Cell Biology at Scale 2025
Event Overview
When
Thursday, July 31, 2025 | 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET
Where
West End Labs
125 W End Ave, New York, NY 10023
The Cell Biology at Scale (CB@S) meeting is co-hosted by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and aims 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. Conducting 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, the field needs to re-evaluate core experimental goals, ask newly accessible biological questions, and adopt scalable technologies for data collection, curation, dissemination, and computational analysis. There is also a need for a collaborative, integrative, and interdisciplinary strategy to combine the capabilities and efforts from diverse laboratories for the robust sharing of techniques or integration of datasets.
Three years ago, we started the CB@S meetings as a first step toward achieving this vision. Every year brings a different geographic location and new scientific topics. This year we hope to touch on a number of themes including:
- Biological dynamics across scales
- In vivo perturbation technologies
- Synthetic biology, organelles and DNA assembly
- Sequence-to-function models
- Multi-modal measurements and modeling
Abstract Submission
Attendees are encouraged to submit an abstract for a short talk which would take place on July 31. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and must be submitted via the registration form by June 13, 2025 for consideration. Applicants will be notified if their abstract is accepted by July 1, 2025.
Program
ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME
July 31
Doors Open 8:00 a.m.
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
Welcome Remarks
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Andrea Califano – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York
Jonah Cool – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Session 1: CB@S Turns 3
9:15 - 10:45 a.m.
Paul Blainey – MIT/Broad
Samara Reck-Peterson – UC San Diego and HHMI
Rahul Satija – NYU
Britt Adamson – Princeton University
Noorsher Ahmed – Stanford University
Break
10:45-11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
Session 2: Perturbations at Scale
11:15 - 12:30 p.m.
Jonathan Weissman – MIT/Whitehead Institute and HHMI
Brian Brown – Mount Sinai
Peter Sims – Columbia University
Jessica Mella – UCSF
Break
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Session 3: Modeling at Scale
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Anne Carpenter – The Broad Institute
Eric Xing – Carnegie Mellon
Dana Pe’er – Memorial Sloan Kettering and HHMI
Jian Ma – Carnegie Mellon
Jialong Jiang – The Rockefeller University
Break
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Session 4: Synthetic Biology at Scale
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Emma Farley – UC San Diego
Clifford P.Brangwynne – Princeton University and HHMI
Jef Boeke – NYU
Gabriel Victora – The Rockefeller University and HHMI
Samir Amin – Yale University
Closing Remarks
5:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Iain Cheeseman – MIT/Whitehead Institute
Manuel Leonetti – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Reception
5:15 - 6:30 p.m.
ORGANIZERS

Paul Blainey
MIT/Broad

Andrea Califano
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York

Iain Cheeseman
MIT/Whitehead

Jonah Cool
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Manuel Leonetti
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

Peter Sims
Columbia University
LOCATION
Contact
Questions or comments can be emailed to the event organizers at events@ny.czbiohub.org.
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