Infectomics Seminar 2026: Single-Cell Microbiomics: From Genome to Metabolome Challenges and Opportunities
2026-05-22 11:15 - 15:45 (Europe/Helsinki)
Single-Cell Microbiomics: From Genome to Metabolome Challenges and Opportunities
This meeting aims to explore the prospects and challenges of applying single-cell approaches to prokaryotic systems, while also reflecting on what can be learned from recent advances in single-cell research on eukaryotic microorganisms. By bringing together expertise from genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the seminar will highlight emerging technologies and discuss future opportunities for integrative single-cell microbiomics.

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Programme

11:15–12:00 Salad buffet
12:00–12:05 Welcome and opening remarks
Prof. Jukka Hytönen and Adj. Prof. Santosh Lamichhane

Session 1 – Eukaryotes
12:05–12:40 Why Single-Cell Research Began: Lessons from Immune Cells Adj.
Prof. Tapio Lönnberg, Turku Bioscience, University of Turku and Åbo Academy
12:40–13:00 Decoding Borrelia infection – from transcriptomics to molecular mechanisms.
Varpu Rinne, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku
13:00–13:40 Mass spectrometry-based single-cell omics: Proteomics meets metabolomics
Research Director Otto Kauko & Adj. Prof. Alex Dickens, Turku Bioscience, University of Turku and Åbo Academy

13:40–14:00 Coffee break

Session 1 – Single-Cell Research to Prokaryotes
14:00–14:40 Investigating microbial life in their natural habitats using single cell transcriptomics.
Adj. Prof. Manu Tamminen, Department of Biology, University of Turku
14:40–15:20: Host-microbe metabolic interactions at the micrometer scale.
Prof. Manuel Liebeke, University of Kiel, Germany
15:20–15:45 Discussion and Closing remarks
Adj. Prof. Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela and Santosh Lamichhane

Please register via: https://eve.utu.fi/event/184/

Note: Salad buffet limited to first 50 registrants. So hurry up!

More information about the event contact Santosh Lamichhane: santosh.lamichhane@utu.fi
