Agenda

9:00am                  Welcome
Suzanne Tomlinson
, Gulf Coast Consortia
Rui Chen,
Baylor College of Medicine

Moderators:          Nicholas Navin, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Naiju Thomas, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

9:10-9:50               Keynote Presentation
Dissecting Human Gliomas by Single-cell Genomics​
Mario Suvà
, Harvard University

9:50-10:20             Vendor Session-Pre Function and Event Hall

Session 1:             Single Cell Genomics in Cancer

10:20-10:40            Dissecting Cancer Genetic and Microenvironment Factors Via Single-Cell Data Science
Ken Chen, MD Anderson Cancer Center

10:40-11:00            Single Cell Insights into the Tumor Microenvironment
Linghua Wang, MD Anderson Cancer Center

11:00-11:15          Tunable Tissue Engineered Model for 3D Culture and Single-Cell Proteomics Investigations of Ewing Sarcoma
Jocelyn Baker, Rice University

11:15-11:50          Lighting poster talks

11:50-2:00      Lunch and Poster Session-Event Hall

11:50-12:30 Lunch

12:30-2:00 Posters

Moderators:          Kurt Zhang, Texas A&M Institute of BioSciences and Technology
Yiyun Lin, MD Anderson Cancer Center

2:00-2:40               Keynote Presentation
scONE-seq: A Versatile Single-cell Multi-omics Method for Simultaneous Dissection of Phenotype and Genotype Heterogeneity from Frozen Tumors Angela Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Session 2:             Single-Cell Analysis

2:40-3:00               Quantitively Inferring Cellular Dynamics by Deep Learning
Guangyu Wang, Houston Methodist Research Institute

3:00-3:20               Cellular Metabolism Modeling Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
Jing Li, Texas A&M Institute of BioSciences and Technology

3:20-3:35               Using Single Cell Technologies to Uncover Key Characteristics in Natural Killer Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity
Melisa Montalvo, Univeristy of Houston

3:35-4:05               Networking Break

Session 3:             Emerging Technologies

Moderators:          Guy Nir, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Lei Yang, MD Anderson Cancer Center

4:05-4:25               Characterization of Cancer Evolution Landscape Based on Accurate Detection of Somatic Mutations in Single Tumor Cells
Chenghang Zong, Baylor College of Medicine

4:25-4:45               Deep and Scalable Single-Cell Analysis with Compression Sequencing
Mingjie Dai, Rice University


4:45-5:00               Cytosnubar–A Simple Oligonucleotide-Based Method for Multiplexing Single-Cell Transcriptomics

                              Rui Ye, MD Anderson Cancer Center

5:00 pm                 Closing Remarks, Fan Favorite Poster winners announced, Sponsor Card Drawing, and Reception