Program description
This year's program extends beyond high-content imaging to explore biomolecular imaging & informatics more broadly construed.
The agenda will consider the following:
- Spatial omics
- Advanced microscopy platforms
- Artificial intelligence / machine learning applications
- High-content, image-based assays
- 3D, co-culture, organ-on-a-chip imaging
The conference will again feature a poster competition and the annual President's Innovation Award. The President's Innovation Award recognizes an early-career researcher who has innovated meaningfully in biomolecular imaging and informatics and who is likely to become a leader in the field. The agenda below is modified as new information becomes available. Please check back!
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Sunday, September 18 is Education Day, with parallel tracks exploring best practices and unmet needs in biomolecular imaging & informatics. The annual Colloquium, entitled Challenges and opportunities in imaging data integration and analytics, will be held that afternoon (all times US Eastern).
| Track 1 (St. George A/B) |
Track 2 (St. George B/C) |
Track 3 (Staffordshire Ballroom) |
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| 1:00 – 1:50 p.m. | Life beyond the pixels: Image analysis and machine learning for single-cell analysis—Peter Horvath (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary) | Intro to 3D imaging and analysis for spheroid and organoid models—Alexandra Title (InSphero)
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Introduction to high-content imaging—Paul A. Johnston (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. | Software environments: Enabling integrated, scalable, and open 3D imaging—Presenter TBC
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Microscopy: Advancements, and applications—Samantha Fore (Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions)
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Introduction to assay statistics—Bartek Rajwa (Purdue University) |
| 3:00 – 3:50 p.m. | Introduction to spatial biology: Imaging and applications—Yunhao Bai (Stanford University) | Automation and miniaturization of advanced 3D cell-based assays for drug screening—Tijmen Booij (ETH Zurich, NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies)
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Metrics and best practices for assay development and standardization—Joe Trask (PerkinElmer) |
2022 Colloquium
Challenges and opportunities in imaging data integration and analytics
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The Colloquium takes place 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Eastern in the Staffordshire Ballroom of The Westin Copley Place. Agenda subject to change.
| 4:00 – 4:05 p.m. | Introductory remarks—Gregory P. Way (University of Colorado) |
| 4:05 – 4:10 p.m. | An introduction to TissueGnostics—Russell Ulbrich (TissueGnostics) |
| 4:10 – 4:30 p.m. | Processing high-dimensional cell morphology representations with (open source) pycytominer—Gregory P. Way (University of Colorado) |
| 4:30 – 4:35 p.m. | Q & A |
| 4:35 – 4:55 p.m. | Presentation title TBC—Vivian Neilley (Google) |
| 4:55 – 5:00 p.m. | Q & A |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Panel discussion |
Monday, September 19, 2022
All times US Eastern. All plenary sessions will take place in the Staffordshire Ballroom of The Westin Copley Place. Agenda subject to change.
| 8:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Exhibit Hall open / Networking | ||||||
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast | ||||||
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Keynote presentation 1 Cancer rearranges the rules in tissue building blocks. A new class of targets for therapy?—Garry Nolan (Professor, Pathology, Baxter Laboratory, Stanford University) |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Keynote Spotlight Discovering meaningful data in multiplex tissue images through image analysis—Regan Baird (Visiopharm)Sponsored by Visiopharm  |
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| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Break for coffee & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 10:45 – 1:00 p.m. | Session I — Integration of spatial image-omics with data analysis tools Chairs: Don Apanovitch (Syngene), Sizun Jiang (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) |
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| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Mapping the spatial architecture of human tissues in health and disease with multiplexed ion beam imaging—Erin McCaffrey (Stanford University) | ||||||
| 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Leveraging spatial metabolomics and artificial intelligence for lung fibrosis research—Ramon Sun (University of Florida) | ||||||
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Matching cells across single-cell modalities – from sequencing to imaging—Bokai Zhu (Stanford University) | ||||||
| 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. | Decoding and visualizing tumor heterogeneity using interpretable AI—Heba Sailem (University of Oxford) | ||||||
| 12:45 – 1:00 p.m. | Spotlight Presentation title TBC—Ryan Jacobs (Zeiss Microscopy)Sponsored by Zeiss  |
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| 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. | Luncheon Spotlights Two concurrent Luncheon Spotlights will be held in St. George A/B and St. George C/D on the Conference Level. Box lunches will be provided to Spotlight attendees.
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| 1:45 – 4:30 p.m. | Session II — Enhancing translatability with imaging: 3D models, co-culture, and organ-on-a-chip Chairs: Jason Ekert (UCB), Scott Cribbes (PerkinElmer) |
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| 1:45 – 2:15 p.m. | The microvasculature squeezes metastatic cancer cells to drive disease—Chris Bakal (Institute of Cancer Research) | ||||||
| 2:15 – 2:45 p.m. | High-throughput 3D phenomics on a beach—Andrei Georgescu (CEO, Vivodyne) | ||||||
| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Spotlight Multiplex gene tagging with CRISPR-Cas9 for live high-content imaging—Oscar Perez (Temple University, School of Pharmacy) Sponsored by ExpressCells  |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Break for coffee & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Imaging complex models in target discovery: Balancing information content with throughput—Erin Edwards (GSK) | ||||||
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Presenter & presentation title TBC | ||||||
| 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Poster session & reception | ||||||
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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| 8:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Exhibit Hall open / Networking | ||||||
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast | ||||||
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Keynote presentation 2 In biology, structure suits function: A mission to decode biology—Chris Gibson (CEO, Recursion Pharma) |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Keynote Spotlight
Sponsored by PerkinElmer |
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| 10:15 – 10:45 a.m. | Break for coffee & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 10:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Session III — Advances in high-content imaging: Next generation phenotypic screening assays Chairs: Erin Edwards (GSK), David Shum (Institut Pasteur Korea), Steve Walker (Abbvie) |
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| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Advancing drug discovery by measuring protein dynamics through single particle tracking—Daniel Anderson (Eikon Therapeutics) | ||||||
| 11:15 – 11:45 a.m. | Presentation title TBC—Maria Vinci (Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital–IRCCS, Italy) | ||||||
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Phenotyping human stem cells: Defining objects, capturing identities, testing boundaries—Davide Danovi (King's College London) | ||||||
| 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. | Presenter & presentation title TBC | ||||||
| 12:45 – 1:00 p.m. | Spotlight Democratizing multiparameter high-content screening applications with the new CellInsight™ CX7 Pro Series—Nicholas M. Radio (Thermo Fisher Scientific)Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific  |
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| 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. | Luncheon (on your own) & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 1:45 – 4:30 p.m. | Session IV — Artificial intelligence / machine learning in biomolecular imaging: Successes and challenges Chairs: Gregory P. Way (University of Colorado), Heba Sailem (University of Oxford) |
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| 1:45 – 2:15 p.m. | Unleashing the morpholome—Maddison Masaeli (CEO, DeepCell Bio) | ||||||
| 2:15 – 2:45 p.m. | Interpretable machine learning in microscopy—Assaf Zaritsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) | ||||||
| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Main Session Spotlight 4—Sponsored by Araceli Biosciences | ||||||
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Break for coffee & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | AI for precision histopathology: The road ahead—Nasir Rajpoot (University of Warwick) | ||||||
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | President's Innovation Award presentation | ||||||
| 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Poster & exhibit viewing | ||||||
| 5:30 – 5:45 p.m. | Awards ceremony and meeting close | ||||||
| 5:45 – 6:15 p.m. | SBI2 Annual General Meeting (open to all attendees) | ||||||
2022 Exhibitors, Sponsors, & Partners
(as of August 8, 2022)
