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Cell Biology at Scale 2025

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.

ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME

Thu Thursday

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.

Paul Blainey

Paul Blainey

MIT/Broad

Andrea Califano

Andrea Califano

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York

Iain Cheeseman

Iain Cheeseman

MIT/Whitehead

Jonah Cool

Jonah Cool

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Headshot of Manuel Leonetti

Manuel Leonetti

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

Peter Sims

Peter Sims

Columbia University

Questions or comments can be emailed to the event organizers at events@ny.czbiohub.org.