Artathon Finding new Ways to accurately visualize complex biological data

• Are you an artist who always dreamt to visualize the immune system?
• A computer scientist that is interested in visualizations of high dimensional data?
• A biologist who had enough of bar plots and pie charts?

Then you should come to the:

Artathon!

How can we visualize the population of cells in an immune system?

The study of biology is at a turning point. Novel experimental methods make possible high-throughput imaging and molecular measurement at the single cell and single molecule level over thousands and millions of cells. Along with the great promise these technologies bring, they also call for new approaches to catalyze the assimilation of this overwhelming wealth of data. With new tools to measure biological dynamics and diversity new questions arise. Questions of process that take into account changes in individual molecules in the context of cell behavior and changes in individual cells in the context of systemic responses to physiological change. However, to even start to define these questions we need new ways to look at the data in its full richness. We need to visualize what we have measured.

How do I go to Artathon?

We invite biology, computer science and design students to form interdisciplinary groups that will together help us create new methods for the visualization of the changes in individually characterized cell populations. Starting at 4pm (Israel time) on May 9th and going on till the evening of the 11th we will present and address six specific visualization challenges which will together ask - “How can we visualize the relationships of populations of cells in an immune system?”

For Artathon 4 a special focus will be on the use of trees/lineage, sets of trees and other hierarchical networks to visualize individuals and sets of individuals with different levels of connection and similarity in a population..

The Artathon is a fully hybrid international event. It will occur in multiple locations across the globe. The University of Haifa in Israel and INESC TEC, Porto in Portugal, will host local group sites as will labs on the east coast of the US and Canada. We will send out information of the nearest location to you upon registration!

To register for the Artathon please follow this link

Don't wait!

The Artathon is free but thanks to it s hybrid nature 30 people at most can attend at any one location. Please register by April 30th to attend.