The Data Crunch Cup Würzburg has come to a successful close. The winners received their prizes, and with pizza and lively conversation, the evening turned into a real highlight of the semester. A heartfelt thank you to all participants, partners, and supporters who make this competition possible.

Interested in a postdoc in one of our groups at the @cctb-wue.bsky.social ? The Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowships are open for applications!

Today's the Hubland Nord Bio Day! The biology research groups at the Hubland Nord campus are coming together to present their research projects and exchange ideas!

The 6th Data Crunch Cup Würzburg is coming up! For 7 days, starting March 23, 2026 at 8 am, you can solve exciting challenges in biology, computer science, and data science to win prizes! Register now at DCCW.de! #bioinformatics #cctb #datascience #universitätwürzburg #fibio

Today we have Yuriy Pichugin visiting us from the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social discussing the Evolution of informed dispersal strategies in trophic meta-communities in our #WueBiT seminars

Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 June - 3 July. Deadline for registration Mon 16 March, 23:59 CET. There are ~10-12 places left.

For many animals, adaptation means survival. In order to learn with minimal risk, some species use safe spaces. @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Dharanish Rajendra describe the math behind this behaviour in the latest edition of @royalsocietypublishing.org. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Play isn’t only fun… it’s preparation for danger! Our new paper by @DharanishR in @royalsociety.org shows how protected juvenile environments boost #learning of risky behaviours via a protected early life period across some species. 🦂🦁 tinyurl.com/3w45xvz9 @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social

Many thanks to everyone who joined on Friday and made it such a memorable afternoon—we greatly appreciate the warm welcome in Würzburg! @cctb-wue.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social #WueBiT

Thank you to all who attended our inaugural lecture on Friday. We greatly value the interest, the collegial atmosphere and the support. @zarnack-group.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social #WueBiT

Don't miss out on our guest speaker Dr. Elisa Thébault and her scientific talk "Species diversity, food web structure and ecosystem stability: Bridging the gap between theory and data" More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...

Thanks a lot @hyejinpark.bsky.social , @elibbyscience.bsky.social and @llizana.bsky.social for organising such an amazing meeting in the Arctic on Adaptive Mechanisms! It was brilliant to be a part of the superb program! Thank you!

A brilliant performance today by @vkulkarni.bsky.social from the group of Sylvia Cremer clearing her qualifying exam @istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.

We wish you a very happy, new, healthy, and productive 2026!! Looking forward to all the exciting science in store!

Join us on Wednesday, November 19, at 11 am for the next CCTB/Bioinfo II Seminar! Andrea Raffo, mathematician at University of Oslo, will speak on: Pattern recognition in the 3D Genome 📍CCTB, Klara-Oppenheimer-Weg 32, Seminar Room

Work by our @axelarango.bsky.social is now out!!! @uni-wuerzburg.de Effects of the #dispersal ability in the #diversification dynamics of Emberizoidea (Aves: Passeriformes) url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Join us on Wednesday, November 12, at 11 am for the next CCTB/Bioinfo II (Un-)Seminar! Markus Ankenbrand will lead the discussion about: Meta-Topics of Project Management ­­– Data Version Control, Environments, Pipelines 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards!

Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social

And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social

A long night fighting procrastination with coffee, pizza, stretching, and plenty of finished projects — all thanks to the amazing support of so many institutes of JMU! Very proud of this successful event! @uni-wuerzburg.de @gokhalecs.bsky.social

Join us this Wednesday, July 30th, at 11:00 for the next CCTB Seminar! Mike Klaus (BioMeDS) will defend his master's thesis on: "Applying machine learning based denoising to photon-counting CT images" 📍 CCTB, Klara-Oppenheimer-Weg 32, Seminar Room

Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇

Join us on Wednesday, July 23, at 11:15 am for the next CCTB/Bioinfo II Seminar! Adrian Krenzer (AI in Medicine, CAIDAS) will speak on: “Insights from medical image analysis with artificial intelligence" 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards - everyone’s welcome!

If you are at the #ismbeccb in Liverpool, then don’t miss chatting with our Magdalena Schüttler, who will be presenting a poster on "Left Ventricular and Papillary Muscle Hypertrophy as Cardiac Markers for Fabry Disease" (poster B-489 in the TransMed track, today at 10:00-11:20 and 16:00-16:40)

@gokhalecs.bsky.social of the University of Würzburg has developed a new mathematical model together with an international research team. The model shows how the costs for #farmers change when their plants develop #fungicide resistance. Published in @plos.org ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Join us this Wednesday, July 9th at 11:00 for the next CCTB Seminar! Magdalena Schüttler (CSI) will speak on: “VESNA: An Open-Source Tool for Automated 3D Vessel Segmentation and Network Analysis" 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards—everyone’s welcome!

