{"id":8474,"date":"2023-10-04T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/?page_id=8474"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:26:27","slug":"spatial-biology-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/seminars\/spatial-biology-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial Biology Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>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. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please e-mail <strong>Erin Kane (erinkane@bu.edu)<\/strong> to be added to the calendar invite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Spatial Biology Seminar Series Schedule<br \/>\nComplete 2025-2026 schedule coming soon<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 10, 2025<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><\/strong>Speaker: <strong>Laura Polanco<br \/>\n<\/strong>PhD Candidate, Section of Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Past Seminars<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 4th, 2024, <em>\u201c<\/em><em><span>Multiplexed 3D Analysis of Cell Plasticity and Immune Niches in Melanoma<\/span>\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Speaker: <strong>Ajit Johnson Nirmal<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em>Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fksoU6ILPc_NT-wM9zZj-N8xunF-KNHy\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 7th, 2024, <em>\u201c<\/em><em><span>Spatial\u00a0Niche Trajectory Analysis<\/span>\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Speaker: <strong>Guo-Cheng Yao<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/14qGMgjyUgF5D4FyWWOGmSof72aHRcUWe\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 5th, 2024, <em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Viewing snapshots of the cellular landscape of diseased tissue through the lens of a statistician\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em>Speaker: <strong>Ellis Patrick<br \/>\n<\/strong>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.<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1oUW5UAgfz7NuMwFQk56Pefvxxa5-SZxw\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>February 6th, 2024, \u201c<span>The Wombo Combo: partnering\u00a0spatialtranscriptomics with quantitative pathology to elucidate Ebola-induced hepatic dysregulation<\/span>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em>Speaker: <strong>Anna Tseng<br \/>\n<\/strong>PhD Candidate, Department of Virology, Immunology &amp; Microbiology, Chobanian and Avedisian BU School of Medicine.<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1eOKxuqiBbLnwoc72Yv7KeioUuU_9Rr3e\/view?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>December 5th, 2023, \u201cConstructing Tissue Atlas of the Microbe-Host Interface with MERFISH\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em>Speaker: <strong>Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital and Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>November 14th, 2023, \u201cAll optical genetic screens of intra cellular and inter cellular transcriptional circuits with Perturb-FISH.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em>Speaker: <strong>Loic Binan, PhD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Postdoctoral Fellow, Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ZUlZQxI2jUiLUY_4LWg7dnP4YxUbuj9u\/view\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>November 7th, 2023, \u201cnnSVG for the identification of spatially variable genes and unsupervised analyses of spatial transcriptomics data\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Speaker: <strong>Lukas Weber<br \/>\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health.<br \/>\n<\/em>Watch seminar recording <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SUQJYsBkc5hakWJ8-QLltSSRxzp76NRI\/view?usp=drive_link\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>October 3rd, 2023, \u201c<span>Image integrative\u00a0spatial\u00a0transcriptomics analysis to uncover tumor heterogeneity<\/span>\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Speaker: <strong>Rushin Gindra<br \/>\n<\/strong>PhD Candidate, Experimental Medicine, Technical University of Munich.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Section of Computational Biomedicine will be holding a Spatial Biology Seminar Series beginning in December 2025 and continuing on until June 2026. 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