2026 Agenda

16:45 17:15
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Stage Closed

Single-Cell Stage
16:00 16:10
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Bioinformatics Approaches for Identifying Genetic Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Kaira Cristina Peralis Tomaz, PhD Student - Unicamp / The Rosalind Franklin Institute
13:50 14:05
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Latest Insights in NGS-based MRD Detection: Learnings from a Retrospective AML Cohort Study

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Graham Speight, Executive Vice President – R&D - Oxford Gene Technology
16:10 16:40
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From UGR to the Single Patient Record: Building National-Scale Genomic Integration in the NHS

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Deborah Porter, Deputy Director Genomics Service Transformation - NHS England
15:50 16:00
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A Tissue-based Gene Signature Bridges to Saliva for Non-invasive Detection of Early Gastric Cancer

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Catarina Lopes, PhD Student - IPO Porto
11:05 11:15
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RNA Sequencing of Giant Cell Arteritis Lesions Uncovers the Molecular Landscape of Early Treatment Response and Reveals Predictors of Refractory and Relapsing Disease

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Michal Zulcinski, Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Leeds
16:45 17:15
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Theatre Closed

Advanced Therapies Stage
14:15 14:45
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An Advanced Non-Viral Gene Delivery Technology Enables Secretion of FVIII From Skeletal Muscle

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Trevor Smith, VP of Preclinical R&D - Inovio Pharmaceuticals
12:00 12:30
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Delivering National Clinical Genomic Services on AWS: The All Wales Experience

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Joseph Halstead, Lead Bioinformatician - All Wales Medical Genomics Service

Michael Mueller, Senior Solutions Architect - AWS
16:40 17:10
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Accelerating Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics with AI Powered Serverless HPC

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Fengbo Ren, Founder & CEO - Fovus

Sunny Sharma, Founding PMM, HPC & AI - Fovus
13:20 13:35
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Quantifying the invisible – ddPCR in liquid biopsy-based MRD monitoring

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Kelly Sillence, Regional Application Specialist ddPCR - Bio-Rad Laboratories
10:00 10:05
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Keynote Address

Main Stage

Speakers

Lord Patrick Vallance, Minister of State - Science, Research and Innovation
12:00 12:30
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Turning Fragmented Evidence into Informed Target Selection with DISGENET

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Janet Piñero, Co-Founder and Head of Bioinformatics - MedBioinformatics
11:15 11:25
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Multimodal Single-Cell Profiling in Thyroid Eye Disease

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Anne Nguyen, PhD Student - University of Oxford
13:35 13:50
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Best Practices in Single-cell Sequencing: How to Plan & Validate Experiments

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Tom Ayers, Senior Business Development Manager - Single Cell Discoveries
17:00 17:25
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Networking Break

Main Stage
17:25 18:10
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A Fireside Chat with Sir Stephen Fry

Main Stage

Speakers

Sir Stephen Fry, Actor, Author and Comedian - Independent

Vivienne Parry, Writer, broadcaster, facilitator - Independent
16:40 17:10
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Tumor-informed WGS-based ctDNA Detection

Main Stage

Speakers

Edwin Cuppen, Scientific director - Hartwig Medical foundation
15:10 15:40
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How Genomic Surveillance Can Inform Policies to Reduce the Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Esther van Kleef, Senior Research Associate - University of Oxford
14:15 15:45
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Genomic Medicine in Clinical Practice

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Hannah Knight, Genetic Counsellor, Clinical Feedback Lead - NIHR BioResource

Denise Barnes, Lead Midwife - North East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service

Tootie Bueser, Chief Nurse - South East Genomic Medicine Service

Tahni-Ann Wilson, Genetic Counsellor - Royal Brompton Hospital

Emily Dixon, Principal Genetic Counsellor - Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust

Anita Murphy, Lead Nurse - East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance

Colette Scrace, Lead Nurse, Genomics for Cancer and Rare Diseases - NHS England

Andrew Pestaille, Principal Genetic Counsellor - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Marianne Quinn, Lead Midwife - South East Genomic Medicine Service
11:30 12:00
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Taming Titin: Practical Approaches to Interpreting the Giant of Variant Challenges

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Marco Savarese, Group Leader - Folkhalsan Research Center
12:00 12:30
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Getting It Right: Best Practice Guidelines for Rare Disease Variant Classification in the NHS

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Miranda Durkie, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Rare Disease Lead - North East Yorkshire Genomic Laboratory Hub
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

Genomic Medicine Stage
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Genomic Medicine Stage
17:10 17:40
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Moving Genomics Towards Primary Care

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Joel Chatterjee, General Practitioner - Royton & Crompton Family Practice
12:30 13:00
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The Importance of Up-To-Date Dynamic Resources to Enable Accurate Variant Interpretation and Reclassification

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Sarah Hunt, Variation Resources Coordinator - EMBL-EBI
16:15 17:15
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Theatre Closed

Genomic Medicine Stage
16:40 17:10
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Using Genomic and National Data to Support The Shift From Treatment to Prevention

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Steven Hardy, Head of Genomics and Rare DIsease - NHS England
16:10 16:40
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How Do Digital, Data and AI Make Genomics Part of Everyday Care?

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Videha Sharma, Clinical Innovation Lead - University of Manchester
15:40 16:10
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Networking Break

Genomic Medicine Stage
14:40 15:10
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Making Genomics Matter: Delivering Timely, Actionable Cancer Testing in the NHS

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Nirupa Murugaesu, Consultant in Molecular Oncology - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
12:30 13:00
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Evolving Cancer Pathways: Using Genomics to Guide Precision Surgery and Patient Outcomes

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Frank McDermott, Acting Clinical Director - SW GMSA
12:00 12:30
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Mainstreaming Cancer Susceptibility Testing: Embedding Genetics Across Oncology Pathways

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Angela George, Clinical Director of Genomics and Consultant Medical Oncologist in Gynaecology - The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
15:10 15:40
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Raising the Bar in Rare Disease: Networks of Excellence, New Technologies and New Standards

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Emma Baple, Professor of Genomic Medicine - University of Exeter
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break

Genomic Medicine Stage
11:30 12:00
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The Rise of Genomic Cellular Pathology in the NHS

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Matthew Evans, Consultant Cellular and Molecular Pathologist - University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation
14:10 14:40
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Uncovering the Hidden Genome: New Insights into Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Genomic Medicine Stage

Speakers

Adam Jackson, Academic Clinical Fellow - Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine
16:15 16:45
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CycleTrack: Building a world-leading resource for menstrual health research.

