Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: Mapping Microbe-Host Interactions in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Discussion Leader: Florian Schueder (Yale University School of Medicine, United States)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Jeffrey Moffitt (Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Imaging the Transcriptome: Mapping Microbe-Host Interactions in the Gastrointestinal Tract"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Development and Benchmarking of Spatial Omics Techniques
Discussion Leader: Angela Oliveira Pisco (Insitro, United States)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Yinan Wan (University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Whole-Embryo Spatial Transcriptomics at Subcellular Resolution"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Micha Müller (Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands)
"Genetic Barcoding to Combine Live-Cell Imaging with Single-Cell Omics"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Kamal Maher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Transcriptional Harmonics of Tissues"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Yuqi Tan (Stanford University, United States)
"Versatile and Interactive Python Workflow for Multiplexed Image Analysis"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Magdalena Zielonka (Laboratory for the Research of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Belgium)
"Microglia Astrocyte Cross-Talk in the Amyloid Plaque Niche of an Alzheimer’s Disease Model as Revealed by Spatial Transcriptomics"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Clarence Mah (University of California, San Diego, United States)
"Bento: A Toolkit for Subcellular Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Spatial Omics Applied in Cancer Immunology
Discussion Leader: Hailing Shi (Broad Institute, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Piyush Joshi (German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
"Gene Regulatory Network Landscape of Group 3/4 Medulloblastoma"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Arutha Kulasinghe (The University of Queensland, Australia)
"Ultra-Deep Tumor Microenvironment Profiling to Identify Predictive Biomarkers Associated with Immunotherapy Therapy Response and Resistance"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Guolan Lu (Stanford University, United States)
"A Spatial Pharmacology Approach to Decipher Drug-Target-Microenvironment Interactions In Situ"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Jagadish Sankaran (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
"Multimodal Inference of Morphogenomic Phenotypes Using Morphology and Expression Data Optimal Clustering (MEDOC)"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Raymond Yip (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia)
"In Situ Single Cell Analysis of Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Blood Cancer"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Daria Romanovskaia (CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Austria)
"Plasticity and Epigenetic Regulation of Ewing Sarcoma Cell States"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Grant Writing and Productivity Strategies in Transitioning to Professorship or Industry
Discussion Leader: Victoria Marshe (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Building Your Career: Grant Writing and Productivity for Early-Career Faculty and Industry Professionals
Nydia Tejeda Munoz (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, United States)
Sandra Curras-Alonso (Sanofi, France)
Tracy Yamawaki (Amgen, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes