ISAS Kompakt

Dorit Günther appointed to the ISAS Executive Board

Günther will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer of ISAS.

• #Cancer
• #Immune cells
• #Neutrophils
• #Proteomics
• #Statement

Valuable Connections: Dr Julia Lill

Dr Julia Lill conducted research at ISAS from 2020 to 2021. She is now a Senior Scientist in the Cancer Immunology team at BioNTech in Cambridge (USA). The immunologist reports on how her time at ISAS brought her to this field of research and the relevance of a functional network in the ISAS compact series ‘Valuable Connections’.

• #AI
• #Cardiovascular diseases
• #Deep learning
• #Interview
• #Scholarship

Xiaowei Xu Will Join ISAS as a Humboldt Fellow

As a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Prof Dr Xiaowei Xu will be conducting research at ISAS from February 2025. In this interview, he talks about his work on artificial intelligence in health research and what he plans to do in Dortmund.

• #AI
• #Image analysis
• #Imaging
• #Machine learning
• #Microscopy
• #Podcast
• #Sustainability

PODCAST »NACHGEFORSCHT – DIE LIVESCHALTE INS LABOR« Episode 10: Resource Awareness in Biomedical Image Analysis

Dr Jianxu Chen heads the junior research group AMBIOM - Analysis of Microscopic BIOMedical Images at ISAS. In the first English-language episode of »NACHGEFORSCHT - DIE LIVESCHALTE INS LABOR«, he talks about his path from mathematics to the life sciences and how he wants to make the analysis of biomedical data more sustainable - on many levels.

• #Career
• #Mass spectrometry
• #Proteomics
• #Statement

Valuable Connections: Prof Dr René Zahedi

Prof Dr René Zahedi headed a junior research and later regular research group at ISAS from 2008 to 2017. He now lives, conducts research and teaches in Canada - the research network from his time at ISAS, however, continues to accompany the scientist in his work. Zahedi is one of the colleagues who will provide an insight into the valuable connections within and outside the institute in the following weeks and months.

• #AI
• #Clearing
• #Imaging
• #Light sheet fluorescence microscope

Using the Russian Doll Principle to Analyse Biological Structures

In the “AI-assisted imaging of large tissues” project, several ISAS research groups are working on combining various microscopic and mass spectrometric methods. Much like looking at a Russian doll, the team looks deeper into the biological structures of a sample with each step.