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Lachlan Ford MacBean, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - University of Exeter
14:40 15:10
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New Frontiers – HiFi Sequencing Technology Updates

Main Stage

Speakers

Neil Ward, VP & GM EMEA - PacBio

Mohammed Uddin, Director - Centre for Applied and Translational Genomics
11:30 12:00
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Genetic Research on Individual Differences on Cognitive Abilities

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Robert Plomin, Professor of Behavioural Genetics - King's College London
15:15 15:45
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From Rare Disease to Breakthrough: What First-In-Human Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome Means for Advanced Therapies

Main Stage

Speakers

Simon Jones, Consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Diseases - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
14:15 14:45
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Pinprick Blood Test that Could Detect Disease 10 Years Before Symptoms

Main Stage

Speakers

Julian Mutz, King’s Prize Research Fellow - King's College London
14:45 15:15
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Cracking Nature’s Code: How the Naked Mole-Rat’s DNA May Unlock Healthy Ageing

Main Stage

Speakers

Gabriel Balmus, Group Leader - UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Cambridge
11:00 11:30
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Networking Break

Main Stage
09:30 10:00
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Building a High Quality Multiomic Dataset in Rare Disease

Main Stage

Speakers

Greg Elgar, Director of Sequencing R&D - Genomics England

Anthony Rogers, Associate Director, Scientific Research - Illumina
14:15 14:45
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Addressing Health Disparities: The Impact of Workforce Diversity on The Patient Population

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Vicki Heath, Chief Healthcare Science Officer - Welsh Government
16:15 17:15
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Panel Discussion: Empowering a Genomics-Ready Workforce

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Mark Kristiansen, Head of UCL Genomics and Associate Professor (Education) - University College London

Teodora Popa, Lecturer - University College London

Horia Stanescu, Associate Professor - University College London

Diego Marín, Adjunct Professor - The State University of New Jersey

Francesca Tonini, GLH Scientist Educator Lead | East Genomics & Genomics Education Programme Scientific Co-Chair | ACGS Workforce Development Committee Clinical Scientist | HCPC
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Live Lounge Stage
14:45 15:15
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Panel Discussion: Empowering the Global Genomics Workforce: Building Capacity, Confidence & Community Through GGNET

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Jillian Hastings Ward, Patient Advocate

Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer - NHS England

Kate Tatton Brown, Clinical Director & Head of National Genomics Education - NHS England
15:15 15:45
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Making Genomics Work: Introducing the Mainstream Genetic Counsellor Toolkit

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Roberta Rizzo, Consultant Genetic Counsellor - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
15:40 16:10
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Networking break

Live Lounge Stage
16:10 16:40
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Beyond Inclusion: Rebuilding Trust and Equity in the Genomic Era

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Veline L’esperance, Senior Clinical Advisor - NHS Race and Health Observatory
14:10 14:40
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Keep Me Breathing: A Patient and Family Journey in Rare Disease

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

James Oakley, Chairman - Keep Me Breathing Charity
12:30 13:00
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Connecting People, Shaping Practice: Developing the UK Genomic Network

Main Stage

Speakers

Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and Professor of Medical and Family Sociology - University of Edinburgh
14:40 15:10
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The Power of Listening: Patient Involvement Shaping Genomics in Wales

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Alice Frenken, Project Manager - Genomics Partnership Wales

Jennifer Griffiths, Sounding Board Member - Genomics Partnership Wales
16:40 17:10
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Involving Community Organisations in Participant Recruitment For The Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) BioResource

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Anna Njie, Director - Go Africa Community Hub

Ruth Yedu, Clinical Trials Assistant - NIHR Sheffield BRC BioResource

Nathalie Kingston, Director - NIHR BioResource
17:10 17:40
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Panel Discussion: Involving Children in Research: How the DNA, Children + Young People’s Health Resource (D-CYPHR) Programme Has Made Research a Family Activity

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

George Hudson, Clinical Research Practitioner - NIHR Leicester BRC BioResource

Hannah Stark, Operations Lead - NIHR BioResource

Keval Sachdev, Founder - Aikyam UK
12:00 12:30
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Decoding Patient Experiences: Communicating the Human Side of Genomic Medicine

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Susie Weller, Research Fellow - Centre for Personalised Medicine

Kate Lyle, Senior Research Fellow - Centre for Human Genetics
12:30 13:00
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Panel Discussion: Lived Experience of Medical Nomenclature

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Sarah Wynn, Chief Executive Officer - Unique

Francesca Wicks, Information Officer - Unique

Sasha Henriques, Principal Genetic Counsellor - Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

Tootie Bueser, Chief Nurse - South East Genomic Medicine Service

Emma Tomlinson, Specialist Midwife - Tommy's Rainbow Clinic

Alex Davey, Parent of a Child with a Rare Disease
12:30 13:00
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How We’re Co-Creating The UK’s Largest Health Research Programme

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Chief Compliance and Integrity Officer - Our Future Health
12:00 12:30
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The Chromosomes that NGS Forgot…

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Allison Watson, Chief Executive Officer - Ring 20 Research & Support UK CIO
11:30 12:00
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Community Engagement in Genomics and Health Research. The Successes, the Challenges, Lessons Learnt and Next Steps

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Manpreet Bains, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences - University of Nottingham

Rupinder Kaur Bajwa, Research Fellow - University of Nottingham
16:10 17:40
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Workshop: Single Cell Data Analysis With Python

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Georgia Whitton, Senior Bioinformatician - The Francis Crick Institute

James Campbell, Bioinformatics Training Developer - The Francis Crick Institute

Lina Gerontogianni, Senior Statistician - Francis Crick Institute
14:45 15:15
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From FFPE to Insight: 10x FLEX scRNA‑seq for MoA, Resistance, and Patient Stratification

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Silvia-Elena Glont, Senior Scientist, Translational Genomics - AstraZeneca
12:30 13:00
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Rare Disease Gene Association Discovery in The 100,000 Genomes Project

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Hannah Mitchison, Professor of Molecular Medicine - University College London
08:45 09:00
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Keynote Address

Main Stage

Speakers

Minister Zubir Ahmed, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety - Department of Health and Social Care
10:05 10:10
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The Future of Clinical Trials in The UK: Aligning National Assets With Industry Needs

Main Stage

Speakers

Raghib Ali, Chief Executive - Our Future Health
15:10 15:40
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Inside the Patient Experience of Advanced Therapies

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Funmi Vanessa Ullam, Parent of a Child with a Chronic Condition

Chris Kessler, Patient Voice - Parent of a Child with a Rare Disease
15:40 16:10
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Networking Break

Genome Dome
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break

Genome Dome
11:30 13:00
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Roundtable Discussion: Data Citizenship: Who Owns Your Genome?

Genome Dome

Speakers

Stephan Beck, Emeritus Professor of Medical Genomics | Director - UCL Cancer Institute | Personal Genome Project UK

Natalie Banner, Chief Ethics and Engagement Officer - Genomics England

Kathleen Lidell, Professor of Intellectual Property and Medical Law - University of Cambridge

Kate Sahan, Research Fellow - The Ethox Centre
14:10 15:40
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Roundtable Discussion: Catalysing Discovery at The Intersection of Genomics, Humanities, Social Sciences and Bioethics

Genome Dome

Speakers

Paul Meller, Research Lead, Discovery Research - Wellcome Trust

Joy Zhang, Professor of Sociology - University of Kent

Leigh Jackson, Project Researcher - University of Exeter

Veline L’esperance, Senior Clinical Advisor - NHS Race and Health Observatory

Harry Farmer, Senior Researcher - Ada Lovelace Institute

Peter Kilroy, Senior Research Manager - Wellcome Trust

Helena Wells, Research Manager - Major Initiatives - Wellcome Trust
16:10 17:40
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Exploring The Latest Genomes and Gene annotations In The New Ensembl Data Platform

Genome Dome

Speakers

Jorge Batista da Rocha, Outreach Project Leader - Ensembl
11:30 13:00
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Roundtable Discussion: Closing The Digital Skills Gap in Life Sciences

