Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center

SenNet, a research consortium, funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) was created in 2021 to identify and catalog senescent cells- cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. In healthy tissue, these cells support wound healing and prevent the growth of tumors. Over time, these senescent cells accumulate in the body and release harmful signals that contribute to chronic disease and other age-related conditions. Researchers in this consortium introduced the concept of “senotypes,” a new classification system that groups senescent cells based on the location in the body. Katy Borner and Yash Jain presented talks at the annual conference in DC.

Katy Borner presented “Mapping the Human Reference Atlas in 3D” this morning at NetSci 2026, held at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. During her presentation, she talked about what the HRA is, how to construct it, and how to use it. For more information, go to https://humanatlas.io
National Institutes of Health (NIH) IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

This evening from 5:20pm-5:35pm, Katy Borner will be presenting The Visible Human MOOC: Visualizing Human Anatomy and Physiology Across 1010 Scales" at NetSci 2026 at Northeastern University. The MOOC is an online course IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering that aims to communicate tissue data acquisition and analysis, demonstrate single-cell analysis and CCF mapping techniques, and introduce major features of the HuBMAP portal. More than 380 students have registered for the course so far! To register for the class, click here: https://expand.iu.edu/browse/sice/cns/courses/hubmap-visible-human-mooc

Dr. Katy Börner will give a lightning talk from 3:55-4:00pm EDT at NetSci 2026 in Boston, MA entitled “Envisioning Intelligences: Inviting discussions of collective intelligence visualizations” where she will focus on the three decades of Places & Spaces: Envisioning Intelligences exhibit.
Katy Borner Northeastern University IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

🎉🥳🎊Please join us in congratulating our newest graduates! Meryl, Siddhi, Sid, Rishi, and Antara are leaving CNS and starting the next chapter of their lives. We will miss them dearly and wish them good luck in their next chapter. We are happy to say that Siddhi will be staying with CNS after graduation. CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!! All your hard work paid off!!
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IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Katy Borner

🎉Dr. Katy Börner will be presenting “Computational Biology: Endothelial Cell Environments Across Organs in Spatially Resolved Omics Data” at the 2026 Systems Biology of Human Disease (SBHD) Conference. This year's conference is hosted by

The conference focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and systems biology approaches for the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases.

Click here for more information or to attend the conference.

📅Monday, 8th June
🕓4PM - 4:30PM ET
📍Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
🔗Register Now: https://sbhdboston.org/index.html

Hour 9: (8pm) - Extended Plant Cognition
https://youtu.be/WpnCAHRqd8I?si=APGRquz40iL1mJr3

Our speaker Anna, talks about the work at the MINT lab (Minimal Intelligence Lab) and their work on plant intelligence and collective intelligences in forest ecosystems.

Moderator: Todd N. Theriault, Indiana University

Presenter:
Anna Loi, MINT Lab, University of Murcia

Don’t worry if you missed this event, we have it recorded with all the hours now up on CNS’s Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com//playlists
Don’t forget to Like♥️, Share ▶️ and Subscribe 🔔! To find other hours of the 24 Hour event visit: https://cns-iu.github.io/workshops/2025-24h/

Katy Borner IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Thank you for joining in the celebration of Amatria’s 8th birthday!

Amatria - an interactive, public Sentient Architecture sculpture has been a friendly presence to all who use and visit the building, and represents the ambitions of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering to have human and artificial intelligences live, learn, and innovate together in harmony. Perhaps the most unique public sculpture at the IU Bloomington campus, this party celebrated Amatria’s inspiration of renaissance engineering, science, and arts for years to come.

Amatria was joined by Aurora Mititelu - a Romanian artist based in New York who is currently the coordinator of the AI & Art Summer Institute at UCLA Social Software, Santiago Ortiz - director of Moebio Labs, her creator - Phillip Beesley, a multidisciplinary artist, designer and professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Ontario and the team at CNS including Katy Börner, Andreas Bueckle and Todd Theriault.

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Come visit the CNS Booth at the Luddy Techfest!

📍4012, Luddy Hall

Visualizing Science - 10AM to 1PM
Explore various interactive data visualizations as part of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit

Step Inside the Human Body: A VR Organ Exploration - 1PM to 4PM
Demo the Human Reference Atlas (HRA) Organ Gallery (https://humanatlas.io/hra-organ-gallery), a virtual reality (VR) application that lets users explore 77 3D reference organs and 10 single-cell datasets in their true size, location, and spatial relation to each other.



IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Please join us for an annual birthday celebration honoring Amatria, the iconic sculpture installed in Luddy Hall in 2018. A welcoming presence in the building, Amatria symbolizes the Luddy School’s vision of humans and artificial intelligence learning and innovating together. This special event celebrates the fusion of engineering, science, and art—embodied in one of the most unique public artworks on IU Bloomington’s campus.

If you can’t join us in person, please follow the Zoom link to join from wherever you are.

Location: Luddy Hall, 4th floor lobby area
Time: Friday, April 17, 10-11 am ET
Webinar link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/87315100071