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SEP 15 - 16 2020

Advancing Science: A Spatial Biology Conference

Spatial technologies are enabling new discoveries that advance our understanding of a range of biology, including viral host immune response and the tumor immune microenvironment. This virtual conference brings together research professionals, scientists, and clinicians from around the world to learn about and discuss recent discoveries in spatial biology.

 

Scientific tracks include:

  • COVID-19 Research.
  • Spatial Genomics Research.
  • Spatial Genomics Data Analysis.

 

This free online event allows you to participate at the most convenient time for your location:

Europe: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM British Summer Time / 10:00 AM-4:30 PM Central European Time. September 15.

Americas: 11:00 AM-5:30 PM Eastern Time. September 15.

Asia Pacific: 11:00 AM- 5:30 PM Beijing Standard Time. September 16.


Speakers
  • Plenary: Peter Sorger, PhD

    Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
  • Alexander Aivazidis, PhD

    Student, Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Omer Bayraktar, PhD

    Appointed Cellular Genetics Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Alain Borczuk, MD

    Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Christina Curtis, PhD

    Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology, Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University
  • Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD

    Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming University
  • Karin Pelka, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Laura Perin, PhD

    Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute
  • Robert E. Schwartz, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD

    Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute
  • Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD

    Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • David T. Ting, MD

    Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, MGH Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Ioannis Vlachos, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

N. America Agenda

 

Advancing Science: A Spatial Biology Conference

September 15, 2020

Start Time –11:00 am ET

Time

 

N. America (ET)

 

10:00 am (ET)

DOORS OPEN

10:30 am (ET)

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

11:00 am (ET)

PLENARY SESSION  

Spatial Analysis of Immune Micro-Environments In Cancer and COVID-19

Peter Sorger, PhD

Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, Head of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Sciences (HiTS) and Director of its Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology Harvard Medical School

 

BREAK (5 min) 

11:45 am (ET)

COVID-19 RESEARCH 

Transcriptomics of SARS-CoV2 Induced Lung Injury: A Spatial Transcriptomics Approach

Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

COVID-19 Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Dissecting the Root Cause of Its Severity

Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Alain Borczuk, MD, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Insights Of Lung Pathology in COVID-19 Autopsies

Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD, Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity of Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pulmonary Infection

David Ting, MD, Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, MGH Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Panel Roundtable

 

BREAK (15 min)

1:30 pm (ET)

SPATIAL GENOMICS RESEARCH 

Mechanisms of Alport Syndrome Pathogenesis

Laura Perin, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology, Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute and Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute

Cellular Elements and Spatially-Organized Immune Hubs in Colorectal Cancer

Karin Pelka, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Spatial Evolution of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Program of Head and Neck Cancer

Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD, Investigator, Urology Research

Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming University

 

BREAK (15 min)

3:00 pm (ET)

SPATIAL GENOMICS DATA ANALYSIS 

Shotgun Transcriptome and Spatial Profiling of SARS-CoV-2

Christopher E. Mason, PhD, Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Characterization of The Tumor-Immune Microenvironment Through Therapy in Breast Cancer

Christina Curtis, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology

Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University

Whole Transcriptome in Situ Cell Atlas Reveals The Cellular Composition of The Developing Human Brain

Omer Bayraktar, PhD, Appointed Cellular Genetics Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Alexander Aivazidis, PhD, student, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Spatial Transcriptomics and Single-Cell Integration for In-Depth Localized Tissue Interrogation

Ioannis Vlachos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

Panel Roundtable

4:30 pm (ET)

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

 

Europe Agenda

 

Advancing Science: A Spatial Biology Conference

September 15, 2020

Start Time – 9:00 am BST / 10:00 am CET

*Presented in English

Time

 

British Standard Time (BST)

Central European Time (CET)

8:00 am (BST)

9:00 am (CET)

DOORS OPEN

8:30 am (BST)

9:30 am (CET)

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

9:00 am (BST)

10:00 am (CET)

