Spatial transcriptomics is transforming how we understand tissue biology, but many teams still work in isolation, reinventing the same pipelines and solving the same problems in parallel. To address these specific challenges, SpatiaLondon was founded by five London institutions (KCL, UCL, Imperial, QMUL, and the Francis Crick Institute) with fundings from Francis Crick Institute and DisCouRSE+, to share practice, align standards, and co-create the open tools and training the field needs. SpatiaLondon is open to researchers, bioinformaticians, and platform engineers across the UK interested in addressing the challenges of spatial biology.

The SpatiaLondon Workshop series is designed to address key challenges in spatial biology data, including data formats, QA/QC, spatial imaging problems, cell segmentation models, cell annotation models, batch effect correction methods, neighbourhood analysis methods and downstream analysis. SpatiaLondon workshop series also covers application and implementation of AI models in spatial biology.