Thank You
Thank you for having made the first international workshop on spatial omics in plant systems a tremendous success!
This expert workshop will bring together a focused group of key researchers in the rapidly developing field of spatial omics in plant systems.
Participation fee: ¥75,000
The workshop will be a guided open format to present and discuss the challenges and opportunities for spatially resolved technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, in plant systems.
When
Wednesday 6 January to Friday 9 January 2026:
- 6 January – Shuttle from Yokohama and dinner
- 7 January – Platform comparison and tissue preparation
- 8 January – Segmentation, analysis, and data integration
- 9 January – 3D spatial omics and shuttle to Yokohama
Where
Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan
6 January
- 17:30 – Meet at Yokohama YCAT pedestrian deck
- 18:00 – Shuttle departs from YCAT
- 18:45 – Arrival at Shonan Village Center
9 January
- 12:00 – Shuttle departs from Shonan Village Center
- 12:45 – Arrival at YCAT
The ideas and outcome of the workshop will be summarized in a review article that will be submitted to The Plant Cell. All participants are encouraged to contribute.
International Organizing Committee
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Keiko Sugimoto | Group leader RIKEN, Japan | keiko.sugimoto@riken.jp |
| Ross Sozzani | Professor North Carolina State University, USA | rsozzan@ncsu.edu |
| Rüdiger Simon | Professor University of Düsseldorf, Germany | ruediger.simon@hhu.de |
| Hilde Nelissen | Group leader VIB, Belgium | hilde.nelissen@psb.vib-ugent.be |
| Max Minne | Postdoctoral researcher (Keiko Sugimoto Lab) RIKEN, Japan | max.minne@riken.jp |
| Min-Yao Jhu | Postdoctoral researcher (Giles Oldroyd Lab) University of Cambridge, UK | myj23@cam.ac.uk |
| Alexandra Goodnight | University Program Specialist North Carolina State University, USA | avgoodni@ncsu.edu |
| Miguel Moreno-Risueno | Professor Universiade Politecnica de Madrid, Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Spain | miguelangel.moreno@upm.es |
Please feel free to contact any of the organizers if you have any questions. For questions related to local organization, please contact Max Minne or Keiko Sugimoto.
This workshop is made possible by funding from the ASPIRE project of the Japanese Science and Technology Agency and the AI2EAR project of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
