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The Excellence Award "Professor Zoe Dimitriadis Prize" to Konstantina Biza

The University of Crete announces the awarding of the "Professor Zoe Dimitriadis Prize for Excellence" for the academic year 2022–2023, granted to postgraduate member of our laboratory Konstantina Biza.

Prof. Tsamardinos awarded the European Research Council Proof of Concept grant 2021

The European Research Council Proof of Concept was awarded to Professor Tsamardinos in 2021, recognizing outstanding work in causal machine learning.

Best paper award from the 37th BDA 2021 conference — "On Predictive Explanation of Data Anomalies"

Best paper award from the 37th BDA 2021 conference in the National French conference on Data Management. Authors: Myrtakis N., Tsamardinos I., Christophides V.

Open positions available — Calls for Expression of Interest

Several contractual positions are open at the MensXMachina research group. Our group is highly multi-disciplinary focusing on data analysis and machine learning with an emphasis on biomedical data.

ASCO Annual Meeting

Tsamardinos was scheduled at the May–June 2019 ASCO meeting in Chicago, presenting collaborative work with Oluf D. Røe.

Cancer Development and Complexity

Invited research presentation at the May 2019 Lake Como Cancer Development and Complexity event, on AutoML applications in biomedicine.

Automated Machine Learning for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Tutorial on automated machine learning for bioinformatics given by Tsamardinos and Lagani at AIAI 2019 in Heraklion.

Pint of Science in Heraklion!

Public science talk on AI by Tsamardinos at Pagopoieio in Heraklion on May 21.

Ομιλία του Ι. Τσαμαρδίνου στο 3ο Συμπόσιο Φαρμακοεπιδημιολογίας

Greek-language announcement of Tsamardinos speaking at a pharmacoepidemiology symposium in Alexandroupoli, April 2019, on automated biomedical analysis.

Prof. Tsamardinos invited talk in Inria Sophia- Antipolis MOMI2019 workshop

Invited February 2019 talk at Inria Sophia Antipolis on automated machine learning for biomedicine.

Le Monde des Mathématiques Industrielles (MOMI2019): Call for participation and posters

Call for attendance and posters for the MOMI2019 applied mathematics workshop on big data and machine learning in Sophia Antipolis.

Prof. Ioannis Tsamardinos on [CDAC 2019] Cancer Development and Complexity, Lake Como, Italy, May 28-31, 2019

Longer program description of a 2019 Lake Como workshop and school on cancer, biological systems, and computational modeling, with Tsamardinos among invited speakers.

HUNT Calculator on Norwegian Broadcasting media

Post links to a Norwegian broadcaster segment about the HUNT Calculator; the text provides the video source rather than an article narrative.

CAUSALPATH on the Eur13 digital magazine

Announcement that the CAUSALPATH research project was featured in issue of Eur13 digital magazine, directing readers to page 17.

Open positions available – CALLS FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

ERC CAUSALPATH project recruited postdoctoral, doctoral and web development personnel; the project focused on learning signaling pathways from cytometry data.

Two new scientific works To be presented at The 2017 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aug 14, 2017 – Aug 14, 2017

Prof. Tsamardinos’s invited talk at the 2nd international congress “Evolution and Cancer”

Dr. Tsagris invited talk at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada

Invited talk by Dr. Tsagris at Statistical Society of Canada 2017 describing regression for compositional outcomes containing zeros.

New publication on Scientific Report!

Scientific Reports paper involving Markaki and Tsamardinos used the JADBio pipeline to build MatureP, a classifier of secreted proteins.

Prof. Tsamardinos invited talk at the 2017 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery

Tsamardinos invited to the August 2017 KDD workshop on causal discovery to discuss theory and scalable causal feature selection.

Job announcements in Gnosis Data Analysis

Gnosis Data Analysis advertised scientific programmer, data analyst and AI developer openings.

New CAUSALPATH publication on SCENERY tool

SCENERY causal network reconstruction service applied to flow and mass cytometry, reported in Nucleic Acids Research.

MASSCAUSAL Workshop, 2017

Invitation-only 2017 single-cell data computational methods workshop jointly organized by University of Crete, Karolinska Institutet and University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Arabatzis talk on Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification and Applications in Pharmacodynamics

ETH Zurich researcher George Arabatzis gave a May 12 talk on Bayesian uncertainty quantification in pharmacodynamics and molecular dynamics.

Invited talk to the 2nd international congress “Evolution and Cancer: Cancer across life”. Thessaloniki 29/6-1/7/2017

Tsamardinos invited to a June–July 2017 Thessaloniki congress to discuss artificial intelligence and cancer research.

Invited talk to DALI 2017- by Prof. Ioannis Tsamardinos

At DALI 2017 in Tenerife, Tsamardinos presented causal inference from single-cell mass cytometry data; discussed graphical models, differential equations, confounding and feedback.

Data from pilot experiment getting closer!

SciLife in Stockholm processed CyTOF samples for investigating effects of TGFB1 and TGFB3 on CD4+ immune cells using CAUSALPATH.

Invited talk on Stochastic Dynamics at the Free University of Berlin

Yannis Pantazis spoke at Free University of Berlin workshop on information-theoretic uncertainty and sensitivity for stochastic dynamics.

New paper on predicting causal relationships from mass-cytometry data posted on bioRxiv

BioRxiv preprint applied two causal discovery methods to CyTOF data with findings replicated across two independent studies.

“Cutting” the cake 2017

Participation at NIPS 2016, Barcelona

Tsamardinos participated in NIPS 2016 in Barcelona (December 5–10).

Prof. Tsamardinos’s invited talks in Athens

Pilot experiments on their way !

We are hiring !

Prof. Tsamardinos’s Distinguished Lecture at University of Pittsburgh

Novel Logic-based Integrative Causal Discovery Lecture

MXM gives tutorial on integrative causal discovery in UAI 2016!

Logic-Based Integrative Causal Discovery with Business Applications

MXM participation on the 10th PACBB conference

Integrative Causal Analysis paper accepted at KDD2016

Prof. Tsamardinos’s talk at the 9th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence 18-20 May 2016

Project “Cancer Biomarkers in HUNT” receives 300.000$ additional funds from the ALCF-IASLC Joint International Fellowship Award for The Early Detection of Lung Cancer

MXM participates in the 1st International NTNU Symposium on Current and Future Clinical Biomarkers of Cancer

Introducing Logic-based Integrative Causal Discovery

MXM invited talk at ELIXIR meeting

New MXM website is up!

Talk announcement of Prof Jan Lemeire February 16th room A113 CSD at 10:00

Invited speech by Yannis Pantazis

MXM participation to 13th Hellenic Congress of Clinical Chemistry

End of the STATegra project

STATegra Summer School 2015

MXM participation to SMODIA 2015

Lecture by Karen Sachs, 3 September

From July 1st to July 3rd, Yannis Pantazis attended the workshop “Mathematical Trends in Reaction Network Theory”

LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT:Alessio Farcomeni, 30 April

Best Poster of the Year Award

End of an Era for the Bioinformatics Laboratory

Smodia2014 Workshop

Lecture by Eleni Sgouritsa: “Identifying confounders and telling cause from effect using latent variable models”

Talk at MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen

Lecture by Dr. Andreas Damianou: “Modelling and consolidating complex data with Gaussian process models”

’MXM’ package (v. 0.1): We have just released the first version of our R package

Workshop “Statistical Methods for Omics Data Integration and Analysis”

Paramet Summer School – Computational Sciences in Drug Discovery

Our proposal to the ERC Consolidator grant has been approved

A new GSRT grant titled “EPILOGEAS” in the recent ARISTEIA II call has been approved

R course for beginners

Invited Talk in Causal Discovery from Mass Cytometry Data

First Year STATegra Project Meeting

New papers in Cell Metabolism and Nucleic Acids Research

Research Staff Positions and Graduate Fellowships

New institutional project on Systems Biology

Introduction to Causality Tutorial at the High-Throughput Omics and Data Integration Workshop

Best Poster Award at HSCBB 2012

New positions available – Job Announcements

New versions of our toolboxes

Incorporating Prior Causal Knowledge when learning Causal Models in ICML 2012

Ground-breaking paper on Integrative Causal Analysis published in JMLR

STATegra project is accepted for funding

ECML Tutorial on causal discovery

Bioinformatics Laboratory is founded in ICS-FORTH

New MATLAB toolboxes versions 0.9.2

New MATLAB toolboxes versions 0.9.1

The MMPC algorithm adapted for survival data

New toolboxes available for MATLAB

New paper in JMLR, Special Topic on Causality

Upcoming AI & Statistics 2010 paper

Upcoming tutorial on Causal Discovery at SETN 2010

Mens X Machina website launched