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Boston User Group Meeting

 
 
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Date:October 3, 2025

Time:9:00 AM–6:00 PM

Location: Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142  (Google Maps)


The 10x Genomics User Group Meeting (UGM) is a one-day event intended to showcase the incredible single cell & spatial work being done around the scientific community of Boston. This year, the theme is “Resilience in Science” with a focus on labs who have overcome funding challenges, technical setbacks and developed new tools. Please join us to  learn more about what tools are coming next from 10x Genomics as well as:

  • Keynote addresses by Manolis Kellis, PhD, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Quentin Palfrey, Esq, Massachusetts Director of Federal Funds and Infrastructure
  • A private-funding discussion panel featuring Break Through Cancer, Mass Life Sciences Center, Health Resources in Action and Curie Bio
  • Nonstandard model organism Lightning Talks
  • 3D spatial data analysis demonstration
Breakfast and lunch will be provided, please join us after the event for a networking reception

Manolis Kellis
Manolis Kellis, PhD

Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

How Generative AI is transforming Biology, Genomic Medicine, and Therapeutic Development

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Quentin Palfrey, Esq

Massachusetts Director of Federal Funds and Infrastructure

How Massachusetts is Investing in Scientists: The DRIVE Initiative

Mennah Moustafah
Mennah Moustafa

Chief Commercial Officer
10x Genomics

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Srivatsan Raghavan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Matija Zelic, PhD

Senior Scientist, Rare and Neurologic Diseases
Sanofi

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Peter Smibert, PhD

Vice President, Biology
10x Genomics

Jeff Bylund, PhD

Sr. Science and Technology Advisor
10x Genomics

Lauren Bourke-Layne, PhD

Science & Technology Advisor
10x Genomics

Jesse Boehm, PhD

Chief Science Officer
Break Through Cancer

Kristen Mueller, PhD

Chief Science Officer
Health Resources in Action

Kirk Taylor, MD

President and CEO
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

Aron Jaffe, PhD

SVP, CSO Partner Team
Curie Bio

Shoni Droz, PhD

Senior Field Application Scientist, Tissue Specialist
10x Genomics

Aaron Thorner, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Cancer Genomics
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Model organism: Atlantic spiny dogfish

Maria Valadez Ingersoll
Maria Valadez Ingersoll, PhD

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, BU URBAN Trainee
Boston University

Model organism: Stony coral

Colin Kim, PhD

HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, Nett Laboratory
Harvard University

Model organism: Club moss, kanna

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Daniel Cifuentes, PhD

Associate Professor, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University

Model organism: Zebrafish

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Karla Kaun, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Brown University

Model organism: Drosophila

Yihan Wu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Gubbels Laboratory
Boston College

Model organism: Toxoplasma gondii

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Date: October 3, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Location: Boston Marriott Cambridge