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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · 1d

Was fun to be part of this!

Junyan Lu @junyanlu.bsky.social · 2d

Huge thanks to our collaborators —
Britta Velten (@brittavelten.bsky.social)
, the Klingmüller lab at DKFZ (@klingmuelab.bsky.social), and the Winter team at Thoraxklink Heidelberg
— for their contributions 🙏
We invite you to try out msBayesImpute and welcome any feedback or suggestions! 💬

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · 1d

Very nice framework to handle missing values in proteomics data by combining probabilistic factor models (alike MOFA) and suitable likelihood functions to account for values missing not at random. Take a look 👇

Junyan Lu @junyanlu.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 Excited to share our new preprint: msBayesImpute - A Versatile Framework for Addressing Missing Values in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Data
👉 Improves imputation accuracy, normalization, and differential expression detection
📝https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.679746v1

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 10d

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?

Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader – AI in Biology

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 22d

Welcome to day 4 of #EMBOBioImage 🖥️
👉Happening right now: practical session 5, spatial statistics and omics integration, led by @brittavelten.bsky.social, assisted by Anna Klemm.

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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 22d

And here we go again with Day 4️⃣ of the @embo.org course on "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis"! 🔬🖥️📊

We just started "Pratical session 5: Spatial statistics and omics integration" with @brittavelten.bsky.social and her team 💪 from @uniheidelberg.bsky.social ...

Anna Klemm presents Britta Velten (from Heidelberg University) before Practical session 5 (Spatial statistics and omics integration) in the presence of Nikolai Köhler and Wangjun Hu.

Britta Velten on stage addressing the course students.

Panoramic view of the classroom full of students attending the practical session by Britta Velten, Nikolai Köhler and Wangjun Hu.

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Junyan Lu @junyanlu.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔬 PhD Position in Bioinformatics!
Join my group at Heidelberg University (lu-group-ukhd.github.io) to study AML dormancy & therapy resistance using multi-omics & single-cell data.
👉Apply or share: www.jobvector.de/job/bioinfor...

PhD Student Bioinformatics, Computational Biology (m/f/d)

Analyze bulk and single-cell multi-omics data generated from in vivo AML models Curate and integrate public datasets (eg scRNA-seq) to derive prior knowledge on AML dormancy Develop and apply integrat...

www.jobvector.de

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Jul 3

Exciting kick-off meeting for our spatial omics seminar in and around Heidelberg organised with @tanevski.bsky.social and @denisschapiro.bsky.social. Was fun to see all the cool research happening here and connect. Reach out to us if you missed out and would like to join the next meetings!

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚀 Job opportunity: Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Join a young and passionate team at Heidelberg University to advance bioinformatics software that drive biological discovery.
Learn more & apply 👉 shorturl.at/GCpg7

Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

shorturl.at

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Apr 29

Looking forward to meeting up with the spatial biology community in October! Join us in Heidelberg :-)

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Apr 29

🌟We're glad to announce that the brand new EMBL Conference #EMBLSpatialBiology is now open for registration ➡️ https://s.embl.org/spb25-01-bl

Submit your abstract by 8 July and be part of the rapidly growing spatial biology community!

🗓️ 14 – 17 October
📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

#ESSB2025

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Apr 15

Do you want to advance scientific software for the life sciences? Join us now in Heidelberg as a scientific software developer. Details can be found here: shorturl.at/vqpEA

Scientific Software Developer

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

shorturl.at

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Jan 31

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join us as a scientific programmer to advance tools for multi-omics data at Heidelberg University. Details can be found at shorturl.at/OcnOa and please spread the word!

Scientific programmer

Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

shorturl.at

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · Jan 24

CompBio method developers: software that only runs on your computer and is not available via a repository like CRAN, PyPI, Bioconductor, is not a proper research output —
just like a set of scribbled notes on your desktop is not the same as a preprint or a paper.
Finish the job.

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Britta Velten @brittavelten.bsky.social · Jan 14

My first post here on BlueSky to share our recent work with Claudia Feng and @leopoldparts.bsky.social - a large-scale single cell CRISPR screen to chart out gene regulation and the role of genomic background in iPSCs. Check out the data here: www.sanger.ac.uk/tool/crispri...

Leopold Parts @leopoldparts.bsky.social · Dec 2

Does my mutation have the same impact as yours? Population genetics 🤠 🥸 🤓 🤡 meets single cell CRISPRi ⚡ ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Claudia Feng, Oliver Stegle, Britta Velten, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social .

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