Full List of Speakers

Keynote talks

Lacra Bintu (Stanford), Distilling the Rules of Transcriptional Activators and Repressors Using High-throughput And Single-cell Methods

Raphael Gottardo (Lausanne U), From Transcripts to Cells: Dissecting Sensitivity, Diffusion, and Signal Purity in Xenium Spatial Transcriptomics 

Christina Kendziorski (U Wisconsin-Madison), CASSIA: A multi-agent Large Language Model for Cell Annotation of Single-cell RNA-Sequencing Data

Arjun Raj (Penn), Building Cellular Memories as a Mechanism of Therapy Resistance in Melanoma

Zemin Zhang (Peking U), Cross-tissue Multicellular Coordination and Its Rewiring in Cancer

Contributed talks

Adam Beitz (MIT), Cells Transit Through a Quiescent-like State to Convert to Neurons at High Rates

Kai Hao (UCLA), Genetic Recording and In Situ Readout of Single Cell Signaling Histories

Jack Leary (UF), Identifying Variable Genes in Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Data via Bayesian Inference

Rong Lu (USC), Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms Regulating Heterogeneous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate

Aaron Meyer (UCLA), Generating Predictive Models of Patient-level Phenotypes from Scrna-seq With Unaligned Low-rank Tensor Regression with Attention (Ultra)

Lingxia Qiao (UCSD), Logic-based Ode Modeling of Integrated Signaling and Gene Regulation Networks

Joseph Rufo (UCSB), Mapping the Morphospace of Human Gastrulation: An Integrated Framework for Identifying Developmental Constraints and Understanding Cell Fate Decisions

Manu Setty (Fred Hutch), Desynchronization Between Gene Expression and Chromatin States Reveals Mechanisms Driving Cell State Change (Fred Hutch)

Xiaoqiang Sun (Sun Yat-Sen), Multilayer Reconstruction and Multiscale Modeling of Tumor-microenvironment Interaction Networks

Yodai Takei (Caltech), Spatial Multi-omics Captures Gene Expression and Nuclear Architecture in Single Cells

Yaqi Wu (GWU), Supervised Gromov Wasserstein Optimal Transport with Its Application in Single Cell Biology