4 days agoPlatelet spreading paper published!Collaboration with Melanie Bokstad from the Benny Geiger lab at the Weizmann Institute on Differential dynamics of early stages of platelet adhesion and spre...
6 days agoOur melanoma project highlighted by the Jerusalem PostThe article is based on our recent preprint "Interpretable deep learning of label-free live cell images uncovers functional hallmarks of highly-metastatic me...
May 16"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 aggressive metastatic me...
May 12CMSO paper published!The cell migration standardization organization (CMSO) paper on Community standards for open cell migration data is out! https://academic.oup.com/gigascience...
Mar 25Data Science in Cell Imaging - The Company of Biologists workshop videoThe Company of Biologists released a video on our February workshop on data science in cell imaging. Url: youtu.be/dosYCNuGrJQ
Mar 17Data science in cell imaging - launching a new graduate course at BGUData science in cell imaging course website is up! Slides are open for public use. Url: https://assafzar.wixsite.com/dsci2020/
Mar 1Yuval 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 state in a simple in...
Feb 29Oron Barazani joined the lab!He will use image analysis and machine learning to investigate myoblast migration, differentiation and fusion . Welcome Oron!
Jan 27The 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 that will take place...
Jan 23Katya Smoliansky participated in an EMBL course on Deep Learning for Image AnalysisKatya participated in the Deep Learning for Image Analysis course that took place in EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. Katya applies generative networks to infer pro...
Dec 11, 2019Our melanoma "explainable" machine learning project was featured in The ScientistUrl: https://www.the-scientist.com/image-of-the-day/image-of-the-day--melanoma-neural-network-66825?utm_content=108143048
Dec 5, 2019ASCB 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 American Society for Ce...
Nov 1, 2019Yishaia Zabary joined the lab!He will study the process Platelet spreading. Welcome Yishaia!
Oct 23, 2019Assaf will speak at the "AI in Genomics" meetup The meetup's broad topic is "Beyond genomics, what can we learn from live cell imaging", https://www.meetup.com/Quantitative-Genomics-Precision-Medicine/eve...
Sep 15, 2019Mini-Symposium on "Demystifying machine learning for microscopy"Assaf is co-organizing (together with Ofra Golani) a one-day mini-symposium on demystifying machine learning for microscopy that will take place at October 3...
Aug 1, 2019Chen Galed joined the lab!She will use agent-based simulations to propose new mechanisms of collective cell death . Welcome Chen!
Jul 19, 2019Ahmad Majadly joined the lab!He will develop a computational pipeline to quantitatively characterize the heterogeneity and spatiotemporal organization of epithelial cell–cell junctions. ...
May 29, 2019Amos was selected for a talk at the ISM annual meetingHe gave a talk on how multicellular synchronization emerges from information-transfer between individual cells during collective calcium signaling in fibrobl...
Apr 28, 2019Assaf will travel to Frontiers in Imaging Science IIHe was invited to give a talk at the meeting. During his visit he will give a seminar at the Miroscopy CoRE seminar series, Icahn School of Medicine at Moun...