Last November, Roger Casals, PhD candidate at the Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Lab (CBBL), travelled to Stanford University to take part in scverse 2025, one of the key gatherings for the single-cell and multi-omics community.
During the conference, Roger presented a poster with some of the latest results from his PhD. His project focuses on building gene regulatory networks from single-cell data to understand cell state transitions, a line of work that is becoming increasingly important as we try to make sense of complex biological systems.
Beyond the science, the conference gave Roger the chance to meet many members of the scverse community, discuss ideas in person, and learn from researchers developing cutting-edge tools. Topics like agentic AI and virtual cell models were especially exciting, forecasting us where the field is heading.
Roger’s participation was possible thanks to a travel grant from the conference, along with support from the Department of Biosciences (FCTE), the BI-Squared Group, and IRIS-CC.
