New Australian BioCommons workshop: comparative analysis of spatial omics data

[Melissa Burke]

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

I'm excited to invite you to join our upcoming Spatial omics sampler workshop. 

Focusing on comparative analyses, the workshop will start with a pre-processed situ spatial dataset and show you how to undertake some basic differential expression, look at differences of proportions of cell types, and exploratory plotting. We will work in R, using mostly Bioconductor tools. We will use a cosMx dataset, but these approaches are applicable to other technologies like Xenium or vizgen.

Along the way we will discuss considerations specific to spatial analyses, how to scale it up to a full analysis, and how to assess our results. We will also introduce the Spatial Sampler collection of worked examples and code snippets for analyses on spatial datasets.

When: 25 February 2026, 2 - 4 pm AEDT / 1 - 3pm AEST / 1:30 - 3:30 pm ACDT / 11 - 1 pm AWST

More information and apply by 11 Feb: https://www.biocommons.org.au/events/spatial-omics-sampler-workshop-2026

Please feel free to pass this onto your colleagues.

Best regards,

Melissa

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Melissa Burke, PhD (she/her)

Training Manager

Australian BioCommons

The University of Queensland

W: biocommons.org.au

My position is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and hosted at The University of Queensland

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