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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.

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.

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

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.