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Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium 2026

Bringing together the international single-cell and spatial community for a two-day discussion across model and non-model systems.

Start date: 08 July 2026

End date: 09 July 2026

Time: 09.00 - 17.00

Venue: Earlham Institute (Norwich UK)

Organiser: Emily Angiolini

Enquiries:

training@earlham.ac.uk

Registration deadline: 29 June 2026

Cost: £240 Academic / £280 Industry

About the event

Single-cell and spatial technologies continue to develop at pace, generating new insights into cellular diversity within living systems.

This event aims to bring together researchers who are curious about applying single-cell technologies with those who are experts working at the forefront of the field and across a wide range of species.

Held in partnership with the UEA School of Biological Sciences, the symposium covers single-cell and spatial technologies, and their applications in microbial, plant, animal and human health and disease.

Offering a forum for researchers working on similar challenges in diverse systems to discuss the latest developments in single-cell genomics, while networking with other researchers with the intention of catalysing future development and application of single-cell genomics across the UK.

The event will feature talks from keynotes, invited speakers and selected abstracts, and we are keen to capture as broad a range of single-cell applications as possible.

Abstracts

We are offering the opportunity to present your research at the symposium as a short talk or a poster, and abstracts should be submitted following registration.

We would particularly like to encourage PhD students, early career researchers and technicians to submit abstracts, we have reserved plenty of time in the programme to hear from you all, and this year have a dedicated poster session.

The submission deadline for abstracts is 23.59 on Sunday 31 May 2026
All abstracts must be submitted electronically during your registration (there will be an option to upload your abstract as an attachment)
Submissions via email will not be considered
Abstract limits are 250 words (excluding title, full authors list and affiliations)
Presenting author should be highlighted in bold
Abstracts will be reviewed and presenting authors will be notified of the outcome within 2 weeks of submission closing.

Supported by

Sponsor logos of UEA, Parse Biosciences, Proteintech, Qiagen, Biolegend, Cytiva, 10x Genomics, Seekgene, Cellanome, Singleron, Vizgen, N6 and illumina

Organisers and trainers

Wilfried Haerty

Group Leader

Ashleigh Lister

Senior Research Assistant

Iain Macaulay

Group Leader

David Monk

Professor of Developmental Epigenetics, UEA

Irene Papatheodorou

Head of Data Science

Anita Scoones

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Edyta Wojtowicz

Group Leader

David Wright

Senior Computational Biologist

Emily Angiolini

Head of Advanced Training

Roanne Ephthite

Events Manager

Beth Bankes-Jones

Events Manager

Guest Speakers

Tatsuya Nobori

Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich

Keynote: Dissecting plant-microbe interactions with single-cell and spatial omics technologies

Jeffrey Moffitt

Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

Keynote: Mapping the microbe-host interface with genomic-scale microscopy

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Keynote: Early metazoan cell type diversity, evolution, and regulation

Ang Li

University of Oxford (Honorary Fellow at Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland)

Keynote: Methods of integrating GWAS and single cell data

Christos Proukakis

UCL & Royal Free NHS Trust

Invited Speaker: The somatic CNV landscape of the Parkinson’s disease brain at single cell resolution

Min-Yao Jhu

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Invited Speaker: 4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs

Ava Khamseh

Institute of Cancer & Genetics, The University of Edinburgh

Invited Speaker: Single-cell (sub)type and state quantification at high resolution with uncertainty quantification

Alina Kurjan

Research Associate at University of Oxford and Senior Computational Scientist at Entelo Bio

Invited Speaker: When tendon grows up: cellular divergence from development to adult life

Dalia Rosano

Staff Scientist, Institute of Cancer Research London

Invited Speaker: Epigenetic Adaptation Shapes Dormancy and Reveals Vulnerabilities in ER+ Breast Cancer

Programme

Please note: this is a draft programme will be subject to changes.

