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• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Leslie Solorzano

  May 12, 2021: Leslie Solorzano successfully defended her PhD thesis "Image Processing, Machine Learning and Visualization for Tissue Analysis" with Carolina Wählby as main supervisor. Thesis opponent was Alex Telea, and the committee consisted of Anna Kreshuk, Björn Menze, Caroline Gallant, Patric Ljung and Stephan Seipel. Thank you all for contributing to the event!

• HASTE Team wins the Adipocyte Cell Imaging Challenge 2020 organised by AstraZeneca and AI Sweden

  November 24, 2020: AI Sweden and AstraZeneca organised the Adipocyte Cell Imaging Challenge, a two-week-long hackathon to help AstraZeneca accelerate the drug development process. The winning team consisted of Håkan Wieslander, Ankit Gupta, Phil Harrison, Ebba Bergman and Erik Hallström, all from the Wählby lab, read more at the HASTE web site.

• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Gabriele Partel

  October 29, 2020: Gabriele Partel successfully defended his PhD thesis "Image and Data Analysis for Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics; Decrypting fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of tissue's molecular architecture" with Carolina Wählby as main supervisor. Thesis opponent was Roland Eils. Thank you all for contributing to the event!

• TissUUmaps finally a publication!!

  May 25, 2020: Our paper on

  TissUUmaps: Interactive visualization of large-scale spatial gene expression and tissue morphology data.

  is finally available, open access in Bioinformatics. Don't miss out on all the instructive and beautiful videos made by Leslie!

• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Gabriella Edfeldt

  May 15, 2020: Gabriella Edfeldt successfully defended her PhD thesis "Epithelial barrier protection : implications for HIV susceptibility". Main supervisor was Annelie Tjernlund, and Carolina Wählby acted as co-supervisor. Thesis opponent was Professor Janneke van de Wijgert. Thank you all for contributing to the event!

• Applicants now under evaluation

  May 2020: We had a total of more than one hundred applicants for our open positions as Bioinformatician, Postdoc and PhD student. The applications are now under evaluation, and the top-ranked candidates will be contacted for interviews. All applicants will be informed once the process is completed.

• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Damian Matuszewski

  Dec 12, 2019: Damian Matuszewski successfully defended his PhD thesis "Image and Data Analysis for Biomedical Quantitative Microscopy". Main supervisor was Ida-Maria Sintorn, co-supervisor Carolina Wählby. Thesis opponent was Peter Horvath. Thank you all for contributing to the event!

• Gabriele Partel wins poster prize at The Brain Mosaic 2019, Leuven, Belgium

  Oct 11, 2019: Gabriele Partel is the first prize winner for his poster High resolution spatial gene expression maps for unsupervised brain compartment annotation at FEBS Letters at The Brain Mosaic 2019, Leuven, Belgium.

• IN the NVIDIA developers news

  July 12, 2019: Our ArXiv paper on Pathologist-Level Grading of Prostate Biopsies with Artificial Intelligence is given full attention in the NVIDIA developers news. Special congratulations to Leslie for the mentioning of the link to the visual online demo!

• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Amit Suveer

  June 5, 2019: Amit Suveer successfully defended his PhD thesis "Methods for Processing and Analysis of Biomedical TEM Images". Main supervisor was Ida-Maria Sintorn, co-supervisor Carolina Wählby. Thesis opponent was Jari Hyttinen. Thank you all for contributing to the event!

• Leslie Solorzano at Soapbox Science 2019 Uppsala

  May 25, 2019: Leslie Solorzano spoke at Uppsala’s very first Soapbox Science event will take place in front of the University Library Carolina Rediviva, see her here.

• ELRIG 2019, AstraZeneca

  May 22-24, 2019: Carolina Wählby introduced and chaired a session on Multiplexed Screening with Single Cell Resolution at the ERLIG meeting on Advances in Cell Based screening at AstraZeneca, Gothenburg. It was a special joy to introduce keynote speaker, Shantanu Singh, a former colleague from Broad Institute.

• 12th International workshop on approaches to single cell analysis

  March 4–5th, 2019: Join us at the workshop in the University Main Building, Hall X, Uppsala. Carolina will speak about Single cell analysis by digital image processing of tissue and time-lapse data.

