Program
07:00
Registration
07:30
Opening session
07:55
Keynote lecture
"Mind blowing science enabled by industry-leading single-cell and spatial technologies"
Ben Hindson, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, 10x Genomics
08:30
Coffee break
09:00
Lectures: Single-cell handling and analysis
- "Lessons learned from single cell sequencing: a smart beginning ensures meaningful results" - Lilian Martínez, Miltenyi Biotec
- "Direct and rapid target discovery from active immune environments using unique single-cell profiling" - Sami Ellouze, HiFi Bio
- "Unveil marvels of uncharted single cell transcriptome with the Luthor family" - Stephane Barges, Lexogen
- "Picodroplets for cell line engineering: a novel automation approach" - Richard Hammond, Sphere Fluidics
10:00
Lunch break
11:30
Lectures: Single-cell data and artificial intelligence
- "Probing single-cell biology ex vivo for personalized systems immunology" - Berend Snijder & Tim Heinemann, ETHZ & CSEM
- "Insights from using large language models with single cell data for drug target identification” - Michal Pikusa, Novartis
- "Leveraging AI-driven insights from single cell data to accelerate and de-risk clinical trials" - Sukalp Muzumdar, Scailyte
- "Heterogeneous and novel transcript expression in single cells of patient-derived ccRCC organoids" - Abdullah Kahraman, FHNW and David Stucki, PacBio
12:30
Coffee break
13:00
Lectures: Biopharma and clinical applications
- "Application of scRNA-seq in early clinical development: insights from a cancer immunotherapy use case" - Petra Schwalie, Roche
- "Long-read single-cell RNA-sequencing with FLASH-seq-ONT" - Simone Picelli, IOB
- "Understanding the need for single cell data in clinical studies" - Mattheus Wildschut, CSL
- "Leveraging single-cell and spatial data for precision oncology" - Raphael Gottardo, CHUV
14:15
Closing & networking aperitif
