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Assaf Zaritsky
@assafzaritsky.bsky.social
Computational cell biologist
https://www.assafzaritsky.com/
Our paper is out ✨

doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We propose a self-supervised anomaly representation that encodes morphological inter-feature dependencies for high-content image-based cell phenotyping!

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October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Excited to announce the first @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Cell Modeling in Space and Time, June 2026 💫

meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Bringing together experiments, computation and theory to explore dynamic, multi-scale cellular organization and function!

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October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
📢We're #hiring Group Leaders!

Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning.

🔹5-year renewable appointment
🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches
🔹Collaborate across disciplines

Apply by Nov. 4👉 https://janelia.link/groupleader
August 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
We are searching for an enthusiastic scientist to join our team and establish annual killifish as a model system for early developmental biology and biophysics! @embl.org @embldbunit.bsky.social

Apply here:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...

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August 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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July 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Super excited to share our new method: Context-dependent Identification of Spatial Motifs (CISM)! 🚀 A two-step approach for uncovering fine-scale intercellular modules associated with human disease states from single-cell spatial data.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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May 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
Unveiling crucial insights into nuclear growth in hiPSC colonies. By analyzing 3D timelapse data, our Cell Science team has shown how cell lineage & environment shape cellular behavior.

This timelapse illuminates the height of nuclei from 4μm (turquoise) to 11μm (fuchsia). 🔗👇
May 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
MBoC (@ascbiology.bsky.social Society Journal) is Looking for Early-Career Editorial Board Members!

www.ascb.org/society-news...

Submit your application by May 22, 2025!
MBoC is Looking for Early-Career Editorial Board Members — Join Us!  - ASCB
Are you a senior postdoc or early-career faculty member who’s passionate about publishing, peer review, and amplifying great science? We’d love for you to consider joining the Molecular Biology of the...
www.ascb.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
"This symposium explores the power of microscopy imaging as a data-rich resource for quantifying cellular phenotypes, with a strong focus on high-content imaging techniques such as Cell Painting and their applications in drug discovery and basic cell biology"

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April 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
You want to use LLMs for your research, but don't know what they can be used for? And whether their use is compatible with good scientific practice? Then this introduction by @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social might be the right thing for you.
Find the slides here: zenodo.org/records/1441...
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reposted by Assaf Zaritsky
Very happy to share our new preprint "MODIS: Multi-Omics Data Integration for Small and Unpaired Datasets"!
We proposed a new coupled variational auto-encoder architecture to solve the problem of data integration for small and unpaired datasets (diagonal integration)
arxiv.org/abs/2503.18856
March 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hello, World!
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM