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Dr. Sarder (second from left) with his recent PhD graduate, Nicholas Lucarelli (third from left). Nick received his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Heather presenting on “FUSION: Biological Insight from Pathomics and Molecular Data”

Jingyi presenting on ” Tubulopia: Topology-Aware Segmentation and Quantitaive Analysis of Tubular Basement Membrance in Kidney Histology”

Naina presenting on “AI-based digital pathology-enabled spatial-omics data analyses of the human kidney”

Connie received the runner up prize for her poster at SPIE 2026, Vancouver, Canada.

Nicholas presenting on “Deep-learning-based cell type prediction in lung tissue from brightfield histology using phenocycler labels,” at SPIE 2026, Vancouver, Canada.

Lylybell presenting a poster at SPIE 2026, Vancouver, Canada.

Fatemeh, Dhiraj and Nathan presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Nick presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Jamie presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Audrey presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Anish presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Ishaq presenting at UF COM Celebration of Research, Gainesville, FL.

Dinner with collaborators at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Akshita presenting at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Hari presenting at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Haitham presenting at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Nick presenting at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

CMI team at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Dr. Sarder presenting at ASN Kidney Week 2025, Houston, TX.

Akshita presented on “Objective Scoring of Microvascular Inflammation from WSIs with Dual CD45/CD34 Staining,” supported by the KPMP travel award at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Dhiraj promoted ComPRePS at an entrepreneurial event hosted by the College of Medicine at the University of Florida.

Samuel Border, a Ph.D. student of Dr. Sarder, successfully defended his thesis titled “Increasing the depth and quality of computational pathology research through interactive tools and multi-modal data.”

Dr. Sarder, Nicholas, Dhiraj, Sumanth, and Suhas from the CMIL team attended the HuBMAP 2025 annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Sarder presented FUSION, an AI tool for digital pathology, at HuBMAP 2025 in Philadelphia, PA.

Suhas presented “Interactive Analysis of Spatial Data With FUSION” at HuBMAP 2025 in Philadelphia, PA.

Nicholas, Sumanth, and Suhas organized the Bio-IT World Hackathon, focusing on the topic “Mapping Disease at the Cellular Level with HuBMAP.”

Dr. Afsari presented an AI-driven diagnostic index to differentiate diabetic nephropathy from podocytopathies like FSGS, supported by the KPMP travel award, at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Naglah, supported by the KPMP travel award, presented research on AI models for analyzing immune activity and tissue inflammation in biopsy images at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Students, trainees, staff from Dr. Sarder’s lab, and colleagues gathered for a dinner at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025 in San Diego.

Suhas, an AI engineer in Dr. Sarder’s lab, earned the runner-up award for his SPIE Medical Imaging 2025 poster on ComPRePS 2.0, a distributed computing framework enhancing scalability and efficiency in renal histopathological analysis.

Harishwar, a second-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “Explainable Feature Embeddings from Histopathology Foundation Models: A Case Study for End-Stage Kidney Disease Risk Analysis in Diabetic Nephropathy Patients” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, highlighting AI-driven insights for kidney disease prognosis.

Akshita, a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “Enhancing Predictive Accuracy of Allograft Outcomes: Beyond Traditional Clinical and Biopsy Scoring Methods” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, showcasing advanced approaches to improve transplant outcome predictions.

Jamie, a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “Renal Cell Type and State Estimation in Brightfield Histology Images: A Pilot Study on Diabetic Nephropathy” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, highlighting computational advances in kidney pathology.

Dr. Afsari, a postdoctoral scholar at Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “A Machine Learning Approach for Analyzing Texture and Morphometry Markers of Glioblastoma TERT Promoter Mutations in DAPI Fluorescence Images” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, showcasing AI-driven insights for improved diagnosis and prognosis.

Dr. Mimar, a senior software engineer at Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “Cell Type Prediction for Intestine Tissue Samples from Brightfield Histology via Deep Learning” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, highlighting AI-driven advancements in histopathological analysis.

Ishaq Ansari, a 2024 summer intern at Dr. Sarder’s lab, presented “An AI-Based Pipeline for Automatic Quantification of Tissue Ingrowth in Histopathology Images of Cerebral Aneurysm” at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025, showcasing AI advancements in cerebral aneurysm analysis.

Our lab gathered for a farewell lunch to celebrate Lillian, our dedicated lab coordinator. We deeply appreciate her hard work, organization, and positive impact on the team. While we’ll miss her, we’re excited for her next chapter and wish her all the best. Thank you, Lillian, for everything!

Congratulations to Christina Beharry for winning the Nephrology Holiday Party 2024 Quiz organized by the Division of Nephrology at the University of Florida! Your impressive knowledge and quick thinking stood out, making you a well-deserved champion.

Our team gathered to bid farewell and honor the valuable contributions of our OPS employee, Ujwala Guttikonda. Her dedication and hard work have left a lasting impact on our team. While she will be greatly missed, we wish her the very best and much success in her future endeavors.

The team gathered for a delightful Thanksgiving potluck, enjoying an array of delicious dishes thoughtfully prepared by everyone.

Dinner with colleagues during the Boston University BIT-ARC Research Symposium, enjoying a collaborative evening in Boston.

Dr. Pinaki, Dr. Laura Barisoni, and Dr. Fan at the ASN Kidney Week 2025 poster session in San Diego

Trainees, mentors, and NIH personnel gathered at the 2024 From Atlas to Practice Innovation Lab, organized by HuBMAP.

University of Iowa Renal Grand Rounds, Dr. Sarder presents “Digital Pathology Meets Spatial Omics: Emerging Problems in Data Integration, Solutions, and New Opportunities” in the University of Iowa Renal Grand Rounds.

Dr. Sayat Mimar presenting at the All-KPMP meeting held in Bethseda, MD.

Our team gathered to bid farewell to our exceptional HuBMAP summer interns, Ishaq and Josiane. Their hard work and contributions have made a lasting impact. Good luck, Ishaq and Josiane!

Dinner with Sanjay Jain, Lingyan Shi, Tarek Ashkar, Seth Winsfree, and Mike Eadon. NIH/NIDDK workshop on Conceptualizing Cellular Physiology; Washington, D.C.

We are excited to announce Akshita’s remarkable achievement as the runner-up for the BMI poster award at the HOBI Education Day poster session.

Our team gathered to celebrate the birthday of Haitham Magdy, our data management analyst. We appreciate all his hard work and wish him a very Happy Birthday!

Congratulations to Dr. Sayat Mimar on delivering his first platform presentation at the SPIE 2024! We are confident that this is just the beginning, with many more remarkable presentations to come from you.

We are thrilled to celebrate Nicholas Lucarelli’s achievement of winning a poster award for the second consecutive year! We are very proud of you, Nicholas, and look forward to your continued success.

Dr. Ahmed Naglah presenting his poster at the SPIE 2024.

Nicholas Lucarelli delivering his platform presentation at the SPIE 2024.

Dr. Ahmed Naglah presenting at the the 14th annual UF College of Medicine celebration of research.

Dinner with HTAN and HuBMAP consortium colleagues in Mountain View, California.

Our team gathered to bid a heartfelt farewell to our administrative specialist, Jessica Grecco, we want to express our deepest gratitude for her exceptional dedication and invaluable contributions. We are excited for her as she embarks on new endeavors. Farewell, Jessica, and may good fortune accompany you in all your endeavors!

Our research group came together to warmly farewell our project coordinator. Jessica’s outstanding commitment and efforts have been invaluable, and while she will be greatly missed, we send our best wishes for her continued success. Farewell and good fortune, Jessica!

Undergraduate volunteer and SF2UF student, Julio Maragall, presents his CMI Lab research project at UF’s Fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Dr. Sarder presenting at the UF Diabetes institute on Segmentation of Kidney Structures.

Dr. Ahmed Naglah presenting Jamie’s and Myle’s poster at the ASN Kidney Week 2023; Philadelphia, PA.

Akshita Gupta presenting her poster at the ASN Kidney Week 2023; Philadelphia, PA.

Sam Border presenting his poster at the ASN Kidney Week 2023; Philadelphia, PA.

Nicholas Lucarelli presenting his poster at the ASN Kidney Week 2023; Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Sarder (and Sam Border virtually) attended a UF Innovation Showcase. During the event, they presented FUSION.

Dr. Sarder discussing the community release of derived biopsy image feature data via the KPMP atlas for KPMP  CKD, AKI, and reference cases for conducting secondary work by KPMP atlas end-users including correlation with orthogonal data, such as EHR data, other OMICS data etc.

Dr. Sarder presenting at the Bergen Meeting of Nephrology 2023; Bergen, Norway.

Embracing the Florida heat at our team-building-day by Lake Wauburg!

Our lab team gathered to bid a heartfelt goodbye to our talented undergraduate research trainee from the HuBMAP summer internship program. Lin’s exceptional dedication and contributions will be missed, but we wish her the best in her future endeavors. Good luck, Lin!

Nick presenting our work on integrating CODEX spatial omics images with brightfield histology using machine learning.

Sam Border presenting his work on integrating 10X Visium Spatial Transcriptomics and brightfield histology using machine learning and a web-based tool for navigating complex omics data.

Dr. Ahmed Naglah and Dr. Sayat Mimar presenting UF_IC3’s efforts to educate undergrads to leverage machine learning in medicine as part of the NIH’s PEDP program for underrepresented STEM majors.

Group photo with esteemed colleagues, Sanjay Jain (WUSTL), Tarek El-Ashkar (Indiana U), and Seth Winfree (U Nebraska), and teams; Nashville, TN.

