October 26 to 27 noon, 2023
Venue: Biomedicum Helsinki 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki, Finland. Talks will be held in Lecture hall 1 (C wing in the P floor), with posters and sponsor exhibitions outside the lecture hall.
Registration is now closed as the event is fully booked.
The symposium will be a one and half day event including a poster session, 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 epigenetic plasticity, intestinal stem cells to brain development, and functional genomic screens to machine learning models. Symposium programme can be found from below. Symposium flyer with a detailed programme is available here.
9:00 OPENING WORDS
SESSION 1: SPATIAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSES. Chair: Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä
9:05 BRIAN CLEARY (Boston University College of Engineering): New technologies and algorithmic experimental designs to study intracellular and intercellular circuits
9:45 ALEXANDER AIVAZIDIS (Bayraktar lab, Wellcome Sanger Institute): Spatiotemporal modelling of neural cell fate trajectories
10:05 Sponsor talk: Scellex
Päivi Saavalainen: Spatial single cell RNAseq with colour bead barcoded picowell arrays
10:20-10:50 COFFEE & POSTERS
SESSION 2: IMMUNOLOGY. Chair: Tapio Lönnberg
10:50 TUURE KINNUNEN (University of Eastern Finland):
Single-cell multiomics to study human autoimmune diseases
11:10 PIA RANTAKARI (University of Turku):
Uncovering the embryonic neutrophils
11:30 Sponsor talk: Illumina
Vivek Mishra: Enabling Multiomics
11:45-13:00 LUNCH BREAK (ON YOUR OWN)
SESSION 3: DEVELOPMENT. Chair: Saara Ollila
13:00 KELLEY YAN (Columbia University):
A revisionist view of intestinal stem cell dynamics
13:40 JONAS FLECK (Treutlein lab, ETH Zurich):
Understanding brain development and regeneration with single-cell technologies
14:20 Sponsor talk: Nanostring
Rudy van Eijsden: Explore the Universe of Spatial Biology with NanoString Technologies
14:35-15:05 COFFEE & POSTERS
SESSION 4: COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY. Chair: Helena Kilpinen
15:05 MARK ROBINSON (University of Zurich): OMNIBENCHMARK: open continuous collaborative benchmarking of (single cell and spatial) computational biology
15:45 OLIVER STEGLE (EMBL Heidelberg): From genotype to phenotype with single-cell resolution
16:25 MINI BREAK
16:35-18:00 POSTER SESSION with wine & snacks
SESSION 5: CANCER I. Chair: Merja Heinäniemi
9:00 SATU MUSTJOKI (University of Helsinki):
Functional profiling of NK cell cytotoxicity in hematological cancers
9:20 JESSICA NORDLUND (Uppsala University):
Mapping individual drug responses in pediatricacute lymphoblastic leukemiausing single-cell transcriptomics
10:00 Sponsor talk: 10xGenomics
Koen De Gelas: The 10x Genomics Ecosystem: See biology in new ways with single cell and spatial technologies
10:15-10:45 COFFEE
SESSION 6: CANCER II. Chair: Anna Vähärautio
10:45 Sponsor talk: Cytosurge
Tamás Gerecsei: Cytoplasmic live-cell biopsies for the temporal profiling of single-cells
11:00 SAKARI VANHARANTA (University of Helsinki):
High-resolution profiling of early renal carcinogenesis: what’s injury got to do with it
11:20 MERJA HEINÄNIEMI (University of Eastern Finland):
Cell state dynamics and malignant transformation in acute lymphoblastic
leukemia
11:40 VALENTINA BOEVA (ETH Zurich):
Discovery and characterization of shared transcriptional states across cancer patients
from single cell RNA sequencing data
12:20 CLOSING WORDS
Anna Vähärautio, Pirkko Mattila, Saara Ollila, Helena Kilpinen, Kati Donner, Eliisa Kekäläinen, Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä, Merja Heinäniemi, Virpi Ahola, Asta Laiho, Tapio Lönnberg, Laura Elo, Eija Korpelainen.
Symposium is sponsored by: Biocenter Finland, DPBM, Illumina, 10xGenomics, Scellex, Cytosurge, Nanostring, Singleron, Becton Dickinson, Parse Biosciences, Element Biosciences