• State of the HCA
• HCA Regional Networks
• UNESCO
• Diversity and Equity Panel Discussion

Light bites and drinks to be served.

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Hae Ock Lee: TBC 
• Arutha Kulasinghe: TBC 
• Yuejiao Li: Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of human embryos after gastrulation
• 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: Spatially Organized Niches Govern Fibroblast Identity in the Remodelling Heart
• Yutaka Suzuki: Launch of ASTRA; An attempt to generate a spatial catalogue of Asia-Pacific cancers

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Emily Wong: TBC 
• 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: 

Speakers:

• 10x Genomics
• Vizgen/Integrated Science
• Element Biosciences
• GenomicsWA
• Ultima Genomics

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

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Topics:

1. Spatial
2. Disease
3. Cross Tissue Atlasing 
4. A.I. and data analytics

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

Light bites and drinks to be served.

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Ruby Huang: TBC 
• Woong-Yang Park: TBC 
• 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: Single-Cell and Spatial Landscape of Involution-Driven Immunosuppression

Coffee/Tea and light bites to be served.

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Jian Yang: TBC 
• Seyhan Yazar: TBC 
• 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

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Illumina
• Roche
• Seekgene
• ProImmune

Session Chair: 

Speakers:

• Anunya Opasawatchai: TBC 
• Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong: TBC 
• 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

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

10:45 - 11:00 AM: Break

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

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12:30 - 2:00 PM: Lunch (self-organized)

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