Congrats Nacho for Winning Best Presentation at LISCO Single Cell Day 2024!

Congratulations to our talented colleague Nacho for winning the Best Presentation Award at this year’s LISCO Single Cell Day 2024. His presentation on AI-based spatial multi-omic data fusion was recognized for its innovation, clarity, and engaging delivery.

In his presentation, Nacho introduced an AI-driven approach to learning data representations that capture both shared and modality-specific variability across different omics layers. This method enhances our understanding of the complex interactions between these layers by disentangling shared variations from sample-specific biases and enabling cross-modal translation when one data modality is absent. He demonstrated the power of this neural network architecture using a prostate cancer dataset, showcasing how spatial multi-omics data, combined with cutting-edge AI techniques, can accurately predict detailed pathologist annotations.

This recognition is a testament to his dedication for pushing the boundaries of multi-omic integration and spatial transcriptomics. We are proud to have such an inspiring researcher in our lab, and this achievement is well deserved.

Here’s to many more successes ahead!