Single Cell Omics Symposium 2025

A single cell omics symposium will take place March 13th, 2025, as part of the single cell course week.
Practical details

Time and place

March 13, 2025

Venue: Biomedicum Helsinki 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki, Finland. Talks will be held in Lecture hall 1 (C wing in the P floor), with sponsor exhibitions outside the lecture hall.

Registration

Please note that the event is fully booked and the registration is closed.

The symposium will be a one day event and is combined with a hands-on wet-lab and data-analysis courses for students. The symposium covers broad areas of single cell omics from spatial interactions to gene regulatory networks, with methodologies ranging from multiomics to RNA velocity and long-read sequencing, applied in a wide range of biological contexts: brain development and aging, skin physiology, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.
Programme

9:00   OPENING WORDS 

SESSION 1:   GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS. Chair: Helena Kilpinen

9:05   (University of Basel): Gene regulatory networks integrate  genetic and epigenetic disease mechanisms in hematology

9:40   (Univ. of Helsinki, Univ. of Oslo): Single-cell network modeling  with SCORPION identifies regulatory drivers of colorectal cancer progression

10:05  10x Genomics: 10x Genomics: See biology in new ways (Johanna Stergiadou)

10:10- 10:40 Coffee & poster set-up

 

SESSION 2:   SINGLE CELL OMICS OF PATHOLOGIES. Chair: Merja Heinäniemi

10:40   (Univ. of Helsinki, Tampere Univ.): Studying lung cancer treatment resistance using single cell methods 

11:05   (Univ. of Eastern Finland): Mapping the genetic basis of atherosclerosis using single cell genomics

11:30  BD Biosciences: BD Rhapsody: True Single Cell Multiomics Platform, Powered by 

  Microwell technology for Unparalleled Flexibility and Performance. (Jouni Rantanen)

11:35  PARSE Biosciences, Smashing the Limits of Single Cell Transcriptomics - Introducing Evercode (Anne Helness)

 

11:40-13:00 Salad buffet lunch

 

SESSION 3:   FROM CELLS TO TISSUES. Chair: Saara Ollila   

13:00   (Karolinska Institute): The Plasticity of Skin Cells: Key to Maintaining Tissue Function

13:35   (Univ.of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): From scRNAseq to cell function in crosstalk 

14:00  Illumina: lllumina Single Cell 3' RNA Prep: Flexible, Scalable, and affordable single cell analysis in any lab   (Vivek Mishra) 

 

14:05- 15:05 Posters & coffee

 

SESSION 4:   SPACE AND TIME. Chair: Anna Vähärautio

15:05   Nanopore, What you're missing matters: New dimensions of biology revealed  by Nanopore full-length sequencing of single-cell and spatial assay (Penelope Shah)

15:10   (EPFL):  Spatiotemporal methods to chart the cell states of brain development 

15:45  HiLIFE seminar:  (Weill Cornell):  Brain isoform expression at single-cell resolution in (developmental) time  and (anatomical) space – and in neurodegeneration

 

16:30 – 17:30  Poster session with sparkling & snacks

 

 
Scientific organising team

Anna Vähärautio, Jenni Lahtela, Saara Ollila, Helena Kilpinen, Merja Heinäniemi, Iivari Kleino, Rafa Najumudeen, Laura Elo, Eija Korpelainen.
Sponsors

Symposium is sponsored by: DPBM, Illumina, 10xGenomics, Nanopore, BD Biosciences, Scellex, SCALE Biosciences, Triolab Oy, PARSE Biosciences, Element Biosciences