In October, members of the NerDS lab traveled to the Allen Institute in Seattle, Washington for BioImage Informatics 2019. Over the course of three days, the Allen Institute hosted talks on research at the intersection of machine learning, image processing, cell science, and neuroscience. Lab members presented three posters on machine learning and neuroscience, which provided a great opportunity to share, network, and learn. Afterwards, we all had fun exploring Seattle!

NerDS lab members developed an intro to image analysis and deep learning for high school students. We taught the module to two groups of high school students that participated in the HOT Days program organized by the ECE department at Georgia Tech.

Our python notebook and instructions on how to use Colaboratory are located on the lab’s github page. (Hands on Tech Github Repo)

Eva, Aish, and Joe had the opportunity to serve as instructors at the Deep Learning for Microscopy Workshop at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). The course was organized by Jan Funke and Patrick LaRiviere and was funded by the National Center for Brain Mapping at the University of Chicago.

Check out our new review paper on generative models and abstractions for large-scale neuroanatomy datasets [PDF]. This review is part of a special issue on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Neuroscience in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Eva was awarded a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience! She is honored to be one of two fellows from the BME department to be awarded a Sloan Fellowship, along with Chethan Pandarinath.

Getting out of the lab space, the NerDS explored some of the nature surrounding the greater Atlanta area at Roswell Mill where they hiked, picnicked, and skipped an abundance of rocks! The principle component was fun!