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Talks & Podcasts·YouTube·2026-11-06

Mini Brains, Beating Heart Organoids, and the AI That Predicts Them — Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich (50:50)

Latent Space interviews Fabian Theis, Director of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich, in a 50:50 conversation on virtual cells, the $1.8B Biohub initiative, and models including Nicheformer and CellFlow.

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  1. Introducing Fabian Theis and the single-cell revolution

  2. Biohub's $1.8B bet: Why virtual cells now?

  3. Transcriptomics and perturbations explained

  4. Organoids and modeling multicellular biology

  5. The Bitter Lesson: Data, inductive bias, and scientific understanding

  6. Nicheformer: Can a cell reveal its environment?

  7. scConcept, scaling laws, and CellFlow as a world model

  8. The Arc Virtual Cell Challenge and broken benchmarks

  9. The Y model: Training computational and experimental scientists together

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