Helen Spiers
@H_Spiers
Biomedical Research Lead @the_zooniverse | Postdoc @UniofOxford
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22-08-2012 09:54:32
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See chrislintott talking to Peter O'Toole about all sorts of things, including our Etch a cell #CitizenScience project on The Zooniverse
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Weβre going to be sharing our research with even more people online and in person, thanks to a generous new donation from longtime Cancer Research UK supporter Dangoor Education! π»π€³π±οΈ crick.ac.uk/news/2021-06-1β¦
#EtchACell outputs will be used in this exciting new CZI Science grant, led by Lucy Collinson The Crick!
Volunteer #CitizenScience annotations will help us make sense of the huge amounts of data that the project will produce.
Read about the project in Lucy's thread below!
Super excited to receive an CZI Science award with Ricardo Henriques I Gulbenkian CiΓͺncia and Paul French Imperial College London for the development of a cost-effective user-friendly Visual Proteomics platform based on correlative light and electron microscopy π₯³ 1/12!!!
Visual proteomics lets researchers see how proteins move in cells β but it can need huge amounts of money and expertise.
A new CZI Science grant will help Lucy Collinson, Ricardo Henriques and Imperial College Londonβs Paul French develop a more accessible version π¬π
π ow.ly/4XCf50FcHku
Job Alert: The Zooniverse / AdlerPlanet is hiring a designer! Come help us build and improve our platform for people-powered research. Check out details and apply here: bit.ly/Zooniverse-desβ¦
Are youβ¦
πΉ a PhD student or postdoc?
πΉ working in data or biomedical science?
πΉ interested in entrepreneurship?
Weβre teaming up with The Alan Turing Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Entrepreneur First to host two free virtual sessions this July.
Take a look β‘οΈbit.ly/dxbcrick
Our latest foray into #DeepLearning for #BioimageAnalysis - this time instance segmentation of mitochondria for the #MitoEM grand challenge at #ISBI . Another fruitful collaboration with The Crick's Scientific Computing STP!
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Novel citizen science project (via The Zooniverse), Etch a Cell, has enabled Deep learning approach for automatic segmentation of nuclear envelope of #HeLa cell (doi.org/10.1111/tra.12β¦). Raw data on #EMPIAR (empire.org/10094).
#machineLearning #segmentation #volumeEM
The #EtchACell paper is now out in Traffic Journal
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(see tweetorial from the preprint below for the tl;dr!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/trβ¦
'Become a dangerous diseases hunter by tracing cell structures online'
Helen Spiers spoke to Layal Liverpool from New Scientist about #CitizenScience for #BioImageAnalysis with #EtchACell
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newscientist.com/article/mg2493β¦
Follow the new CZI Science grantees π Claire Brown Ryan Cabeen Beth Cimini π¬π» π Nick Condon @JFitzpatrickWU Dr Caron Jacobs Kate Kedziora Leonel Malacrida Uri Manor π Bryan Millis Gisele Miranda Georg Ramm Helen Spiers Nico Stuurman Kerry Thompson Christian Tischer Alex Waters π¬π
π¨ Save the date! ποΈ π¨
The second The Crick #BioImageAnalysis Symposium will be 22-23rd November 2021, as a fully virtual event once again
crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crickβ¦
#CBIAS2021
Excited to share our latest article published in @ploscompbiol: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a⦠#ploscompbiolauthor
π¬ π¦ Etch a cell, the citizen science project from Helen Spiers and our Lucy Collinson team has a new project π
Have a go at spotting and tracing the endoplasmic reticulum in images of cells taken on our electron microscopes (zero prior knowledge needed!) zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiβ¦
π¨π¨ Big news from the #Etchiverse ! π¨π¨π’
Not one, but TWO fantastic new #CitizenScience projects have just gone live! #EtchACellER and #EtchACellFatChecker have #ElectronMicroscopy images that we need your help to segment!
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π¨π’ NEW PROJECT ALERT KLAXON!!!! π’π¨
The Etchaverse continues to grow! Check out our latest #CitizenScience release on The Zooniverse 'Etch a Cell VR'
Data from the Lucy Collinson team The Crick, in collaboration with RobPartonLab
zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiβ¦