Single Cell Omics Symposium 2023

A single cell omics symposium will take place October 26 to 27, 2023, as part of the single cell course week.
Practical details

Time and place

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

Registration is now closed as the event is fully booked.

Practical details

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.

Symposium programme

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

Scientific organising team

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.

Sponsors

Symposium is sponsored by: Biocenter Finland, DPBM, Illumina, 10xGenomics, Scellex, Cytosurge, Nanostring, Singleron, Becton Dickinson, Parse Biosciences, Element Biosciences