Genome Dome

Speakers

Helen Jourdain-Dawe, Head of Bioscience and Chemistry - Northeastern University London

Mark Kristiansen, Head of UCL Genomics and Associate Professor (Education) - University College London

Georgia Whitton, Senior Bioinformatician - The Francis Crick Institute

Isabelle Jourdain-Dawe, Head of Discovery - BindBridge
14:15 15:45
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Welcome to the Virtual Lab

Genome Dome

Speakers

Nick Hickson, Scientific Education and Training Lead - South East Genomic Laboratory Hub / Synnovis

Layla Afkhami, Scientific Training Officer (Practice Educator) - Synnovis, Guy’s Hospital
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Genome Dome
16:15 17:15
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Genome Dome closed

Genome Dome
11:30 13:00
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Workshop: Life Sciences CV Masterclass

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Renee Lee, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences - University of Reading

Phil Lang, Placements Coordinator - University of York
10:10 11:00
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Panel Discussion: Genomics, Strategy and the Next Decade of UK Life Sciences

Main Stage

Speakers

Dame Anna Dominiczak, Chief Scientific Adviser (Health) - Scottish Government

Isabel Oliver, Chief Medical Officer - Welsh Government

Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive - MHRA

Steve Bates, Executive Chair - Office for Life Sciences

Richard Torbett, Chief Executive - Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)

Beth Thompson, Director of Policy & Partnerships - Wellcome Trust

Raghib Ali, Chief Executive - Our Future Health
15:10 15:40
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Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Genomics and AI

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Zhihao Ding, Director and Global Head of Human Genetics; Head of Animal Health Genomics, - Boehringer Ingelheim
12:30 13:00
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OpenSAFELY: How We Delivered Secure Access to all 58 Million NHS GP Records in England

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Ben Goldacre, Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science - University of Oxford
11:00 11:30
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Networking Break

Main Stage
09:00 09:30
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UK Biobank: Crowdsourcing Discovery Science

Main Stage

Speakers

Sir Rory Collins, Chief Executive - UK Biobank
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

Main Stage
16:15 17:00
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Panel Discussion: Beyond Sick Care: Building a Prevention-Driven Health System in the UK?

Main Stage

Speakers

Cosima Gretton, Chief Product Officer - Our Future Health

Vageesh Jain, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Senior Lecturer - NHS South West London

Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist, Lifestyle Medicine Physician - King’s College Hospital

Thomas Beaney, Clinical Research Fellow and GP - The George Institute for Global Health
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Women & Children's Health Stage
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break

Women & Children's Health Stage
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Advanced Therapies Stage
15:50 16:20
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Networking Break
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage
13:10 14:20
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Lunch Break
15:40 16:10
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Networking Break

AI In Drug Discovery Stage
14:40 15:10
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A Multi-Omics Approach to Uncovering Drug Resistance in HER2-Positive Cancer

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Ateequllah Hayat, Lecturer in Drug Development - St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences
13:00 14:10
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Lunch Break

Single-Cell Stage
15:40 16:10
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Networking Break

Biodata Stage
15:40 16:10
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Networking Break

Main Stage
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10
14:15 17:15
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Workshop: Making Spatial Biology FAIR – Practical Steps

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Jan-Philipp Mallm, Head, Single Cell Open Lab - DKFZ German Cancer Research Center

Amonida Zadissa, Associate Director of Informatics - UK Dementia Research Institute

Michele Bortolomeazzi, Bioinformatician - DKFZ

Sam Jackson, Founder - IO-FAST
11:30 13:00
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Workshop: Computational Biology Upskilling

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Garima Khandelwal, Senior Principal Scientist - GSK

Naveen Prasad, Senior Principal Scientist, Computational Biology, Translational Omics - GSK
16:15 17:15
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Panel Discussion: From Pilots to Practice: How Do We Get AI Into Everyday Care?

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Richard Dobson, Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics - NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre; King's College London

Rupa Chilvers, Deputy Director for Life Sciences and Innovation - Welsh Government

Beatrix Fletcher, Head of Digital Transformation - Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation
16:45 17:15
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Panel Discussion: Advancing Women’s Health Through Omics Technologies and Effective Collaboration

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Joyce Harper, Professor - University College London

Demetra Georgiou, Chair of the British Society of Genomic Medicine and Transformation Manager - NHS

Lachlan Ford MacBean, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - University of Exeter
15:15 15:45
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From Ego to Ecosystems: Unleashing Real-World Data to Power Healthcare Transformation

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Alexander Bedenkov, Vice President, Global Evidence - AstraZeneca
14:45 15:15
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NHS Genomic AI Network- lessons from accelerating AI adoption in genomic medicine

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Alexander Deng, Director - NHS Genomic AI Network
14:15 14:45
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Agentic AI Reasoning in Biomedicine

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

André Freitas, Associate Professor & Research Group Leader - University of Manchester & IDIAP Research Institute
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage
12:00 12:30
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Using AI for Deep Phenotyping of Patient Records

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Richard Dobson, Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics - NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre; King's College London
17:10 17:40
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More details to be announced shortly

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage
11:30 12:00
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Mapping Clusters of Chronic Disease Progression in Electronic Health Records with AI

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Thomas Beaney, Clinical Research Fellow and GP - The George Institute for Global Health
15:15 15:45
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Implementation of GW-NIPT: challenges and perspectives

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Robert-Jan Galjaard, Clinical Geneticist and Clinical Cytogeneticist - Erasmus MC
14:45 15:15
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Cell Free DNA in Pregnancy: From Fetal Screening to Uncovering Maternal Malignancies

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Maria Neofytou, Lecturer - University of Westminster
14:15 14:45
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Applications of cfDNA-based Prenatal Testing

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Asma Khalil, Professor and Consultant Obstetrician and Fetal Medicine Specialist - St George's Hospital London
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

Women & Children's Health Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Endometriosis as a Global Public Health |ssue: Leveraging Genomics

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Krina Zondervan, Head of Department, Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology, Co-Director Endometriosis CaRe Centre - University of Oxford
12:00 12:30
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Applying Different Omics Technologies to Predict Adverse Outcomes in Pregnancy

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Steve Charnock-Jones, Professor - University of Cambridge
11:30 12:00
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Early Detection, Prevention and Risk Prediction of Gynaecological Cancers

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Professor - University College London
16:15 16:45
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Panel Discussion: Accelerating Ultra-Personalised Therapies for Rare Genetic Diseases: From Diagnosis to Delivery

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Deb Lancaster, Executive Director Scientific Partnership - Genomics England

Dan O'Connor, Director, Regulatory Policy & Early Access - ABPI

Jacqueline Barry, Chief Clinical Officer - Cell and Gene Therapy, Catapult

Karen Skinner, Chief Operating Officer - LifeArc
15:15 15:45
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From Uncertainty to Insight in Advanced Therapies: A Welsh Real-World Data Initiative

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Hannah Crocker, Advanced Therapies Outcomes Manager - NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
12:00 12:30
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Addressing Challenges of Advanced Therapies of Rare Diseases

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Claire Booth, Consultant Paediatric Immunologist - Great Ormond Street Hospital
14:45 15:15
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Horizon Scanning for Advanced Therapies: From Innovation to Patient Access

