Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

• Opening - Alistair Forrest
• Welcome to Country - Nick Abraham
• OMRI Welcome Address - Timothy Leen

Session Chair: Shyam Prabhakar & Piero Carninci

• State of the HCA - Sarah Teichmann & Muzz Haniffah
• HCA Asia- Shyam Prabhakar
• HCA Africa - Michelle Muthui
• HCA Latin America - Patricia Severino
• HCA Middle East - Youssef Idaghdour
• UNESCO - Casimiro Vizzini
• Diversity and Equity Panel Discussion

Light bites and drinks to be served.

Poster presenters: Odd numbered posters

Poster session sponsored by Showcase WA

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: Jean Yang & Yutaka Suzuki

Speakers:

• Hae Ock Lee: Lung Cancer Immunity in Space and Response
• Arutha Kulasinghe: The Cancer Blueprint Project
• Yuejiao Li: HESTA: Mapping Post-gastrulation Human Organogenesis in Space and Time
• Hideya Kawaji: A spatially resolved cell atlas of giant cell arteritis reveals a granuloma niche wired by macrophage-centered immune–stromal circuits
• Quan Nguyen: Improving Performance, Robustness and Interpretability of H&E-Based Models in Spatial Pathology
• Vaibhao Janbandhu: Macro- and Micro-Tissue Niches Govern Cardiac Fibroblast State Transitions in Infarcted Hearts
• Yutaka Suzuki: Launch of ASTRA; An attempt to generate a spatial catalogue of Asia-Pacific cancers

This session is sponsored by 10x Genomics

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

• Correcting for cell segmentation errors in analysis of spatial transcriptomics

Session Chair: Go Sato & Davis McCarthy

Speakers:

• Emily Wong: Machine learning of mammalian regulatory elements
• Davis McCarthy: Transcript-centric workflow for general, scalable analysis of image-based spatial transcriptomics data with graph neural networks
• Ellis Patrick: Identifying cellular relationships in finely annotated spatial transcriptomics data
• Jong-Eun Park: Towards a Universal Map of Human Cell-State Dynamics
• Stefano Mangiola: A multi-tissue map of immune ageing powered by cellNexus
• Guangdun Peng: Time and spatial resolved molecular annotation of embryo development

Session Chair: Alistair Forrest

Speakers:

• Francesca Meschi (10x Genomics): The Next Generation of Single Cell and Spatial Genomics Technology
• Luan Nguyen (Vizgen): Cell Atlases Need a Third Dimension: Mapping Cellular Neighborhoods in 3D   
• Aaron Lin (Element Biosciences): From pooled CRISPR screens to spatial context: a same-cell multiomic workflow
• Patrick Bogard (Roche): AXELIOS 1 Sequencing Platform - An Introduction

Topics:

1. Spatial - Shyam Prabhakar & Arutha Kulasinghe
2. Disease - Ponpan M. Choopong & Jay Shin
3. Cross Tissue Atlasing - Jong Eun Park & Jean Yang
4. A.I. and data analytics - Joseph Powell + Peter Kharchenko

Breakout Session Leaders: Shyam Prabhakar & Arutha Kulasinghe

Breakout Session Leaders: Jong Eun Park & Jean Yang

Breakout Session Leaders: Joseph Powell + Peter Kharchenko

Breakout Session Leaders: Ponpan M. Choopong & Jay Shin

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: Jay Shin & Guangdun Peng

Speakers:

• Ryan Lister: Single-cell discovery and characterisation of human epigenome editors
• Yun Xia: Macrophage–Kidney Assembloids: Modeling Microenvironmental Contributions to Kidney Pathophysiology
• Jian Yang: Mapping the cellular etiology of complex traits
• Bryony Nayagam: Building an Integrated Human Ear Atlas
• James Timmons: Ageing Human muscle ageing: modelled using spatial and network transcriptomics
• Kiyofumi Hamashima: Single-cell epitranscriptomic atlas and multilayer molecular crosstalk decoded by m6A-CT2

This session is sponsored by:

An opportunity to explore the area (sunset 18:44 pm) - please note closing times of dining options in the area.

Food/Drinks will not be served at the venue

Snacks and drinks to be served.

Poster Presenters: Even numbered posters.

Poster session sponsored by Showcase WA

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: Angela Wu

Session Chair: Jong Eun Park & Partha Majumder

Speakers:

• Ruby Huang: Spatial Biomarkers for Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma in Cohorts and in the Real World
• Woong-Yang Park: Spatial Tumor Ecosystems Associated with Response and Resistance to HER2-Targeted Therapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
• Kamran Khan: Cohort-scale Xenium spatial transcriptomics identifies tumour-intrinsic and microenvironmental predictors of survival in 122 high-grade serous ovarian cancers
• Natini Jinawath: Integrative Spatial Multi-Omics Analysis Reveals THBS1-Mediated Tumor–Stroma Interactions Associated with Chemotherapy Resistance in Colorectal Cancer
• Elaine Yiqun Cao: Integrated Single-Cell Multi-Omic Lineage Tracing Identifies Pre-Existing Blast Crisis-Initiating Clones at Chronic Phase CML Diagnosis
• Anjaney Pandey: Dissecting the Post-Partum Breast Cancer Microenvironment: Spatial Landscape of Involution-Driven Immunosuppression

This session is sponsored by 

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: Alistair Forrest

Session Chair: Joseph Powell & Emily Wong

Speakers:

• Seyhan Yazar: One genome, many contexts: Mapping cell-type-specific genetics effects in early multiple sclerosis
• Drew Neavin: Charting the ancestral landscape of single-cell atlases reveals disparities and drives discovery
• Angli Xue: Genetic regulation of cell type–specific chromatin accessibility shapes immune function and disease risk
• Ying Ying Wong: Integrative single-cell immunogenomics reveals early T cell dysregulation before type 1 diabetes seroconversion
• Jingjing Wang: Decoding human brain non-coding variants and gene regulation programs with single-cell genomics and deep learning

This session is sponsored by:

Session Chair: Alistair Forrest

Speakers:

• Shaobo Zhang (Illumina): Expanding the Frontiers of Spatial Transcriptomics With StrataMap: From Flexible Workflows to 3D Tissue Biology
• Yunica Liu (Seekgene): From Epigenome to Transcriptome: Unlocking New Dimensions in Single-Cell Multiomics. 
• Steven Lee (Ultima Genomics): Accelerating Global Adoption of Precision Medicine and BioAI
• Alka Saxena (GenomicsWA): What’s Next in Single-Cell and Spatial Genomics?

Session Chairs: Shyam Prabhakar & Jay Shin

1. Spatial - Shyam Prabhakar & Arutha Kulasinghe
2. Disease - Ponpan M. Choopong & Jay Shin
3. Cross Tissue Atlasing - Jong Eun Park & Jean Yang
4. A.I. and data analytics - Joseph Powell + Peter Kharchenko

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: Ponpan M. Choopong & Melanie Neeland

Speakers:

• Anunya Opasawatchai: Distinct immune endotypes underlie persistent immune remodeling after SARS-CoV-2 infection
• Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong: Single-cell profiling reveals compartmentalised and disease-specific immune responses in tuberculous meningitis
• Partha Majumder: A single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals that smoking induces enrichment of Interferon signaling in Asian populations.
• George Howitt: earlyAIR: a single-cell atlas of five paediatric airway tissues reveals immune programs that evolve from infancy to adolescence
• Sifan Zhang: Combining spatial transcriptomics and proteomics to profile human lymph nodes in ageing and vaccine responses
• Waradon Sungnak: Toward a Cellular and Genetic Atlas of Human Immune Responses to Dengue Infection
• Mai Hasegawa: Longitudinal single-cell lineage tracing reveals donor–recipient immune circuits in intestinal transplantation

This session is sponsored by:

EMCR + Poster awards

Tickets can be purchased by modifying your registration.

9:00 - 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks, Goals and Agenda

9:15 - 10:15 AM: Getting to know the AIDA Ancestry Network Teams

10:15 - 10:45 AM: Q&A

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10:45 - 11:00 AM: Break

11:00 - 12:30 PM: Research Spotlights from AIDA

12:30 - 2:00 PM: Lunch

2:00 PM onwards: AIDA Closed Door Meeting (By Invite Only)

Lunch/Coffee Break is kindly sponsored by