• Carolina speaking at ForskaSverige! day on AI for health

  November 28, 2018, Carolina Wählby spoke at ForskaSverige!, an event for politicians and decisionmakers, see youtube clip here.

• The British Science Festival

  September 13, 2018: Come to the British Science Festival and join Carolina Wählby at the a panel discussion on artificial intelligence in the clinic, The robot will see you now.

• Panel discussion at AIMed EUROPE

  September 11-13, 2018: Carolina at AIMed Europe, discussing how artificial intelligence can be implemented in the European Healthcare system, see youtube clip.

• In the media

  August 2018: The HASTE Project is presented in 'Framtidens Forskning'.

• In the media

  December 2017: Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is discussed with Carolina Wählby and others in this 20 min radio show by Sveriges Radio P1 'Vetandets Värld', (mainly in Swedish). Our workshop on digital pathology is also mentioned in Universen, the newsletter of Uppsala University, (issue 6, page 13).

• Currently recruiting PhD student, PostDoc and Researcher

  December 2017: We are recruiting a PhD student (application deadline 2018-01-08), a PostDoc (application deadline 2018-01-08), and a Researcher (application deadline 2018-01-15). Please note that all applications should be submitted via the web form.

• Carolina Wählby elected new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

  December 4, 2107: Carolina Wählby was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, IVA). See the press release (in Swedish).

• Warmest congratulations to Dr. Sajith K. Sadanandan

  November 10, 2017: Sajith K Sadanandan successfully defended his PhD thesis Deep Neural Networks and Image Analysis for Quantitative Microscopy. Jeroen van der Laak, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, acted as opponent. The thesis committee consisted of Erik Meijering, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Claes Lundström, LiU, Josephine Sullivam, KTH, Kristian Euren, Context Vision, and Kaj Nyström, UU. Ida-Maria Sintorn acted as chairman during the thesis defense.
  Many thanks to all of you for contributing to the event!

• We are recruiting a Bioinformatician with focus on research support on image analysis

  October 20, 2107: We are looking for a PhD with a keen interest in implementation and adaption of image analysis algorithms for quantitative analysis of microscopy data to join the SciLifeLab BioImage Informatics Facility (BIIF). You will work in shorter or longer projects, providing research support and education on image analysis. The BIIF has nodes in both Uppsala and Stockholm, but the assignment includes services to researchers at other universities in Sweden as well. The job includes involvement and organization of courses and workshops in digital image processing and analysis with life science applications. Supervision of master thesis students is part of the assignment. The job also includes involvement in ongoing research projects at the Wählby lab.
  More information and instructions for how to apply can be found here .
  Deadline for application: 2017-11-20. Note that all applications have to be submitted though the online recruitment system.

• We are organizing a Workshop on Digital Pathology

  Nov 9, 2107: The SciLifeLab BioImage Informatics Facility welcomes you to Uppsala University for a Workshop on Digital Pathology, with Pete Bankhead and Jeroen van der Laak. Venue: Centre for Image Analysis, Dept. IT, UU, Polacksbacken (Lägerhyddsvägen 2) House 1, room 1311 (3rd floor). The day is free of charge, funded via SciLifeLab BioImageInformatics facility. To secure a spot, please sign up via Carolina Wählby carolina@cb.uu.se. Bring your own laptop for the hands-on session. More info and program here.

• We are recruiting two PhD students in Computerized Image Processing and Bioinformatics

  May 22 2107: Do you want to develop new, intelligent ways of processing and managing very large amounts of microscopy images in order to leverage the imminent explosion of information from modern experimental setups in the biosciences? Join the recently started interdisciplinary research project Hierarchical Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data HASTE within the research groups of Prof. Carolina Wählby, Department of Information Technology, and Assoc. Prof. Ola Sjuth, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Science for Life Laboratory, Vironova AB and AstraZeneca AB, Sweden.
  More information and instructions for how to apply can be found here .
  Deadline for application: 2017-08-14. Note that all applications have to be submitted though the online recruitment system.

• SSF Big Data and Computational Science

  Feb. 2017. Carolina Wählby was awarded a 29MSEK grant from the Swedish foundation for Strategic research. The project, "Hierarchical Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Image Data (HASTE)" includes co-applicants Andreas Hellander and Ola Spjuth from the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at UU and partners Astra Zeneca, Vironova and Stockholm University.
  Project webpage: HASTE You can read about it in Swedish here, and an interview of Carolina here.

