The Seminar Series invites spatial tissue profiling researchers, technology developers, and stakeholders to share breaking new discoveries, innovations.
Location: It is 100% online and takes place on the last Friday of each month. If there are breaking news or technologies to be showcased, additional seminars can be arranged outside the standard monthly slot.
Time: Last Friday of the month, 7AM Pacific time, 10AM Eastern, 3PM London, 4PM CET, 6PM Athens, 7:30PM Delhi, 10PM Beijing/Singapore/Perth, 11:00PM Tokyo, 11:30PM Adelaide, 12AM Melbourne/Sydney
How Can I Attend? All GESTALT members receive an automated invite with the seminar link. Joining GESTALT is free! Please use this link to become a member: https://globalspatial.org/join-gestalt/
Dr. Fei Chen is a Core Institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an associate professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Chen’s laboratory is building tools that bridge single-cell genomics with space and time, to enable discoveries of where cell types are localized within intact tissues, as well as when relevant transcriptional modules are active.
Chen obtained his Ph.D. in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Ed Boyden. Chen was a Schmidt Fellow at the Broad Institute. His awards include the National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, the Searle Scholars Award, the Burroughs Wellcome CASI Award, the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, and a Merkin Institute Fellowship.
Dr. Hanchen Wang is a postdoc with Jure Leskovec at Stanford AI Lab and Aviv Regev at Genentech. His first-author work is in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence & NeurIPS. He co-organized events on “AI for Science” in ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS. He did a CS PhD at Cambridge in 3 years with Joan Lasenby from Trinity College; a Physics BS from Nanjing with Xinran Wang, where he was the commencement speaker. He secured university admission at 15 while at Suzhou High School. He spent time in finance, tech & biotech. He’s a national athlete in 400m, and enjoys reading history & biography. He is a molecular biologist and biomedical engineer whose work bridges high-resolution imaging with next-generation tissue analysis.
Dr. Wang will be presenting SpatialAgent, an AI agent dedicated to spatial biology. It integrates large language models with dynamic tool execution and adaptive reasoning, supporting the entire research pipeline, from experimental design to multimodal data analysis and hypothesis generation. In this talk, we’ll share the behind-the-scenes journey of building it, including the “aha” moments, lessons learned, and failures along the way.