Cell-Cell Symposium 2026

General Symposium: March 18th

Hands-on Workshop: March 19th 

About the symposium

Now in its second year, the Cell-Cell Symposium brings together a focused community of experimental biologists, bioinformaticians, and technology developers working to understand how cells interact and communicate in real biological systems.

As the field accelerates toward large-scale single-cell and cell-cell interaction atlases, a major bottleneck remains. Dissociated single-cell measurements are difficult to connect back to spatial context in a way that is quantitative, reproducible, and biologically actionable, particularly when linking gene programs to functional influence on neighboring cells. The Cell-Cell Symposium is designed to address this gap by highlighting emerging experimental platforms and computational approaches that connect single-cell and spatial data to predictive models of cell-cell function and response to perturbation.

The meeting emphasizes scalable datasets and integrative methods that enable downstream applications including AI-driven drug discovery, predictive models of cell state and cell-cell interaction, and virtual cell and tissue frameworks for in silico perturbation and simulation.