Schedule for: 25w5391 - Spatial Omics - Integrating Biotechnologies, Methodologies and Applications

Beginning on Sunday, June 15 and ending Friday June 20, 2025

All times in Hangzhou, China time, CST (UTC+8).

Sunday, June 15
14:00 - 18:00 Check-in begins at 14:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front desk - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店前台))
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
A set dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort.
(Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
Monday, June 16
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort
(Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
09:25 - 09:30 Opening Remarks by Workshop Organizers (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:35 - 09:45 Day 1 - Spatial technology and translation (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:50 - 10:05 Ge Gao: Delineate the regulatory map in silico (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:10 - 10:25 Shihua Zhang: Intelligent decoding of spatial biology (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:00 - 11:15 Jinyue LIU: Spatial architecture of autism pathogenesis during early development (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:20 - 11:35 Corina Nagy: Cortical Architecture and Cell-Cell Communication in Major Depressive Disorder (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:35 - 11:50 Joan Camunas-Soler: Integrative high-resolution spatial transcriptomics and functional imaging in the human pancreas (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort
(Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅))
14:00 - 14:15 Pingzhao Hu: PathoMap: Predicting Spatial Gene Expression from Histology via Foundation Model-Based Contrastive Learning (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
14:20 - 14:30 Jiadong Mao: Identifying complex cell states in tumour microenvironment using Φ-Space (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
14:40 - 14:55 Hanyun Zhang: Mapping tumour microenvironment dynamics during chemotherapy in breast cancer (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:30 - 15:45 Jean Yee Hwa Yang: Extracting single-cell transcriptomic information via prediction from histology images. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:50 - 16:05 Yuanhua Huang: Scalable discovery of nucleus-resolved ligand-receptor interaction by fusing spatial RNA-seq and histology images (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:10 - 16:25 Coffee Break (soft drink only) (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:30 - 16:45 Mingyao Li: Designing smart spatial omics experiments with S2Omics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:50 - 17:30 Panel discussion -translational challenges of spatial omics with complex diseases
Co-chair by Jean Yang and Lijia Yu
(Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
Tuesday, June 17
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort
(Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
09:25 - 09:40 Day 2 - Spatial Biology and multiomics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:30 - 09:45 Sunduz Keles: Learning spatially varying gene-enhancer interactions from spatial multi-modal data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:50 - 10:05 Jin Liu: From static to dynamic modeling of single-cell/spatial transcriptomics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:10 - 10:25 Xuerui Yang: Dissection of the dynamic landscapes of RNA colocalization with spatial transcriptome data (Front desk - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店前台))
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:00 - 11:05 Boxiang Liu: Single-cell RNA sequencing of peripheral blood links cell-type-specific regulation of splicing to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases (Front desk - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店前台))
11:20 - 11:35 Ying Zhu: Decoding Gene Functions: Exploring their Significance in Biological Context (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:40 - 11:55 Zhixiang Lin: Integrative Analysis and Regulatory Inference for Spatial Multi-Omics Data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅))
14:00 - 14:50 Discussion (debate) - challenges of Spatial multi-omics data integration
Co-Chair by Angela Wu and Ellis Patrick
(Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:20 - 15:35 Mark Robinson: Extracting and cross-condition modeling of spatial features from spatial omics data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:40 - 15:55 Ellis Patrick: Making Space Count: Strategies for Analysing Spatial Omics Data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:05 - 16:15 Zhenqin Wu: Spatial multi-omics and deep learning reveal immunotherapy resistance signatures in hepatocellular carcinoma (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:20 - 16:30 Coffee Break (soft drink only) (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:30 - 16:45 Angela Wu (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:50 - 17:05 Catherine Wong: Biomarker-Driven Proteomics in Drug Discovery (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
17:10 - 17:25 Jun Ding: UNAGI: A deep generative model for deciphering cellular dynamics and in-silico drug screening in complex diseases (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
17:45 - 18:00 Group Photo (Academic island(定山院士岛))
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
Wednesday, June 18
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
09:25 - 09:30 Day 3 - Spatial omics and AI (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:30 - 09:45 Xuegong Zhang: Building AI Models for Learning Cellular Spatial Contexts (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:50 - 10:05 Yue Li: Inferring spatially informed transcriptional programs via topic modeling (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:10 - 10:25 Shuangsang Fang: Research on Spatiotemporal Single-Cell Omics Algorithms and Cell Foundation Models (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:00 - 11:15 Shimin Shuai: Leveraging Single-Cell and Spatial Omics for Microbial Detection and RNA Editing Discovery (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:20 - 11:35 Yue You: A systematic comparison of single-cell perturbation response prediction models.
Change to Yue You
(Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:40 - 11:55 Matthew Ritchie: SpatialBenchHiRe: Comparative benchmarking of high-resolution spatial transcriptomics platforms using reference samples (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅))
13:30 - 18:00 Free afternoon (Academic island(定山院士岛))
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
Thursday, June 19
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
09:25 - 09:30 Day 4 - more spatial omics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:30 - 09:45 Xingming Zhao: Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of the developing human retina (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:50 - 10:05 Guanlin Wang: SURF: a self-supervised deep learning method for reference-free deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:10 - 10:25 Jiguang Wang: Immnue-hot subtype of IDH mutant astrocytoma (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:00 - 11:15 Shuqin Zhang: Cell-type annotation and missing gene imputation for single-cell spatial transcriptomics using stAI (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:20 - 11:35 Yingying Wei: Differential Inference for Spatial Transcriptomic Data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
11:40 - 11:55 Agus Salim: SpaNorm: spatially-aware normalisation for spatial transcriptomics data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅))
14:00 - 15:00 Panel discussion on education and AI - data science with omics data
Data science with spatiotemporal omics data
(Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:30 - 15:45 Peijie Zhou: Towards AI Virtual Cell Through Dynamical Generative Modeling of Single-cell Omics Data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
15:50 - 16:05 David Shih: Towards a biologically relevant statistical framework for gene regulatory network inference (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:10 - 16:25 Coffee Break (soft drink only) (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:30 - 16:45 Gerald Quon (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
16:50 - 17:05 Jian Ma: Multiscale delineation of cellular organizations in tissues (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
Friday, June 20
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅))
09:30 - 09:40 Day 5 - Future of spatial omics (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
09:40 - 09:55 Can Yang: A Scalable and Versatile Tool for Analyzing Subcellular Spatial Transcriptomics Data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:00 - 10:15 Zhana Duren: Integrated Spatial Omics Network from spatial transcriptomics and single cell multiome data (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
10:50 - 11:20 ECR Flash talks (Zoom (Online))
11:20 - 12:00 Open discussion - going forward
Exploring the tissue architecture with three-dimensional (3D) spatial omics
(Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅))
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅))