Marsilea, our framework for composable visualizations has been selected for a spotlight on Github Maintainer Month.

The feature contains an interview with Yimin, who conceived and maintains the project.

Open source runs a large fraction of the world's digital infrastructure, but this is thanks to the largely unrewarded efforts of open source maintainers worldwide.

Thank you to the Github Community Management team for the opportunity to celebrate maintainers of open source software.

We had a very nice dinner together at 'In Dish', an Indian restaurant in Vienna's first district.

The food was delicious, the spirits high, and it was great to see so many people together.

Thanks Lisa for the restaurant suggestion, Samir for organizing, and everyone for joining!

For the first time our team ran together in the Vienna City Marathon relay.

CeMM was the proud sponsor of the race and it was great to meet and run with colleagues from the institute!

Yimin, Lisa, Tamas and Andre together ran the 42 km in 4 hours and 11 minutes.

We finished with a nice photo at the MuseumsQuartier - thanks everyone for joining and doing your best!

The event held in Padova, Italy over 4 days focused on SpatialData, the basic data structure underlying spatially resolved data within the scverse ecosystem.

SpatialData also underlies WSIData, the data object LazySlide uses for whole slide image analysis.

The hackathon had an ambitious program, with themes including design modernization, bioconducted compatibility, and visualization.

Samir and Yimin focused both on SpatialData design and its modernization.

Thank you to the organizers and to the whole community for coming together and working on this fundamental software!

Andre has been elected as a member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

The Young Academy brings together excellent early-career scientists from diverse disciplines to contribute to the Austrian scientific landscape and engage in interdisciplinary exchange and outreach.

We are honored by this recognition and look forward to contributing to the Academy's mission.

Our framework for accessible and interoperable whole slide image analysis is now published in Nature Methods.

This work was led by Yimin Zheng, who developed the core architecture enabling scverse-compatible analysis of histopathological images at scale.

LazySlide brings the interoperability and efficiency of single-cell genomics workflows to computational pathology, lowering barriers for researchers across disciplines.

Check out the documentation at lazyslide.readthedocs.io and the code at GitHub.

We are honored to receive the Experiment Foundation's Beyond the Journal Award, recognizing scientists pushing the boundaries of open science.

The award acknowledges our commitment to transparency through our publicly hosted, open-source lab manual that makes internal workflows and computational practices reusable by the community.

We are grateful for this recognition and remain committed to embedding reproducibility into our daily research culture.

Read more about the award and the other awarded project here

Clemens Kohl joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

After studying Food Science and Biotechnology in Vienna, he did a Master at ETH Zürich in Basel, Switzerland, and a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany.

With a strong background in single-cell analysis and clustering methods the lab will gain a major bridge to the genomics and single-cell field, as well as a close connection to the group of Georg Busslinger at the Medical University of Vienna which jointly hosts him.

We wish Clemens a happy and successful time in the lab - welcome!

Lisa Kleissl has been awarded the prestigious APART-MINT fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

This competitive fellowship supports outstanding early-career researchers in the natural sciences, technology, and medicine and will support her work for one year.

Congratulations Lisa on this well-deserved recognition of your ideas and research!