Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It was a great pleasure to contribute to this art project by Carolyn Kirchner! Thanks for all the inspiring discussions, Carolyn!! 😊 030
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026We are absolutely thrilled to have arrived in our new offices at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning of the University of Zurich @uzh-ch.bsky.social . Big thanks to our new colleagues for the warm welcome! 🙏 We look forward to shaping the future of AI in Science together! 060
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Our work @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @scadsai.bsky.social fuses representation learning with spatial statistics @iclr-conf.bsky.social enabling #AI for spatial localization patterns: openreview.net/forum?id=09Y...openreview.netSpatially Informed Autoencoders for Interpretable Visual...We introduce spatially informed variational autoencoders (SI-VAE) as self-supervised deep-learning models that use stochastic point processes to predict spatial organization patterns from images.... 094
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Modeling spatial point patterns from noisy, incomplete experimental data just got easier! Great work by @domsturm.bsky.social for sparse, noise-robust model inference of point processes 🤩 @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25550arxiv.orgRobust variable selection for spatial point processes observed with noiseWe propose a method for variable selection in the intensity function of spatial point processes that combines sparsity-promoting estimation with noise-robust model selection. As high-resolution spatia... 043
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 01/10/2025🤩👍🏼💪🏼 Meet #TopoSPAM - a high-performance simulation platform for biological morphogenesis with a friendly Python interface. @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Solve both continuous and discrete active mechanics! Released today: arxiv.org/abs/2509.24905arxiv.orgTopoSPAM: Topology grounded Simulation Platform for morphogenesis and biological Active MatterWe present a topology grounded, multiscale simulation platform for morphogenesis and biological active matter. Morphogenesis and biological active matter represent keystone problems in biology with ad... 1176
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 26/09/2025🤩🤩🤩Absolutely thrilled our work is featured in the Magazine of @maxplanck.de ! Big thanks to the writer and editor 🙏🙏🙏 Never saw our work described so well! Curious? @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de - PDF is freely available, article starts p.36: www.mpg.de/25430399/MPR...mpg.de 061
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 25/09/2025In a beautiful team effort, we wrote a comprehensive review of meshfree collocation methods for numerically solving PDEs @csbdresden.bsky.social @uni.lu #CVUTPrague @tudresden.bsky.social Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2509.20056arxiv.orgAn Overview of Meshfree Collocation MethodsWe provide a comprehensive overview of meshfree collocation methods for numerically approximating differential operators on continuously labeled unstructured point clouds. Meshfree collocation methods... 030
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 12/09/2025It was a pleasure to speak at #BuildingBridges2025. Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania - together in one session on #Biomedical #AI. Great also to meet so many friends again! Big thanks to the organizers for inviting me! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 @hzdr.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social 070
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🙏 Very honored to speak at #BuildingBridges2025 on #AI for #Biomedicine. What an amazing lineup of panelists 🤩🤩🤩 Politics and Science working together- Germany, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland - together for future #AI 👍🏼 @hzdr.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social 031
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Looking forward to present on the topic of AI for Biomedicine tomorrow! 010
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupTU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 28/08/2025#GoGAIN25: 🌎 From August 29 to 31, #TUDresden will be in #Boston with @daadworldwide.bsky.social, @humboldt-foundation.de & @dfg.de, presenting a series of talks & hosting a booth to showcase our University of Excellence & the city of Dresden as a hub for science. 🧑🔬 ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/internationa... 062
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 25/08/2025This👇is fantastic work! Congratulations @loicaroyer.bsky.social and team!! 010
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2025#GenAI meets perception psychology for better super-resolution microscopy 🤩 Fig.1 says it all! 😎 Fantastic collaboration with @casusscience.bsky.social - work of @zuseschoolsecai.bsky.social students @csbdresden.bsky.social - out now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 042
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 21/07/2025🚨Fundamental computer science result! 🤩🤩🤩 Particle Methods, a class of algorithms, can compute anything that is computable, even when severely resource restricted ‼️‼️Formally proven result @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de now out: fi.episciences.org/16055fi.episciences.orgOn the Computational Power of Particle MethodsWe investigate the computational power of particle methods, a well-established class of algorit hms with applications in scientific computing and computer simulation. The computational power of a comp... 031
