SwissBIAS Annual Meeting 2026

Morning Session

Starts at Who What
10:00 SwissBIAS Board Welcoming
10:15 Nezar Bahou, University of Bern Self-supervised learning and interactive latent space
10:35 Lucien Hinderling, University of Bern Smart Microscopes: From Automation to Autonomy
11:10 Discussion  
11:30 Break  
11:50 Maciej Dobrzynski, University of Bern Identification of emergent collective phenomena with ARCOS
12:10 Nicole Repina, Friedrich Miescher Institute Multiscale molecular to tissue-scale image quantification in 3D with Fractal and OME-Zarr
12:45 Discussion  
13:00 Lunch  

Afternoon Session

Starts at Who What
15:00 Diego Morone, Università della Svizzera Italiana Update your profile!
15:10 Bastien Chesaux Dapia, EPFL Expert-in-the-Loop
15:30 Himanshu Bansal, Università della Svizzera Italiana Generative AI
15:50 Robert Haase, ScaDS AI, University of Dresden How LLMs impact Bio Image Data Science
16:25 Discussion  
16:40 Simon F. Nørrelykke, EPFL BIAs communities
17:00 Break  
17:15 General Assembly  

Posters

  • Romain Guiet, EPFL - Comparative Characterization of Microscope Detectors Using Multi-Intensity Calibration Beads
  • Lorenzo Cerrone, BioVisionCenter - ngio - Simple and Declarative OME-Zarr Processing in Python
  • Joel Lüthi, BioVisionCenter - Fractal: Towards FAIR bioimage analysis at scale with OME-Zarr-native workflows
  • Giuseppe Ricciardi, Università della Svizzera Italiana - MICI: motility-based immune cell identifier

Open-Source Software Lounge (OSSL)

  • Florian Aymanns, EPFL - OpenUC2 microscopes
  • Romain Guiet, EPFL - coLoc - The Game , webpage!
  • Guillaum Witz, University of Bern - VIBE platform
  • Alex Landolt, University of Bern - FARO: Real-time feedback control microscopy for automation of optogenetic targeting

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