A weekend of science, code, and collaboration: the 2026 CENTURI Hackathon
Once again this year, students from CENTURI and beyond gathered at the Villages Clubs du Soleil in Belle de Mai, Marseille, for the 2026 edition of the CENTURI Hackathon. Over two intense and stimulating days, 36 participants formed six teams to tackle interdisciplinary computational challenges at the crossroads of Computer Science and Life Sciences, with topics ranging from computer vision and deep learning to applied mathematics, modelling, and robotics.
The six projects reflected the breadth of questions driving today’s quantitative biology: reconstructing thymic architecture in 3D, recovering neuronal activity from photoacoustic measurements, learning antibody fingerprints from sequence data, developing open-source control software for atomic force microscopy, automating mouse behaviour annotation from calcium imaging data, and spatially correlating AFM mechanical maps with confocal images.
A special congratulations to the MeConfoMaps — Spatial Correlation of AFM Mechanical Maps with Confocal Images, with Eleni Baltzi, Sam Dossin, Bastien Dumont, Ahmed Tahraoui, You-Hsuan Liu, Paul Stark and Ahmed Tahraoui and led by Sujal Kataria, Elsa Bazellieres, and Claire Valotteau — who were awarded Best Project of this year’s edition!
We warmly thank all participants for their creativity, dedication, and the productive and friendly atmosphere throughout the event. Thanks also to the amU Mesocentre Cluster for providing 10,000 hours of GPU and CPU time in support of the projects. We’re already looking forward to the next edition!
The CENTURI hackathon organisation team
