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title: Cell Cell Symposium 2026
description: The Cell–Cell Symposium is returning in March 2026. We look forward to bringing the community together again to explore new advances in cell–cell interactions and communication.
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## About the symposium

##### Now in its second year, the Cell-Cell Symposium brings together a focused community of experimental biologists, bioinformaticians, and technology developers working to understand how cells interact and communicate in real biological systems.

##### As the field accelerates toward large-scale single-cell and cell-cell interaction atlases, a major bottleneck remains. Dissociated single-cell measurements are difficult to connect back to spatial context in a way that is quantitative, reproducible, and biologically actionable, particularly when linking gene programs to functional influence on neighboring cells. The Cell-Cell Symposium is designed to address this gap by highlighting emerging experimental platforms and computational approaches that connect single-cell and spatial data to predictive models of cell-cell function and response to perturbation.

##### The meeting emphasizes scalable datasets and integrative methods that enable downstream applications including **AI-driven drug discovery**, **predictive models of cell state and cell-cell interaction**, and **virtual cell and tissue frameworks for in silico perturbation and simulation**.

##### The **Cell-Cell Symposium 2026** will be held in person on **March 18–19, 2026**, at the **California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA**. The program will feature invited talks, poster sessions, panel discussions, and structured networking opportunities.

### AI-ready datasets • virtual cells • AI drug discovery • cell–cell communication • interaction inference • spatial + single-cell integration • multimodal data • perturbation modeling

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## Featured 2026 Program Highlights

##### [Download the Full Agenda](https://learning.partillion.com/hubfs/CCS-2026-Program_Feb23.pdf?hsLang=en)

##### Day 1: Symposium | March 18, 2026

Panel: Billion Cell x Cell Project Roadmap (March 18th, Symposium): A forward-looking discussion on what the community needs next: shared priorities, interoperable data, standards and benchmarking, and the path from atlas-scale datasets to clinical and translational impact.

##### Day 2: Hands-On Nanovial Workshop | March 19, 2026

A practical, guided session focused on implementing and evaluating cell–cell interaction workflows

## Registration

**The event is at capacity and registration is now closed. **

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##### Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Contact [hjwright@ucla.edu](mailto:hjwright@ucla.edu) for more information.