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

John Spoors, Programme Director: Commercial, Managed Access and Medicines Policy - NICE
13:00 14:15
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Lunch Break

Advanced Therapies Stage
12:30 13:00
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Developing Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis and Other Respiratory Diseases

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Uta Griesenbach, Professor of Molecular Medicine - Imperial College London
11:30 12:00
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Advanced Therapies Wales – Driving National Collaboration and Innovation in Advanced Therapy Research and Delivery

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Steven Conlan, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology - Swansea University Medical School
16:45 17:15
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Stage Closed

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage
16:15 16:45
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Healthy Microbiome—Moving Towards Functional Interpretation

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Kinga Zielinska, Bioinformatician - Jagiellonian University

Pawel Labaj, Bioinformatics Group Leader - Jagiellonian University
15:45 16:15
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Networking Break

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Respiratory Microbiome Dysbiosis and Temporal Dynamics in Individuals with Asthma

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Spyridon Megremis, Lecturer in Microbial and Phage Biology - University of Leicester
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Malnourished Microbes: How the Gut Microbiome Affects Growth in Children at Risk of Undernutrition

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Ruairi Robertson, Lecturer in Microbiome Science - Queen Mary University of London
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

From Gut to Lung: Using Metagenomics to Understand How Early Gut Colonisers Shape the Risk of Severe Respiratory Infections in Childhood

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Nigel Field, Professor of Infectious Disease & Epidemiology - University College London
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Investigating Host-Microbiome Interactions with Computational and Organoid Based Approaches

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Tamas Korcsmaros, Associate Professor - Imperial College London
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Oralisation, Dysbiosis and Defence: Host–Microbiome Dialogues Across Epithelial Surfaces

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

David Moyes, Group Lead, Functional Microbiome Group - King's College London
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Microbial–Immune Crosstalk During Infant Weaning: Long-term Determinants of Health, Autoimmune Risk, and Strategies for Prevention

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Marcin Pekalski, Host and Microbe Investigator - MIM National Research Institute, Warsaw, & Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
16:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Integration of PRS Alongside Multi-Modal for Stratification and Risk Prediction

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Saskia Sanderson, Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics & Health Informatics - King's College London

Zaed Hamady, Senior Consultant and Clinician - University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Luis Da Rocha Lopes, Associate Professor, Institute of Cardiovascular Science - University College London
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage
16:15 16:45
( Your local time: - )

Your DNA, Your Warning: Using Genomes to Outpace Heart Disease

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Marta Futema, Lecturer in Cardiovascular Science - City St. George's, University London
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Unlocking Precision Medicine at Scale: From Genomic Interactions to Pharmacogenomics

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Natalie Twine, Senior Research Scientist - CSIRO
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Prostate Cancer Polygenic Risk Scores in Clinic - Where are we and where do we go from here?

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Harry Green, Lecturer in Health Data Science - University of Exeter
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Topological Analysis of Pathway Activation Reveals Molecular Phenotypes in IBD for Precision Stratification and Targeted Therapy

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Paul Skipp, Professor of Proteomics and Co-Founder of TopMD - University of Southampton
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Integrating Genetics Across the Drug R&D Pipeline

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

James Staley, Director of Computational Genetics - UCB
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Epigenetics Stage
16:15 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Theatre Closed

Epigenetics Stage
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Epigenetic and Genomic Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Alexi Nott, Group Leader - UKDRI Imperial College London
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Epigenetic Signatures of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Chloe Wong, Reader in Epigenomics - King's College London
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Decoding Epigenetic Barcodes in Blood for Early Detection of Neurodegeneration

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Emma Dempster, Senior Lecturer - Exeter University
13:05 13:20
( Your local time: - )

When Every Sample Is Different: Automation strategies for Highly Variable Genomic Workflows

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Piotr Cuber, Senior Molecular Biologist, Robotics - Natural History Museum

Yuen Chan, Senior Automation Scientist and Molecular Biologist - Natural History Museum
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Unpicking Alzheimer's disease: Understanding Links Between Mental Health, Genetics, and Neurodegenerative Disease

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Donald Lyall, Senior Lecturer - University of Glasgow
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Insights into Neurodegeneration from DNA Methylation Studies on Human Brain Tissue

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Conceição Bettencourt, Professorial Research Fellow - University College London
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Enhancer heterogeneity in leukaemia drives patient specific transcriptional profiles

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Thomas Milne, Professor of Haematology - University of Oxford
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

AI In Drug Discovery Stage
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Applying Machine Learning on UK Biobank Biomarker Data Empowers Case-Control Discovery Yield

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Manik Garg, Senior Data Scientist - AstraZeneca
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Machine learning combined with 3D genomics identify drug targets with boosted clinical success chances

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Basel Abu-Jamous, Director of Computational Biology - Nucleome Therapeutics
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Deep Phenotyping via EHR Transformers: Leveraging Biomarker and Imaging Data for Comprehensive Subtype Characterization

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Hanati Tuoken, Principal Scientist (ML & AI) - Boehringer Ingelheim
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

AI In Drug Discovery Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Novel Deep Learning Architectures for Patient Cohort Data

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, Specialist - Novo Nordisk
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Deploying AI for Early Phase Oncology Trials

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Karen Sayal, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, the Translational AI Innovation Lead - University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
16:15 17:00
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Moving Beyond Genomics through the Integration of Proteomics and Multi-Omics Data

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Clive D'Santos, Head of Proteomics - Cancer Research UK

Becky Carlyle, Group Leader - Oxford-GSK

Ioanna Tzoulaki, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health - Imperial College London
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Proxy-Ubiquitomics for Drug Discovery in the Ubiquitin System

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Benedikt Kessler, Professor of Biochemistry and Mass Spectrometry - University of Oxford
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Role of Phosphoproteomics in The Development of Personalised Oncology

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas, Professor of Cell Signalling and Proteomics - Barts Cancer Institute
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Proteogenomic Landscape of Type 2 Diabetes in African Ancestry Individuals

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Opeyemi Soremkun, Lecturer - University of Exeter
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Cracking the Mass Spectrometry Code: Artificial intelligence for de novo peptide sequencing

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Wout Bittremieux, Assistant Research Professor - University of Antwerp
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

The Potential of Proteomics in Cardiovascular Risk Prediction

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Frederick Ho, Senior Lecturer - University of Glasgow
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

From Rare to Common: Insights Into Human Diseases From Proteogenomic Studies

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Mine Koprulu, Postdoctoral Researcher - Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI)
16:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

High-Resolution Biology: Multi-Dimensional Insights from Spatial Multi-Omics

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Paolo Piazza, Head of the Multi Omics Research Facility - University of Oxford
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Multi-Omics Stage
16:05 16:45
( Your local time: - )

NIHR Bioresource: Advancing Rare Disease research with Omics technologies.

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Kathy Stirrups, Head of Samples - NIHR BioResource
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Enabling Precision Medicine Using Multi-Omics, AI, and Systems Biology

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Adil Mardinoglu, Professor - King's College London
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

SPACE: A Centre Of Excellence To democratize & Scale Up Spatial omics

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Dario Bressan, Head of the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) - Cancer Research Cambridge Institute
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Embedding Multi-Omics within the NHS: Challenges and Opportunities

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Emma Braybrook, Lead Scientist, Multi-Omics Laboratory - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Multi-Omics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Multi-Omics Approaches for Elucidating Disease Mechanisms and Enhancing Risk Prediction

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Michael Inouye, Professor - University of Cambridge
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Pan-cancer Drivers of Metastasis

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Vijay Tiwari, Professor and Head of Genome Biology, Institute for Molecular Medicine (IMM) - University of Southern Denmark
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Knowledge-Based Machine Learning to Extract Disease Mechanisms From Spatial Multi-Omics Data

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Head of Research - EMBL-EBI
16:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

MCED - DNA Methylation-Based Liquid Biopsy for Early Detection of HPV-Related Cancers

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Belinda Nedjai, Director of the Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory - Queen Mary University of London
15:50 16:20
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Cancer Diagnostics Stage
16:15 16:45
( Your local time: - )

The AI Infection Point for Genomics - the UK Cancer AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Lennard Lee, Chief Medical Officer - Ellison Institute of Technology

Gareth Bloomfield, Senior Scientist - Cancer AI Scientist Project
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

The SMPaeds2 Study: The Power of ctDNA in Paediatric Cancer

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Sally George, Paediatric Oncologist and Group Leader - The Institute of Cancer Research
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Rethinking Early Cancer Detection: Lessons from Over a Decade of Liquid Biopsy Development

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Nitzan Rosenfeld, Director and Professor of Applied Cancer Research - Queen Mary University of London
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Molecular Residual Disease Monitoring in Breast Cancer

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Isaac Garcia-Murillas, Senior Staff Scientist - Institute of Cancer Research
13:10 14:20
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Cancer Diagnostics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

The Role of Liquid Biopsy in The NHS Cancer Diagnostic Pathways

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Sian Morgan, All Wales Medical Genomics Service Laboratory Director - NHS Wales
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Liquid Biopsy in Practice: Current Applications and Future Directions

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Persephone du Parcq, Lead Clinical/Translational Scientist - Synnovis, UK
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Liquid Biopsy from Research to Practice in Lung Cancer

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Alastair Greystoke, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant - Newcastle University
15:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Theatre Closed

Spatial Stage
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

From Archives to Insights: Unraveling placental disorders with Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Yara Sanchez-Corrales, Computational Research Fellow at the Institute of Child Health - University College London
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Clinical impact of spatial inter-tumoural heterogeneity in Ovarian High Grade Serous Carcinoma (HGSC)

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Paula Cunnea, Advanced Research Fellow - Imperial College London
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Spatial Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Exploring Multiscale Single-Cell Signalling via SIGNAL-seq PTM Profiling and Biophysics-Aware Spatial Transcriptomics

Spatial Stage

Speakers

James Opzoomer, Senior Scientist, Innovation Lab - Relation Therapeutics
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Exploring spatial dependencies in the tissue and 3D model proteomes and addressing data scarcity in proteomics

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Roman Fischer, Associate Professor and Head of Discovery Proteomics Facility - University of Oxford
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Spatial Profiling at Scale: Where Are We Now and What Comes Next?

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Jasmine Plummer, Director, Center for Spatial OMICs - St Jude Children's Research Hospital
16:15 16:45
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Bridging the Gap: Integrating Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics for Deeper Biological Insights

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Meryam Beniazza, Single Cell Multi Omics Specialist - University of Edinburgh

Ralf Jungmann, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics - Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry

Daria Gavriouchkina, Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Platform Manager - UKDRI Imperial College London

Michela Noseda, Reader in Cardiovascular Science, National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine - Imperial College London
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Single-Cell Stage
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

Single-Cell and AI/ML to Understand Human Development and Disease

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Muzlifah Haniffa, Head of Cellular Genomics - Wellcome Sanger Institute
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

scExCpGm: a new single-cell sequencing platform for cocurrent profiling gene expression and genomic CpG methylation atlas in biology and disease research

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Shouwen Wang, Assistant Professor - Westlake University
13:10 14:20
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Single-Cell Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Single-Cell Phenotyping and DNA Profiling to Deconvolute Forensic Biological Mixtures Originating From Multiple Contributors

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Iain Macaulay, Group Leader - Earlham Institute
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Ushering in a New Era of Biological Discovery With Scaled Up Single Cell Sequencing

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Mike Day, District Sales Manager - Parse Biosciences
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Decoding Blood using Single-Cell Genomics: how embryos teach us to make stem cells

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Gi Fay Mok, Lecturer in Biomedicine & Group Leader at the BioMedical Research Centre - University of East Anglia
16:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Healthcare Data Acquisition: A National Consent Mechanism

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Rhys Vaughan, Genomics Consent Manager - Wales Gene Park
15:45 16:15
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Biodata Stage
16:45 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Building Trust: Ensuring Accountability and Quality in Biodata Systems

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Rohini Mathur, Professor and Chair of Health Data Science - Queen Mary University of London

Andy Yates, Team Leader, Genomics Technology Infrastructure - EMBL-EBI

Cassie Smith, Director for Legal Trust and Ethics - HDRUK

Arcadi Navarro Cuartiellas, EGA Director - Center for Genomic Regulation
14:45 15:15
( Your local time: - )

Harnessing Data & AI for the future of Life Sciences

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Thomas Harrer, CTO Storage EMEA, Distinguished Engineer - IBM
14:15 14:45
( Your local time: - )

Delivering Insight at Scale Using FAIR Data Principles

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Nathalie Conte, R&D Lead for FAIR data integration - AstraZeneca
13:00 14:15
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Biodata Stage
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Population-Scale Single-Cell Genomics Informs Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Nicole Soranzo, Head of Genomics Research Centre - Population & Medical Genomics - Human Technopole
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Why Data Matters: Enabling Large-Scale Population Health Research in The UK in The “Big Data” Era.

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Cathie Sudlow, Director of the Usher Institute - University of Edinburgh
16:15 16:45
( Your local time: - )

The GA4GH Beacon Protocol - Federating Data Discovery and Sharing in Biomedical Genomics

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Michael Baudis, Professor - University of Zurich
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10
14:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Workshop: Career Taster - Clinical Scientist in Genomics

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Nick Hickson, Scientific Education and Training Lead - South East Genomic Laboratory Hub / Synnovis

Layla Afkhami, Scientific Training Officer (Practice Educator) - Synnovis, Guy’s Hospital
13:00 14:00
( Your local time: - )

Workshop: Developing Your Career with Personal Branding

Workshop Room - Gallery Room SG10

Speakers

Ann Brine, Head of Marketing Services - Promega
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

AI Hesitancy in Healthcare: Understanding Disengagement with AI-Powered Tools

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Tom Nadarzynski, Research Lead, Solent NHS Trust and Senior Lecturer - University of Westminster
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

AI For Diagnosis in Primary Care: Regulatable AI Models and Virtual Doctors

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Brendan Delaney, Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision Making - Imperial College London
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Deep Data for Translational Research: The Thames Valley and Surrey Secure Data Environment

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Kerrie Woods, Director R&D Clinical Informatics - Oxford University Hospitals

Jim Davies, Chief Technology Officer - Thames Valley & Surrey NHS Secure Data Environment
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Multimodal AI for Imaging–Omics Data Fusion with Interpretable Insights

