Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• The serpico team organized the 7th International Conference on “Quantitative BioImaging” (QBI, https://www.quantitativebioimaging.com/qbi2019/) in January 2019 (350 attendees) in Rennes. The Quantitative BioImaging conference encourages scientific communication between researchers with interest in quantitative imaging in biological and biomedical sciences. A particular emphasis is to promote interdisciplinary interactions between physicists, computer scientists, chemists, mathematicians, and biologists.

• Emmanuel Moebel and Sandeep Manandhar defended their PhD theses in 2019.

• The DeepFinder algorithm was ranked first at the international SHREC’19 Challenge: "classification in cryo-electron tomograms" (Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval – SHREC - 3D Shape Retrieval Contest (2019), Genova, Italy).