Franziska Niemeyer Learned Spatial Cell Profiling

What is a cell up to right now, and where in the tissue? Traditional sequencing only gives averages for an entire sample, and the activity or location of individual cells doesn’t show up in the results at all. Spatial transcriptomics solves both problems at once – but the method is so new that it doesn’t even have established analysis standards yet.

University of Helsinki doctoral researcher Franziska Niemeyer learned the technique at an international top-level course run by the ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community in Lausanne, Switzerland. There, it quickly became clear that even experts in the field don’t yet agree on best practices.

This spring, Niemeyer brought that knowledge to Finland: she co-organised a spatial transcriptomics course at the University of Helsinki.

“Training is essential for turning this expensive data into valuable knowledge,” says Eija Korpelainen, Training Coordinator for ELIXIR Finland. She stresses that the field is developing so fast that international collaboration is the only way to keep up.

Franziska Niemeyer Learned to Profile Cells in Their Spatial Context – Now She’s Teaching Others

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Franziska Niemeyer Learned Spatial Cell Profiling

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