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 15/07/2025To learn more about the people behind this work, we caught up with first author Justina Stark, and corresponding authors Ivo Sbalzarini (@mosaicgroup.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social) and Michael Brand (@tudresden.bsky.social): journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 051
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Read the #OpenAccess Research Article "Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissue" here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 151
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Thanks for the highlight @dev-journal.bsky.social !! 🙏🙏🙏 010
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Tagging @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 042
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 14/07/2025⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...journals.biologists.comMorphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissueSummary: Image-based 3D modeling of pore-scale extracellular space geometries of the developing zebrafish embryo reveals that the Fgf8a morphogen gradient is regulated by the porous media characterist... 2197
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Our scientific computing framework #OpenFPM now has multistage and adaptive time integrators that scale to distributed CPU clusters and GPUs! Happy supercomputing! @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.05331arxiv.orgIntegrating Odeint Time Stepping into OpenFPM for Distributed and GPU Accelerated Numerical SolversWe present a software implementation integrating the time-integration library Odeint from Boost with the OpenFPM framework for scalable scientific computing. This enables compact and scalable codes fo... 043
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 26/06/2025🔥🔥🔥Unique opportunity! We are looking for a new Max Planck Director in Biomedical #AI. Max Planck Research Directors enjoy unparalleled freedom and resources. And the best: you’d get to work with us here at the @csbdresden.bsky.social in the heart of the vibrant @tudresden.bsky.social AI campus! 040
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 12/06/2025Formulas of Life: article of the @maxplanck.de on the research of Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social. Article in German language: www.mpg.de/24841408/ki-...mpg.deFormeln des LebensKünstliche Intelligenz mit physikalischem Vorwissen soll biologische Vorgänge berechenbar machen 053
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Ivo Sbalzarini was interviewed by German science radio @detektorfm.bsky.social and explains our research @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @tudresden.bsky.social to a general audience (in German only): detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...detektor.fmWie kann Künstliche Intelligenz in der Biomedizin helfen?Biologie und Medizin sind eng verknüpft. Künstliche Intelligenz kann dabei in vielen Fragen helfen. Was ist zu beachten? 042
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 08/06/2025🔥Just out @EGPGV’25: Parallel visualization of distributed volume data for non-convex decompositions! @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de And the best: code is contributed upstream 🤩 diglib.eg.org/items/3aed38...diglib.eg.orgA Transparent and Efficient Extension of IceT for Parallel Compositing on Non-Convex Volume Domain DecompositionsThe IceT library is widely used for parallel compositing but does not support non-convex volume domain decompositions. We provide a backward-compatible extension of IceT to handle non-convex domain de... 032
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Fantastic! 🤩 Best success ever for our university!! This is going to enable sooooo much cool new research in the coming years. The sky is the limit! 070
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Proud and happy our group could be involved in this. Congratulations, Roua! 100
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupTMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 08/03/2025APR-CNN: Convolutional Neural Networks for the Adaptive Particle Representation of Large Microsco... Joel Jonsson, Bevan Leslie Cheeseman, Ivo Sbalzarini Action editor: Moshe Eliasof openreview.net/forum?id=5qKI2dkrjL #cnn #cnns #microscopy 031
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 28/02/2025It was great hosting and meeting Sophie Jaffard @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social. We look forward to many more discussions on the mathematics of neural networks in neuroscience and in machine learning! 021
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupCenter for Systems Biology Dresden @csbdresden.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Hello! The CSBD is now sharing news on @bsky.app 🦋 0104
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Enabling deep learning on large images with massively reduced compute and resource needs. Meet the content-adaptive APR-CNN architecture! Out now in @tmlrorg.bsky.social - openreview.net/forum?id=5qK...openreview.netAPR-CNN: Convolutional Neural Networks for the Adaptive Particle...We present APR-CNN, a novel class of convolutional neural networks designed for efficient and scalable three-dimensional microscopy image analysis. APR-CNNs operate natively on a sparse... 292