This was such a great event! Thank you @gslsuniwue.bsky.social for celebrating the #phdlife @uni-wuerzburg.de

Congratulations to all authors and our very own @gokhalecs.bsky.social for putting forth this perspective on Collective Cooperative Intelligence in @pnas.org ! Check out the full special issue on #Collective #ArtificialIntelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics www.pnas.org/topic/569

The CCTB and @zarnack-group.bsky.social‬ are hosting a Summer BBQ, and we’d love for you to join us! 🎓 Students from @uni-wuerzburg.de are especially welcome—come hang out, meet the teams, and enjoy some good food in the sun! Bring your appetite and summer spirit! ☀️🍔

This postdoc position will be a fantastic mix of computational and mathematical approach towards developing a fitness landscape of the Fabry disease. Hosted by @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy we will be collaborating intensively on this topic.

Join us this Wednesday, June 25 at 11:00 for the next CCTB Seminar! 🧬 Dharanish Rajendra (Theoretical Biology group) will speak on: “Learning to adapt to dangerous environments” 📍 John-Skilton-Straße 4a, Seminar Room 2 🍕 Pizza will be served afterwards—everyone’s welcome!

Thank you @wbarfuss.bsky.social for spearheading this !

Numerical study by researchers @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de and @csbdresden.bsky.social of small ecological communities reveals the importance of the full network structure of ecological interactions for ecosystem stability. News article: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

If you are at the Workshop on #ComputationalModels in Biology and Medicine 2025 in Braunschweig then don’t miss chatting with our Sascha Ollertz who will be talking "Agent-based modelling of cell differentiation patterns in mouse blastocysts" www.biometrische-gesellschaft.de/arbeitsgrupp...

Many congratulations to our very own Magdalena Schuettler on her amazing Masters thesis defence on #FabryDisease with proud PI @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy

Get to know the exciting research done by the group for Supramolecular and Cellular Simulations led by Sabine Fischer. More info: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/cctb/researc...

Join the #HackyHour today at 5 pm in seminar room SE 4 of the physics department at the University of Würzburg. 🍕 More info on our pad: go.uniwue.de/hackyhour-pad

Join the #HackyHour today at 5 pm in seminar room SE 4 of the physics department at the University of Würzburg. 🍕 More info on our pad: go.uniwue.de/hackyhour-pad

Congratulations to Kathi Zarnack for being part of this great initiative! #nucleate 🎉

Sakshi Pahujani will talk about "Theory of adaptation to a moving optimum" in the CCTB seminar at 11 am today. Don't miss her talk. You can also join via Zoom: uni-wuerzburg.zoom-x.de/j/6830090195...

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Passionate about theoretical & computational biology? Help map the #fitnesslandscape of #Fabry disease! Join @iimog.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy, @sabinefischer & @gokhalecs.bsky.social at CCTB, @uni-wuerzburg.de 🔗 [PDF] tinyurl.com/mvr76my7 #Postdoc

Lynn Govaert from @igb-berlin.de visits us this week!! Don't miss her talk on the 14th May 2025

We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: t.co/yiq4aWz75d

The fifth Data Crunch Cup has come to an end — but the adventure doesn’t stop! 🤓💻 Let’s celebrate your data-crunching brilliance with the prize distribution on Monday, April 28 at 16:00 in CCTB.! 🏆 👉 dccw.de #DCCW2025

The fifth Data Crunch Cup Würzburg has just started. It is still time to register. Start solving the fun data challenges now and win a prize (if you are a student). The competition ends on Sunday, April 13. 🤔💻️🤓 dccw.de

If you are at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2025 #BFECam25 do not miss the talk today by our very own Luis Alejandro Villaneuva at 1300 GMT (zoom link in the programme) bfeconference2025.wordpress.com/programme/ @gokhalecs.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

The 5th Data Crunch Cup Würzburg starts next week!! From April 7 to 13, 2025, students can showcase their data science skills in diverse challenges and compete for exciting prizes. Register now at dccw.de/dccw_en #DataCrunchCup #DCCW2025 @uni-wuerzburg.de

Big thanks to @cctb-wue.bsky.social @gokhalecs.bsky.social for inviting me to share my research on game theory! 🎲 I truly enjoyed the thought-provoking discussions, warm hospitality, and, of course, the delicious pizza 🍕 Looking forward to future collaborations!

Welcome to our BlueSky account! Biology has developed into a quantitative science, and one of its most important challenges is to gain new insights from large data sets. #bigdata #dataanalysis #computationalbiology #computationalmodeling #science #bioinformatics #imageprocessing #cctb