We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Frontiers in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 17, and will conclude after the banquet on Thursday evening, and depart on Friday, October 23, 2026. 

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Single cell omics technologies

2. Spatial omics technologies

3. AI and virtual cells

4. Algorithms and data analytics

5. Applications for development and diseases

Keynote Speaker:

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Changping Laboratory

Invited Long Talk Speakers:

Masataka Amisaki, National Cancer Center

Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Ciro Chiappini, King's College London

Murim Choi, Seoul National University

Guoji Guo, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Yanyi Huang, Peking University

Johan Jakobsson, Lund University

Sang-Hyuk Lee, Ewha Womans University

Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University

Woong-Yang Park, Samsung Medical Center

Jongeun Park, KAIST

Shyam Prabhakar, Genome Institute of Singapore

Ankur Sharma, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Yin Shen, University of California, San Francisco

Yutaka Suzuki, University of Tokyo

Fuchou Tang, Peking University

Alexander van Oudenaarden, Hubrecht Institute

Thierry Voet, University of Leuven

Siyuan (Steven) Wang, Yale University School of Medicine

Ting Wang, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis

Xiaoqun Wang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Feng Yue, Northwestern University

Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University

Fangqing Zhao, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, CAS

Sheng Zhong, University of California San Diego

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2026.