New technologies are promoting the rise of spatial biology, giving researchers a more holistic understanding of how cells are related to each other, how genes are expressed, and how signaling might occur. As a professor of urology and pathology at the University of Michigan specializing in prostate cancer, Evan Keller is profoundly interested in how spatial biology helps reveal tumor compositions and cellular movement and migration patterns.
In this article, Keller addresses the importance of the university’s Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program, as well as the value of community in spatial biology’s present and future.