9:00am Welcome, Suzanne Tomlinson and Rui Chen
9:10-9:50 Keynote Presentation
Spatial Multi-Omics Driving the Next Wave of Biomedical Research Revolution
Rong Fan, PhD
Yale University
Introduced by Rui Chen
9:50-10:20 Vendor Session
Session 1: Single Cell Application
Moderator: Weiyi Peng
10:20-10:40 Implementing Single-Cell Transcriptional Profiling Approaches to Investigate Circuit Integration of Adult-Born Neurons
Benjamin Arenkiel, BCM
10:40-11:00 Modulating Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease
Shu-Hsia Chen, Houston Methodist Research Institute
11:00-11:15 Single Cell Atlas of Human Glioma Identifies Immune Suppressive Macrophage Molecular Signatures and S100A4 as an Immunotherapy Target for GBM
Nourhan Abdelfattah, Houston Methodist Research Institute
11:15-11:50 Lighting poster talks
11:50-1:45 Lunch and Poster Session
11:50-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:45 Posters
1:50-2:30 Keynote Presentation
Super-Resolution Imaging of Chromatin Structure and Dynamics in Health and Disease
Melike Lakadamyali, PhD
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Introduced by Peter McCaffrey
Session 2: Single Cell Data Analysis
Moderator: Peter McCaffrey
2:30-2:50 Quantitative Single-Cell Interactomes in Normal and Virus-Infected Mouse Lungs
Margo Cain PhD, MD Anderson
3:00-3:20 Fast and Interpretable Consensus Clustering of Single Cell Data via Minipatch Learning
Genevera Allen PhD, Rice University
3:20-3:35 Robust Pathway Analysis for scRNA-seq and Spatial Transcriptomics Data
Qingnan Liang, PhD, MD Anderson
3:35-4:05 Networking Break
Session 3: New Technologies and Application
Moderator: Rui Chen
4:05-4:25 Decoding Premalignant Breast Cancer Progression with Single Cell Genomics
Nicolas Navin, MD Anderson Cancer Center
4:25-4:45 Studies of Genome Organization at the Single-cell Level
Nir Guy, UTMB
4:45-5:00 Single-cell Multiomics Analysis of Human Retinal Development
Zhen Zuo, BCM
5:00 pm Closing Remarks and reception