Speaker: Dr. Song Li, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Title: Advancing Plant Genomics with AI: Machine Learning Innovations for Single-Cell Analysis and Cross-Species Mapping

Date/Time & Location: Friday, November 21, 2025, 11:50 AM – 12:45 PM, Porter Hall 104

Over the past decade, our research has focused on applying advanced machine learning and AI approaches to plant genomics and phenomics, with a major emphasis on single-cell sequencing. Single-cell RNA sequencing (including both scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq) provides unprecedented resolution for understanding plant cellular diversity and gene regulatory networks. Since the first plant single-cell study in 2016, more than 55 plant species and 6.5 million cells have been profiled using single-cell technologies, crea...