• First NEUBIAS conference

  Feb. 11-17, 2017 join us at the first conference of the Network of European Bioimage analysts, NEUBIAS in Oeiras-Lisbon, Portugal.

• Upptech

  Sept. 2016. Carolina Wählby elected board member of Upptech, a new center focusing on promoting technology research and education at Uppsala University.
  

• PhD-level Course on Application Oriented Image Analysis, October-November 2016.

  October 11, 2016 is the starting date for our new course, see course webpage. Welcome!
  

• Omer Ishaq now a PhD

  June 9, 2016. Congratuations! Thesis: Image Analysis and Deep Learning for Applications in Microscopy
  

• Open PhD position!

  March 8, 2016. We have an open PhD position in Digital Image Processing. Application deadline March 29, 2016. Apply here!
  

• Carolina Wählby has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant!

  Jan, 2016. Carolina Wählby's TissueMaps project received an ERC consolidator grant for 2016-2020, see the statistics at the VR homepage. More information to follow!

• Join us at the 2nd Symposium on Bridging Nordic Imaging 2016

  April 14-15, 2016. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker at the 2nd Symposium on Bridging Nordic Imaging in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Join us at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2016

  April 13-16, 2016. Carolina Wählby is Associate Editor at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic.

• Join us at our workshop on Digital Image Processing and Analysis in Microscopy at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

  December 22, 2015. Carolina Wählby wil hold a workshop on Digital Image Processing and Analysis in Microscopy at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

• Join us at BioImageInformatics 2015

  October 14-16, 2015. Carolina Wählby is part of the Scientific Program Chair at BioImage Informatics 2015, at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Damian Matuszewski will talk about cell cycle analysis by image based screening, and Petter Ranefall will present a poster on a new global thresholding approach.

• Join our Post graduate course in Application Oriented Image Analysis.

  Starting October 6, 2015, Uppsala. For more info, see the course webpage.

• Join us at SIBS 2015

  September 30-October 1, 2015. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker the Swiss Image-Based Screening Conference 2015, at the Novartis Learning Center Horburg, Basel, Switzerland.

• MULTIMOT Kick-off meeting

  September 17-18, 2015. Carolina joins the scientific advisory board of MULTIMOT, a H2020 EU funded project that aims to build an open data ecosystem for cell migration research, through standardization, dissemination and meta-analysis efforts. The kick-off meeting was held in beautiful Ghent in Belgium.

• Carolina Wählby awarded the 2015 Thuréus Prize

  September 1, 2015. Carolina Wählby was awarded the Thuréus Prize by The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala for pioneering the development of new computerized image analysis methods for use in life science research and making these methods available to researchers nationally and internationally through a strong focus on dissemination of knowledge.

• Join us at SCIA 2015

  June 15-17, 2015. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker the 19th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

• Join us at EUBIAS 2015

  January 5-6, 2015. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker the European BioImage Analysis Symposium 2015, at Institut Curie, Paris, France.

• Join us at 2nd High Throughput Cell Biology: from screening to applications.

  November 17-18, 2014 Carolina Wählby is invited speaker on 'Characterizing solid tumors by image-based high throughput screening of cancer stem cells' at 2nd High Throughput Cell Biology: from screening to applications, at Institut Curie - Research Centre, Paris, France.

• Join us at CIM Workshop on Mathematics in Medicine at Uppsala University, Sweden.

  November 6-7, 2014 Carolina Wählby is co-organizing A Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics Workshop on Mathematics in Medicine at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Join us at BioImage Informatics 2014 in Leuven, Belgium.

  October 8-10, 2014 Petter Ranefall, Sajith Sadanandan and Damian Matuszewski will present posters at the Bioimage Informatics meeting in Leuven, Belgium.

• Join us at BMTL 'Bringing Maths To Life' in Naples, Italy.

  October 27-29, 2014 Carolina Wählby is invited speaker on mathematics and biology at the BMTL meeting in Naples, Italy.

• Join our corse on 'Basic image analysis: focused on microscopy applications'.