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Congratulations, Tommaso! It was a great PhD defense!!! 040
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Apply by tomorrow and come work with us! 010
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Point clouds 🤩 an amazing data structure with exciting open problems! 030
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 07/02/2025The numerical nonlinear algebra workshop, organized by @math-mpicbg.bsky.social, took place at the @mpicbg.bsky.social from February 3-6, 2025. It featured biology, chemistry, and physics with a focus on nonlinear modeling problems and techniques. News article: www.csbdresden.de/news-events/... 0153
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Capella is here!!! @tudresden.bsky.social We are privileged to work at a university with own in-house Supercomputing and AI hardware of such caliber. This is the foundation for our research in next-gen computing and data science for the Life Sciences! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4SY...youtube.com"Capella" at TU DresdenYouTube video by MEGWARE Computer Chemnitz / Germany 030
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Introducing the topic of our research group in few sentences before the workshop starts… embarrassing, but also fun 😜 080
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 04/02/2025It was an absolute pleasure to speak at this workshop on “numerical nonlinear algebra in the real world” and explain the math behind particle methods - numerical computation on point clouds and their use in biology! @mpicbg.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social 030
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Great book by the outstanding Benjamin Midtvedt and our friend and collaborator Giovanni Volpe and his lab! 👏🤩👇👇👇 020
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupMath for Science at MPI-CBG @math-mpicbg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025On Feb 3-6 2025, we are hosting Numerical (Nonlinear) Algebra in the Real World @mpicbg.bsky.social - a 3 day event to discuss nonlinear modeling problems and techniques, so we can better model those many nonlinear scientific phenomena: plan.events.mpg.de/event/355/ov...plan.events.mpg.deNumerical (Nonlinear) Algebra in the Real WorldNonlinearity is required to accurately model many scientific phenomena. This event brings together scientists from a broad array of topics through biology, chemistry, physics and more, to discuss nonl... 022
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupRobert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025🚨 #JobAlert 🚨 Join us as Junior Professor in #NLP. scads.ai is a super amazing work place, you will not regret working with us! 🗣️💻🤖 www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenaussc...uni-leipzig.deJuniorprofessur für Natural Language Processing (W1 mit Tenure Track auf W2) 072
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Come work with us in computer science or mathematics for the life sciences. There are great postdoc fellowships! 020
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Opportunity alert! Fantastic lab and PI to work with. Apply if this is your kind of topic! 000
Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC Group @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Learning interpretable mathematical models from data is transforming science. But what if different models apply in different areas or at differnt times? After all, living systems are plastic and self-organized. Now you can learn *local* model clusters! doi.org/10.1098/rspa...doi.orgLearning locally dominant force balances in active particle systems | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering SciencesWe use a combination of unsupervised clustering and sparsity-promoting inference algorithms to learn locally dominant force balances that explain macroscopic pattern formation in self-organized active... 021
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupTina Šubic @tincamalinca.bsky.social · 20/12/2024🧵 We @mosaicgroup.bsky.social just published in @aip-publishing.bsky.social JChemPhys (doi.org/10.1063/5.02...): Turns out that grid resolution in stochastic reaction-diffusion models represents molecule size! This completely changes how we understand "reaction loss" in these models:doi.orgLoss of bimolecular reactions in reaction–diffusion master equations is consistent with diffusion limited reaction kinetics in the mean field limitWe show that the resolution-dependent loss of bimolecular reactions in spatiotemporal Reaction–Diffusion Master Equations (RDMEs) is in agreement with the mean- 283
Reposted by Sbalzarini Lab / MOSAIC GroupTina Šubic @tincamalinca.bsky.social · 19/12/2024GRDME (Gaussian Reaction Diffusion Master Equation) is a method that makes exact stochastic simulations of molecular interactions more efficient! It was also the subject of my first PhD paper (doi.org/10.1063/5.01...) with @mosaicgroup.bsky.social from my time at @mpicbg.bsky.social 🧵doi.orgA Gaussian jump process formulation of the reaction–diffusion master equation enables faster exact stochastic simulationsWe propose a Gaussian jump process model on a regular Cartesian lattice for the diffusion part of the Reaction–Diffusion Master Equation (RDME). We derive the r 173