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Greg Slabaugh, Director of the Digital Environment Research Institute and Professor of Computer Vision and AI - Queen Mary University of London
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Mind the Gap: AI and Barriers to Implementation in Imaging-Based Screening

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Adnan Taib, Clinical Research Fellow - University of Nottingham
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

A Human-Inspired Statistical Framework for Tumour Delineation in Medical Imaging

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Surajit Ray, Professor of Statistics - University of Glasgow
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

AI Integration Across Health and Life Sciences: Oncology, Trauma, and Oral Health

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Tuan Pham, Professor of AI in Imaging, Diagnostics, and Trauma - Queen Mary University of London
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Genomic AI: Building Intelligence for National Health Systems with Global Standards

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Timon Heide, Staff Bioinformatics Scientist - Illumina

Augusto Rendon, Chief Bioinformatician - Genomics England

Sarah Ennis, Research Director - NHS

Sasha Siegel, Chief Product Officer - GA4GH
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Harnessing AI to Improve Cancer Diagnostics

AI In Healthcare Transformation Stage

Speakers

Sowmiya Moorthie, Senior Strategic Evidence Manager - Cancer Research UK
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Genetic Predictors of Diabetes in Pregnancy

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Julia Zollner, NIHR Clinical Lecturer - University College London
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

The Australian National Genomic Autopsy Study: A Summary of Results, Outcomes and Instructive Families from 413 Trios/Quads

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Christopher Barnett, Head, Paediatric and Reproductive Genetics Unit - Women's and Children's Hospital Australia
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

The BabyDetect Project: Diagnosing Treatable Conditions Earlier

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Francois Boemer, Head of Human Genetics Department - University of Liege
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Women & Children's Health Stage
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Evaluating the Impact of Newborn Sequencing

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Melissa Hill, Senior Social Scientist - Great Ormond Street Hospital

James Buchanan, Senior Lecturer, Health Economics and Policy Research Unit - Queen Mary University of London

Joachim Tan, Senior Research Fellow in Health Data Science - UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Treating Metabolic Inherited Disorders

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Simon Heales, Director of the Neurometabolic Unit - National Hospital, Queen Square
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Newborn Genome Screening: Initial results of the Generation Study

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

David Bick, Principal Clinician, Newborn Genomes Programme - Genomics England
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Precision Prediction and Prenatal Intervention for SCD: A Multimodal Biomarker Approach

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Panicos Shangaris, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Maternal and Fetal Medicine - King's College London
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

The Implementation of Non-Invasive Prenatal Genomic Diagnostics in The NHS

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Stephanie Allen, Consultant Clinical Scientist - Central and South Genomic Laboratory Hub, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Fetal Genomics: The Expanding Role of Prenatal Sequencing in Clinical Care

Women & Children's Health Stage

Speakers

Dame Lyn Chitty, Chair of Genetics and Fetal Medicine - University College London
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

ATMP Engage: Perspectives from People who May Benefit from Advanced Therapies

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Nick Meade, Chief Executive - Genetic Alliance

Laurence Woolard, Co-Chair, ATMP Engage - Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Building the Future of Advanced Therapies: Lessons from the ATTC Network

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Emily Merrell, Director of Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre Network - Cell and Gene Therapy, Catapult
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Advanced Therapies Stage
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Getting Commissioned ATMPs to Patients: Key Insights

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Ben Doak, Head of Innovative Treatments - NHS England
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: How Do We Design, Execute and Adapt Clinical Trials for One-Time or Personalised Advanced Therapies?

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Laura Campbell, Chief Medical Officer - Orchard Therapeutics

Simon Jones, Consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Diseases - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

James Pound, Interim Executive Director of Innovation and Compliance - MHRA
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Accelerating Access: Regulatory Support for Advanced Therapies in the UK

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

James Pound, Interim Executive Director of Innovation and Compliance - MHRA
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Advanced Therapies Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Designing for Success: Smarter Preclinical Strategies in Cell & Gene Therapy

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Azadeh Kia, VP of Gene Therapy Research - Beacon Therapeutics

Trevor Smith, VP of Preclinical R&D - Inovio Pharmaceuticals

Diana Hernandez, Director of Immune and Advanced Therapies - Anthony Nolan
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Safe by Design: Unbiased Tools for CRISPR Safety in Cell and Gene Therapy

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Giando Turchiano, Associate Director, Gene Editing Safety - AstraZeneca
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Innovating Cell Therapies for Solid Tumours: From Discovery to Clinical Translation

Advanced Therapies Stage

Speakers

Maike de la Roche, Group Leader - Cancer Research UK
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Identifies Novel Regulatory Regions in the Human Genome and Their Epigenetic Code

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Radu Zabet, Reader of AI and Cancer Epigenetics - Queen Mary University of London
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

How The First Two Weeks After You Were Conceived Influences Your Lifelong Risk of Disease

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Lori Kregar, Postdoctoral Researcher - Wellcome Sanger Institute
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Epigenetic Technologies to Advance Cancer Detection and Cancer Biology

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Chunxiao Song, Associate Professor at Ludwig Cancer Research - University of Oxford
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Epigenetics Stage
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Single-cell approaches to dissect cell type-specific regulation at the CDKN2A/B locus

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Elena Torlai Triglia, Lecturer in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology - Queen Mary University of London
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Decoding Cell Division History in Humans with Evolving DNA Methylome

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Zekey Zhang, Product Specialist - Beijing SeekGene BioSciences

Zhigang Cai, Professor and Principle Investigator - Tianjin Medical University
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Rapid Brain Tumour Classification From Epigenomic Data

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Alena van Bommel, Associate Professor for Neuroepigenetics and Data Science at the Biomedical Center - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Out of the Comfort Zone: Rethinking Approaches to study and contrast Breast Cancer Dormancy

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Luca Magnani, Professor - The Institute of Cancer Research
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

The 6-Base Genome Provides Synergistic Biomarkers for Earlier Detection of Colorectal Cancer

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Sophie Kirschner, Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Early Oncology - AstraZeneca
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Multiomic Single Cell WGS and Epigenomics to Track Drug Resistance Evolution in Cancer

Epigenetics Stage

Speakers

Trevor Graham, Director of the Centre for Evolution and Cancer - Institute of Cancer Research
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Population Genomics of Enteric Pathogens: From Ancient DNA to Modern Surveillance

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Senior Bioinformatician, Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance - University of Oxford
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Genomics for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance to Support Infection Prevention and Control in Health

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Elita Jauneikaite, Assistant Professor in Microbiome and Bacterial Genomics - Imperial College London
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Uncovering Long-Term Patterns in Pathogen Evolution with Big Data and Ancient DNA

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Lucy van Dorp, Principal Research Fellow - University College London
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Genomic Surveillance of AMR: Practical Steps for Implementation

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

David Aanensen, Director, Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance - Pandemic Sciences Institute
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Genomics of Multi-Drug Resistance in Opportunistic Bacteria

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Willem Van Schaik, Professor of Microbiology and Infection - University of Birmingham
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

From Patient to Population: Harnessing Pathogen Genomics Across the Welsh Healthcare System

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Tom Connor, Head of Public Health Genomics Programme - Public Health Wales
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

GAP-DC: An integrated One Health initiative for pathogen surveillance in the UK

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Yogesh Gupta, Senior Scientist - Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Changing the Surveillance Paradigm

Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage

Speakers

Charlene Rodrigues, Consultant in Genomics - UK Health Secuirty Agency
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Mind the Implementation Gap: What If Every Older Adult Had Their Pharmacogenomic Profile on File?

