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Program:
8.30 Registration and coffee, lobby of Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum 1
9.15 Opening of the symposium
Organizers: Kirsi Ketola, Director, Cell and Tissue Imaging Unit, University of Eastern Finland and Vilja Pietiäinen, Director, FIMM High Content Imaging and Analysis-HCA core, University of Helsinki, Finland
9.30-12.00 Session I: From image analysis of complex phenotypes to therapies
- 9.30-10.00 Davide Danovi: “Migration of cells, of scientists, of sectors: a high content perspective”, Kings’ Collage London -Cambridge Stem Cell Institutie Migration Biotherapeutics, UK
- 10.00-10.30 Akos Diosdi: “HCS-3DX - a next-generation AI-driven automated 3D-oid high-content screening system”, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungary
- 10.30-11.00 Simon Pfisterer; “Cellular intelligence driving the future of cardiovascular care”, PI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki & CSO, Founder, MONCYTE health Ltd., Finland, https://www.pfistererlab.org/ and https://moncytehealth.com/
- 11.00-11.30 Heidi Haikala: “Imaging & microfluidics: case study in cancer”, PI/Ass. Prof., Faculty of Medicine and FIMM-HiLIFE, University of Helsinki & co-founder of SOLID IO, Finland, https://www.haikalab.com/
11.30-13.00 Lunch (including Student Lunch 12-13; Meet the Speakers)
13.00-14.45 Session II: Cell Painting technology and integrative omics
- 13.00–13.30 Jordi Carreras-Puigvert: “Leveraging morphological profiling, AI and automation as a discovery engine”, Ass. Prof., Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University & CSO & Co-Founder at Pixl Bio, Sweden (https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N20-863)
- 13.30-14.00 Helena Kilpinen: “Cell Painting of In Vitro Neurons: Visualizing Complexity in Cellular Disease Models”, PI, Assoc. Prof., Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE; Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 14.00-14.30 Esa Pitkänen: ”Image-based profiling of healthy donor immune cells with Blood Cell Painting reveals novel genotype-phenotype associations”, PI, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland-FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki
14.30-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-17.00 Session III: AI in the image analysis
- 15.15-15.45 Mario Del Rosario: “Seeing biology without breaking it: quantifying cellular stress in live-cell imaging”, PI, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal
- 15.45- 16.15 Lassi Paavolainen: “Chammi-75 – dataset for foundation models for cellular microscopy”, PI, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland-FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland, https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/bioimage-profiling/people
- 16.15-16.45 Peter Horvath: “Life beyond the pixels: what AI can do with single cells”, PI, Helmholtz Munich, AI4Health Institute, Germany; Director; Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungary, https://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/horvath-peter-lab-index.html
16.45-17.00 Closing remarks
Please register by May 5, 2026.
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