PLENARY SESSION 

Spatial Analysis of Immune Micro-Environments In Cancer and COVID-19

Peter Sorger, PhD

Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, Head of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Sciences (HiTS) and Director of its Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology Harvard Medical School

 

BREAK (5 min)

9:45 am (BST)

10:45 am (CET)

 

COVID-19 RESEARCH 

Transcriptomics of SARS-CoV2 Induced Lung Injury: A Spatial Transcriptomics Approach

Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

COVID-19 Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Dissecting the Root Cause of Its Severity

Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Alain Borczuk, MD, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Insights Of Lung Pathology in COVID-19 Autopsies

Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD, Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity of Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pulmonary Infection

David Ting, MD, Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, MGH Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Panel Roundtable

 

BREAK (15 min)

11:30 am (BST)

12:30 pm (CET)

SPATIAL GENOMICS RESEARCH 

Mechanisms of Alport Syndrome Pathogenesis

Laura Perin, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology, Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute and Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute

Cellular Elements and Spatially-Organized Immune Hubs in Colorectal Cancer

Karin Pelka, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Spatial Evolution of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Program of Head and Neck Cancer

Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD, Investigator, Urology Research

Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming University

 

BREAK (15 min)

1:00 pm (BST)

2:00 pm (CET)

SPATIAL GENOMICS DATA ANALYSIS 

Shotgun Transcriptome and Spatial Profiling of SARS-CoV-2

Christopher E. Mason, PhD, Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Characterization of The Tumor-Immune Microenvironment Through Therapy in Breast Cancer

Christina Curtis, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology

Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University

Whole Transcriptome in Situ Cell Atlas Reveals The Cellular Composition of The Developing Human Brain

Omer Bayraktar, PhD, Appointed Cellular Genetics Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Alexander Aivazidis, PhD, student, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Spatial Transcriptomics and Single-Cell Integration for In-Depth Localized Tissue Interrogation

Ioannis Vlachos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Panel Roundtable

2:30 pm (BST)

3:30 pm (CET)

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

 

APAC Agenda

 

Advancing Science: A Spatial Biology Conference

September 16, 2020

Start Time – Asia-Pacific: 10:30 am (Beijing Standard Time)

*Presented in English

Time

(Beijing Standard Time)

 

10:00 am

DOORS OPEN

10:30 am

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

11:00 am

PLENARY SESSION 

Spatial Analysis of Immune Micro-Environments In Cancer and COVID-19

Peter Sorger, PhD

Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, Head of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Sciences (HiTS) and Director of its Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology Harvard Medical School

BREAK (5 min)

11:45 am

COVID-19 RESEARCH 

Transcriptomics of SARS-CoV2 Induced Lung Injury: A Spatial Transcriptomics Approach

Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

COVID-19 Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Dissecting the Root Cause of Its Severity

Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Alain Borczuk, MD, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Insights Of Lung Pathology in COVID-19 Autopsies

Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD, Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity of Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pulmonary Infection

David Ting, MD, Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, MGH Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Panel Roundtable

BREAK (15 min)

1:30 pm

SPATIAL GENOMICS RESEARCH 

Mechanisms of Alport Syndrome Pathogenesis

Laura Perin, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology, Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD, Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute

Cellular Elements and Spatially-Organized Immune Hubs in Colorectal Cancer

Karin Pelka, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Spatial Evolution of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Program of Head and Neck Cancer

Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD, Investigator, Urology Research

Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming University

 

BREAK (15 min)

3:00 pm

SPATIAL GENOMICS DATA ANALYSIS 

Shotgun Transcriptome and Spatial Profiling of SARS-CoV-2

Christopher E. Mason, PhD, Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine

Spatial Characterization of The Tumor-Immune Microenvironment Through Therapy in Breast Cancer

Christina Curtis, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology

Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University

Whole Transcriptome in Situ Cell Atlas Reveals The Cellular Composition of The Developing Human Brain