  Starting September 17, 2014, Huddinge. For more info, see the course catalog from the Karolinska Institute.

• Carolina Wählby awarded 'SBI2 President's innovation award' at SBI2 2014.

  September 12, 2014 Carolina Wählby was honored with the 'SBI2 President's innovation award' for her presentation on 'Combining image-based in situ RNA screening with quantitative analysis of cell and tissue morphology' at the 1st annual conference for the Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics SBI2, at the JB Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Many thanks to the SBI2 President Joe Trask!

• Join us at IMC 2014.

  September 7, 2014 Carolina Wählby is invited speaker International Microscopy Congress (IMC) in Prague, Czech Republic.

• Join us at ICPR 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.

  August 24-18, 2014 we will attend and present a paper on compressed sensing in microscopy at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Stockholm, Sweden. Omer Ishaq will present his paper on 'An Evaluation of the Faster STORM Method for Super-resolution Microscopy'.

• Join us at the Swedish Bioimaging National Meeting

  Uppsala, May 7, 2014: We are organizing this meeting in Uppsala, see the program for the day here.

• Join us at ISBI in Beijing!

  Tuesday, April 29, 2014: we are organizing a Special Session on Advances in Computer-Aided Histopathology at ISBI 2014 in Beijing, China.

• Carolina Wählby appointed ISCA Scholar 2014-2018

  On March 12, 2014 Carolina Wählby was appointed 2014-1018 ISAC Scholar at the International Society for Advancement for Cytometry, ISAC.

• Read about our image-based screening in the Uppsala University 'Nya Horisonter'

  Take a look in Nya Horisoner, issue 1, 2014 , front page and pages 11-12.

• Read about image analysis and drug screening in Kemivärlden Biotech, 4. 2014.

  Take a look in Kemivärlden Biotech, issue 4, 2014 , pages 20-21.

• Join our group!

  Deadline March 3, 2014: Open PhD position in Digital Image Processing.

• Join our Post graduate course in Application Oriented Image Analysis

  October 2 - December 11, 2013: Robin Strand at the Centre for Image Analysis is organizing a Post graduate course in Application Oriented Image Analysis in Uppsala, where several members of the lab will lecture. Please visit the course webpage for more info.

• Join us at Advances in Tissue Regeneration!

  November 14-15, 2013 Carolina Wählby is invited speaker at the international conferenceon Advances in Tissue Regeneration in Lattorp, the Netherlands.

• Join our course on Basic image analysis: focused on microscopy applications

  October 7 - 11, 2013: Ida-Maria Sintorn at the Centre for Image Analysis is organizing a course on Basic image analysis: focused on microscopy applications at the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research. Carolina Wählby will lecture. Please visit the course web page for further information.

• Join us at SciLifeLabSwedenDay 2013

  August 26, 2013: SciLifeLab-DAY, Uppsala. We welcome anyone working in the field of life science that wants to learn more about SciLifeLab and the research presented during the day.

• New publication on in situ Sequencing of RNA

  July 14, 2013: See our recent publication in Nature Methods
  Also featured here.

• Join us at Rivendell Seminar: Life at low copy number

  June 13, 2013: Rivendell Seminar: Life at low copy number, BMC C3:301, Uppsala. Carolina Wählby invited speaker on Digital Image Processing as a Tool in Biomedical Research.

• Join our PhD-level summer school on How to use and make additions to open-source software for image processing, analysis, and visualization in medicine and microscopy.

  June 3-5, 2013 at the Centre for Image Analysis: Felix Ritter, Anja Hennemuth, Lee Kamentsky, and Kevin Elicieri will visit the Centre for Image Analysis at Vi2, Uppsala University. During these three days, they will provide lectures and hands-on tutorials on MeVisLab, ImageJ/FIJI and CellProfiler. The course participants will get an overview of the software and learn the basics of how to contribute their own code to these open-source initiatives. Read more at our course web page.

• Join our group!

  Now hiring: Tenure Track Position as Associate Senior Lecturer in Digital Image Processing with specialization in Electron Microscopy
  Application deadline June 3, 2013. Description and application form.
  

• Join us at ELMI 2013 in Arcachon, France!

