Next-gen single-cell omics workshop 2024

Registration

Opening session

Keynote lecture

"Mind blowing science enabled by industry-leading single-cell and spatial technologies"
Ben Hindson, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, 10x Genomics

Coffee break

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

Lunch break

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

Coffee break

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

Closing & networking aperitif