Charlotte Bunne
@bunnech.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @EPFL in Computer Science and Life Sciences. PostDoc at @Genentech and @Stanford. PhD at @ETH and @BroadInstitute.
www.aimm.epfl.ch
www.aimm.epfl.ch
Pinned
Charlotte Bunne
@bunnech.bsky.social
· Dec 12
How can we build an Al virtual cell that simulates all functions and interactions of a cell? How will it transform research and drive breakthroughs in programmable biology, drug discovery and personalized medicine?
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professors @abosselut.bsky.social (IC), @bunnech.bsky.social (IC & SV), and @mschrimpf.bsky.social (IC & SV) for being selected as #AI2050 Early Career Fellows by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
🔗 Full article: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-pr...
🔗 Full article: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-pr...
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-prof…
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professors @abosselut.bsky.social (IC), @bunnech.bsky.social (IC & SV), and @mschrimpf.bsky.social (IC & SV) for being selected as #AI2050 Early Career Fellows by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
🔗 Full article: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-pr...
🔗 Full article: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-pr...
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
Could AI enable the next big breakthrough in biology? 🔬
@bunnech.bsky.social & @stephenquake.bsky.social present the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cell, a bold project transforming how we study life at the cellular level.
Listen here👉 erictopol.substack.com/p/the-holy-g...
#AI4Science #AI4Health
@bunnech.bsky.social & @stephenquake.bsky.social present the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cell, a bold project transforming how we study life at the cellular level.
Listen here👉 erictopol.substack.com/p/the-holy-g...
#AI4Science #AI4Health
The Holy Grail of Biology
Towards the Virtual Cell with Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne
erictopol.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Could AI enable the next big breakthrough in biology? 🔬
@bunnech.bsky.social & @stephenquake.bsky.social present the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cell, a bold project transforming how we study life at the cellular level.
Listen here👉 erictopol.substack.com/p/the-holy-g...
#AI4Science #AI4Health
@bunnech.bsky.social & @stephenquake.bsky.social present the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cell, a bold project transforming how we study life at the cellular level.
Listen here👉 erictopol.substack.com/p/the-holy-g...
#AI4Science #AI4Health
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
Hybrid workshop on Generative AI for Biology with great speakers including Sarah Teichmann, @bunnech.bsky.social, Francesco Di Giovanni, Diego Oyarzun, Jussi Taipale, @jhartford.bsky.social, Chris Barnes and Marta Milo. Link for online registration www.genai.ac.uk/news-feed/ce...
<br/>Online workshop - Generative AI for Biology — gen ai
Online registration for hybrid workshop on 12 May looking at the development of generative models for large and high-resolution biological datasets.
www.genai.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hybrid workshop on Generative AI for Biology with great speakers including Sarah Teichmann, @bunnech.bsky.social, Francesco Di Giovanni, Diego Oyarzun, Jussi Taipale, @jhartford.bsky.social, Chris Barnes and Marta Milo. Link for online registration www.genai.ac.uk/news-feed/ce...
I spoke with @natureportfolio.bsky.social about the transformative potential of foundation models for biology—particularly in personalized medicine & clinical diagnostics.
Take a look at the technologies to watch in 2025. An exciting year ahead for AI & biomedicine!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Take a look at the technologies to watch in 2025. An exciting year ahead for AI & biomedicine!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025
Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I spoke with @natureportfolio.bsky.social about the transformative potential of foundation models for biology—particularly in personalized medicine & clinical diagnostics.
Take a look at the technologies to watch in 2025. An exciting year ahead for AI & biomedicine!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Take a look at the technologies to watch in 2025. An exciting year ahead for AI & biomedicine!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read the full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.060...
Would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to reach out with questions.
Would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to reach out with questions.
arxiv.org
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Read the full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.060...
Would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to reach out with questions.
Would love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to reach out with questions.
This was a fantastic collaboration between researchers at @icepfl.bsky.social, @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, the and University Hospital Zurich with co-authors Gabriele Gut , Andreas Wicki, Kiril Vasilev and Matteo Pariset! This is just the beginning - we’re excited of what is coming next!
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This was a fantastic collaboration between researchers at @icepfl.bsky.social, @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, the and University Hospital Zurich with co-authors Gabriele Gut , Andreas Wicki, Kiril Vasilev and Matteo Pariset! This is just the beginning - we’re excited of what is coming next!
🔎How?
VirTues is built on a novel vision transformer architecture that efficiently processes high-dimensional data and flexible numbers of input channels while maintaining biological interpretability.
VirTues is built on a novel vision transformer architecture that efficiently processes high-dimensional data and flexible numbers of input channels while maintaining biological interpretability.
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🔎How?
VirTues is built on a novel vision transformer architecture that efficiently processes high-dimensional data and flexible numbers of input channels while maintaining biological interpretability.
VirTues is built on a novel vision transformer architecture that efficiently processes high-dimensional data and flexible numbers of input channels while maintaining biological interpretability.
💡Why now?
Spatial proteomics has just been announced ‘Method of the Year’ by @naturemethods.bsky.social due to its critical role in #clinical #diagnostics and #computational #pathology. VirTues is the first AI model that can handle the complexity and unique requirements of multiplex images
Spatial proteomics has just been announced ‘Method of the Year’ by @naturemethods.bsky.social due to its critical role in #clinical #diagnostics and #computational #pathology. VirTues is the first AI model that can handle the complexity and unique requirements of multiplex images
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
💡Why now?
Spatial proteomics has just been announced ‘Method of the Year’ by @naturemethods.bsky.social due to its critical role in #clinical #diagnostics and #computational #pathology. VirTues is the first AI model that can handle the complexity and unique requirements of multiplex images
Spatial proteomics has just been announced ‘Method of the Year’ by @naturemethods.bsky.social due to its critical role in #clinical #diagnostics and #computational #pathology. VirTues is the first AI model that can handle the complexity and unique requirements of multiplex images
• Handle varying combinations of hundreds of protein markers without retraining.
• Provide interpretable insights from molecular to tissue scales through its multi-scale design and novel attention.
• Support clinical decisions through case retrieval and the creation.
• Provide interpretable insights from molecular to tissue scales through its multi-scale design and novel attention.
• Support clinical decisions through case retrieval and the creation.
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
• Handle varying combinations of hundreds of protein markers without retraining.
• Provide interpretable insights from molecular to tissue scales through its multi-scale design and novel attention.
• Support clinical decisions through case retrieval and the creation.
• Provide interpretable insights from molecular to tissue scales through its multi-scale design and novel attention.
• Support clinical decisions through case retrieval and the creation.
🧬Our work tackles a key challenge in precision medicine: making sense of highly multiplexed tissue imaging data that captures dozens of molecular markers simultaneously. VirTues can:
• Provide zero-shot virtual tissue representations across cancer types and diseases.
• Provide zero-shot virtual tissue representations across cancer types and diseases.
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧬Our work tackles a key challenge in precision medicine: making sense of highly multiplexed tissue imaging data that captures dozens of molecular markers simultaneously. VirTues can:
• Provide zero-shot virtual tissue representations across cancer types and diseases.
• Provide zero-shot virtual tissue representations across cancer types and diseases.
Led by PhD students wencksternjo.bsky.social and @eeshaanjain.bsky.social, we introduce the Virtual Tissues platform (VirTues), a foundation model framework for analyzing complex tissue architectures.
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Led by PhD students wencksternjo.bsky.social and @eeshaanjain.bsky.social, we introduce the Virtual Tissues platform (VirTues), a foundation model framework for analyzing complex tissue architectures.
✨Excited to share our work on “AI-powered virtual tissues from spatial proteomics for clinical diagnostics and biomedical discovery” (arxiv.org/pdf/2501.060...), building on our vision paper in @cellpress.bsky.social on multi-scale, multi-modal foundation models (shorturl.at/G2Dew).