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Sandosh Padmanabhan, Chair of Pharmacogenomics - University of Glasgow
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine in the NHS in England: Embedding Genomics Informed Medicines Optimisation

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Vicky Chaplin, Senior Clinical Lead, Genomics Unit - NHS England
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Delivering Pharmacogenomic Services in Wales

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Sophie Harding, Pharmacogenomics Lead - All Wales Medical Genomics Service
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Pharmacogenomics Analyses: Biobanks, Study Design & Consortium Projects

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Helen Warren, Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genetics - Queen Mary University of London
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Pharmacogenomics Analysis at Scale for Safer and More Effective Patient Treatment

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Ellen McDonagh, Translation Informatics Director - Open Targets
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Pharmacogenomics and Healthcare

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Sir Mark Caulfield, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology - Queen Mary University of London
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Precision Cardiology : The Art of Risk Stratification in The Real World

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Rameen Shakur, Professor of Genomics and Cardiovascular Medicine - University of Brighton
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics (CERSI-PGx)

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Sir Munir Pirmohamed, Chair of Pharmaco
-genetics - University of Liverpool
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

AI-Powered Drug and Biomarker Discovery Using Multi-Modal Image Data

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Heba Sailem, Head of Biomedical AI - King's College London
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Virtual Assays for Target Discovery: Bridging Human Biology, Functional Genomics, and Machine Learning.

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Manu Verma, Senior Research Scientist in Functional Genomics - Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford
16:15 17:15
( Your local time: - )

Stage Closed

AI In Drug Discovery Stage
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Cracking the Code of Biology: How Multi-Modal Foundation Models Will Transform Drug Discovery

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Ketan Patel, Head of Product - Bioptimus
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Agentic AI in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: the Devil is in the Details

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Guglielmo Iozzia, Director, Data Sciences AI/ML - MSD
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

AI In Drug Discovery Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Advancing De Novo Drug Design Through Machine Learning

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Friederike Biermann, Computational Scientist - Sanofi
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Better Inputs, Better Outputs: High-Dimensional Data for Tomorrow’s RNA Medicines

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Wayne Doyle, Associate Director, Head of Scientific Strategy - Eclipsebio
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Scaling AI-Driven Discovery at Roche

AI In Drug Discovery Stage

Speakers

Elif Ozkirimli, Head of Computational Science Products - Roche
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

The Power to Predict and to Perceive: AI-Based Discovery in Proteomics Data

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Lennart Martens, Senior Full Professor of Systems Biology - Ghent University
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

From immune repertoires to designed antibodies: AI models for nativeness, humanisation, and therapeutic design

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Pietro Sormanni, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering - Imperial College London
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

AI, Proteomics, and Advanced Analytics for Drug Development

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Maria Dermit, Senior Research Scientist - Novo Nordisk
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Using Proteomics for Drug Discovery and Target ID for Major Depressive Disorders

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Dame Carol Robinson, Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery - University of Oxford
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Towards Population-Level Genomic Profiling - The Genomics England Adult Population Genomics Program

Precision Medicine & Patient Stratification Stage

Speakers

Matt Brown, Chief Scientific Officer - Genomics England
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Harnessing the power of proteomics in biobank studies to advance precision health

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Zhengming Chen, Richard Peto Professor of Epidemiology - Oxford Population Health
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: How Is Translational Proteomics Shaping the Future of Drug Target Discovery?

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Praveen Surendran, Associate Director, Human Genetics and Genomics - GSK

Zhengming Chen, Richard Peto Professor of Epidemiology - Oxford Population Health

Simon Lovestone, VP, Distinguished Fellow - Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Seeing Biology Clearly with Olink: Bringing the OH! to Prote-OH-mics!

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

David Harley, Strategic Director, Population Health EMEA - Olink, part of Thermo Fisher

Fanny Taborsak-Lines, Product Manager - Olink, part of Thermo Fisher
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

High-Throughput Proteomics Meets Population Science: The UK Biobank Approach & Future Directions

Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage

Speakers

Martin Rutter, Deputy Chief Scientist - UK Biobank
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

From Stress to Strength: Evidence-Based Approaches to Enhance Mental Health

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Yasir Syed, Senior Lecturer - Cardiff University
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Systems Vaccinology: Harnessing the Power of Multi-omics to Unravel the Mechanisms Underlying Immune Responses

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Daniel O'Connor, Associate Professor, Head of Bioinformatics, Oxford Vaccine Group - University of Oxford
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Leveraging Multi Omics Platforms for Cancer Immunotherapy

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Samra Turajlic, Group Lead - The Francis Crick Institute
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Multi-Omics Stage
15:15 15:45
( Your local time: - )

AI/ML Powered Multi Omics Data Integration for Motor Neuron Disease

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Alfredo Iacoangeli, Professor of Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence for Genomic Medicine - King's College London
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Directly link genotype to phenotype. Discover a new era of multiomics within the same single-cells with Tapestri

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Dr. Robert Durruthy-Durruthy, VP, Global Support & Field Applications - Mission Bio
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

AI-Driven Integrative Analytics: A Case Study in Gastroenterology Cancers and IBD

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Animesh Acharjee, Associate Professor of Integrative Analytics and AI - University of Birmingham
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Multi-Omics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

The Expanding Role of Multi-omics in Early Drug Discovery

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Joanna Howson, Scientific Vice President - Novo Nordisk
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

The Genome and Beyond: Advancing Drug Discovery and Development

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Dirk Paul, Head of Development - Genomics
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Revealing Biological Mechanisms Through Multi-Omics Analyses

Multi-Omics Stage

Speakers

Emma Laing, Senior Director of Computational Biology - GSK
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Clinical Implementation of Genomic Profiling to Advance the Diagnosis of Brain Tumours

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Zita Reisz, Consultant Neuropathologist & Lead Neuropathologist for Paediatric Neuro-Oncology - King’s College Hospital
13:20 13:35
( Your local time: - )

Advancing Cancer Research: Genomic Profiling with QIAseq xHYB Trinity CGP

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Pinar Uysal-Onganer, Reader in Molecular Biology, Cancer Mechanisms and Biomarkers Research Group Leader - University of Westminster
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

The Future of Cancer Management: Genomics, Monitoring and Realities

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Michael Hubank, Head of Clinical Genomics - The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Cancer Diagnostics Stage
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Precision Diagnostics in Pediatric Cancer Care

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Bastiaan Tops, Head of Diagnostic Laboratory - Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Liquid Biopsy or Tissue NGS testing in Oncology - Competing Options or a Complementary Strategy?

