AGENDA
Monday, 2 Nov (8am - 11:30am) - Early-Mid Career Researcher (EMCR) Session
Monday, 2 Nov (8am - 11:30am) - Early-Mid Career Researcher (EMCR) Session
| Early-Mid Career Researcher (EMCR) Session |
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8:00 - 9:25 AM: EMCR Session 1
9:25 - 10:00 AM: Coffee Break 10:00 - 11:30 AM: EMCR Session 2
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Monday, 2 Nov (12:30pm - 4:30pm) - 10x Workshop
Monday, 2 Nov (12:30pm - 4:30pm) - 10x Workshop
| 10x Genomics Workshop |
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Scaling Single Cell and Spatial Biology Without Compromise Join us for an exclusive pre-conference workshop exploring multiomic tools that scale your research from single cells to spatial biology in complex tissues. Get a firsthand look at our new in situ technology, Atera, and discover the latest enhancements to our single cell platforms including multiomic protein detection and expanded blood profiling. Attendance is free and includes complimentary lunch. Register now: https://10xgen.com/265 |
5:00 PM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
5:10 PM
- Opening - Alistair Forrest
- Welcome to Country - Nick Abraham
- OMRI Welcome Address - Timothy Leen
6:35 PM
- 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
8:25 PM
Light bites and drinks to be served.
Poster presenters: Odd numbered posters
Poster session sponsored by Showcase WA

8:30 AM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
10:00 AM
Session Chair:
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
10:30 AM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
11:00 AM
- Correcting for cell segmentation errors in analysis of spatial transcriptomics
12:30 PM
Session Chair:
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
1:30 PM
2:40 PM
2:50 PM
4:15 PM
Session Chair:
Speakers:
- Ryan Lister: TBC
- Yun Xia: TBC
- Partha Majumder: A single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals that smoking induces enrichment of Interferon signaling in Asian populations.
- 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
4:40 PM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
5:40 PM
Topics:
- Spatial
- Disease
- Cross Tissue Atlasing
- A.I. and data analytics
5:45 PM
7:00 PM
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
8:30 PM
Light bites and drinks to be served.
Poster Presenters: Even numbered posters.
Poster session sponsored by Showcase WA

8:30 AM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
9:00 AM
10:40 AM
Session Chair:
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
11:10 AM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
12:40 PM
Session Chair:
Speakers:
- Jian Yang: TBC
- 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
1:40 PM
2:30 PM
Session Chair:
Speakers:
- Illumina
- Roche
- Seekgene
- Ultima Genomics
2:40 PM
3:10 PM
4:50 PM
Session Chair:
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
- 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
- Heidie Cabanos: Building Human Cell Atlas Capacity in the Philippines: A National Platform for Single-Cell Genomics in Infectious and Chronic Diseases
5:20 PM
Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.
5:50 PM
6:00 PM
8:00 PM
Tickets can be purchased by modifying your registration.
5:00 PM
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 (self-organized)
2:00 PM onwards: AIDA Closed Door Meeting (By Invite Only)