Cell Biology @ Scale 2023

March 30, 2023 | 9:00 a.m.–6 p.m. ET

Whitehead Institute Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

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.

Please register to attend (see button above). A series of small talks will be selected from abstracts.

[This workshop is co-sponsored by the Whitehead Institute, the Broad Institute, CZ Biohub SF, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.]

Speakers & Schedule

Co-organizers

Paul Blainey Broad Institute & MIT
Iain Cheeseman Whitehead Institute & MIT
Manuel Leonetti CZ Biohub SF

Invited Speakers & Participants

Brenda Andrews University of Toronto
Christoph Bock CeMM Vienna
Brian Brown Mount Sinai
Anne Carpenter Broad Institute
Alejandro Chavez UC San Diego
Jonah Cool CZI
Jan Ellenberg EMBL
Ru Gunawardane Allen Institute for Cell Science
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz HHMI Janelia
Ophir Shalem University of Pennsylvania
Julie Theriot University of Washington
Caroline Uhler Broad Institute
David Van Valen Caltech
Michael Ward NIH
Jonathan Weissman Whitehead Institute & MIT
Nir Yosef UC Berkeley

Schedule [all times in Eastern time]

9:00 - 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 - 11:00 a.m.
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Translational Cell Biology
Michael Ward NIH
Anne Carpenter Broad Institute
Christoph Bock CeMM Vienna
12:10 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (Whitehead Institute)
1:00 - 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 - 5:00 p.m.
Short talks selected from abstracts
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Reception (Whitehead Institute)