People & expertise
Principal investigators
The directory
The researchers breaking new ground in spatial biology.
Investigators from eight institutions, integrating spatial technology, computation, biology and medicine with the social sciences and humanities to tackle questions no single discipline can address.
Joakim Lundeberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Spatial transcriptomics and large-scale sequencing technology development.
Mats Nilsson
Stockholm University
In situ sequencing and targeted molecular detection in intact tissue.
Emma Lundberg
Stanford University
Spatial proteomics and subcellular protein organisation.
Igor Adameyko
Medical University of Vienna
Developmental biology of the nervous system and cell lineage dynamics.
Emma R. Andersson
Karolinska Institutet
Developmental signalling and organ formation in health and disease.
Stefania Giacomello
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Spatial transcriptomics methods across tissues and model systems.
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
Karolinska Institutet
Single-cell and spatial epigenomics of the central nervous system.
Camilla Engblom
Karolinska Institutet
Spatial analysis of immune cells and their organisation in tissue.
Niklas Björkström
Karolinska Institutet
Translational immunology and spatial precision medicine
Heidi Howard
Chalmers University of Technology
Ethical, legal and social aspects of genomics and emerging technologies.
Michael Ratz
Karolinska Institutet
Lineage tracing combined with single-cell and spatial readouts.
Pontus Strimling
Linköping University
Computational social science and modelling of collective behaviour.
Eduardo Villablanca
Karolinska Institutet
Mucosal immunology and intestinal tissue regeneration.
Carolina Wählby
Uppsala University
Quantitative image analysis and machine learning for microscopy.
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