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Jan Funke

@janfunkey.bsky.social
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Group leader at the Human Technopole

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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🧠 How is AI reshaping healthcare research? 📍 #GeMAIHc2027 comes to Human Technopole and MIND, in Milan, on 1 to 5 February 2027. Register by 28 January 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/trainings...
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Anna Foix @afoix.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 Great news 🧬💻 The submission deadline for the BioImage Computing (BIC) Workshop at @eccv.bsky.social is now July 20, 2026! We can't wait to see your latest research! 🔬👩‍💻👨‍💻 🚪 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=the... 🌐 Info: www.bioimagecomputing.com
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And so it begins! Day 1, Lecture 0 of the first DL for Microscopy Image Analysis course at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Slides from @florianjug.bsky.social, presented by our TA Federico Carrara. #dljanelia
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not to be confused with what I just posted, but there are *also* two other exciting positions open in the Image Analysis Unit at HT! Check it out as well. Spoiler: we will all work closely together to do awesome things! (Sometimes you can't even tell the difference between us) 👇👇👇
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Damian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are hiring a Software Engineer who can help us turn our methods into easily usable tools for: * Explainable AI * Cell Tracking * Interactive Learning ...and some more: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Research... Feel free to reach out directly if you are interested and/or have questions!
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Research Software Engineer
Research Software Engineer
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Human Technopole brings together the expertise, infrastructure, and compute needed to develop AI across biological scales and data modalities. Below a 🧵 that explains what we have in mind. We are just getting started and are keen to hear from people who want to help shape our vision!
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We opened 4 PhD positions at @humantechnopole.bsky.social together with Polimi (see 👇). My lab offers a PhD project on "Computational Morphogenesis": use state-of-the-art machine learning methods together with realistic simulations to build digital twins of developing tissue. Apply by March 26.
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Stephan Saalfeld @herrsaalfeld.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Join us in building foundational datasets and models for microscopy with @jakobtroidl.bsky.social and many others AI Engineer Pre-Training: lnkd.in/eyEEV5nm AI Engineer Post-Training: lnkd.in/eShVQ3y9 Data Engineer Data: lnkd.in/eCvm58xH Data Engineer Pipelines: lnkd.in/ec6qGJkX ai.hhmi.org
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Accelerating Innovation in Biology
HHMI’s $500 million over the next 10 years will support AI-driven projects and embed AI systems throughout the scientific process in labs across HHMI.
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Albert Dominguez Mantes @albertdm.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Last call! This is a great opportunity for those interested in learning and applying SOTA ML/DL models to microscopy data with the leading experts in the field. Personally super excited to be a lead TA along with the amazing @afoix.bsky.social and @edhirata.bsky.social! Hope to see you there :)
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉 More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available. Feel free to reach out if interested! humantechnopole.it/en/research/
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Research - Human Technopole
Human Technopole’s research is based on a mix of fundamental and translational research. We will host extensive core expertise in basic research in areas relevant for the understanding of human biolog...
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Today I departed from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social knowing that the next time I come here, I will be a visitor. Thank you all for having me. I will miss you a lot.
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We moved the AI@MBL course "Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis" to HHMI Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social). Join us for two weeks of intense lectures, exercise, and hands-on project work! Course dates: June 4-18 2026 Application by: January 15 2026 www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
What an incredible trackathon! After two weeks of intense discussions and happy coding (and a lot of groundwork beforehand by @msschwartz21.bsky.social and Caroline Malin-Mayor), this lovely community emerged with a Graph Exchange File Format that is ready to use! Congrats, everyone! 🎉
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Andrew Payne @andrewcpayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves. Read more: e11.bio/blog/prism
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
How can AI help you to analyze your microscopy images? Find out at the "Machine Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis" course at the @mblscience.bsky.social in Woods Hole from Aug 22-Sep 6! Applications are due 🚨 April 30 🚨 Read on for more! 👇 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
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AI@MBL: Machine Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis | Marine Biological Laboratory
The goal of this course is to familiarize researchers in the life sciences with state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for microscopy image analysis and to introduce them to tools and frameworks th...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
‼️🔬 We start!!! 🎉🤖 Super exciting!!! After years of teaching courses for #DeepLearning for Microscopy and Life Science application, we start today our first “advanced course” @embl.org! #EMBLDeepLearning
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How can we use machine learning to find subtle patterns in our data and have them visualized? Read the thread below to find out how! Or head to @adjavon.bsky.social's blog post and let Simon the duck walk you through it (like a duck of course): tinyurl.com/yy7csdcd www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Quantitative Attributions with Counterfactuals
We address the problem of explaining the decision process of deep neural network classifiers on images, which is of particular importance in biomedical datasets where class-relevant differences are no...
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
METAR BSKY 181910Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM CLR 18/03 A2983 (I do like a blue sky ☺️) Good to see you all again.
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Yash Mehta @yashsmehta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚀 Excited to share our paper has been accepted at #NeurIPS! 🎉 We developed a deep learning framework that infers local learning algorithms in the brain by fitting behavioral or neural activity trajectories during learning. We validate on synthetic data and tested on 🪰 behavioral data (1/5 🧵)
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