Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium
Date: Monday, May 11, 2020
Time: 9 am - 5 pm
Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium
Smilow Center for Translational Research
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Penn Program in Single Cell Biology and ITMAT are hosting the University of Pennsylvania’s sixth Single Cell Biology Symposium on May 11, 2020. This day-long event will bring to Penn a group of distinguished investigators who are on the forefront of single cell discovery. From probing single cells to biomedical applications of single cell techniques, this symposium will highlight research that will excite a broad audience across a large number of scientific disciplines.
Featured speakers include:
- Shana Kelley, University Professor of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Directory PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative), University of Toronto
- Peter Kharchenko, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University
- Sydney Shaffer, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Aaron Streets, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley
- Doug Wallace, Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair and Director for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, and Takara.
Previous Events
Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Many of the talks are available online on Vimeo. Talks by Drs Andrea Bild, Klaus Hahn, and Andrew McMahon were not filmed.
The Penn Program in Single Cell Biology and ITMAT are hosting the University of Pennsylvania’s fifth Single Cell Biology Symposium on November 13, 2018. This day-long event will bring to Penn a group of distinguished investigators who are on the forefront of single cell discovery. From probing single cells to biomedical applications of single cell techniques, this symposium will highlight research that will excite a broad audience across a large number of scientific disciplines.
Featured speakers include:
- Nikolai Slavov, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University (View talk)
- Polly Fordyce, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Stanford University
- Ellen Rothenberg, Department of Biology, Caltech (View talk)
- Klaus Hahn, Department of Pharmacology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
- Andrea Bild, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope
- Katalin Susztak, Department of Medicine, Penn School of Medicine (View talk)
- Andrew McMahon, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Symposium Program and Abstracts.
Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, 10x Genomics, BD, Illumina, Partek, Qiagen, Takara.
Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
The Penn Program in Single Cell Biology and ITMAT are hosting the University of Pennsylvania’s fourth Single Cell Biology Symposium on May 10, 2017. This day-long event will bring to Penn a group of distinguished investigators who are on the forefront of single cell discovery. From probing single cells to biomedical applications of single cell techniques, this symposium will highlight research that will excite a broad audience across a large number of scientific disciplines.
Featured speakers include:
- Maria Margarita Behrens, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute
- Paul Blainey, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT and Broad Institute
- David Issadore, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Allon Klein, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University
- Sarah Teichman, Cellular Genetics, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Chris Walsh, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University
Round Table Technology Discussion moderated by Jim Eberwine and Junhyong Kim.
Symposium Program and Abstracts.
Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, 10x Genomics, BD, Bio-Rad, Illumina, Qiagen, Takara.
Single Cell Biology Symposium
Slide from NIH program representatives, presented during the symposium: SCB2016-NIH.pdf
Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Featured speakers include:
- David Chenoweth, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
- Zev Gartner, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
- Deirdre Meldrum, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
- Nicholas Navin, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
- C. Ron Yu, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- Jin Zhang, Department of Pharmacology, UCSD
Short presentations will by made by NIH representatives:
- the Common Fund Single Cell Program
- the Brain Initiative
- the Cancer Institute
Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, Takara Clontech Laboratories, Fluidigm, Illumina, Leica Microsystems.
Single Cell Biology Symposium
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Featured speakers include:
- Daniel T. Chiu, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry and Bioengineering, University of Washington
- Carolyn Larabell, Anatomy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UCSF
- Woong-Yang Park, Samsung Genome Institute, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
- Stephen Quake, Bioengineering, Stanford University
- Hari Shroff, High Resolution Optical Imaging, NIH-Nat’l Inst of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
- Lani Wu, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, Takara Clontech Laboratories, Fluidigm, Illumina.
Single Cell Biology Symposium
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Featured speakers include:
- Nancy Allbritton, Joint Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina & North Carolina State University
- Helen M. Blau, Microbiology & Immunology and Stem Cell Institute, Stanford University
- Chi Van Dang, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Chris B. Murray, Chemistry and Material Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Garry P. Nolan, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University
- Arjun Raj, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Sherman M. Weissman, Genetics, Yale University
Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, Takara Clontech Laboratories, IBM, Illumina, Life Technologies, NanoString Technologies.
