2026 V4SDB Student Summer School Programme
Preliminary programme
Tuesday, September 1
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 13:00-14:00 | Registration |
| 14:00-15:30 | “Spatial Biology: Towards Decoding Tissue Architecture in Development, Health and Disease” Public Lecture by Enikő Lázár (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Room 0-821 (Bolyai János terem) |
| 16:00-17:00 | Student Flash Talks Room 7-424 (Bioinformatics Lab) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Bruker Hive Presentation |
| 20:00-23:00 | Social Program (at The Grund) |
Wednesday, September 2
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-13:00 | KTH Practical Block No. 1 — Raphaël Mauron |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | “Use of Visium/Xenium spatial transcriptomics to understand mechanisms of brain disorders” Konstantin Khodosevich (BRIC, University of Copenhagen) — online |
| 15:00-18:00 | BRIC Practical Block — Katarina Dragicevic |
Thursday, September 3
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30-13:00 | KTH Practical Block No. 2 — Sergio Marco Salas |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:40 | 10x Genomics/Genetica Presentation Carta Genum: Making Spatial Data Analysis Accessible to Every Researcher Ivana Dobiášovská (Genetica Group) |
| 14:40-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-18:00 | KTH Practical Block No. 3 — Shouzhen Bao |
Friday, September 4
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00-12:00 | Talks on MERFISH: “Image-Based Spatial Transcriptomics with smFISH: From Probe Design to Image Analysis” — Jonathan Enriquez (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon) — in person “Whole-embryo spatiotemporal transcriptomics at subcellular resolution” — Yinan Wan (University of Basel) — online |
| 12:00-14:00 | MERFISH Practical |
Programme notes
- Except for the opening lecture (delivered in room 0-821), all the classes of the workshop will take place in the Bioinformatics Lab of the Biology Institute, room 7-424
- All sessions include breaks to maintain engagement and provide networking opportunities
- The Bruker Hive and 10x Genomics/Genetica sponsor presentations are scheduled for 40 minutes each (Thursday 09:00-09:40 and 14:00-14:40); the remaining 20 minutes of each hour are kept as a short break
- Konstantin Khodosevich’s session (Wednesday) and Yinan Wan’s talk (Friday) will be delivered online
Location
The Summer School will take place on the premises of the Faculty of Science of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University - Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest.