The School of Medicine hosted its 2nd yearly Yale Single Cell Symposium astatine the Mary S. Harkness Auditorium connected October 28. Featuring implicit 20 speakers, including keynote speakers Ron Fang, PhD, prof of biomedical engineering and pathology, and John Tsang, PhD, prof of immunobiology and manager of computational systems biology, and hosting implicit 200 attendees, it was an accidental for students, station docs, and module alike to stitchery unneurotic and foster connections.
“Single compartment probe is an breathtaking and emerging field,” said Amy Zhao, a 5th twelvemonth MD-PhD pupil and 1 of the pb organizers. “We hoped to facilitate gathering a assemblage for single-cell probe wrong Yale.”
The symposium opened with a invited code from Anthony Koleske, PhD, Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of neuroscience, and lawman dean for probe (basic science). “The intent of this symposium is to connection a level for trainees to contiguous their cutting-edge probe successful the tract of azygous compartment omics and to excite the Yale and greater world assemblage astir single-cell research,” helium said. “This symposium hopefully volition besides service arsenic an fantabulous networking accidental among module and trainees funny successful this field.”
Following Koleske’s invited was a keynote speech by Fang, whose pioneering enactment seeks to alteration however conditions specified arsenic crab and autoimmune illness are diagnosed and treated. He spoke astir however spatial multi-omics sequencing is driving the adjacent question of biology revolution. The symposium held a 2nd keynote speech successful the day by the precocious recruited Tsang, who studies wherefore individuals amusement specified divers immune effect to infections, vaccinations, and diseases. His laboratory aims to find ways to foretell the analyzable quality immune responses and measurement immune wellness done processing caller tools and technologies. It besides hopes to larn much astir the biologic relation of azygous compartment cistron look variation. His soon-to-be-launched Center for Systems Engineering and Immunology (CSEI) volition tackle immoderate of these challenges done promoting a quantitative, predictive knowing of the quality immune system.
The symposium included a module roundtable and manufacture speech including Kristen Brennand, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry; Naftali Kaminski, MD, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary); Xiting Yan, PhD, adjunct prof of pulmonary and biostatistics; and Sam Raredon, MD, PhD, postdoctoral chap successful anesthesiology, interior medicine, and immunology. The radical offered their unsocial perspectives connected however to dive into the blossoming field.
In summation to module presentations, students and budding azygous compartment researchers had the accidental to contiguous their probe to the assemblage passim the day. The talks emphasized the immense applications of azygous compartment research, from encephalon illness to pancreatic cancer.
The symposium was successful portion made imaginable done sponsors that included Boehringer Ingelheim, 10x Genomics, and BioLegend and Parse Biosciences.
“I recovered [this year’s symposium] astir invigorating,” says Koleske. “I americium already looking guardant to adjacent year.”
The symposium organizers comprised of Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science enactment (Dr. Katie Zhu, Leslie Dawkins, and Sharon Eligio) and the Yale Single-Cell Trainee Committee (chair Amy Zhao and co-chairs Dr. Mario Skarica, Ryland Mortlock, and Daniel Jovin).
Submitted by Isabella Backman connected November 17, 2022
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