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Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 25th Aug 2026, 01:04:31am CEST

 
Thu11June
LAB Stage
GERN Stage
GERN & i-Track
JOIN Lounge
i-Track & JOIN Lounge
Konferenz 4
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
Session 4a: Imaging
9:00am - 10:00am
LAB Stage
Hannah Spitzer
Location: LAB Stage
Session Chair: Hannah Spitzer, Helmholtz Munich
Choose from expert-led talks running simultaneously to explore AI topics that match your interests.
9:00am - 9:12am

AI-enabled Colorimetric Multi-Biomarker Sensing Patch for Neonatal Monitoring

Alejandra Castelblanco1,2, Elisabetta Ruggeri3, Giusy Matzeu3, Motaharehsadat Heydarian4, Kai Foerster4,5, Ahmed Bahnasy2, Andreas Flemmer5, Julia A. Schnabel1,2,6, Benjamin Schubert1, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto3,8,9, Anne Hilgendorff4,5,7

1: Computational Health Center, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.; 2: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.; 3: Silklab, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.; 4: Comprehensive Pneumology Center with the CPC-M bioArchive and Institute of Lung Health and Immunity, Helmholtz Center Munich, Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany; 5: Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; 6: School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK.; 7: School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; 8: Dept. of. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.; 9: Dept. Of Physics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.

<strong>pdf</strong>: Adobe Acrobat "Portable Document Format"1-Castelblanco221_2026-06-10_15-26.pdf


9:12am - 9:24am

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) meets Multi-Contrast MRI Reconstruction

Natascha Niessen1,2, Carolin M. Pirkl2, Ana Beatriz Solana2, Hannah Eichhorn1,3, Veronika Spieker1,3, Wenqi Huang1, Tim Sprenger2,4, Marion I. Menzel2,5,6, Julia A. Schnabel1,3,7, Predictom Consortium2

1: School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 2: GE HealthCare, Munich; 3: Institute of Machine Learning in Biomedical Imaging, Helmholtz Munich; 4: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5: Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany; 6: School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; 7: King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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9:24am - 9:36am

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Diffusion Spectrum Imaging from Undersampled q-Space Measurements

Roman Schmid1, Sebastian Endt1,2, Marion I. Menzel1,2

1: Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany

<strong>pdf</strong>: Adobe Acrobat "Portable Document Format"3-Schmid239_2026-06-22_09-55.pdf


9:36am - 9:48am

HematoGraph: Graph-Aware Hierarchical Pooling for Cell-Level Hematology Classification

Furkan Dasdelen1,3, Fatih Ozlugedik1,2,3, Carsten Marr1,3

1: Helmholtz Munich, Germany; 2: TUM; 3: LMU



9:48am - 10:00am

Contour Proposal Networks with Deep Refinement for Dense High-Throughput Instance Segmentation

Eric Upschulte1,2,3, Katrin Amunts2,1, Timo Dickscheid4,2,3

1: C. & O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany; 2: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Germany; 3: Helmholtz AI, Research Center Jülich, Germany; 4: Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz, Germany

Keynote Talk: Cordelia Schmid (Inria, Google)
10:00am - 10:45am
LAB Stage
Zeynep Akata
Location: LAB Stage
Session Chair: Zeynep Akata, Helmholtz Munich
Discover the latest advances in AI for video understanding and vision-language-guided robotics in this keynote presentation.
10:00am - 10:45am
Invited talk

Video-Guided Policies for Robotic Manipulation

Cordelia Schmid

Inria, France

Helmholtz Munich: Discovering Future Health
11:15am - 12:30pm
LAB Stage
Marie Piraud
Location: LAB Stage
Session Chair: Marie Piraud, Helmholtz Munich
Researchers from Helmholtz Munich present how advances in genetics, systems biology, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence jointly drive new approaches to understanding disease and developing solutions for future health.\nIntroduction:\nMarie Piraud\nEleftheria Zeggini\nSpeaker:\nEleftheria Zeggini\nLeo Schwinn\nDominik Jüstel\nJanna Nawroth\nPascal Falter-Braun\nSession closing: \nMarie Piraud
11:15am - 11:25am

Helmholtz Munich: Discovering Future Health

Eleftheria Zeggini

Helmholtz Munich, Germany



11:25am - 11:41am
Invited talk

Translational Genomics of Osteoarthritis

Eleftheria Zeggini

Helmholtz Munich, Germany



11:41am - 11:57am
Invited talk

Biophysics-Informed and AI-Assisted Computation for Translational Optoacoustic Imaging and Sensing

Dominik Jüstel1,2

1: Helmholtz Munich, Germany; 2: Technical University of Munich, Germany



11:57am - 12:13pm
Invited talk

From Multivariate Perturbations to Predictive Models of Human Airway Function

Katzrin Murad, Benedetta Zampa, Weixu Wang, Inti De La Rosa Velázquez, Fabian Theis, Janna Nawroth

Helmholtz Zenter München GmbH, Germany

<strong>pdf</strong>: Adobe Acrobat "Portable Document Format"4-Nawroth405_2026-06-22_10-13.pdf


12:13pm - 12:29pm
Invited talk

The Interaction Layer: Why the Virtual Cell Needs Biochemistry

Pascal Falter-Braun

Helmholtz Munich, Germany

<strong>pptx</strong>: Microsoft PowerPoint XML format (Office 2007 and later)5-Falter-Braun410_2026-06-10_17-31.pptx
Poster Prizes & Closing
12:30pm - 12:45pm
LAB Stage
Hannah Spitzer, Steffen Schneider
Location: LAB Stage
Session Chair: Hannah Spitzer, Helmholtz Munich
Session Chair: Steffen Schneider, Helmholtz Munich
Session 4b: Infrastructure & Tools
9:00am - 10:00am
GERN Stage
Steffen Schneider
Location: GERN Stage
Session Chair: Steffen Schneider, Helmholtz Munich
Choose from expert-led talks running simultaneously to explore AI topics that match your interests.
9:00am - 9:12am

AI-assisted Labeling and its Pitfalls: A Case Study in Electron Microscopy Segmentation

Christina Bukas1, Jonas Engler2, Helena Pelin1, Jonas Hagenberg1, Haider Khan1, Francesco Campi1, Carola Eberhagen3, Hans Zischka2,3, Marie Piraud1

1: Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany; 2: Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Hygiene, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany; 3: Institute of Molecular Toxicology and Pharmacology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany

<strong>pdf</strong>: Adobe Acrobat "Portable Document Format"1-Bukas1161_2026-06-22_10-12.pdf


9:12am - 9:24am

A decentralized Swarm Learning framework for 90-Day outcome prediction for acute ischaemic stroke

Arnab Bandyopadhyay1, Omid Shirvani1, Jilles Vreeken2, Anna Aschenbrenner1, Joachim Schultze1

1: DZNE, Germany; 2: CISPA, Germany



9:24am - 9:36am

Microsecond Latency Graph Neural Network Inference on Point Clouds

Marc Neu, Torben Ferber, Jürgen Becker

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

<strong>pdf</strong>: Adobe Acrobat "Portable Document Format"3-Neu228_2026-06-10_17-08.pdf


9:36am - 9:48am

GENIUS: An Agentic AI Framework for Autonomous Design and Execution of Simulation Protocols

Celso Rêgo1, Mohammad Soleymanibrojeni2, Wolfgang Wenzel1, Roland Aydin2

1: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon



9:48am - 10:00am

The Road to Exascale: Lessons Learned from Scaling a Scientific AI Workflow to 16,384 GPUs

Christian Schiffer1,2, Julia Thönnißen1, Mathis Bode3, Josh Moore4, Katrin Amunts1,5, Timo Dickscheid1,2,6

1: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany; 2: Helmholtz AI, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany; 3: Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; 4: German BioImaging, Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V, Konstanz, Germany; 5: Cécile & Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany; 6: Computer Vision, Institute for Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz, Germany

Coffee break
10:45am - 11:15am
GERN & i-Track
Location: GERN & i-Track
Registration
8:30am - 9:00am
JOIN Lounge
Location: JOIN Lounge
Pick up your badge and conference materials at the registration desk.
Lunch to go
12:45pm - 1:45pm
i-Track & JOIN Lounge
Location: i-Track & JOIN Lounge

Vegan and vegetarian packed lunches will be available for you. They will contain: Various filled sandwiches (vegetarian and vegan) I Energy bars I Fresh fruits I Still water (0.5 l)

Child Care
8:30am - 1:30pm
Konferenz 4
Location: Konferenz 4
You had until 26 May to indicate on your registration form if you required childcare. We look forward to welcoming those of you who opted for this service.\nWe\'ll look after your little scientists while you enjoy HAICON26! :)