From Cells to Systems: Advances in High-content imaging and 3D Image Analysis Symposium

Date: Tuesday 12. May 2026
Venue: Biomedicum 1, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
No registration fee for academic attendaees
Industry registration fee 100€
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Program

8.30 Registration and coffee, lobby of Lecture Hall 2, Biomedicum 1 

9.15 Opening of the symposium  

Organizers: Kirsi Ketola, Director, Cell and Tissue Imaging Unit, University of Eastern Finland and Vilja Pietiäinen, Director, FIMM High Content Imaging and Analysis-HCA core, University of Helsinki, Finland 

9.30-12.00 Session I: From image analysis of complex phenotypes to therapies  

  • 9.30-10.00 Davide Danovi: “Migration of cells, of scientists, of sectors: a high content perspective”, King's College London - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute - Migration Biotherapeutics
  • 10.00-10.30 Akos Diosdi: “HCS-3DX - a next-generation AI-driven automated 3D-oid high-content screening system”, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungary
  • 10.30-11.00 Simon Pfisterer; “Cellular intelligence driving the future of cardiovascular care”, PI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki  & CSO, Founder, MONCYTE health Ltd., Finland, and
  • 11.00-11.30 Heidi Haikala: “Imaging & microfluidics: case study in cancer”, PI/Ass. Prof., Faculty of Medicine and FIMM-HiLIFE, University of Helsinki & co-founder of SOLID IO, Finland,  

11.30-11.45 Sponsor talks

11.45-13.00 Lunch in the lobby (including Student Lunch 12-13; Meet the Speakers at room KH1) 

13.00-14.45 Session II: Cell Painting technology and integrative omics 

  • 13.00–13.30 Jordi Carreras-Puigvert: “Leveraging morphological profiling, AI and automation as a discovery engine”,  Ass. Prof., Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University & CSO & Co-Founder at Pixl Bio, Sweden ()
  • 13.30-14.00 Helena Kilpinen: “Cell Painting of In Vitro Neurons: Visualizing Complexity in Cellular Disease Models”, PI, Assoc. Prof., Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE; Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 14.00-14.30 Esa Pitkänen: ”Image-based profiling of healthy donor immune cells with Blood Cell Painting reveals novel genotype-phenotype associations”, PI, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland-FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki 

14.30-15.15 Coffee break 

15.15-17.00 Session III: AI in the image analysis 

  • 15.15-15.45 Mario Del Rosario: “Seeing biology without breaking it: quantifying cellular stress in live-cell imaging”, PI, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal
  • 15.45- 16.15 Lassi Paavolainen: “CHAMMI-75 – dataset for foundation models for cellular microscopy”, PI, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland-FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland,
  • 16.15-16.45 Peter Horvath: “Life beyond the pixels: what AI can do with single cells”, PI, Helmholtz Munich, AI4Health Institute, Germany; Director; Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungary,  

 

16.45-17.00 Closing remarks 

 

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