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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 7d

GitHub: github.com/abhinavsns/T...

Software page: topospam.org

GitHub - abhinavsns/topospam: Topological Simulation Platform for Active Matter

Topological Simulation Platform for Active Matter. Contribute to abhinavsns/topospam development by creating an account on GitHub.

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 7d

🤩👍🏼💪🏼 Meet #TopoSPAM - a high-performance simulation platform for biological morphogenesis with a friendly Python interface. @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de. Solve both continuous and discrete active mechanics! Released today: arxiv.org/abs/2509.24905

TopoSPAM: Topology grounded Simulation Platform for morphogenesis and biological Active Matter

We present a topology grounded, multiscale simulation platform for morphogenesis and biological active matter. Morphogenesis and biological active matter represent keystone problems in biology with ad...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations! Beautiful work!!!

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 12d

🤩🤩🤩Absolutely thrilled our work is featured in the Magazine of @maxplanck.de ! Big thanks to the writer and editor 🙏🙏🙏 Never saw our work described so well! Curious? @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de - PDF is freely available, article starts p.36: www.mpg.de/25430399/MPR...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 13d

In a beautiful team effort, we wrote a comprehensive review of meshfree collocation methods for numerically solving PDEs @csbdresden.bsky.social @uni.lu #CVUTPrague @tudresden.bsky.social Preprint out now: arxiv.org/abs/2509.20056

An Overview of Meshfree Collocation Methods

We provide a comprehensive overview of meshfree collocation methods for numerically approximating differential operators on continuously labeled unstructured point clouds. Meshfree collocation methods...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 26d

It was a pleasure to speak at #BuildingBridges2025. Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania - together in one session on #Biomedical #AI. Great also to meet so many friends again!

Big thanks to the organizers for inviting me! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@hzdr.bsky.social
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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 26d

🙏 Very honored to speak at #BuildingBridges2025 on #AI for #Biomedicine. What an amazing lineup of panelists 🤩🤩🤩 Politics and Science working together- Germany, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland - together for future #AI 👍🏼 @hzdr.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · 27d

Looking forward to present on the topic of AI for Biomedicine tomorrow!

HZDR @hzdr.bsky.social · 27d

The Building Bridges Conference 2025: Latest Findings in Artificial Intelligence kicked off today, bringing together researchers, policymakers and industry leaders from across Europe. #BuildingBridges2025

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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · Aug 28

#GoGAIN25: 🌎 From August 29 to 31, #TUDresden will be in #Boston with @daadworldwide.bsky.social, @humboldt-foundation.de & @dfg.de, presenting a series of talks & hosting a booth to showcase our University of Excellence & the city of Dresden as a hub for science. 🧑‍🔬
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/internationa...

Photo of a well-attended event room during a lecture at the GAIN Conference 2024.

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Aug 25

This👇is fantastic work! Congratulations @loicaroyer.bsky.social and team!!

Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking
🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration
Let’s dive in! 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 24

#GenAI meets perception psychology for better super-resolution microscopy 🤩 Fig.1 says it all! 😎 Fantastic collaboration with @casusscience.bsky.social - work of @zuseschoolsecai.bsky.social students @csbdresden.bsky.social - out now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Fundamental computer science result! 🤩🤩🤩 Particle Methods, a class of algorithms, can compute anything that is computable, even when severely resource restricted ‼️‼️Formally proven result @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de now out: fi.episciences.org/16055

On the Computational Power of Particle Methods

We investigate the computational power of particle methods, a well-established class of algorit hms with applications in scientific computing and computer simulation. The computational power of a comp...

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jul 15

To learn more about the people behind this work, we caught up with first author Justina Stark, and corresponding authors Ivo Sbalzarini (@mosaicgroup.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social) and Michael Brand (@tudresden.bsky.social):
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Read the #OpenAccess Research Article "Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissue" here:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thanks for the highlight @dev-journal.bsky.social !! 🙏🙏🙏

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Mind the pores: studying morphogen gradients

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Justina Stark, Rohit Krishnan Harish, Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social and Michael Brand @tudresden.bsky.social:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Figure 1 (D-G) Visualization of the sparse-grid discretization of the ECS at ≈60% epiboly.

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 14

Tagging @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social

MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 14

⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissue

Summary: Image-based 3D modeling of pore-scale extracellular space geometries of the developing zebrafish embryo reveals that the Fgf8a morphogen gradient is regulated by the porous media characterist...

journals.biologists.com

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 14

👍🏼 And as always, our code is freely available! git.mpi-cbg.de/mosaic/softw...

Sbalzarini Lab / Software / Image Based Modeling / reactionDiffusion_imageBased_porousMedia · GitLab

Image-based pipeline for solving inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion PDEs in real-world porous geometries. Level-set method (multi-CPU) for reconstruction. Sparse grids (multi-GPU) for diffusion simulati...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 14

🙏🙏🙏 Big thanks and congratulations to our PhD student Justina Stark who drove this successful interdisciplinary collaboration. This was highlighted by the journal in an interview: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The people behind the papers – Justina Stark, Ivo Sbalzarini and Michael Brand

Morphogens are secreted from a local source and form long-range gradients. Existing computational models to study morphogen gradients typically simplify the tissue geometry. In a new study, Justina St...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 14

⚡️Advanced Computing ❤️ laboratory experiments ➡️ an unbeatable combination to unlock the secrets of biology! Together with the Brand lab @tudresden.bsky.social we @csbdresden.bsky.social discovered a simple mechanism how tissue geometry controls growth: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Morphogen gradients are regulated by porous media characteristics of the developing tissue

Summary: Image-based 3D modeling of pore-scale extracellular space geometries of the developing zebrafish embryo reveals that the Fgf8a morphogen gradient is regulated by the porous media characterist...

journals.biologists.com

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our scientific computing framework #OpenFPM now has multistage and adaptive time integrators that scale to distributed CPU clusters and GPUs! Happy supercomputing! @tudresden.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.05331

Integrating Odeint Time Stepping into OpenFPM for Distributed and GPU Accelerated Numerical Solvers

We present a software implementation integrating the time-integration library Odeint from Boost with the OpenFPM framework for scalable scientific computing. This enables compact and scalable codes fo...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔥🔥🔥Unique opportunity! We are looking for a new Max Planck Director in Biomedical #AI. Max Planck Research Directors enjoy unparalleled freedom and resources. And the best: you’d get to work with us here at the @csbdresden.bsky.social in the heart of the vibrant @tudresden.bsky.social AI campus!

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · Jun 26

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence: Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social. More information: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Novel Research in Biological Artificial Intelligence

Expressions of interest and nominations for a Max Planck Director to lead research in the field of Biological Artificial Intelligence.

www.mpi-cbg.de

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · Jun 12

Formulas of Life: article of the @maxplanck.de on the research of Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social. Article in German language: www.mpg.de/24841408/ki-...

Formeln des Lebens

Künstliche Intelligenz mit physikalischem Vorwissen soll biologische Vorgänge berechenbar machen

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ivo Sbalzarini was interviewed by German science radio @detektorfm.bsky.social and explains our research @csbdresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @tudresden.bsky.social to a general audience (in German only):

detektor.fm/wissen/forsc...

Wie kann Künstliche Intelligenz in der Biomedizin helfen?

Biologie und Medizin sind eng verknüpft. Künstliche Intelligenz kann dabei in vielen Fragen helfen. Was ist zu beachten?

detektor.fm

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · Jun 8

🔥Just out @EGPGV’25: Parallel visualization of distributed volume data for non-convex decompositions! @csbdresden.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de And the best: code is contributed upstream 🤩 diglib.eg.org/items/3aed38...

A Transparent and Efficient Extension of IceT for Parallel Compositing on Non-Convex Volume Domain Decompositions

The IceT library is widely used for parallel compositing but does not support non-convex volume domain decompositions. We provide a backward-compatible extension of IceT to handle non-convex domain de...

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MOSAIC Group / Sbalzarini Lab @mosaicgroup.bsky.social · May 23

Fantastic! 🤩 Best success ever for our university!! This is going to enable sooooo much cool new research in the coming years. The sky is the limit!

TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · May 22

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

Picture of the PIs of TUD's Clusters of Excellence and Cluster of Excellence Initiatives beeing happy.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger during the announcement of the funding decision of the DFG.

Picture of cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger and cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

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