Genetic Diversity Collaboration between Asia & Latin America

This session aims to bring together scientific networks from Asia and Latin America. Participants get to engage in cross-regional dialogue, explore opportunities for knowledge sharing and collaboration, as well as discuss ways to address gaps and regional challenges. 

This meeting is open to all attendees, both in person and virtual. 

Individuals that have already completed registration can indicate if they would like to attend by modifying their registration: View or modify an existing registration. 
 

Please note that this session will be located at NTU@One-North, Auditorium 302

Address: NTU@one-north, 11 Slim Barracks Rise, Singapore 138664

9:00 - 10:00 AM - HCA Latin America Session

Session Moderators:

Alexandre Denadai Souza, Mariana Boroni, Patricia Severino, Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho, and Yesid Cuesta

Speakers:

• Sueli Mieko Oba Shinjo: Effect of metabolic changes on cognitive decline by single cell transcriptomics
• Jaqueline Cruz Geraldis
• Katherine Athayde Teixeira de Carvalho
• Adriana F. Paes Leme: Unraveling Head and Neck Cancer from Initiation to Progression Using Spatial and Single-Cell Proteomics
• Geraldo A. Passos: Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the heterogeneity of medullary thymic epithelial cells
• Carlos Serrano
• Marcelo Mori: Single-Cell Transcriptomics Maps Adipose Tissue Macrophage Diversity and Links Specific Subsets to Type 2 Diabetes
• Kenneth J. Gollob
• Walderez Ornelas Dutra: Single-cell technology applied to the study of human neglected cardiomyopathies
• Robson Carvalho
• Valentina Parra
• Diana Jennifer Moreno Garcia 
• Liliana Lopez Kleine: Single Cell data analysis at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Jorge Duitama: Single cell transcriptomic analysis for refractory epilepsy patients in Colombia
• Geysson Javier Fernandez Garcia
• Rafael Parra Medina
• Ricardo Chinchilla
• Carlos Ortiz Ramirez
• Yalbi Balderas
• Lucia Spangenberg: Indigenous and African ancestry in the Uruguayan population

10:00 - 10:15 AM: Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:00 AM:  Latin America + Asia Discussion

11:00 - 11:25 AM: Coffee Break

11:25 - 12:15 PM:  HCA Asia Session

Speakers:

• Christine Joh: Elucidating gut immune signatures in Korean inflammatory bowel disease cohorts
• Sowon Choi: High-resolution spatial profiles across multiple cancers in Korea
• Jingweng Fang: scPERT: A Single-Cell Perturbation Enhanced Representation Transformer Through Supervised Fine-Tuning Using Thaoe-100M
• Reema Baskar: Spatial Profiling of Colorectal Cancer Extracellular Milieu Reveals Axes of Immunosuppression and Inflammation
• Xiaohan Xu: Construct a Pan-Paedcancer Cell Atlas
• Go Sato: Multi-layered single-cell genomics deconvolutes biological mechanisms underlying clonal hematopoiesis and mitochondrial heteroplasmy in infectious & autoimmune diseases