Cilia-AI
A Cutting-Edge Research and Training Programme
unraveling multi-scale Cilia Function in Health and Disease through innovative machine learning/AI approaches
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📢 CILIA CONNECT 2026 & Autumn School
We are excited to announce the upcoming CILIA CONNECT 2026 conference, “Integrating Dynamics, Function, and AI”, and the Autumn school, which the German group FOR 5547 - Dissecting primary cilia dynamics in tissue organization and function - is organising together with our Cilia-AI consortium.
đź“… Conference: 5-7 October 2026 Autumn School: 7-9 October 2026
đź“Ť University Hospital Bonn, BMZ I, Building 13 Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
In connection with the conference, we will also organise the Cilia‑AI Autumn School — a dedicated training program for the PhD fellows in the network. This event will be a fantastic opportunity for scientific exchange, collaboration, and community building across our consortium and beyond. Stay tuned — more information will follow!
Context
Primary cilia are microtubule-based projections found on the surface of nearly every cell in our body. In the last two decades it has become clear that primary cilia have evolved to be key regulatory hubs of the cells, as they concentrate or segregate components of major cellular signalling pathways. Dysfunctional cilia can lead to nearly 40 severe human genetic syndromes (ciliopathies) with highly heterogeneous, overlapping phenotypes, affecting as many as 1 in 400 people. We now know that humans critically depend on cilia to see, hear, smell, breathe, excrete and reproduce. Such activities require a high degree of regulation and critical feedback to ensure robustness in development and homeostasis of different cells, tissues and organs.
