Cell Biology at Scale 2023

When:
Where:
Whitehead Institute Auditorium Cambridge, MA

Event Overview

This workshop is presented by the CZ Biohub San Francisco in partnership with the Whitehead Institute, the Broad Institute and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Recent technological advances are transforming the scale at which cell biology can be conducted, from new imaging and labeling strategies to the systematic engineering of genes and their expression. As a result, high-throughput, multiplexed approaches are greatly expanding the biological space that can be experimentally accessed. But the ability to conduct “cell biology at scale” is not simply an expansion of the number of experiments that can be performed – it represents a fundamental change in the way that such experiments can be conceived and the questions that can be answered.

To realize this potential, we need to re-evaluate core experimental goals, newly accessible biological questions, technological approaches, data collection, curation, dissemination, and effective strategies for computational analysis. We also need a collaborative, integrative, and interdisciplinary strategy to combine the capabilities and efforts from diverse laboratories for the robust sharing of techniques and datasets.

As a first step toward achieving this vision, we are organizing the CB@S workshop to bring together a range of stakeholders from diverse disciplines to present recent developments and spark a robust discussion that will articulate key, actionable goals toward true cell biology at scale. A series of small talks will be selected from abstracts.

Co-organizers

Paul Blainey

Broad Institute & MIT

Iain Cheeseman

Whitehead Institute & MIT

Maneul Leonetti

CZ Biohub SF

Invited Speakers & Participants

University of Toronto

Brenda Andrews

CeMM Vienna

Christoph Bock

Mount Sinai

Brian Brown

Alejandro Chavez

UC San Diego

Jonah Cool

CZI

EMBL

Jan Ellenberg

Allen Institute for Cell Science

Ru Gunawardane

HHMI Janelia

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

University of Pennsylvania

Ophir Shalem

University of Washington

Julie Theriot

BRoad Institute

Caroline Uhler

Caltech

David Van Valen

NIH

Michael Ward

Whitehead Institute & MIT

Jonathan Weissman

UC Berkeley

Nir Yosef

Program

ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME

Thursday, March 30

9 – 9:10 a.m.

Welcome Remarks

9:10 – 10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Intracellular Systems

Manuel Leonetti
CZ Biohub SF

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
HHMI Janelia

Jan Ellenberg
EMBL

Brenda Andrews
University of Toronto

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Coffee Break

11 a.m. – Noon

Session 2: Translational Cell Biology

Michael Ward
NIH

Anne Carpenter
Broad Institute

Christoph Bock
CeMM Vienna

12:10 – 1 p.m.

Lunch

Whitehead Institute

1 – 2:20 p.m.

Session 3: Genomics Meets Cell Biology

Jonah Cool
CZI

Alejandro Chavez
UC San Diego

Ophir Shalem
University of Pennsylvania

Nir Yosef
UC Berkeley

2:20 – 2:40 p.m.

Coffee Break

2:40 – 3:20 p.m.

Session 4: From Images to Models

David van Valen
Caltech

Julie Theriot
University of Washington

3:20 – 3:40 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:40 – 5 p.m.

Short Talks from Abstracts

5 – 6 p.m.

Reception

Whitehead Institute

Presented in Partnership With

Contact

Email cbas2023@czbiohub.org