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, reflecting on insights and learnings from the flagship AIDA initiative, fostering a shared understanding and future directions in shaping flagship projects

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

Please note that this session will be located at NTU@One-North, Auditorium
Address: NTU@one-north, 11 Slim Barracks Rise, Singapore 138664

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9:00 - 10:30 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
• 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
• Carlos Alberto Orozco Castano
• 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

10:30 - 11:05 AM - Coffee Break

11:05 AM - 12:35 PM:  HCA Asia + AIDA Session

Speakers:

• Christine Joh
• Sowon Choi
• 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
• Go Sato: Multi-layered single-cell genomics deconvolutes biological mechanisms underlying clonal hematopoiesis and mitochondrial heteroplasmy in infectious & autoimmune diseases

12:35 - 1:20 PM:  Latin America + AIDA Discussion