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Luring the Virus into a Trap
BioQuant Researchers from Chlanda and Schwarz Lab elucidate mechanisms that contribute to the prevention of Influenza A and Ebola virus infections.   Cell Host & Microbe 31:1-18 (31 March 2023) EMBO Journal e113578 (21 April 2023)
Publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2023
BMCV researchers publish SuperDSM, a globally optimal method for cell segmentation, in IEEE TPAMI.  
Gold again for Heidelberg in iGEM competition
The iGEM Team Heidelberg 2022 succeeded in winning another gold medal at the Grand Jamboree in Paris with their project "Hersiran: siRNA-Tech for Neuroinfections". iGEM is the world's largest competition for synthetic biology.   Visit the iGEM team's website.
ERC Synergy Grant for studying the renewability and differentiation of stem cells in the vertebrate brain
Simon Anders (BioQuant) together with Anna Marciniak-Czochra (IWR), Ana Martin-Villalba (DKFZ) and Laure Bally-Cuif (Institut Pasteur in Paris) received an ERC Synergy Grant.  
Cell Tracking Challenge, Publication in Nature Methods 2017
The cell tracking method of BMCV ranks among the best worldwide, excelling in an international competition for analyzing cell migration in microscopy images.  
ISBI 2016 Program Chair
Karl Rohr is program chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2016  
Project QuantVessel at Deutsche Bundestag (German Parliament)
The BMCV project QuantVessel is presented at an exhibition of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the German Parliament  
Excellent result at Particle Tracking Challenge, Publication in Nature Methods 2014
BMCV group achieves the worldwide best result in the Particle Tracking Challenge, published in Nature Methods.  
William J. Godinez received the Thomas Gessmann PhD Prize 2014
William J. Godinez receives the Thomas Gessmann PhD Prize for his pioneering work on probabilistic particle tracking in Computer Science  
Bitplane ISBI/IEEE Attendance Award, 2nd Cell Tracking Challenge, ISBI 2014
Nathalie Harder receives the Bitplane ISBI/IEEE Attendance Award at the Cell Tracking Challenge Workshop during ISBI 2014 in Beijing.  
Excellent result at 1st Cell Tracking Challenge, ISBI 2013
The cell tracking method of the BMCV group ranks among the top two at the 1st Cell Tracking Challenge. Results published in Bioinformatics.  
Prize for the best scientific paper at BVM 2013
BMCV researchers receive Best Scientific Paper Award at BVM 2013 for their work on 3D model-based segmentation of heterochromatin foci.  
Prize for the best scientific paper at BVM 2012
BMCV team receives Best Scientific Paper Award at BVM 2012 for their work on multi-frame virus particle tracking in microscopy images.  
Best poster award at the Summer School of Masaryk University 2011
Wei Liao wins 1st prize at Masaryk University Summer School 2011 for his poster on 3D segmentation of cerebral vasculature using a probabilistic minimal path technique.  
MIAAB 2011, Heidelberg
The MIAAB 2011 workshop organized by BMCV brings together experts to advance microscopy image analysis for applications in biology.