WCMM Research Day 2026
Join us for WCMM Research Day 2026, a day dedicated to celebrating and sharing the latest research from the Lund Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Program
| 08:30 | Registration opens & welcome coffee | |
| 09:00 | Introduction to the day | Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, director |
| 09:10 | Keynote Speaker | Prof Carolina Wählby, Uppsala University Talk title: Bridging biology and computer science with pretty pictures - or what happened failing to get in to arts school |
| 09:55 | Workshop sessions | More information to come! |
| 11:00 | Session 1 | 10-minute talks | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Session 2 | 5-minute flash talks | |
| 14:10 | LU Infrastructure | What is available to me as a researcher?
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| 15:00 | Fika and coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Session 3 | 10-minute talks | |
| 16:00 | Keynote Speaker | Prof Cristina Lo Celso, Imperial College London (UK) Talk title: Intravital microscopy of healthy and malignant haematopoiesis in the bone marrow microenvironment |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks & best talk award ceremony | Kristian Pietras, co-director |
| 17:00 | Conference ends | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Evening activity | Hornsbergssalen, Kulturen |
Keynote speakers
Professor Cristina Lo Celso
Professor Cristina Lo Celso is a leading cell biologist and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Imperial College London, where she also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Haematology.
Her research focuses on understanding how haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are regulated in the bone marrow, both in health and in disease, using cutting-edge intravital and ex-vivo microscopy combined with computational and molecular analyses to reveal dynamic cellular interactions in native tissue environments.
Her work has advanced fundamental insights into normal blood formation, leukaemia biology, and the interactions between stem cells and their microenvironments, and she has been recognized with awards including the Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal and the Academy of Medical Sciences Foulkes Foundation Medal.
Her research focuses on understanding how haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are regulated in the bone marrow, both in health and in disease, using cutting-edge intravital and ex-vivo microscopy combined with computational and molecular analyses to reveal dynamic cellular interactions in native tissue environments.
Her work has advanced fundamental insights into normal blood formation, leukaemia biology, and the interactions between stem cells and their microenvironments, and she has been recognized with awards including the Royal Microscopical Society Life Sciences Medal and the Academy of Medical Sciences Foulkes Foundation Medal.
Professor Carolina Wählby
Professor Carolina Wählby is Co-Director of the Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) and Professor of Quantitative Microscopy at Uppsala University and SciLifeLab.
She is an internationally respected expert in computational image analysis and data-driven methods for interpreting complex biomedical microscopy datasets. Her research integrates quantitative microscopy, machine learning and large-scale image analysis to extract meaningful biological information from high-dimensional data and support discoveries across cancer research, tissue biology, and beyond.
In her leadership roles within DDLS, she promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and development of advanced data science infrastructure to accelerate life science research.
She is an internationally respected expert in computational image analysis and data-driven methods for interpreting complex biomedical microscopy datasets. Her research integrates quantitative microscopy, machine learning and large-scale image analysis to extract meaningful biological information from high-dimensional data and support discoveries across cancer research, tissue biology, and beyond.
In her leadership roles within DDLS, she promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and development of advanced data science infrastructure to accelerate life science research.
Register here!
Registration & Abstract submission deadline: Monday 2nd March