Programme

Programme

Day 1
09:00 — 09:30
Registration
09:30 — 09:45
Opening ceremony: welcome address. Michael Hausser, director, school of biomedical sciences, the University of Hong Kong
09:45 — 10:45
Joanna Wysocka (title TBC)*

Open lectures* session 1: enabling technologies for single cell analysis

Discussion

10:45 — 11:00
Tea break
11:00 — 12:00
Session 2. Reconstructing development at single cell resolution Berthold Gottgens: (TBC) understanding embryogenesis, and defining lineages in development by single cell analyses*

Discussion

12:00 — 13:00
Session 3. Single cell whole genomes and disease

Peter Kharchenko: detecting somatic mutations in single cells* Discussion

13:00 — 14:30
Lunch break (registered participants only)
14:30 — 18:00
Session 4. Workshop: Integrating multiomics data

Challenges, practical considerations and solutions in single cell research. Richard Gilbertson: Title TBC Discussion Berthold Gottgen (TBC): Identifying lineages and populations from single cell data. Discussion

18:00 — 19:30
Welcome mixer for ASI participants and lecturers
Day 2
10:00 — 11:00
Open lectures*

Session 5. Stem cells, organoids and disease models James Wells (TBC): a new era of organoid medicine* 

Discussion

11:00 — 11:30
Tea break
11:30 — 12:30
Pioneering organoid technologies and regenerative medicine*

Discussion

12:30 — 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 — 18:00
Session 6. Workshop: Recent advances in organoid technologies: applications and challenges. James Wells (TBC)
Discussion
18:00 — 19:30
Poster session: ASI participants and lecturers (with snacks)
Day 3
09:30 — 12:00
Open lecture*

Session 7. Multi-scale imaging of living cells and organism

Adaptive light-sheet microscopy for high-resolution imaging in living organisms*

Lecture 1: Liang Gao

Discussion

Lecture 2: Loic Royer (TBC)

Selected talks by participants I

12:00 — 14:00
Lunch + discussion session on hot topics

Students and lecturers

14:00 — 17:00
Selected talks by participants II
17:00 — 18:30
Poster session: ASI participants and lecturers (with snacks)
19:00 — 21:30
ASI dinner for participants and lecturers

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