DataJoint at SENC 2025

Milagros Marín, PhD

SciOps Engineer

DataJoint's Sciops Engineer Milagros Marín spent Sept 3–5 at the 20th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience (SENC) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where researchers across neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, and next-generation model systems filled the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus.

Sessions were hosted at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus with versatile spaces for parallel sessions and workshops

The congress opened with Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia; BioTecMed/CIBERNED)—2024 Santiago Ramón y Cajal laureate and EMBO member—on how the physical niche regulates neural stem-cell quiescence (including work with neurospheres).

SENC also launched the WiNS Award for Inclusive Leadership, with a committee that included Ana Bribián Arruego (Sanofi) and Eva Ortega Paíno (Secretary-General of Research from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain), alongside other distinguished scientists.

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Round table with some of the members of the Women for Neuroscience Committee (WinS)

Organoids took center stage, with a dedicated symposium led by Aixa V. Morales (Instituto Cajal, CSIC) and Antonella Consiglio (IDIBELL/University of Barcelona). Talks featured Antonella Consiglio on patient-derived models for Tyrosine Hydroxylase Deficiency and Silvia Cappello (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry) on cellular crosstalk in brain development—alongside other prominent researchers. On the industry side, I had the opportunity to meet 3Brain and HBio, who presented their organoid research solutions.

Antonella Consiglio (University of Barcelona & IDIBELL), a leading expert in organoid research with 20+ years of groundbreaking contributions, presenting at SENC 2025.

Why this hits home for us ‍

Organoid and other human-relevant models are scaling fast. DataJoint helps labs keep pace with open-source, reproducible, and scalable workflows—from ingest and QC to analysis, versioning, and collaboration—built for transparent, multi-site research.

We’ll be sharing our open-source DataJoint organoid pipeline in an upcoming post!‍
Want a closer look? Contact us for a demo of DataJoint SciOps for organoid research.

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With appreciation: to SENC President Manuel Sánchez-Malmierca, board member Lydia Jiménez, the SENC Board, and all organizers, speakers, participants, and attendees for fostering a welcoming, rigorous, and collegial environment.