Norbert Bittner

Bioinformatician at ITG in @EleZeggini group @HelmholtzMunich with a focus on data analysis of diverse sets of omics data.

[Lappalainen Lab @tuuliel_lab]

We're recruiting! 2 weeks left to apply for a functional genomics postdoc position at @ngisweden/ my lab / Robert Månsson lab @scilifelab! Top notch environment for tech and applications dev in lovely Stockholm. Please spread the word or apply: https://t.co/FUdq5GEhht

[Fabian Theis @fabian_theis]

🧬 What if we could build AI models that predict the effects of interventions in tissues, not just cell lines?

We are looking for two outstanding researchers (PhD candidates and/or Postdoctoral Fellows) to join my group at Helmholtz Munich.

The project is part of an exciting collaboration with Novartis to build next generation AI models for kidney disease and therapeutic target discovery. Together, we are generating large scale perturbation datasets across organoid systems, patient samples, and experimental models to better understand disease mechanisms and identify interventions that move cells from disease toward health.

🤖 From an AI perspective, this is a fascinating challenge.

We are interested in researchers who want to work on:
• Foundation models for biology
• Perturbation prediction and intervention design
• Representation learning across modalities
• Causal and mechanistic modeling
• Building “world models” of cellular and tissue systems
• Translating models across organoids, experimental systems, and patients

The ambition is not simply to analyze biological data, but to build predictive models that can reason about interventions and help identify new therapeutic opportunities.

You do not need to be a kidney expert. Strong candidates may come from machine learning, AI, computer science, physics, mathematics, computational biology, or related fields.

🚀 You will join one of Europe’s largest AI for Health environments and work closely with researchers from Helmholtz Munich, TUM, and our collaboration partners.

If this sounds exciting, or if you know someone who would be a great fit, please share.

👉 Position:
https://t.co/IkoZdIM40T

👉 More about the Helmholtz Munich–Novartis collaboration:
https://t.co/KDboRMEOjI

#AIforHealth #FoundationModels #ComputationalBiology

[Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich @HelmholtzMunich]

Osteoarthritis – Largest Genetic Study Reveals New Drug Targets 🧬
👉 https://t.co/CzAoJEGeC9

An international team led by Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini, #HelmholtzMunich, has conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study (GWAS) on osteoarthritis, analyzing data from nearly 2 million individuals.

💡 Their findings offer new hope for millions suffering from the disease – they pave the way for personalized therapies and better trial designs.

💬 “What we found in the largest osteoarthritis GWAS study not only advances our understanding of the disease but also lays the groundwork for developing more effective and personalized therapies that could transform osteoarthritis care.”
– Eleftheria Zeggini

@EleZeggini @TU_Muenchen @CompHealthMuc

#Genomics #Osteoarthritis #DrugDiscovery #PrecisionMedicine #PersonalizedTherapy #TranslationalResearch #GWAS

[Marios Georgakis @MariosGeorgakis]

Did you know that Germany has its own large-scale population-based biobank?

The German National Cohort or NAKO @NAKO_Studie

If not, let me tell you why👇

[Luciano Martelotto 🛠🧬💻🇦🇺 @LGMartelotto]

Spatially Resolved Single-Cell Omics: Methods, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

https://t.co/Ypd8sOhjZQ

@DrJasPlummer and amazing team!!

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Oxford nanopore sequencing

[Patricia Palagi - Hope for better 🇧🇷 🚩🌟! @P_Palagi]

📢 We are hiring! 🤗🤗🤗
We are looking for a Bioinformatics Trainer and Specialist to join @ISBSIB @SIBTraining group and @DQBM_uzh. If you are a specialist in spatial omics data analysis and a training aficionado, apply now to join our 🤗🧡 teams!
👉 https://t.co/2y9p4sz7Ft

[Eleftheria Zeggini @EleZeggini]

Diving deeper into the genomics of osteoarthritis 🧬 Pleased our work on the first 3D map of chromatin interactions in primary osteoarthritis chondrocytes is out:) @G_Orozco_C
https://t.co/cijyi6OQRc

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology https://t.co/jlKjGy66D0

[GMI Vienna gmivienna.bsky.social @gmivienna]

We are #hiring! The Ma lab (opening 02.2024) will harness the power of #gall-inducing insects to explore #plant development & defense interplay. The Ma lab has the following open #research positions. To apply 👉

[Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich @HelmholtzMunich]

Translational Genomics: A cutting edge technology for detecting diseases & determining new drug targets for therapy! Learn how #HelmholtzMunich scientists around @EleZeggini use this extremely powerful data processing: https://t.co/Y9rxtt4u71
#Genomics #therapy #bigdata

[EMBL-EBI Training @EBItraining]

Thank you to everyone who joined us this week for the 2023 edition of Introduction to #multiomics data integration and visualisation. We can't wait to see what you do next.

Further your own multiomics #bioinformatics knowledge with @EBItraining: https://t.co/UGX6f3LGQr

[Geoffrey Supran @GeoffreySupran]

NEW: In @ScienceMagazine today, our latest peer-reviewed research shows Exxon scientists predicted global warming with shocking skill & accuracy between 1977 & 2003, contradicting the company's decades of climate denial. THREAD.

📰No pay wall for 2 weeks: https://t.co/JDtT9nkbzC

[Norbert Bittner @norbittner]

@Anja_K_Liese @VLortzing @LPaniaguaVoirol

[Martijn van Zanten @ZantenMartijn]

Virus discovered in world’s most widely used research plant https://t.co/3JWzu9i2Dc.

[Moi Expósito-Alonso (#MOILAB) @MExpositoAlonso]

Our paper "Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene" is out in @ScienceMagazine!

We study how genetic diversity is lost by habitat loss to help define @UNBiodiversity #Sustainable targets

https://t.co/X3kbeLZZbX

@CarnegieScience
@CarnegiePlants
@CarnegieEcology
@Stanford

[Bob “Farmer” Hines @Astro_FarmerBob]

Absolutely SPECTACULAR aurora today!!! Thankful for the recent solar activity resulting in these wonderful sights!

[Eleftheria Zeggini @EleZeggini]

Join our vibrant team at the Institute of Translational Genomics @HelmholtzMunich! We are hiring:
Senior Staff Scientist: https://t.co/mEtAaat3jS
Omics Data Scientist: https://t.co/fS6nVj1EDj
PostDoc: https://t.co/YpsbyIB6eB
All levels @skimhellmuth lab: https://t.co/dNopC8GxbT

[Norbert Bittner @norbittner]

@PioneerCampus @LaraUrban42 @HelmholtzMunich @helmholtz_ai @naturemethods @EPI_Helmholtz @Health_talents @Traidl_Hoffmann @ImmunologyHMGU @Interactome @WMicrobiomeDay @COMI_HMGU @CompHealthMuc @embl @emblebi @TUMGS @TUMPostdoc Great talk.. Many thanks !!

[Laurel Coons 🧬🧬🧬 @LaurelCoons]

Graphic design has rules, and they work … 👀