GARN CLS

25/12/2025

🎉 Acknowledging Excellence in the GARN Network 🎉

We are pleased to award Dr. Oussema Khamessi, Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet (ISBST) and Research Associate at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis (IPT), for his remarkable contributions to the GARN Network 🌍🔬

🏆 Dr. Khamessi was honored for his impactful work in bioinformatics and cancer research, as well as for his dedicated mentorship in workshops on drug design and cancer research throughout the entire period of the GARN-CLS project (2 workshops in Tunisia , 1 hackathon in Egypt, 1 hackathon in Tunisia, 1 workshop in Egypt and 1 workshop in Morocco ).

📍 This recognition was presented during the GARN-CLS Closing Ceremony, alongside advanced bioinformatics workshops of the OSCAR-AI initiative.

🧬 His presentation on the interface between drug design and cancer research stood out for its methodologies and well-structured computational pipelines for disease targeting.

👏 It was truly inspiring to have Dr.Khamessi contributing to advancing collaborative research within the GARN network. We wish Dr. Khamessi continued success in his future endeavours!

CLS CLS AI

Pasteur de Tunis Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet
Network -AI Initiative

19/12/2025

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🚨 Important Announcement 🚨

The OSCAR AI and GARN winter school countdown has officially started! ⏳🤖
If you applied to OSCAR AI and GARN workshop, please make sure to check your email for important updates and next steps.

We’re getting ready for an exciting journey of innovation, research, and collaboration — and this is just the beginning.

📩 Check your email
📅 Stay tuned
🚀 The countdown begins now

19/12/2025

🚨 Important Announcement 🚨

The OSCAR AI and GARN winter school countdown has officially started! ⏳🤖
If you applied to OSCAR AI and GARN workshop, please make sure to check your email for important updates and next steps.

We’re getting ready for an exciting journey of innovation, research, and collaboration — and this is just the beginning.

📩 Check your email
📅 Stay tuned
🚀 The countdown begins now

18/12/2025

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📢 OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS Event Agenda – Now Available

We are pleased to announce the detailed agenda for the OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS Event, taking place from 20 to 22 December.

The agenda includes full details of sessions, talks, and activities across the three days, covering key topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Optical Sensors, and Cancer Detection.

📅 Event Dates: 20–22 December
📌 What’s Included: Session schedule • Speaker talks • Daily themes

Explore the agenda and plan your participation across three days of innovation and scientific exchange.

15/12/2025

EG-CompBio GARN CLS Get to know our speakers : Group 2

11/12/2025

🚀 APPLY NOW for the OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS Poster Session 2025!
📅 Event Dates: 20, 21, 22 December 2025
📍 Organized by: OSCAR AI × GARN-CLS
We’re excited to open applications for the OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS Poster Session 2025 — your chance to present your research in a 3-minute poster presentation during this major scientific event!
💡 Example Research Areas (not limited to):
• Optical sensors & bio-optical diagnostic technologies
• AI-driven medical analysis & affordable healthcare innovations
• Machine learning, deep learning & intelligent systems
• LLMs & VLMs for smart healthcare
• Cancer detection & precision oncology
• Bioinformatics, pipelines & omics analysis
• Biomedical sensing & diagnostic innovations
• Any interdisciplinary project linking tech, data science & life sciences
📌 Important Instructions
Your poster must be designed using the official OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS template.
📎 Download the poster template & guidelines:
https://drive.google.com/.../1EEi5NG...
You will download the PPTX template, prepare your poster using it, then upload your final poster (PPTX or PDF) in the form.
📄 The form includes:
• Official poster template
• Poster formatting & design guidelines
📥 You will submit:
• Name & email
• Poster title
• Abstract (150–250 words)
• Research category
• Final poster (using the provided template)
⏰ Submission Deadline: 16 December 2025
📨 Acceptance Notifications: 17–18 December 2025
Thank you for being part of the OSCAR AI & GARN-CLS scientific community.
We can’t wait to see your contribution to intelligent healthcare innovation! 🌟
🔗 Apply Here: https://www.aratronics.org/events/oscar-ai

11/12/2025

EG-CompBio Get to know our speakers : Group 1

10/12/2025

OSCAR-AI workshops during the AI-winter school (20-22 December 2025)

✨ Three Hands-On AI & Bioinformatics Workshops – Choose Your Track!
📍 Organized by OSCAR AI
🔗 Apply Here: https://www.aratronics.org/events/oscar-ai
1️⃣ Introduction to Machine Learning for Bio-Optical Sensors Data
Your First Step Into OSCAR AI!
Learn how computers “learn” and how ML can be applied to bio-optical sensor data.
What you will learn:
• What “learning” means in Machine Learning
• How computers detect patterns in data
• Basics of supervised learning
• Linear & Logistic Regression
• Neural Networks: activation functions & hidden layers
• Gradient descent & loss functions
• Using ML for bio-optical sensor applications
• Mini projects: Simple classification + optical sensor data demo
🖥️ Requirements: Laptop
⏱️ Duration: 1 day — 3 hours
🎯 Perfect for: beginners, engineering students, AI learners, researchers

2️⃣ Single Cell Transcriptomics: Insights into Cell Diversity & Tumor Heterogeneity
Discover how scRNA-seq reveals hidden cellular diversity and tumor heterogeneity.
What you will learn:
• What scRNA-seq measures
• From raw sequencing data to gene-expression matrix
• Quality control, normalization & feature selection
• PCA, t-SNE & UMAP visualizations
• Clustering & cell-type annotation
• Marker gene analysis & differential expression
• Identifying malignant vs. non-malignant populations
• Trajectory inference & cellular evolution
• Mini projects: exploring cell clusters + detecting biological/tumor signatures
🖥️ Requirements: Laptop, good knowledge of R
⏱️ Duration: 1 day — 3 hours
🎯 Perfect for: biology related students, bioinformatics beginners, medical researchers, oncologists

3️⃣ Deep Learning for Medical Imaging: Multi-Modal Image Classification
Explore how AI analyzes multi-modal medical images and performs automated classification.
What you will learn:
• Multi-modal imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Histopathology)
• Deep learning model interpretation
• CNNs for classification
• Multi-modal fusion models
• Data preprocessing & augmentation
• Training & evaluating models
• Accuracy, AUC, F1-score
• Model explainability (Grad-CAM & saliency maps)
• Mini projects: multi-modal classification + model interpretation
🖥️ Requirements: Laptop
⏱️ Duration: 1 day — 3 hours
🎯 Perfect for: medical students, biomedical engineers, AI learners, researchers

👉 Limited seats (25 per each workshop)! Register now and start your OSCAR-AI journey!
🔗 Apply Here: https://www.aratronics.org/events/oscar-ai

07/12/2025

❄️ WINTER SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT ❄️
Tech Fusion in Cancer: Bioinformatics & Optical Sensor Diagnostics : 🚀 Where next-gen technology meets cutting-edge cancer research!

We are excited to announce the winter School “Tech Fusion in Cancer”, 20–22 Dec 2025, as a part of the joint activities between:

🔹 The GARN CLS – German-Arab Research Network for Computational Life Science
🔹 The OSCAR AI – Optical Sensing for Cost-effective AI-based Responsive Healthcare

This unique winter school brings together global experts and young researchers from Germany, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco to explore how bioinformatics, AI, and advanced optical sensing technologies are revolutionising cancer diagnostics and personalised healthcare.

📍 Avenue: Hall C1.0, German University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
📅 Date: December 20–22, 2025
📍Hosted by: Prof.Dr. Mohamed Hamed, Prof.Dr. Amir Roushdi, and Prof.Dr.Mohamed Salem

-The winter school is free but Registration is a MUST
-Attendance is based on receiving a confirmation Email ( by 18.12.2025)
-For Registration: https://forms.gle/FAHEvd2rrA8KRigk9

Whether you are passionate about biomedical research, genomic data science, healthcare tech in medicine, or next-generation diagnostic tools, this winter school is designed to inspire, educate, and connect.

Stay tuned for registration details, program highlights, and speaker announcements!

Let’s fuse technology, innovation, and collaboration for a healthier future. 💡💙

04/10/2025

GARN CLS Meet our mentors (Group 1) at the “The BioCompute Hackathon: Orchestrating Genomics with Intelligent Pipelines”, taking place on October 9–11, 2025, at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis 🧬✨..