Isaac Virshup
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Isaac Virshup
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Software engineer at CZI, https://scverse.org steering council, check out my https://github.com/ivirshup
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Join us as we explore emerging trends in agentic AI applications across bioinformatics workflows.

✨ Featured Panelists:
Kexin Huang - Stanford University
Vega Shah, PhD - NVIDIA
Loic Royer - Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Jonah Cool - Anthropic
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Here's a GIANT one: C3 photosynthesis using RUBISCO is inefficient, but scientists have designed and run a new and more efficient photosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/new-pathway-engineered-into-plants-lets-them-suck-up-more-co₂/
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Anndata now supports @zarr.dev v3, great for both performance and interoperability. Check out our guide for more info, especially sharding: anndata.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tu.... Don’t worry though, we remain fully v2 backwards compatible - upgrade fearlessly!
August 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Metadata & Standards Developer – FAIR Bioimaging
We seek a developer to advance metadata standards for imaging data (e.g. OME-Zarr, NGFF)
📌 Schema design (JSON-LD, RDF, SHACL), FAIR principles, open dev
🤝 Work with RO-Crate, ELIXIR, RDA & global partners
🌍 Remote | TVöD 13–14 | Deadline: 30.06
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM