Speakers

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo is a Group Leader in the Cellular Genomics Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. Established in 2019, her lab (https://ventolab.org/) is dedicated to understanding how gene circuits regulate cell identity and how the tissue microenvironment rewires them, in the context of reproductive tissues and immunity. They have systematically applied single-cell and spatial genomics to reproductive tissues across the lifespan, and developed computational and experimental frameworks to interpret data and functionally validate predictions. This work has elucidated how reproductive tissues are formed during development, how their constituent cells interact and remodel during the menstrual cycle, and how these processes are disrupted in diseases that disproportionately affect women.

Roser has trained numerous PhD students and postdocs, three of whom are now group leaders, and is a co-ordinator of the Reproductive Bionetwork of the Human Cell Atlas.

She has attracted highly competitive funding (for example from ERC, MRC, NIH, CZI, Wellcome-LEAP) and has been recognised by numerous awards including the Early Career Research Award from the Biochemistry Society (2021) and the Foulkes Foundation Prize (2025).