sharing code of their paper to reproduce findings and try out in new setting - but got back that „due to copyright&IP, we are unable to share the code“. TBH was shocked, any recommendations?

@SikkemaLisa on stage with @dana_peer reporting about lessons learnt on computational atlas level data integration ☺️

@EBiederstedt introducing the Cell Annotation Platform at celltype.info highlighting the many people contributing to this exciting effort spearheaded by @KharchenkoLab

@MDLuecken at #HCA2022GM about atlas building and lessons learnt from the Human Lung Cell Atlas, w @SikkemaLisa @MC_Nawijn @Misharin_lab and the whole Lung Atlas network.

@ngehlenborg talking at #HCA2022GM about his lab’s atlas visualization efforts based on the impressive vitessce platform. Besides viz, I really liked his closing statement to also "consider APIs as user interfaces“, important for comp bio.

Discussion point by Wolfgang @EnardHellmannWG - we need peer review and even twitter to keep us honest beyond our small close-friends bubble. Agree?

Vienna calling - after HCA science, discussions continue in the bars!

The @humancellatlas orga team - thanks so much!