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Carnation Lunch & Learn: Microscopy Image Analysis for Early Discovery
Join the founders of Carnation, MBC's newest partner, for lunch and a look at Carnation’s cloud-based microscopy image analysis platform.
Carnation moves plate image analysis off the workstation next to the microscope and into the browser. You can open a plate from anywhere, build a segmentation and measurement pipeline interactively on a single field of view, then run it across a whole plate on cloud GPUs, returning an analysis result 20x faster than existing tools with no need for custom scripts.
We'll cover
Why imaging has become one of the most valuable readouts available to small teams
What foundation models changed about analysis and what problems still exist
A live walkthrough: build a pipeline on one image, fan it out across a full plate, and pull per-cell measurements into a notebook
Open Q&A on your own assays
Who should come
Anyone at an MBC company doing plate-based imaging, whether that's fluorescence, brightfield, phase, or anything else your scope produces. Especially useful if your analysis currently lives in CellProfiler, ImageJ macros, or a Python script that one person maintains.
As an MBC partner, Carnation is available to resident companies at no cost.
Speakers
John Bisognano spent five years at insitro, where he led the imaging software team building internal tooling for phenotypic screening.
Owen Auch was a tech lead at Orb, the usage-based billing infrastructure behind many AI companies, and led an engineering team at Asana before that.
Lunch is provided. Please register so we can get the headcount right, and note any dietary restrictions.
biotech companies tackling today’s biggest challenges.