Sabrina Lewis
@sabrinalewis.bsky.social
Post-doctoral scientist at Heidelberg University Hospital @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 🇩🇪 | Previously @wehi-research.bsky.social 🇦🇺🐨 | Spatial Omics 🧬 | Microscopy 🔬| Cancer Researcher 👩🔬 | Can be tempted out of the lab with free food | she/her
🎉 Postdoc Appreciation Week is almost here! We’re excited to celebrate PAW 2026 (21–25 Sept) with events for Heidelberg postdocs! ✨ Funding seminar 🥗 Free postdoc lunch 📸 Professional headshots 📝 CV, résumé & cover letter reviews 🗓️ Registration opens 1 Sept 🔗 Learn more about PAW: paw-germany.de
🎉 Save the Date: The first HUPs Annual Symposium is coming on October 29, 2026 Mark your calendars for: “Research and Beyond: Career Development & Mental Wellbeing for Postdocs 🧠” Details coming soon! 🔗 hups.uni-heidelberg.de #Postdoc #Heidelberg #Academia #CareerDevelopment #MentalWellbeing
☕ Coffee & Careers continues! Next speaker: Natalia Gabrielli, Project Coordinator at the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg-Mannheim. She’ll share insights on transitioning from postdoc to research coordination. Come join us! 🔗 Register: heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
1/ A PhD milestone 👏 My work on comparing neighbor preference methods for spatial data analysis is out in Nature Communications. We compared 9+ neighbor preference methods and propose a new approach that combines the most relevant analysis features: COZI. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comparison and optimization of cellular neighbor preference methods for quantitative tissue analysis - Nature Communications
Schiller and colleagues present a systematic comparison of methods that quantify whether pairs of cell types preferentially co-occur in tissues, highlighting their strengths and limitations. This stud...
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☕ Great start to our Coffee & Careers series at the University of Heidelberg! Thanks to Duran Sürün and Tobias Wilsch for sharing insights on the transition from postdoc to independent research careers. Looking forward to upcoming sessions featuring more diverse career paths! Stay tuned! 🚀
🎉 Last week, HUPs members Rachel Gilmore and Sabrina Lewis attended the very first German Postdoc Network Conference 2026. Rachel also served on the organizing committee, helping shape the conference. 🤝 Great to see such a vibrant national postdoc community! Already looking forward to next year! 🚀
Our first HUPs event of the year = a success! 🎉 Almost 60 participants joined our Heidelberg-themed Pub Quiz & Networking Night. 🏆 Winners: Slow Beer Pils #1 (Pietro & the Blue Baracudas) 🥈 Shared 2nd: Food for Thought & The Imposters Can’t wait to see you at our next event!
Starting 2026 by introducing the people behind our Postdoc Network! 👋🏻 Meet Sabrina Lewis, President of our network. She studies spatial omics, using microscopy to profile immune responses and drug toxicity in patient tumours. She founded the network to connect postdocs across disciplines!
🎄 Christmas Market Meetup! Join HUPs, DKFZ, Max Planck & EMBL postdocs on Dec 10 at 6PM. 📍 Meet outside Hof-Apotheke (Sofienstraße 11). Family & friends welcome! Register 👉 heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
I got a new sample holder for the microCT I need to test. Want see inside a coffee bean at 4.3um resolution? Of course you do. Sample provided by Rumble Coffee Roasters.
🔬🏥 Gesundheitsforschung für die Menschen im InnoLÄND! In der Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim wird zu zentralen Gesundheitsfragen geforscht. Mit der Innovationscampus-Förderung ermöglichen wir Grundlagenforschung mit Potenzial für biomedizinische Durchbrüche. 🔗 youtu.be/LZN-Sx9wfVQ
THE InnoLÄND: Innovationscampus Health & Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim
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This was a lot of fun and I'm inspired now to host more night science events in the pub, and even not just with scientists!
Heidelberg University Postdoc Network@heidelbergpostdoc.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe had a fantastic time at the @nightscience.bsky.social workshop yesterday! Postdocs and PhD students explored the creative scientific process. A huge thank you to @itaiyanai.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic workshop and @natgabrielli.bsky.social for organising a great event.
I’m super excited to share that my PhD work is now out in npj Imaging (@natureportfolio.nature.com)! 🔬 You can read the paper here: rdcu.be/eOKdU
LeGO-3D: 3D imaging of lung metastases and vascularisation using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
npj Imaging - LeGO-3D: 3D imaging of lung metastases and vascularisation using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)@wehi-research.bsky.social · 9mo agoA study led by WEHI and @onjcri.org.au has uncovered a new way to track heterogeneous breast cancer cells as they metastasise to secondary organs. The findings could lead to a powerful new tool to study the complexity of metastatic breast cancer. Published in NPJ Imaging: rdcu.be/eOKdU
Last week our lab came together for our annual lab retreat, kindly hosted by @hlsalliance.bsky.social! We exchanged ideas about our research, spatial omics, and took part in some fun (albeit slightly competitive) activities.
Stunning, what @sabrinalewis.bsky.social just showed at #EMBLSpatialBiology! LeGO depicts cell populations in lung metastases in 3D: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6... 🧪 Soon out in npj Imaging @natureportfolio.nature.com
LeGO-3D: 3D imaging of lung metastases and vascularisation using light sheet fluorescence microscopy
Cancer metastasis involves a complex cascade of events, where cancer cells migrate from their site of origin to secondary sites via the lymphatic and circulatory system. During this process, some canc...
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Excited to be at #EMBLSpatialBiology #ESSB2025 this week and present our new 3D imaging and analysis pipeline ‘LeGO-3D’
We’re excited to be at @embl.org this week for Spatial Biology: the melting pot. We’re looking forward to hearing about some awesome science 🔬 #EMBLSpatialBiology
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
🌟 Yesterday we kicked off #PAW2025 with our first event! Together with DKFZ PDN, we hosted Dr. Susanne Scheer (heiTRACKS) for an inspiring hybrid seminar on career barriers. 40+ postdocs joined onsite & online. More PAW events coming this week – see our program!
I am excited to share my first work in @schapirolab.bsky.social on Multiple Myeloma (MM) in collaboration with the Standal Lab from NTNU Norway. We use Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) on bone marrow biopsies from MM and precursor patients (details below): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Highly multiplexed imaging recovers immune and metabolic niches in multiple myeloma associated with disease progression and bone involvement
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer arising from genetically aberrant plasma cells (PCs) that remain dependent on the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment for disease establishment and progression. Here, w...
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1 week to go!
Heidelberg University Postdoc Network@heidelbergpostdoc.bsky.social · 12mo ago🎉 Postdoc Appreciation Week is almost here! Sept 15–19 in Heidelberg: headshots, career seminar, impostor workshop, CV checks, town hall & lunch. Don’t miss out – register now! 👉 paw-germany.de or directly via the QR codes below #PostdocAppreciationWeek #HUPs #PDN_DKFZ
On September 4 '25, we had the pleasure to welcome Primeminister Kretschmann and Science Minister Olschowksi to our new co-working and seminar rooms. Thanks to all the scientist who presented their work! @hlsalliance.bsky.social Read the full article on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/heidel...
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