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Sep 29, 2020

Collective calcium synchronization preprint uploaded to biorxiv!

Our study addresses a fundamental question in living systems: how synchronization of a group emerges from the interactions of individual...

Sep 22, 2020

Assaf's interpretable ML for melanoma talk available online

The talk was part of the "Virtual Seminars on Complexity" series, https://sites.google.com/view/virtualseminarsoncomplexity/. Assaf...

Sep 21, 2020

Cell death spreading project highlighted by Israeli media (in Hebrew)

Israel Hayom https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/802867 Ynet https://www.ynet.co.il/article/BJX11BTHHw "Three who know" (radio...

Aug 30, 2020

Collective cell death paper published!

Collaborative paper with Mike Overholtzer from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the intercellular propagation of...

Aug 24, 2020

Lab get-together at the Goral Hills

We all met to socialize and enjoy the stunning sunset at a stop near Assaf's home :-)

Jul 30, 2020

Cell-ECM-cell communication preprint uploaded to biorxiv!

In this manuscript we present computational method to systematically infer long-range mechanical cell-cell communication through the...

Jul 27, 2020

Assaf was selected as a ASCB Minisymposia Co-Chair

Assaf was selected as a Minisymposia Co-Chair to the Physical Cell session in ASCB|EMBO annual meeting (Cell Bio 2020 Virtual) A list of...

Jul 25, 2020

Abscission in zebrafish preprint uploaed to biorxiv!

Collaboration with Shai Adar from the Natalie Elia lab at the Cen-Gurion University on the functional role of abscission in early...

May 26, 2020

Platelet spreading paper published!

Collaboration with Melanie Bokstad from the Benny Geiger lab at the Weizmann Institute on Differential dynamics of early stages of...

May 24, 2020

Our melanoma project highlighted by the Jerusalem Post

The article is based on our recent preprint "Interpretable deep learning of label-free live cell images uncovers functional hallmarks of...

May 16, 2020

"Live cell histology" preprint uploaded to biorxiv!

In this manuscript we "reverse engineered" a neural network to identify the cellular properties that distinguish aggressive and less...

May 12, 2020

CMSO paper published!

The cell migration standardization organization (CMSO) paper on Community standards for open cell migration data is out!...

Mar 25, 2020

Data Science in Cell Imaging - The Company of Biologists workshop video

The Company of Biologists released a video on our February workshop on data science in cell imaging. Url: youtu.be/dosYCNuGrJQ

Mar 17, 2020

Data science in cell imaging - launching a new graduate course at BGU

Data science in cell imaging course website is up! Slides are open for public use. Url: https://assafzar.wixsite.com/dsci2020/

Mar 1, 2020

Yuval Amit joined the lab!

He will investigate how heterogeneous local non-linear dynamic events are integrated in time and space to drive global emergent system's...

Feb 29, 2020

Oron Barazani joined the lab!

He will use image analysis and machine learning to investigate myoblast migration, differentiation and fusion . Welcome Oron!

Jan 27, 2020

The Company of Biologists workshop on Data Science in Cell Imaging

Assaf is co-organizing (together with Meghan Driscoll and Rick Horwitz) a Company of Biologists workshop on data science in cell imaging...

Jan 23, 2020

Katya Smoliansky participated in an EMBL course on Deep Learning for Image Analysis

Katya participated in the Deep Learning for Image Analysis course that took place in EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. Katya applies generative...

Dec 11, 2019

Our melanoma "explainable" machine learning project was featured in The Scientist

Url: https://www.the-scientist.com/image-of-the-day/image-of-the-day--melanoma-neural-network-66825?utm_content=108143048

Dec 5, 2019

ASCB subgroup on "Machine intelligence and statistics in cell biology"

Assaf is co-organizing (together with Kwonmoo Lee and Jean-Chrisophe Olivo-Marin) the subgroup that will take place December 7 at the...

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Lab of Computational Cell Dynamics