Registration
 

Welcome Remarks Day 2

Keynote Day 2

Session Chair: Jay Shin

Speaker:

• Ge Gao

Coffee Break

Meet the Editor Session: 

Madhura Mukhopadhyay (Nature Methods)
Located at the Registration Desk
 

Session 3: Diversity and Equity

Session Chair: Partha Majumder

Speakers:

• Shyam Prabhakar and Sophia George
• Jay Shin
• Patricia Severino
• Christian Happi: Genomic Surveillance and Characterization of Microbial Threats Facilitates Early Detection and Containment of Disease Outbreaks in West Africa
• Youssef Idaghdour: The impact of inter-ethnic variation on the host response to falciparum malaria
• Yukinori Okada: Statistical genetics in population, individual, and single cell resolutions

This session is sponsored by Roche.

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Lunch with Poster Rotation #2 & Exhibitor Viewing
 

Technology Showcase Part III

Session Chair: Piero Carninci

Speakers:

• Framing Talk
• Patrick Bogard (Roche): Introduction to Sequencing by Expansion (SBX)
• Patrick Murphy (Oxford Nanopore Technologies): Advancing Spatial and Single Cell Transcriptomics with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
• Rakshit Chaudhary (Bruker): From Pixels to Pathways: Transforming Discovery with Bruker Spatial Biology
• Maybelline Giam (Element): High-Dimensional Biology: Advancing Single-Cell and Spatial Multiomics with AVITI24TM
• Zohar Shipony (Ultima Genomics): Driving large-scale single cell studies with transformative sequencing economics
• Xiaohui Man (BD Biosciences): Level up your research with comprehensive and complete single-cell multiomics solutions BD Rhapsody™
• Sujatha Narayanankutty (Singleron): Pushing Boundaries: Discovering Signals Missed by Standard Single Cell RNA Sequencing

Session 4: Disease

Session Chair: Senjuti Saha

Speakers:

• Senjuti Saha: Understanding Diseases in a Changing World Through the Human Cell Atlas
• Christopher Moxon: Opportunities and barriers to studying the Blood-Brain Barrier in human cerebral malaria 
• Lei Zhang: Tracing T Cell Lineages and Dynamics in Gastrointestinal Cancer Immunotherapy
• Jong-Il Kim
• Jinyue Liu: Spatial architecture of autism pathogenesis during early development

This session is sponsored by Helmsley.

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Coffee Break
 

Breakout Session:

Disease & Diversity - Autoimmune, Infectious disease
 

Breakout Session Leaders:

• Ponpan Matangkasombut Choopong and Jong-Eun Park

Breakout Session:

Disease & Diversity - Cancer
 

Breakout Leaders:

• Harikrishna Nakshatri and Mariana Boroni
  Breakout Session Summary and Key Questions

 This Breakout Session Room is brought to you by Stellaromics.

Breakout Session:

Disease & Diversity - Neuro

Breakout Session Leaders:

• Xiaoqun Wang and Nirmala Rayan
   

Breakout Session:

Disease & Diversity - Metabolic
 

Breakout Leaders:

• Boxiang Liu and Yulia Medvedeva

  This Breakout Session Room is brought to you by Oxford Nanopore.

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Closing Panel
 

Day 2 Closing Remarks

Speakers:

• Aviv Regev
• Sarah Teichmann
• Jay Shin
• Shyam Prabhakar

Poster Rotation #2 and Exhibitor Reception
 

Unlocking Cellular Insights: AWS Cloud Solutions for Advanced Omics and Generative AI in Research

Join us for an interactive workshop that bridges cutting-edge cloud computing with advanced omics research and AI innovation. This hands-on session will demonstrate how AWS cloud solutions can accelerate your single-cell analysis workflows while introducing practical applications of generative AI in research settings. Participants will learn how to access and analyze data from AWS Open Data, leveraging AWS services such as AWS HealthOmics. Through guided examples, we'll showcase how to manage complex genomic workflows, and innovative ways to integrate generative AI models with biological research. Whether you're a computational biologist, wet lab researcher, or bioinformatician, you'll leave this workshop with practical knowledge to implement cloud-based solutions that can transform your research capabilities. The session is designed for both cloud beginners and experienced users, with a focus on collaboration, and research acceleration. Bring your laptops and let's go build.

This workshop is in-person only. Please note that you must register for the HCA General Meeting and indicate you would like to attend the AWS Workshop when prompted. 

There is no additional cost to attend this workshop.

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

This workshop is sponsored by AWS.

10x Genomics Open House: Foundation for Spatial Biology

This half-day event is designed to equip you with foundational knowledge for spatial projects, explore cutting-edge spatial analysis techniques like advanced cell segmentation, and provide exclusive insights from our CTO along with a manufacturing facility tour. It's a comprehensive session for single cell customers looking to enhance their analysis with spatial capabilities. This event will be hosted at 10x Genomics.

Complimentary transportation will be provided from SingHealth Academia to the 10x Genomics office in the morning, with a return trip to SingHealth Academia scheduled at noon.

Seats are limited to the first 50 guests - register now to secure your seat.

Final Lunch with Poster & Exhibitor Viewing
 

Breakout Session:

HCA data portal, metadata and file formats for spatial omics

Breakout Session Leader: Nils Gehlenborg
 

HCA Regional Networks Meeting, Part 1

The HCA Regional Networks will meet the afternoon of 11 June and will feature speakers from the HCA Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America Regional Networks. The meeting will highlight the progress and opportunities unique to each Regional Network, 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 the workshop by modifying their registration: View or modify an existing registration. 

Speakers:

• Ayah Al-Rawni: HCA Archive and Regional Networks
• Jones Gyamfi: Exploring tumor microenvironment heterogeneity of triple negative breast cancers via single-cell transcriptomics
• Yasuhiro Murakawa
• Ankita Chatterjee: Immunological Consequences of Smoking
• Quan Nguyen: Multimodal data integration across single cells, tissues, cohorts and populations
• Khanh Do: Metabolic Signaling Dysregulation in Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.
• Woong-Yang Park
• Lan Jiang: Scaling Natural and Disease Cohorts Through Innovation and Shared Data Governance

Coffee Break

HCA Regional Networks Meeting, Part 2

The HCA Regional Networks will meet the afternoon of 11 June and will feature speakers from the HCA Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America Regional Networks. The meeting will highlight the progress and opportunities unique to each Regional Network, 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 the workshop by modifying their registration: View or modify an existing registration. 

Speakers:

• Drew Neavin: Curation of diversity demographics in single-cell atlases
• Yulia Medvedeva
• Tim Stuart: Scaling single-cell chromatin analysis with regulatory element modules
• Varodom Charoensawan: Cellular Complexity and Systemic Immune Profiles Across Ancestral Diversity in Thailand and Mainland SouthEast Asia

Cross-Regional Discussion

Closing Remarks

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 - 10:30 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: 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 + AIDA 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

Illumina Multiomics Showcase: Manufacturing Tour & Networking Session

This tour grants you exclusive access to Illumina's manufacturing and R&D facility in Singapore. Join the tour to discover how their sequencers and consumables are made. Illumina’s R&D team will also share the latest multi-omic tools that are available and currently in development.

If you are interested in attending, please email amea@illumina.com with the subject line “HCA Tour” and someone from their team will contact you to coordinate further details.