Single-Cell Biology: Tissue Genomics, Technologies and Disease (A2)
January 21-24, 2024  | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jason Buenrostro, Lacramioara Bintu and Fei Chen
Scholarship Deadline: Oct. 26, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Oct. 26, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 16, 2023
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, January 21, 2024
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration British Columbia Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer British Columbia Foyer
Monday, January 22, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address British Ballroom
  Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute
Single-Cell Discovery of Disease-Associated Cell States
 
9:00–11:15 AM Genomic Regulators of Cellular Circuitry British Ballroom
  Lacramioara Bintu, Stanford University
The Control of Gene Regulation at Single-Cell Resolution
 
  David R. Kelley, Calico Life Sciences
Sequence-Based Deep Learning of Single-Cell Genomics
 
  Michael Lorenzini, Salk Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Direct Readout of Genome Perturbations and Transcription Outcomes by Single-Cell Edit Capture
 
  Fabian Müller, Saarland University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Dissecting the Epigenome Dynamics of Human Immune Cells Upon Pathogen Exposure at Single-Cell Resolution
 
  Siddharth S. Dey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Short Talk: Short Talk: Combinatorial Quantification of 5mC and 5hmC at Individual CpG Dyads and the Transcriptome in Single Cells Reveals Modulators of DNA Methylation Maintenance Fidelity in Early Mouse Development
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break British Columbia Foyer
11:15–1:00 PM On Own for Lunch
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Columbia Ballroom
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Columbia Ballroom
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable British Ballroom
  Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Executive Vice President, Director
 
  Ana Gabriela Cristancho, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor
 
  Grace Zheng, Arsenal Biosciences
Senior Director of Computational Biology and Machine Learning
 
  Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet
Professor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British Columbia Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Multi-omic Approaches to Study Gene Regulation British Ballroom
  Jason Buenrostro, Harvard University
Single-Cell Epigenomics
 
  Peter Smibert, 10x Genomics
An Ecosystem of Complementary Technologies for Analyzing Fresh and Archived Single Cells and Tissues
 
  Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet
Multi-Omic Dynamics of Oligodendroglia in Development and Disease
 
  Mattia Zaghi, Karolinska Institutet
Short Talk: Short Talk: Multi-nano Cut&Tag-RNA,a Novel Approach to Map Transcriptomic and Multiple Epigenetic Modalities from Single Cells
 
  Siran Li, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Short Talk: Short Talk: Associating Cancer and Stromal Genomes with Transcriptomes by High-Throughput Single-Nucleus Multiomic Sequencing
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Columbia Ballroom
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Columbia Ballroom
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Tissue Organization and Interactions British Ballroom
  Barbara Treutlein, ETH Zürich
Reconstructing Brain Development and Regeneration with Single-cell Technologies
 
  Fei Chen, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Tissue Genomics Tools for Probing Cellular Interactions
 
  Hongkui Zeng, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Spatial and Cellular Organization of Mouse and Human Brain
 
  Cassandra Burdziak, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The Environment-plasticity Axis in Tumor Progression
 
  Michal Polonsky, Caltech
Short Talk: Short Talk: Spatial Transcriptomics Defines Injury-Specific Microenvironments in the Adult Mouse Kidney and Novel Cellular Interactions in Regeneration and Disease
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break British Columbia Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM On Own for Lunch
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Columbia Ballroom
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Columbia Ballroom
3:00–4:30 PM Workshop 1: Mapping Diseases British Ballroom
  Samuel Cooper, Phenomic
Single-cell RNA Analysis at Scale Identifies a Conserved Wound Healing Axis in Health and Disease
 
  Siyuan Wang, Yale University
A Genome-Wide Single-Cell 3D Genome Atlas of Lung Cancer Progression
 
  Shreya Menon, University of California, San Francisco / Gladstone Institutes
Leveraging Single-cell Multi-omic Profiling to Investigate Non-coding Variants in Neurodegenerative Disease
 
