May 18, 2026

Monday

Germantown, MD

The Bioscience Education Center

9:00am-4:40pm

1 Hour Lunch Break

This one-day workshop is designed for research scientists who are new spatial users. This lecture and hands-on in silico laboratory workshop will provide foundational information to succeed when starting experiments; from sample preparation to data analysis, as well as provide familiarity with available assays, analysis tools, and how to work with your Single Cell or Bioinformatics core to get the desired results.

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Lecture and Hands-on Interactive Training
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Team taught by active researchers
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Space limited to 24 participants
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Registration Fee: $349

Course Director

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Dr. Mike Kelly
NCI SCAF

  • Core Perspective: Getting Started with Spatial Experiments
  •  Spatial Overview:Lecture - Introduction to Visium Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Demos - Visium CytAssist Dry Demo, Loupe Browser
  • Introduction to Xenium In-Situ Analyzer and Xenium Explorer Analysis Tool
  • Bioinformatics Lab - Crash Course on Spatial Analysis with 3rd party tools/Understanding what you want out of your data

M_KellyPhDMichael Kelly, PhD
Dr. Kelly is a Senior Scientist with Frederick National Laboratory who leads the established NCI Single Cell Analysis Facility. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at NIH-NIDCD, where he applied single cell RNA-Seq to study the developmental transcriptional programs of mammalian sensory systems. He has experience with many of the single cell transcriptional profiling methods and platforms and works to stay abreast of advancement in single cell sequencing methods and analysis.
Bradley_Toms_HeadshotBradley Toms
Bradley graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, where his research was based in genetic variations in model systems.

Before joining 10X Genomics in 2020, Bradley spent many years in the 270 BioTech corridor working with Next Generation Sequencing services/applications as well as seven years at Thermo Fisher Scientific helping customers reach their scientific goals by supporting Genetic Analysis Equipment and applications.

Bradley is a regular presenter in the Bio-Trac scRNA-Seq and 10X Spatial Transcriptomics workshops, where he provides substantial expertise in troubleshooting and designing experiments within single-cell and spatial biology settings.
Dr. Sijung Yun
PRESIDENT & COO
CO-FOUNDER
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Dr. Yun obtained his Ph.D. in computational biology from Boston University, with his research focusing on the aggregation of amyloid beta protein in Alzheimer's disease. Sijung took a postdoc position at the NIH, with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) studying structural bioinformatics and proteomics. Later, he worked at the genomics core in National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Currently, he is an independent contract bioinformatician primarily working for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Adjunct at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a lead instructor in numerous bioinformatics next generation sequencing (NGS) training activities.
Dr. Yun had directed our Bio-Trac NGS related workshops since 2009 and has provide NGS instruction to over 750 Bio-Trac participants.
Dr. Yun obtained his Ph.D. in computational biology from Boston University, with his research focusing on the aggregation of amyloid beta protein in Alzheimer's disease. Sijung took a postdoc position at the NIH, with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) studying structural bioinformatics and proteomics. Later, he worked at the genomics core in National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Currently, he is an independent contract bioinformatician primarily working for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Adjunct at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a lead instructor in numerous bioinformatics next generation sequencing (NGS) training activities.
Dr. Yun had directed our Bio-Trac NGS related workshops since 2009 and has provide NGS instruction to over 750 Bio-Trac participants.

The Bioscience Education Center

Montgomery College
20200 Observation Drive
Germantown, MD 20876