Schedule:

8:45 a.m. | Welcome by U-M Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Martin Philbert and LSI Director Roger Cone

8:55 a.m. | Introduction of the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecturer
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health, and Professor, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Director, Life Sciences Institute 2002-2015

9:00 a.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Single cell genomics: When stochasticity meets precision
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Lee Shau-kee Chair Professor, Director of the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, Peking University

9:50 a.m. | Morning break

10:10 a.m. | Solving biomedical challenges through single cell genomics approaches
Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Single Cell Genomics Research Program, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

11:00 a.m. | Exploring the biological basis of neuronal identity and diversity: From transcription mechanism to circuit function
Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D.
Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

11:50 a.m. | Poster session and lunch

1:20 p.m. | Spatial genomics and single cell lineage dynamics by seqFISH and MEMOIR
Long Cai, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

2:10 p.m. | Analytics of single cell RNA-SEQ: Lessons from heterogeneity of immune cells
Nir Yosef, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

3:00 p.m. | Afternoon break

3:20 p.m. |Myeloid cell contribution to tumor outcome
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Precision Immunology Institute, Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

Thank you to this year's external sponsors: 10x Genomics, Illumina and RareCyte