Spatial Biology Seminar Series
The Section of Computational Biomedicine will be holding a Spatial Biology Seminar Series beginning in December 2025 and continuing on until June 2026. Join us on the second Monday of the month from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom or in person in the Evans 6th floor conference room, every month.
Please e-mail Erin Kane (erinkane@bu.edu) to be added to the calendar invite.
Spatial Biology Seminar Series Schedule
Complete 2025-2026 schedule coming soon
December 10, 2025
Speaker: Laura Polanco
PhD Candidate, Section of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Boston University
Past Seminars
June 4th, 2024, “Multiplexed 3D Analysis of Cell Plasticity and Immune Niches in Melanoma”
Speaker: Ajit Johnson Nirmal
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Watch seminar recording here
May 7th, 2024, “Spatial Niche Trajectory Analysis”
Speaker: Guo-Cheng Yao
Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Watch seminar recording here
March 5th, 2024, “Viewing snapshots of the cellular landscape of diseased tissue through the lens of a statistician”
Speaker: Ellis Patrick
Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Sydney; Faculty, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research; Cluster Lead of Bioinformatics, Sydney Precision Data Science Centre.
Watch seminar recording here
February 6th, 2024, “The Wombo Combo: partnering spatialtranscriptomics with quantitative pathology to elucidate Ebola-induced hepatic dysregulation”
Speaker: Anna Tseng
PhD Candidate, Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Chobanian and Avedisian BU School of Medicine.
Watch seminar recording here
December 5th, 2023, “Constructing Tissue Atlas of the Microbe-Host Interface with MERFISH”
Speaker: Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School.
November 14th, 2023, “All optical genetic screens of intra cellular and inter cellular transcriptional circuits with Perturb-FISH.”
Speaker: Loic Binan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Watch seminar recording here
November 7th, 2023, “nnSVG for the identification of spatially variable genes and unsupervised analyses of spatial transcriptomics data”
Speaker: Lukas Weber
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health.
Watch seminar recording here
October 3rd, 2023, “Image integrative spatial transcriptomics analysis to uncover tumor heterogeneity”
Speaker: Rushin Gindra
PhD Candidate, Experimental Medicine, Technical University of Munich.