The society is steered by a board currently comprised of 13
members.
The positions are open to all interested scientists. Three positions must be held by early career researchers.
Should be a current board member. The candidate nominates theirself by emailing the President.
The President then sends out a list to the Board to vote on. If it’s a tie, the President decides. The vice president will become the next president.
After their term, CytoData presidents stay in the board for a year to ease the mandate of the new President. Afterwards, past presidents stay on the CytoData board mailing list to share their experience and steer the society’s strategy.
Past presidents include Anne Carpenter, Shantanu Singh, Florian Heigwer, Lassi Paavolainen and Juan Caicedo.
Anyone can nominate themselves, or others (in which case the board will confirm their interest) by emailing cytodata.info@gmail.com.
The nominee provides a 3-sentence summary of qualifications and interest, and the Communication Officer send out a list for the Society to vote on.
Majority of votes wins; if it’s a tie the Board will vote.
Loan Vulliard is currently AIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany. He works together with Felix Hartmann and Julio Saez-Rodriguez to reveal the quantitative principles underlying molecular biology and to better understand human health and diseases. For this, he uses data analysis methods and collaborate with experimentalists and experts in the fields of immunology and cell biology. In particular, he is developing machine learning approaches to identify and contextualize spatial patterns in multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) data.
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Alexandr Kalinin
Vice President
Alex Kalinin is a Postdoctoral Associate in Machine learning for Computational Biology at the Imaging Plaform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he works with Shantanu Singh and Anne Carpenter. He is interested in developing and applying machine learning methods for studying cellular organization and improving disease diagnosis and treatment.
Responsibilities Design strategy for communications (frequency of announcements, venues for announcements, event announcements only, job listings, paper updates in the field, etc.) Maintain mailing list Maintain society website Monitor contact email inbox
Paula A. Marin Zapata
Communications officer
I’m currently working as a data scientist in the Machine Learning Research group at Bayer Pharma AG, focusing on deep learning applications to high content imaging. I have a background in biological engineering and applied mathematics.
Responsibilities Design strategy for communications (frequency of announcements, venues for announcements, event announcements only, job listings, paper updates in the field, etc.) Maintain mailing list Maintain society website Monitor contact email inbox
Gisele Miranda
Board member
I am a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. I am also an active member of the BioImage Informatics Facility at the Science for Life Laboratory, where I support researchers in developing computational methods for analyzing microscopic images. I have a keen interest in the intersection of computer science and biology, and I have been working on multidisciplinary research projects in the biomedical field involving computer vision, machine learning, and data analysis.
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Louise Morlot
Board member
I am a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, at the Center for Protein Research in Niels Mailand laboratory. I work on genomic instability and DNA damage mechanisms; for this I develop and use deep learning models and multi-omics approaches.
Responsibilities Contribute to shaping the society’s mission and initiatives.
Ziqi Kang
Board member
I am a doctoral student at the University of Helsinki, focusing on profiling the tumor microenvironment and discovering spatial-related immune response mechanisms from multiplexed images. I am developing unbiased automatic computational tools to deeply quantify spatial information.
Responsibilities Contribute to shaping the society’s mission and initiatives.
Ashley Anderson
Board Member
Ashley Anderson is currently a software engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative where he works to support biomedical image analysis and acquisition. Ashley holds a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and previously worked on software and magnetic resonance imaging R&D for Barrow Neurological Institute, Philips, and Hyperfine, Inc.
Brian Feng
Board member
Brian is currently a Principal Investigator at Calico Labs, a aging-focused biotechnology company. Brian’s lab uses scalable, information-rich methods such as high-content imaging to study cellular phenotypes associated with aging and age-related diseases. His group collaborates extensively with data scientists to tease out unexpected observations from complex, multidimensional data. Prior to joining Calico, Brian spent many years working at Novartis, applying phenotypic screening to the discovery of new antibiotics. He has also worked at Google[x], an Alphabet-backed company specializing in “moonshot” research projects.
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Zhenghao Chen
Board member
Zhenghao is currently director of machine learning at Calico Labs, an aging-focused biotechnology company. Zhenghao’s group focuses on developing machine learning models to extract useful representations from high-throughput, information-rich modalities including high-content imaging, single-cell sequencing and multiplexed imaging to study aging and age-related diseases.
Responsibilities Contribute to shaping the society’s mission and initiatives.
Erik Serrano
Board member
I am a PhD student at the University of Colorado, AnschutzMedical Campus (CU-AMC). I work in Gregory Way’s Lab, where my research involves developing software for reproducible cell morphology data analysis workflows.
Responsibilities Contributing to CytoData and the community.