Omer Bayraktar, PhD, Appointed Cellular Genetics Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Alexander Aivazidis, PhD, student, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Spatial Transcriptomics and Single-Cell Integration for In-Depth Localized Tissue Interrogation

Ioannis Vlachos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Panel Roundtable

4:30 pm

Exhibits Hall/Poster Viewing/Networking/Software Demonstrations

 

Sponsors & Partners

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Speakers


  • Plenary: Peter Sorger, PhD

    Plenary: Peter Sorger, PhD

    Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

  • Alexander Aivazidis, PhD

    Alexander Aivazidis, PhD

    Student, Wellcome Sanger Institute

  • Omer Bayraktar, PhD

    Omer Bayraktar, PhD

    Appointed Cellular Genetics Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute

  • Alain Borczuk, MD

    Alain Borczuk, MD

    Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Christina Curtis, PhD

    Christina Curtis, PhD

    Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology, Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University

  • Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD

    Z. Gordon Jiang, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  • Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD

    Muh-Hwa Yang, MD, PhD

    Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming University

  • Karin Pelka, PhD

    Karin Pelka, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Laura Perin, PhD

    Laura Perin, PhD

    Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute

  • Robert E. Schwartz, PhD

    Robert E. Schwartz, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD

    Sargis Sedrakyan, PhD

    Investigator, Research Urology Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, The Saban Research Institute

  • Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD

    Åsa Segerstolpe, PhD

    Research Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  • David T. Ting, MD

    David T. Ting, MD

    Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, MGH Cancer Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Ioannis Vlachos, PhD

    Ioannis Vlachos, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Gamification

NANOSTRING GAMIFICATION

Announcing! All registered attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the NanoString Gamification activity. Upon entry into the virtual conference, attendees will earn points and compete for a chance to win a pair of Apple Air Pod Pro's and other awesome prizes! Collect points by attending session presentations, joining a live GeoMx Interactive Data Experience, engaging in the Virtual Lab, exploring the Exhibit Hall, interacting with booth reps, downloading posters and participating in social. Winners will be announced Friday, September 18th at 5pm ET!

 

 

                                                                       

 

Terms and Conditions for the NanoString Gamification Activity Prizes

in connection with

Advancing Science - A Spatial Biology Conference”

 

Registered attendees of the NanoString Technologies Advancing Science - A Spatial Biology Conference who have participated in the Gamification Activity will have the opportunity to win the following prizes; a pair of Apple AirPods Pro (three winners), NanoString branded face masks and wine glass (5 winners per region), and NanoString branded face masks and socks (25 winners per region).

 

Terms and Conditions: NanoString Technologies, Inc. is the sponsor of this prize give-away. Three pairs of Apple AirPods Pro’s, 15 sets of branded face masks and wine glasses, and 75 sets of branded face masks and socks will be awarded to individual attendees of the NanoString Technologies Advancing Science: A Spatial Biology Conference among registered attendees of the event who have participated in the Gamification Activity. Point values accumulated in the activity may be used to determine prize winners. The prize winners may be notified via email. No purchase is necessary to enter the prize give-away. The winner must be age 18 or older. Members of the immediate families of NanoString employees and directors, and persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible for this prize give-away. This prize give-away is void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. The prize winner or its employing institution, as applicable, is responsible for any tax liability, if any, incurred by accepting the prize. By registering for the event, each registrant agrees to these terms and conditions and agrees that NanoString may process the personal data he or she provides as part of registration in accordance with NanoString’s privacy policies available at www.nanostring.com/privacy. If, for any reason, the prize give-away cannot be run as planned for any causes beyond NanoString’s reasonable control, then NanoString reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, modify or suspend the prize give-away. This is not a “cash in hand” prize. The prize may not be transferred or assigned, and no substitutions or cash equivalents are allowed.NanoString has not made any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, with respect to the prizes, including, without limitation, to such prizes’ quality or fitness for a particular purpose. These terms and conditions and any action related to this prize give-away will be governed by the laws of the State of Washington without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

 

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