MLBioMed newsMachine learning for the genome, the cell and the clinic.https://mlbiomed.net/2026-09-09T00:00:00ZAlireza joins the grouptag:mlbiomed.net,2026-09-07:2026-09-alireza-tajmirriahi-joins2026-09-09T00:00:00Z2026-09-07T00:00:00ZAlireza Tajmirriahi starts as a doctoral researcher in the FIMM-EMBL rotation program, combining histopathology foundation models with paired spatial transcriptomics data. Welcome!Prima defends his doctoral thesis on 16 Octobertag:mlbiomed.net,2026-09-08:2026-09-prima-sanjaya-defence2026-09-08T00:00:00Z2026-09-08T00:00:00ZM.Sc. Prima Sanjaya defends the doctoral thesis "Interpretable deep representation learning of somatic mutations for tumour classification and risk stratification" on 16 October 2026 at 13.00 in Biomedicum 1, Lecture hall 2. Professor Matti Nykter, Tampere University, serves as the opponent.NanoDS at IEEE CIBCB 2026 in Athenstag:mlbiomed.net,2026-08-31:2026-08-cibcb-nanods2026-09-04T00:00:00Z2026-08-31T00:00:00ZYrjö presented NanoDS, accurate simulation of nanopore sequencing data with distribution approximations, at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Athens, 31 August - 2 September 2026.Five posters at ECCB 2026 in Genevatag:mlbiomed.net,2026-09-02:2026-09-eccb-geneva2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2026-09-02T00:00:00ZGuangzhao, Daniyar, Nora, Arina and Hanna presented posters at the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology, Geneva, 31 August - 4 September 2026.Janne starts his PhD on multimodal histopathology analysestag:mlbiomed.net,2026-09-01:2026-09-janne-kantola-phd2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2026-09-01T00:00:00ZJanne Kantola began his doctoral studies on multimodal histopathology analyses supervised by Tuomas Mirtti, Daniel Laajala and Esa Pitkänen.Noora leaves the grouptag:mlbiomed.net,2026-06-30:2026-06-noora-hautamaki-leaves2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2026-06-30T00:00:00ZNoora Hautamäki finishes as a research assistant after six months with the group. We wish her best of luck in her doctoral studies at the University of Arizona!Noora and Janne join as research assistantstag:mlbiomed.net,2026-01-07:2026-01-research-assistants-join2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2026-01-07T00:00:00ZNoora Hautamäki will work on spatial ovarian cancer data and Janne Kantola with digital pathology foundation models.Guangzhao joins the grouptag:mlbiomed.net,2026-01-02:2026-01-guangzhao-cheng-joins2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2026-01-02T00:00:00ZGuangzhao Cheng starts as a postdoctoral researcher, working on foundation models over raw nanopore signal.Lei joins the grouptag:mlbiomed.net,2025-05-28:2025-05-lei-xia-joins2026-09-02T00:00:00Z2025-05-28T00:00:00ZLei Xia starts as a postdoctoral researcher on a joint Nordic EMBL Partnership appointment with the Biswajyoti Sahu group at NCMBM, University of Oslo. He works on the regulatory logic of cancer genes with nanopore sequencing.Group retreat at Lammi Biological Stationtag:mlbiomed.net,2026-08-13:2026-08-retreat-lammi2026-08-19T00:00:00Z2026-08-13T00:00:00Z13-14 August 2026: hackathon, nature trails, sauna.