Day 1 - 08 July 2026

09.00 - 09.30

Registration and coffee

09.30 - 09.45

Welcome

09.45 - 10.30

Keynote: Arnau Sebé-Pedrós

Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Talk: Early metazoan cell type diversity, evolution, and regulation

10.30 - 11.00

Invited Speaker: Min-Yao Jhu

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Talk: 4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs

11.00 - 11.30

Break

11.30 - 11.45

Selected Speaker: Lydia Pouncey

University of East Anglia (UEA)

Talk: Deciphering novel gene regulatory networks governing avian embryonic

11.45 - 12.00

Selected Speaker: Benjamin Tremblay

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Talk: Resolving the cell state-specific regulatory logic of plant immunity with single-nucleus multiome profiling

12.00 - 13.00

Sponsor Showcase

Mike Day, Parse Biosciences

The future of single cell RNA sequence – seamless scaleability with evercode V4

Amber Vaitkute, BioLegend

TotalSeq for Surface, Intracellular and Nuclear Protein Detection

Anish Senan, Cytiva

Looking to improve cell viability in single-cell analysis

Marcus Levitt, 10x Genomics

10x Genomics – From single cell IMPOSSIBLE

Patrick Hickland, Qiagen

TBC

Hasi Patel, Waters Biosciences

TBC

Carole Chedid, Cellanome

CellCage^TM Technology: a dynamic approach to single-cell functional genomics

Sam Hamlett, Illumina

TBC

Mark Lynch, Seekgene

All in one cell – Expanding single-cell multiomics from RNA to Spatial and Epigenetic Layers

Mathias Van Bulck, Vizgen

TBC

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch and networking

14.00 - 14.30

Invited Speaker: Christos Proukakis

UCL & Royal Free NHS Trust

Talk: The somatic CNV landscape of the Parkinson’s disease brain at single cell resolution

14.30 - 14.45

Selected Speaker: James Walker

Salk Institute

Talk: Single-nucleus profiling reveals replication-coupled epigenome remodeling across ploidy states

14.45 - 15.00

Selected Speaker: Ritika Siddiqui

King's College London

Talk: Role of the microbiome in shaping chemosensory organ development and homeostasis in mice

15.00 - 15.30

Break

15.30 - 16.00

Invited Speaker: Alina Kurjan

University of Oxford & Entelo Bio

Talk: When tendon grows up: cellular divergence from development to adult life

16.00 - 16.45

Keynote Speaker: Tatsuya Nobori

The Sainsbury Laboratory

Talk: Dissecting plant-microbe interactions with single-cell and spatial omics technologies

16.45 - 17.00

Wrap up of Day 1

17.00 - 18.00

Networking with food and refreshments

Day 2 - 09 July 2026

09.00 - 09.25

Registration and coffee

09.25 - 09.30

Welcome to Day 2

09.30 - 10.15

Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Moffitt

Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

Talk: Mapping the microbe-host interface with genomic-scale microscopy

10.15 - 10.45

Invited Speaker: Ava Khamseh

Institute of Cancer & Genetics, The University of Edinburgh

Talk: Single-cell (sub)type and state quantification at high resolution with uncertainty quantification

10.45 - 11.15

Break

11.15 - 11.30

Selected Speaker: Debora Desantis

The University of Hong Kong

Talk: Single-nucleus profiling of cooperative social behaviour in a reef fish

11.30 - 11.45

Selected Speaker: Alice Bradford

University of East Anglia (UEA)

Talk: A pathway-centric framework for understanding VSMC diversity in ageing and disease

11.45 - 12.30

Panel Discussion

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch, networking, and poster session

14.00 - 14.15

Selected Speaker: Connor Reynolds

Earlham Institute

Talk: Comprehensive analysis of transcriptional noise in the plant root using snRNA-seq reveals cell-type specific mechanisms of variability

14.15 - 14.45

Invited Speaker: Dalia Rosano

Institute of Cancer Research, London

Talk: Epigenetic Adaptation Shapes Dormancy and Reveals Vulnerabilities in ER+ Breast Cancer

14.45 - 15.30

Keynote Speaker: Ang Li

University of Oxford (Honorary Fellow at Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the University of Queensland)

Talk: Methods of integrating GWAS and single cell data

15.30 - 16.00

Wrap up of symposium, networking, and refreshments

Further information

Registration Information

Registration includes lunch and refreshments on both days. There is no dress code for our events, please dress however you feel comfortable.

You will find information about travelling to Earlham Institute here.

Booking Terms and Conditions

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Any supplemental terms or changes to these conditions on a per event basis will be included on this page. If you have any queries regarding our events or in relation to your booking, please contact us at training@earlham.ac.uk.

Register today.

Registration deadline: 29 June 2026

Participation: Open to all