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. 

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Please note that this session will be located at NTU@One-North, Auditorium 302 (Level 3)

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

9:00 - 10:20 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: From Cells to Clinics: Mapping Cellular Diversity Underlying Clinical Phenotypes of the Sclerotic Hippocampus
• 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: Single-cell RNA sequencing and its insights into plaque atherosclerosis
• Marcelo Mori: Single-Cell Transcriptomics Maps Adipose Tissue Macrophage Diversity and Links Specific Subsets to Type 2 Diabetes
• Kenneth J. Gollob: Discovering Biomarkers and Mechanisms of Therapy Response through Single-Cell Profiling of Tumor and Blood in Cancer
• Walderez Ornelas Dutra: Single-cell technology applied to the study of human neglected cardiomyopathies
• Valentina Parra: The Advanced Genomic Unit at the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Chile: A Platform for Growth and Collaboration in Genomics across Latin America
• Diana Jennifer Moreno Garcia: Implementation of a single-cell sequencing strategy for the characterization of intratumoral heterogeneity in tissue samples from patients with triple-negative breast cancer pre- and post-cytoreduction therapy
• 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: Expanding the Human Cell Atlas: Contributions from Latin American Studies of Neurovascular Disease
• Ricardo Chinchilla: CICICA: An Opportunity to Expand Genetic Diversity in Central American Cancer Studies
• Carlos Ortiz Ramirez: The role of non-coding RNA in adaptation: from cells to populations
• Yalbi Balderas: Yes, I Use Human Cell Atlas Repositories—and Build My Own: Exploring Cell Plasticity through Public Data and Custom Integration
• Lucia Spangenberg: Mapping disease at cellular resolution: Uruguayan admixed cohorts for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

10:20 - 10:45 AM:  Latin America + Asia Discussion

10:45 - 11:15 AM: Coffee Break + Light Bites

11:15 - 12:45 PM:  HCA Asia Session

Speakers:

• Jingweng Fang: scPERT: A Single-Cell Perturbation Enhanced Representation Transformer Through Supervised Fine-Tuning Using Thaoe-100M
• Herawati Sudoyo: Mapping Immune Cell Diversity Across Indonesia:  Integrating Genetic, Lifestyle and Collaborative Insights
• Hideki Ueno: Multi-platform Single-Cell Analysis to Elucidate the Human Liver Immunology
• Christine Joh: Elucidating gut immune signatures in Korean inflammatory bowel disease cohorts
• Sowon Choi: High-resolution spatial profiles across multiple cancers in Korea
• 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