Solving the mysteries of bioscience
Foundational Science Fuels Breakthroughs
Inspiring Next-Generation Scientists
Transforming our understanding of how human cells build tissues and organs to drive advancements in cancer therapies and regenerative medicine
A new era of cellular biology
After a decade of pioneering research studying the cell, its components and behaviors, the Cell Science team at Allen Institute is now working towards a bold new initiative: CellScapes, to transform how scientists measure, model, and represent cellular behaviors. Their multidisciplinary team is leveraging stem cell models, integrate imaging, modeling, and synthetic biology to predict, and ultimately program, complex cellular behaviors essential for life.
Supporting future breakthroughs
The Allen Institute is committed to open science, making our resources available to the scientific community. We openly share our cutting-edge tools, data, and platforms to pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries and applications across various fields of biology and medicine.
Meet our advisors
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Cell
May 29, 2025
Yoav Ben-Simon, Marcus Hooper, Sujatha Narayan, Tanya L. Daigle, Deepanjali Dwivedi, Sharon W. Way, Aaron Oster, David A. Stafford, John K. Mich, Michael J. Taormina, Refugio A. Martinez, Ximena Opitz-Araya, Jada R. Roth, Jason R. Alexander, Shona Allen, Adam Amster, Joel Arbuckle, Angela Ayala, Pamela M. Baker, Trygve E. Bakken, Tyler Barcelli, Stuard Barta, Jacqueline Bendrick, Darren Bertagnolli, Cameron Bielstein, Prajal Bishwakarma, Jessica Bowlus, Gabriella Boyer, Krissy Brouner, Brittny Casian, Tamara Casper, Anish B. Chakka, Rushil Chakrabarty, Rebecca K. Chance, Sakshi Chavan, Michael Clark, Kaity Colbert, Forrest Collman, Scott Daniel, Maxwell Departee, Peter DiValentin, Nicholas Donadio, Nadezhda Dotson, Tom Egdorf, Tim Fliss, Mariano Gabitto, Jazmin Garcia, Amanda Gary, Molly Gasperini, Jessica Gloe, Jeff Goldy, Bryan B. Gore, Lucas Graybuck, Noah Greisman, Francoise Haeseleer, Carliana Halterman, Zeb Haradon, Samantha D. Hastings, Olivia Helback, Windy Ho, Dirk Hockemeyer, Cindy Huang, Sydney Huff, Avery Hunker, Nelson Johansen, Danielle Jones, Zoe Juneau, Brian Kalmbach, Madhav Kannan, Shannon Khem, Emily Kussick, Rana Kutsal, Rachael Larsen, Changkyu Lee, Angus Y. Lee, Madison Leibly, Garreck H. Lenz, Su Li, Elizabeth Liang, Nicholas Lusk, Zachary Madigan, Jessica Malloy, Jocelin Malone, Rachel McCue, Jose Melchor, Tyler Mollenkopf, Skyler Moosman, Elyse Morin, Dakota Newman, Lydia Ng, Kiet Ngo, Victoria Omstead, Sven Otto, Alana Oyama, Nick Pena, Trangthanh Pham, Elliot Phillips, Christina A. Pom, Lydia Potekhina, Shea Ransford, Patrick L. Ray, Dean Rette, Cade Reynoldson, Christine Rimorin, Dana Rocha, Augustin Ruiz, Raymond E. A. Sanchez, Lane Sawyer, Adriana Sedeno-Cortes, Joshua P. Sevigny, Nadiya Shapovalova, Noah Shepard, Lyudmila Shulga, Ana R. Sigler, La'Akea Siverts, Sherif Soliman, Saroja Somasundaram, Brian Staats, Kaiya Stewart, Eric Szelenyi, Michael Tieu, Cameron Trader, Alex Tran, Cindy T. J. van Velthoven, Miranda Walker, Yimin Wang, Natalie Weed, Morgan Wirthlin, Toren Wood, Brooke Wynalda, Zizhen Yao, Thomas Zhou, Jeanelle Ariza, Nick Dee, Melissa Reding, Kara Ronellenfitch, Shoaib Mufti, Susan M. Sunkin, Kimberly A. Smith, Luke Esposito, Jack Waters, Bargavi Thyagarajan, Shenqin Yao, Ed S. Lein, Hongkui Zeng, Boaz P. Levi, John Ngai, Jonathan T. Ting, Bosiljka Tasic
Nature Methods
Mar 28, 2025
Peter Bajcsy, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Katy Börner, Beth A. Cimini, Lucy Collinson, Jan Ellenberg, Reto Fiolka, Maryellen Giger, Wojtek Goscinski, Matthew Hartley, Nathan Hotaling, Rick Horwitz, Florian Jug, Isabel Kemmer, Anna Kreshuk, Emma Lundberg, Aastha Mathur, Kedar Narayan, Shuichi Onami, Anne L. Plant, Fred Prior, Jason R. Swedlow, Adam Taylor, Antje Keppler
microPublication Biology
Jan 01, 2025
Blair Lyons, Saurabh S. Mogre, Karthik Vegesna, Jessica S. Yu, Mark Hansen, Aadarsh Raghunathan, Graham T. Johnson, Eran Agmon, Matthew Akamatsu
Dec 6 - 10, 2025
Apr 20 - 22, 2026
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