Young scientists have mastered the spatial technology during the 4-days workshop

The workshop “Stereo-seq: spatial transcriptomics” was held on November 11-14, 2025.

The program included an introduction lecture, 4-day wet lab practice on Stereo-seq of a tumor sample, and partner exhibition.

Dr. Evgeny Denisov, ASCA President:

- Stereo-seq (SpaTial Enhanced REsolution Omics-sequencing) is the spatial technology capable of exploring the whole transcriptome from multiple species at true single-cell resolution through various sizes of centimeter-level capturing chips. 

• Stereo-seq captures mRNA within the tissue on the chip and restores cellular spatial location through spatial coordination barcoding, realizing in situ sequencing of tissues for establishing a strong research foundation for in-depth understanding of the relationship among gene expression, cell morphology and cellular microenvironments.

Chris Chen, Chief Scientist, STOmics:

- Stereo-seq is actually a way to digitalize biological samples like human pathological samples, or samples during organogenesis, brain development, etc. We can use Stereo-seq to figure out the multiomics information in the spatial and temporal manner. This is the purpose of Stereo-seq. The advantage is that we have the highest resolution and largest field of view on the market. We can do 500 nanometers of resolution which means if the cell is 10 microns, we can cover 400 pixels and thus do subcellular resolution. And also we can do very large field of view up to 13 x 13 cm.

• Organizers of the workshop: ASCA, Tomsk NRMC, MGI, Helicon