I give keynote and invited talks at industry conferences, pharma symposia, biotech events, and spatial-omics vendor meetings. My work on the largest ALS multiome atlas assembled to date and on 1.2M-cell Xenium spatial datasets is the kind of large-scale, real-world single-cell and spatial science that user meetings and genomics congresses want on their programme. Talks can be tailored from a 20-minute vendor showcase to a full conference keynote or hands-on tutorial.

Building the Largest ALS Multiome Atlas

How we assembled and analysed a 788,330-nucleus, 70-donor ALS multiome atlas, and what that scale reveals about motor neuron and glial vulnerability that smaller studies miss.

Spatial Transcriptomics at 1.2M Cells

A practitioner's tour of a 1.2M-cell 10x Xenium pipeline across ALS/MND, glioblastoma, and spinal cord injury: segmentation, cell typing, niche analysis, and deconvolution, with honest notes on what works, what breaks, and what to budget for. Ideal for vendor user meetings (10x Genomics, NanoString/Bruker, Vizgen).

Differential Abundance Done Right

Why most labs get compositional and neighbourhood-level differential abundance wrong, and how Milo and scCODA, with proper statistical design and batch correction, change what you can claim from single-cell data.

From Variant to Mechanism

Cell-type-specific gene regulatory networks, network controllability (Minimum Dominating Set), and GWAS/scDRS integration, to connect disease genetics to regulatory mechanism where network science meets genomics.

Single-Cell Genomics at HPC Scale

Engineering reproducible scanpy/SnapATAC2 workflows that run on SLURM for 1M+ cells: environments, version pinning, and what it actually takes to scale analysis beyond a laptop. A methods and infrastructure talk for technical audiences.

Panels, Fireside Chats & Tutorials

Available for moderated panels, fireside discussions, and hands-on workshops on single-cell multiomics, spatial biology, and computational neuroscience, in formats tailored to your audience and run time.

Selected Talks & Invitations

  • Invited talk at the Kellis Lab, MIT (computational genomics)
  • Genomics @ Scale, Cambridge (accepted)
  • MND Association (MNDA) Main Meeting (invited)
  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Main Meeting
  • Multiple additional invited talks and seminars across the UK and US

Speaker Profile

  • PhD in Cybernetics (University of Reading) with postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, and Stanford University (Snyder Lab)
  • 788,330-nucleus ALS multiome atlas, the largest assembled to date (70 donors)
  • 1.2M-cell 10x Xenium spatial transcriptomics pipeline across ALS/MND, glioblastoma, and spinal cord injury
  • Published in PNAS (68 citations), iScience (23 citations, INSIGNEO prize, international press), with a manuscript under review at Nature
  • Member of Cambridge Neuroscience and collaborator with the Bayraktar group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

Selected Media Coverage

My work on FootSim, a digital model of the human foot sole (iScience, 2022), was covered internationally after publication:

Speaking Formats & Fees

Conference Keynote

Headline talk at an industry conference or symposium

£1,500 to £4,000

Invited / Vendor Talk

User meetings and sponsored sessions (10x, NanoString, Vizgen)

£800 to £2,500

Workshop / Tutorial

Hands-on session or intensive analysis day

£1,200 to £2,500

Panel / Fireside

Moderated discussion or shorter contribution

Negotiable

Honorarium plus travel and accommodation on commercial engagements. Fees are indicative and depend on format, audience, and preparation; academic and non-profit events considered case by case.

Book a Talk

Organising a conference, user meeting, or symposium? Book a short call to discuss topics and logistics, or send the event details by email: