📢 ACM-BCB 2026 | June 30–July 3 | Calabria, Italy
Calls for Papers, Posters, Highlights, and Workshops: acm-bcb.org
Submit your work and join the community advancing bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics. #ACMBCB2026

ACM‑BCB 2026 (acm-bcb.org) returns 6/30–7/3 in Calabria, Italy!
Deadlines:
• Papers: 2/20 (abstract), 2/27 (full)
• Highlights: 2/20
• Posters: 2/27
Join us for top‑tier science and networking in bioinformatics, computational biology & health informatics.

Talking to Machines: How LLMs are Changing Mental Health Support in the Age of AI YouTube video by PennAITech

If you missed our December webinar "Talking to Machines: How LLMs are Changing Mental Health Support in the Age of AI" with Dr. Briana Vecchione, you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel, here:

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Three weeks to go!⏳Register for the Immune Health Hackathon (Nov. 20–21). Join the Penn community for 48 hours of collaboration and discovery as teams tackle real-world challenges in immunology research. Don’t miss it—register today: i3hevents.org

Immune Health Hackathon: Accelerating Immunology Research Through Technology. Nov. 20-21, 2025 (9am-5pm). QR code to register. www.i3hevents.org.

Have you registered for the Immune Health Hackathon (Nov. 20-21)? Over the course of 48 hours, participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to tackle pressing challenges in immunology research to win cash prizes. Open to all members of the Penn community. Learn more and register: i3hevents.org

Big congratulations to Sophie Kearney, Shu Yang and co-authors for winning the SIGBio Best Paper Award at ACM BCB 2025!!! @upenngcb.bsky.social @dbei-upenn.bsky.social @pennaitech.bsky.social

Our webinar series continues this Fall with another line-up of global experts isuch as Pamela Toto, Danielle Mowery, Sudeshna Sil Kar, Bo Xie, Nathan Price, Zhi Huang, Michael Cary, Mia Tackney, Paul Barr and Bárbara Barbosa Neves.

To register:
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Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Dr. Li Shen and members of his lab, Drs Shu Yanh, Tianhua Zhai and Bojian Hou presented a great overview of ways to harness AI and LLMs for Alzheimer's and Aging Studies based on their own impressive research portfolio.

Check out our June newsletter here:

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ft. @Jx_Bao7, @ShizhuoM, @chenjiong111, @manu_shivakumar, Yuhan Cui, @erusguray,
ZhijianYang, @ShuYangPenn, Zixuan Wen, @dokyoon_kim, @DuyDuongTran1, Bingxin Zhao, @chrisdav66, @qilong.bsky.social & @lishenlc.bsky.social @dbei-upenn.bsky.social @pennaitech.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A genetically informed brain atlas for enhancing brain imaging genomics - Nature Communications GIANT, a genetically informed brain atlas, integrates genetic heritability with neuroanatomy. It shows strong neuroanatomical validity and surpasses traditional atlases in discovery power for brain im...

Excited to share our new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper led by Jingxuan Bao @upenngcb.bsky.social: “A genetically informed brain atlas for enhancing brain imaging genomics‘’ Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... ​​@qilong.bsky.social @dbei-upenn.bsky.social @pennaitech.bsky.social

Congratulations to Joseph Lee, Shu Yang, Tianqi Shang, Weiqing He and all the co-authors for winning two Distinguished Paper Awards @amiainformatics.bsky.social 2025 Informatics Summit! @dbei-upenn.bsky.social ibi.med.upenn.edu/wp-content/u...

ft. J. Chen, M. Ionita, Y. Feng, Y. Lu, P. Orzechowski, S. Garai, K. Hassinger, J. Bao, D. Duong-Tran, J. Wagenaar, M. McKeague, @markmpainter.bsky.social, D. Mathew, A. Pattekar @nualameyer.bsky.social, @ejohnwherry.bsky.social, A. Greenplate & @lishenlc.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

QOT: Quantized Optimal Transport for sample-level distance matrix in single-cell omics Abstract. Single-cell technologies have enabled the high-dimensional characterization of cell populations at an unprecedented scale. The innate complexity

Excited to share Zexuan Wang’s new paper: “QOT: Quantized Optimal Transport for sample-level distance matrix in single-cell omics‘’ Read it here: academic.oup.com/bib/article/.... @dbei-upenn.bsky.social @jwagenaar.bsky.social

Automated cytometric gating with human-level performance using bivariate segmentation Nature Communications - High-throughput cytometry generates complex single-cell data with challenging manual gating process. Here, authors introduce UNITO, a framework that transforms cell...

Excited to share Jiong Chen’s new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper: “Automated cytometric gating with human level performance using bivariate segmentation‘’ Read it here: rdcu.be/d9BMo. @ejohnwherry.bsky.social @dbei-upenn.bsky.social