Session I

Translating Molecular-Cellular Discovery via Virtual Cell Therapy Modeling

Ken Chen, PhD

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Synaptic MEMOIR: Mapping Individual Synapses of Neurons with Protein

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Long Cai, PhD

California Institute of Technology

Single Cell and Spatial Solutions for Multiomic Studies

Jasmine Plummer, PhD

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Session II

Programming Patterning and Morphogenesis with Synthetic

Cell-Cell Signaling

Leonard Morsut, PhD

University of Southern California

Beyond Nature’s Vocabulary: Expanding Cellular Communication

with De Novo

Mohamad Abedi, PhD

UCLA College of Letters & Sciences

Session III

Computational Models of Cell-Cell Interactions in the Tumor Ecosystem

Stacey Finley, PhD

University of Southern California

Mapping How Combinatorial Immunotherapy Rewires Cell-Cell

Communication Within Tumors

Kathryn Miller-Jensen, PhD

Yale University

Modeling Macrophage Polarization in the Tumor Microenvironment

Andrea Califoano, PhD

Biohub NY/ Columbia University

Session IV

Progress Report on the Global Human Cell-Surface Interactome Project

Kai Zinn, PhD

California Institute of Technology            – and –

The Inflammatory Response: Regulatory Principles of Intra- and

Intercellular Communication

Alex Hoffmann, PhD

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Register at – https://learning.partillion.com/cell-cell-symposium-2026

Contact – hjwright@ucla.edu

Website – https://learning.partillion.com/cell-cell-symposium-2026

114 CNSI Auditorium