  Ana Gabriela Cristancho, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Single-nucleus Multi-omics Predicts Persistent Functional Deficits in Glutamatergic Neurons after Prenatal Hypoxic Brain Injury
 
  André F Rendeiro, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine
Tissue-level Prediction of Biological Age and Pathology Incidence
 
  Lochlan J. Fennell, Monash University
Traversing The Colorectal Transcriptomic Landscape Through Space, Time and Disease
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British Columbia Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Development and Cellular Dynamics British Ballroom
  Cole Trapnell, University of Washington
Creating Cellular Diversity During Development
 
  Samantha A. Morris, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
Lineage Tracing Cell Fates
 
  Martin Tran, Caltech
Short Talk: Short Talk: Lineage motifs as developmental modules for control of cell type proportions
 
  HaoSheng Sun, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Short Talk: Short Talk: Genetic Regulation of the Post-embryonic Post-mitotic Nervous System Maturation in Single Neuron Resolution
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Columbia Ballroom
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Columbia Ballroom
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00–8:45 AM Keynote Address British Ballroom
  Emma K. Lundberg, Stanford University and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
From Mapping to Modeling the Subcellular Proteome Architecture of Cells
 
8:45–11:15 AM Single-Cell and Tissue Perturbation Technologies British Ballroom
  Bogdan Bintu, University of California, San Diego
Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals the Activation of Quiescent Neurogenic Niches in the Aging Mammalian Brain
 
  Martin Borch Jensen, Gordian Biotechnology
Pooled in vivo Testing of Therapeutics in the Environment you want them to Work
 
  Jonathan S. Weissman, Whitehead Institute, HHMI, and MIT
Genome-Wide Perturbations for Defining Principles of Biological Systems
 
  Grace Zheng, Arsenal Biosciences
Short Talk: Short Talk: Combinatorial High-throughput Genetic Screening of Regulators of T Cell Function to Improve Efficacy of Therapeutic Engineered T Cells
 
  Ceejay Lee, Liau Lab (Harvard University)
Short Talk: Short Talk: Massively Parallel Profiling of Androgen Receptor Protein-coding Variants with SCAnnEd
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break British Columbia Foyer
11:15–1:00 PM On Own for Lunch
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop 2: Frontiers in Computation British Ballroom
  Joshua Weinstein, University of Chicago
Volumetric Imaging of an Intact Organism by a Distributed Molecular Network
 
  David Wen, Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco
A Comprehensive Map of Dosage Sensitivity Across Fetal Development
 
  Camilo Espinosa Bernal, Stanford University School of Medicine
Modeling Cell-type-specific Perturbations in Single-cell Omic Datasets with Attention
 
  Peiyao Zhao, Allen Institute
SPARROW: A Sequential Algorithm for Cell Type Inference and Microenvironment Delineation in Spatial Transcriptomics
 
  Salil Bhate, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Deriving Genetic Codes for Tissues from First Principles
 
  Sandeep Kambhampati, Harvard University
Connecting Spatial Organization of Tissues to Cell State and Function using Self-supervised Machine Learning
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available British Columbia Foyer
5:00–6:15 PM Aging and Disease Associated Cell States British Ballroom
  Brian D. Brown, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Single Cell Mapping of Myeloid Cell Targets of Cancer
 
  Wolf Reik, Altos Labs, Cambridge Institute of Science
Single Cell Multi-omics Landscape of Development and Ageing
 
  Ailsa Jeffries, UMass Chan Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Bidirectional Relationship between the Aging Genome and Transcriptome in the Human Brain
 
6:15–7:00 PM Closing Keynote Address British Ballroom
  Michael Elowitz, HHMI/California Institute of Technology
Cellular Circuitry and Dynamics
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) British Ballroom
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites The Roof
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar The Roof
Thursday, January 25, 2024
7:00–11:59 PM Departure