CytoData 2019
We are honored to host the fourth CytoData Symposium and Hackathon from Oct 28-30, 2019 at the DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany! CytoData brings together the community of researchers mining microscopy image data.
We are honored to host the fourth CytoData Symposium and Hackathon from Oct 28-30, 2019 at the DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany! CytoData brings together the community of researchers mining microscopy image data.
As in previous years (2016, 2017, 2018), CytoData brings together the community of researchers mining microscopy image data.
We recently formed the CytoData Society (CytoDS) to build and maintain an active community around image-based profiling of biological phenotypes induced by genetic, chemical or other perturbations of biological systems. CytoData 2019 will be a great venue to connect with this community, exchange ideas, and learn from experts in the field.
Attendees will join together for a one-day symposium with seminars, lectures and social events followed by a two-day hackathon. We aspire to gather a diverse and engaged group of both image-based profiling experts, and members of related fields. Everyone involved will be an active contributor (even if remote), no passive absorption of others’ ideas allowed! We assume participants will be willing to share their analysis strategies, given that each laboratory’s “competitive advantage” in this field does not come from their data pre-processing pipeline but rather from computational techniques downstream of the steps covered in the event, and from biological discoveries derived from their unique data.
Sun Oct 27 Educational session (optional)
Learn about the latest tools and methods in single cell and image based profiling.
Mon Oct 28 Full day Symposium
Hear from leading researchers in the field from academia and industry.
Tue Oct 29 CytoData Hackathon - Day 1
Get oriented, and starting working on the first stage of the challenge.
Wed Oct 30 CytoData Hackathon - Day 2
Refine models during the second stage of the challenge, then evaluate on held out set.
Winners will be announced based on the held out set.
Carsten Marr
Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Computational Biology, Munich, Germany
Michael Boutros
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Julius Hossain
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Rainer Pepperkok
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Sophie Rabe
University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
Anna Kreshuk
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Luca Rappez
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Sina Oppermann
KiTZ co-Clinical Trial Unit, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Oliver Stegle
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany and European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
We are offering further sponsorship opportunities for this event. See list of sponsors of previous events at CytoData 2016, CytoData 2017, CytoData 2018. Please contact Florian Heigwer (f.heigwer[at]dkfz.de) if you are interested in sponsoring.
Chair: Florian Heigwer
Co-Chair: Christian Scheeder
The CytoData Society (CytoDS) is an international society that builds and maintains an active community around image-based profiling of biological phenotypes induced by genetic, chemical or other perturbations of biological systems. This field is still in its infancy, and its adoption has been slow, primarily due to the data analysis challenges posed, the large imaging experiments required, and the lack of ground-truth data sets where relationships among images are known. Our goal is therefore to bring image-based profiling into the mainstream by organizing the community working on this technology.
Past president: Anne Carpenter Shantanu Singh
President: Florian Heigwer
Vice President: Lassi Paavolainen
Event officer: Tim Becker
Communications officer: Alex Vasilevich
Industry liaison: Alex Vasilevich
Operations officer: Theresa Gebert
Education/ outreach officer: Juan Caicedo
Society liaison: Oren Kraus
Resource officer: Gregory Way
The Boutros Lab / Division of signaling and functional genomics is based at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany. We use genetic and genomic methods to link genotypes to phenotypes, and cell biological approaches to study specific processes and probe underlying mechanisms.