  May 22-26, 2013: 13th International ELMI meeting, Arcachon, France. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker, and will talk about Image-based expression profiling by in situ sequencing of RNA.

• Thesis prize to Alexandra Pacureanu!

  April, 2013: Congratulations to Alexandra Pacureanu for being awarded the 2012 Innovation PhD thesis price by the IEEE EMBS, French chapter together with the French Society for Biomedical Engineering (SFGBM), AGBM and GDR Stic-Santé. The thesis title is Imaging the bone cell network with nanoscale synchrotron computed tomography

• New publication on 3D imaging of Zebrafish

  February 13, 2013: Our recent publication in Nature Communications was also featured in the MIT News. Read the story (and watch the movie)!

• Join us at ISBI 2013, and come to our tutorial on image based screening!

  April 7-11, 2013: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, San Francisco. Alexandra Pacureanu and Omer Ishaq will present our recent work on Zebrafish screening and optical projection tomography. Carolina Wählby will organize a tutorial on image based screening, with Ida-Maria Sintorn as co-organizer. Tutorial canceled!

• Join us at SciLifeLabDay 2013

  March 26, 2013: SciLifeLabDay 2013, Uppsala. We welcome anyone working in the field of life science that wants to learn more about SciLifeLab and the research presented during the day. The whole Wählby lab will be presenting posters.

• Bring your kids and join us at SciFest 2013

  March 22-23, 2013: SciFest 2013, Uppsala. Martin Simonsson, Alexandra Pacureanu and Carolina Wählby will organize two hands-on workshops for kids age 10-17, looking at cells and zebrafish through a microscope, collecting digital images and making measurements. Friday is for schools, Saturday is for the public. It is free och charge, and there will be loads of exciting presentations and shows. Welcome!

• Join us at SSBA 2013

  March 14-15, 2013: Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis, Gothenburg. Carolina Wählby and Omer Ishaq will present our recent work on worms, Zebrafish screening, and optical projection tomography.

• Join us at AIMDay Image 2013

  March 13, 2013: AIMDay Image, Gothenburg. Alexandra Pacureanu, Martin Simonsson and Carolina Wählby will be part of the group of academic researchers discussing industry’s challenges in the field of image analysis together with company representatives.

• Come and listen!

  February 14, 13:00, 2013: Seminar series on 'Bringing time into molecular and cellular biology'. Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala. Carolina Wählby invited speaker.

• Join our group!

  Deadline Feb 15, 2013: Open PhD in Digital Image Processing.

• Join our group!

  Deadline January 21, 2013: Open position as Bioinformatician with focus on research support on image analysis.

• Learn how to run large-scale projects on the UPPMAX computer cluster

  November 29, 2012: CellProfiler/UPPMAX workshop at the Rudbeck Laboratory

• Come and listen!

  November 16, 2013:Hotel Gillet, Uppsala: Carolina Wählby invited to panel discussion with Niklas Zennström. Organized by CONNECT Uppsala.

• Learn more about CellProfiler

  November 7-8, 2012: CellProfiler Workshop at SciLifeLab Stockholm/KI Huddinge

• Learn more about Quantitative Microscopy

  October 9-December 12, 2012: PhD-level course in Quantitative Microscopy.

• Join us at BioimagInformatics 2012!

  September 16-19, 2012: BioImage Informatics, Dreseden. Carolina Wählby is invited speaker, Alexandra Pacureanu will talk about tomography, Omer Ishaq will present a poster on Zebrafish screening, and Martin Simonsson will present a poster on cell tracking.

• Learn more about CellProfiler

  June 14, 2012: CellProfiler Workshop at SciLifeLab Uppsala, Rudbeck lab

• Learn more about CellProfiler

  May 11, 2012: CellProfiler Workshop at SciLifeLab Uppsala, Rudbeck lab

• Carolina in the UU spotlight

  April 20, 2012: Carolina Wählby interviewed in the Uppsala University Newsletter.

• Join us at CSHL

  April 10-13, 2012: Carolina Wählby invited speaker at CSHL conference on Automated Imaging and High-Throughput Phenotyping, Cold Spring Harbour, NY.

• In the news!

  April 2012: Our paper on the WormToolbox was presented in Swedish media, both in Ny Teknik and KemivärldenBiotech and here.