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
✨Excited to share our work on “AI-powered virtual tissues from spatial proteomics for clinical diagnostics and biomedical discovery” (arxiv.org/pdf/2501.060...), building on our vision paper in @cellpress.bsky.social on multi-scale, multi-modal foundation models (shorturl.at/G2Dew).
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
Exciting news! 🚀 The Learning Meaningful Representations of Life ( #LMRL 🌟) workshop is returning at #ICLR2025! 🎉
On 27th / 28th April 2025 in Singapore 🇸🇬, this popular event returns with a fresh organizing team 👇 & bold new ideas 🧠 to explore bridging AI & life sciences 🧬
On 27th / 28th April 2025 in Singapore 🇸🇬, this popular event returns with a fresh organizing team 👇 & bold new ideas 🧠 to explore bridging AI & life sciences 🧬
December 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
BreimanLectureNeurIPS2024_Doucet.pdf
drive.google.com
December 15, 2024 at 6:40 PM
The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...
Building Al virtual cells is no small feat!
With a massive scientific undertaking and shared goals, we posit that a comprehensive understanding of cellular mechanisms is within reach.
Stay tuned for exciting research coming out soon and consider joining my lab @icepfl.bsky.social!
aimm.epfl.ch
With a massive scientific undertaking and shared goals, we posit that a comprehensive understanding of cellular mechanisms is within reach.
Stay tuned for exciting research coming out soon and consider joining my lab @icepfl.bsky.social!
aimm.epfl.ch
Bunne Lab - Artificial Intelligence in Molecular Medicine
Led by Charlotte Bunne in EPFL's Computer Science and Life Sciences departments, our research aims to advance personalized medicine by utilizing machine learning and large-scale biomedical data.
aimm.epfl.ch
December 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Building Al virtual cells is no small feat!
With a massive scientific undertaking and shared goals, we posit that a comprehensive understanding of cellular mechanisms is within reach.
Stay tuned for exciting research coming out soon and consider joining my lab @icepfl.bsky.social!
aimm.epfl.ch
With a massive scientific undertaking and shared goals, we posit that a comprehensive understanding of cellular mechanisms is within reach.
Stay tuned for exciting research coming out soon and consider joining my lab @icepfl.bsky.social!
aimm.epfl.ch
... integrates extensive community discussions, resulting in an author list consisting of key leaders across different fields of Al and biology from
@genentech.bsky.social, @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ,
@msftresearch.bsky.social, @broadinstitute.org, @arcinstitute.org, @embl.org and more!
@genentech.bsky.social, @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ,
@msftresearch.bsky.social, @broadinstitute.org, @arcinstitute.org, @embl.org and more!
December 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
... integrates extensive community discussions, resulting in an author list consisting of key leaders across different fields of Al and biology from
@genentech.bsky.social, @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ,
@msftresearch.bsky.social, @broadinstitute.org, @arcinstitute.org, @embl.org and more!
@genentech.bsky.social, @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social ,
@msftresearch.bsky.social, @broadinstitute.org, @arcinstitute.org, @embl.org and more!
Our work with @yusufroohani.bsky.social, @yanayrosen.bsky.social, Theofanis Karaletsos, Aviv Regev, Emma Lundberg, Jure Leskovec, Stephen Quake ...
December 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Our work with @yusufroohani.bsky.social, @yanayrosen.bsky.social, Theofanis Karaletsos, Aviv Regev, Emma Lundberg, Jure Leskovec, Stephen Quake ...
How can we build an Al virtual cell that simulates all functions and interactions of a cell? How will it transform research and drive breakthroughs in programmable biology, drug discovery and personalized medicine?
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 12, 2024 at 8:09 PM
How can we build an Al virtual cell that simulates all functions and interactions of a cell? How will it transform research and drive breakthroughs in programmable biology, drug discovery and personalized medicine?
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Take a look at our paper in @cellpress.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reposted by Charlotte Bunne
Towards the #AI virtual cell, which would represent one the most extraordinary achievements in life science
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @bunnech.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @bunnech.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Towards the #AI virtual cell, which would represent one the most extraordinary achievements in life science
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @bunnech.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @bunnech.bsky.social