Our spring break HUBMAP intern, Nick Sherwin, participated in the UF 2023 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Sam Border with Farzad Fereidouni of UC Davis presenting their collaborative poster on automated WSI collagen analysis for fibrosis quantification using deep-DUET at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 112th Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA.

Nick is presenting his and Brandon Ginley’s poster. The poster received an Honorable Mention Poster Award in SPIE Medical Imaging 2023; San Diego, CA.

Nick is presenting his and Brendon Lutnick’s poster; San Diego, CA.

Dinner with (From left) Richard Levenson, Sam, Nick, Dr T, Ali Bashashati, and Farzad Feridiuni; San Diego, CA.

Nick is presenting our work on integrating deep semantic segmentation and transformer models for disease outcome prediction that we conducted with Dr. Ben Shickel (UF); San Diego, CA.   

Sam is presenting his DUET AI work that he conducted with Farzad Fereidouni; San Diego, CA.

Gainesville, FL.

Nick’s poster presentation; Orlando, FL.

Dinner with eminent renal pathologists and investigators from North America and Europe; Banff, Canada.

Dr. Sarder with Dr. Mark D. Stegall (Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic); Banff, Canada.

Dr. Sarder presenting a talk at 2022 Banff-Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) Joint Meeting; Banff, Canada.

Dr. Sarder with his recent PhD graduates, Darshana Govind, Ph.D. (second from left), and Brendon Lutnick, Ph.D. (second from right). They received their PhD in Computational Cell Biology, Anatomy, and Pathology (CCBAP). Buffalo, NY.

Great talks and panel discussion on computational pathology with colleagues Metin Gurcan, Joel Saltz, Faisal Mahmood, S. Joseph Sirintrapun, Beatrice Knudsen. Pittsburgh, PA.

Brendon’s Ph.D. defense; Buffalo, NY.

Darshana’s Ph.D. defense; Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Sarder (middle) and his students Katie Maraszek (left) and Dr. Brandon Ginley (right); Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Sarder is hooding Brandon Ginley, his first Ph.D. Graduate; Buffalo, NY.

Sam is presenting a poster; Los Angeles, CA.

Darshana is presenting a poster; Los Angeles, CA.

Brendon is presenting a poster; Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Sarder (middle) and collaborators Dr. Avi Rosenberg (left; Johns Hopkins) and Dr. Kuang-Yu Jen (right; UC Davis); Los Angeles, CA.

Brandon is presenting a poster; Los Angeles, CA.

Briana is presenting her first platform talk in a conference; Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Sarder presented a talk discussing the roles of AI in Nephropathology; Los Angeles, CA.

Sam Border is receiving the certificate as a runner-up for the best poster award from Prof. Metin Gurcan (symposium chair, medical imaging 2020); Houston, TX.

Katie is presenting her poster; Houston, TX.

Leema is presenting her first conference platform talk; Houston, TX.

Darshana is presenting a platform talk; Houston, TX.

Briana is presenting her poster; Houston, TX.

Sam is presenting his poster; Houston, TX.

Brandon is presenting his poster; Houston, TX.

Christmas tree decorated by the students in the lab; Buffalo, NY.

Briana’s poster presentation; Washington, D.C.

Brendon’s poster presentation; Washington, D.C.

Sam’s poster presentation; Washington, D.C.

Brandon’s poster presentation; Washington, D.C.

Dinner with the group; Washington, D.C.

During the roundtable discussion with experts in AI and Big Data Analytics in kidney; New York City, NY.

Presenting Sid’s poster during SPIE 2019; San Diego, CA.

Photo with other exceptional scholars – young investigator award recipients and UB president and provost; Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Kuang-Yu Jen and Brandon Ginley are presenting our work on IFTA segmentation from digital whole slide images of renal transplant biopsies; San Diego, CA.

Presentation of the group’s work at NIH; Washington, D.C.

Dinner with Prof. Zohar Nussinov (Physics, Washington University in St. Louis); St. Louis, MO.

Darshana presenting her work on unsupervised glomerular segmentation using immunofluorescence microscopy imaging; Houston, TX.

Oliver presenting his work on examining structural changes in diabetic nephropathy using inter-nuclear distances in glomeruli; Houston, TX.

Brendon presenting his work on cross species knowledge transfer in image analytics; Houston, TX.

Brandon presenting his work on computational analysis of the structural progression of Human Glomeruli in Diabetic Nephropathy; Houston, TX.

With Dr. Tim murphy (director UB clinical and translational science institute) and Dr. Margarita Dubocovich (SUNY distinguished professor);Washington, D.C.

Brendon presenting his work on Potts model optimization for large scale analytics; Orlando, FL.

Brandon presenting his work on segmentation of glomeruli from renal tissue images; extracellular traps; Orlando, FL.

Brandon presenting his work on image analysis of neutrophil extracellular traps; Orlando, FL.

San Diego, CA.

Our posters were rated by the reviewers with distinction; Buffalo, NY.

Group Photo on UB DOM
Research Day; Buffalo, NY.