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Gerald Martin , Commercial Applications Scientist - OncoDNA

Petra Pekorna
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Clinical Applications of ctDNA Testing and Introducing New Indications

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Matthew Krebs, Cancer Medical Lead - North West Genomic Laboratory Hub
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Cancer Diagnostics Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Clinical Testing of Cancer Susceptibility Genes: A Public Health Perspective

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Clare Turnbull, Professor of Cancer Genetics - Institute of Cancer Research London
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Translating Precision Oncology Profiling into Actionable Clinical Care : Bridging Diagnosis and Targeted Therapy Across Solid Tumors, Hematologic Malignancies and Liquid Biopsy

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Hemaal Dhar, Global Product Manager - NGS - Genes2Me Pvt Ltd.
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Utilising Liquid Biopsy for Diagnosis and Surveillance of MRD in Head and Neck Cancer

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Tim Aitman, Director of the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine - University of Edinburgh
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Spatial Stage
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Insights From Molecular Mapping of Gastrointestinal Cancer Across Space and Time

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Nigel Jamieson, Professor of Surgery - University of Glasgow
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Spatial Proteogenomics of the Human Brain in Health and Disease

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Olaf Ansorge, Director, Academic Unit of Neuropathology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford - University of Oxford | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Mapping the Key Factors Behind Skin Cancer Progression with Multimodal Spatial Profiling

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Matthew Bottomley, Lead for the CAMS Oxford Institute Spatial Profiling Hub - University of Oxford
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Unlocking Tissue Complexity Using Spatial Multi-Omics

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Semiramis Popova, Associate Director - AstraZeneca
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Using GeoMx Spatial Transcriptomics to Understand How Microglia Interact With Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease; Insights From Human and Mouse Brains

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Frances Edwards, Professor of Neurodegeneration - University College London
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Multi-omic Spatial Analysis Reveals Reshaping of Tumour-immune Dynamics at the Transition to Invasive Colorectal Cancer

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Annie Baker, Senior Staff Scientist - Institute of Cancer Research
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Spatial Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Democratising The Analysis, Integration and Visualisation of Spatial, Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics Datasets Using Multi-Dimensional Viewer

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Stephen Taylor, Head of Integrative Computational Biology, Centre for Human Genetics - University of Oxford
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Redefining Sequencing: FromGenomics to 5D Multiomics withAVITI24™

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Rachel Piddock, Sr Field Application Scientist I - Element Biosciences
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

GBM-Space: Dissecting the Cellular Circuits of Glioblastoma Using Single Cell and Spatial Genomics

Spatial Stage

Speakers

Omer Bayraktar, Group Leader - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Single Cell Multiomic Profiling Reveals Mechanisms of Resistance in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Syed Haider, Team Leader, Breast Cancer Research Data Science Group - Institute of Cancer Research
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Uncovering the origin of tumor heterogeneity in Pediatric High-Grade gliomas using novel human organoid models

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Roxy Finger, PhD Student - Princes Maxima Center, Utrecht University

Richard Capper, Senior Director of Global Research Customer Segment Marketing - Illumina
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

Building AI Models for Single-Cell Multi-Modal Integration

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Alejandro Sifrim, Group Leader - University of Leuven
15:40 16:10
( Your local time: - )

Networking Break

Single-Cell Stage
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

Decoding Human Variation at Single-Cell Resolution: Genetic Insights from the TenK10K Atlas

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Anna Cuomo, Associate Principal Scientist - AstraZeneca
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

A Scalable Platform for Single-Cell Co-Profiling of the Transcriptome and Genotype

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Jan Bergmann, Head of Computational Biology - Atrandi Biosciences
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Leveraging single-cell transcriptomics for ALS disease model characterisation and mechanistic insights

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Harpreet Saini, Senior Director, Bioinformatics - Astex Pharmaceuticals
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Therapeutic Antibody Discovery From Disease-Resilient Individuals Through Bulk and Single Cell Immune Repertoire Sequencing

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

David Yadin, Associate Director, Research - Alchemab Therapeutics
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Complementary, scalable single-cell and spatial profiling to reveal deeper biological insights

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Sarah Taylor, Head of Business Development - 10x Genomics
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Decoding Phenotypes at the Cell Type Level

Single-Cell Stage

Speakers

Irene Papatheodorou, Head of Data Science - Earlham Institute
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Biodata Stage
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Advancing Data Stewardship: Challenges, FAIR and ELIXIR-UK Communities

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Robert Andrews, UK RDM Club Lead - ELIXIR-UK
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

Scaling the UKs National Biobanks: How AWS Supports Genomics England, UK Biobank, and NIHR BioResource

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Mark Conway, CTO - UK Biobank

Andrew Leedham, Head of Research Data and Technology - NIHR BioResource

Julian Thomas, Chief Technology and Product Officer - Genomics England

Ankit Malhotra, Global Head of Genomics, Strategy and Solutions - AWS
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Helping Everyone Live Longer and Healthier Lives: The Our Future Health Data Set and Its Potential for Research

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Adam Steventon, Interim Chief Data Officer - Our Future Health
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

The Federated European Genome-Phenome Archive: Enabling Global Access to Human Genomics Data

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Mallory Freeberg, Human Genomics Team Leader - EMBL-EBI
14:40 15:10
( Your local time: - )

Curate to Innovate: Why AI in Genomics Needs Expert Data Foundations

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Jane Lomax, Head of Terminology Services - Rancho Biosciences
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Can We Move From Silos to Systems to Scale Biodata for a Borderless Future?

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Nathalie Conte, R&D Lead for FAIR data integration - AstraZeneca

Helen Parkinson, Section Head, Team Leader and Senior Scientist - EMBL-EBI

Natalie Twine, Senior Research Scientist - CSIRO
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Modern Genomics Pipelines: Smarter Development, Faster Science

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Geraldine Van der Auwera, Lead Developer Advocate - Seqera
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Unlocking UK Biobank’s Data Potential

Biodata Stage

Speakers

Mark Effingham, Deputy CEO - UK Biobank

Matthew Loose, Academic Lead of DeepSeq - University of Nottingham

Scott Ritchie, Assistant Professor of Research - University of Cambridge
17:10 17:40
( Your local time: - )

Long-Read Sequencing: Enabling High-Resolution Population and Medical Genomics

Main Stage

Speakers

Adam Ameur, Associate Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics - Uppsala University
16:10 16:40
( Your local time: - )

The Evolving Sequencing Landscape: How All the New Technologies Stack Up

Main Stage

Speakers

Michael Quail, Principal Scientist - R&D Sequencing - Wellcome Sanger Institute
15:10 15:40
( Your local time: - )

The Potential of Long-Reads to Uncover New Therapeutic Targets

Main Stage

Speakers

Wilfried Haerty, Group Leader - Earlham Institute
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Tracking Inherited Cancer Risk: How the NICPR Enables Early Detection and Improved Care

Main Stage

Speakers

Helen Hanson, Consultant in Clinical Genetics - Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
14:10 14:40
( Your local time: - )

Long-read Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Primary Mitochondrial DNA Disorders

Main Stage

Speakers

Robert Pitceathly, Professor of Clinical Neurology and Mitochondrial Medicine - University College London
13:50 14:05
( Your local time: - )

Why choose a DNBSEQ platform for your NGS workflow

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Samantha Mendonsa, Product Manager - MGI Tech
13:35 13:50
( Your local time: - )

Streamlined NGS: Integrating the n6 icon96 for Faster, Cheaper Workflows

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

James Docker, NGS Lead and Multi-Omics Scientist - University of Oxford
16:40 17:10
( Your local time: - )

PanSolid: Driving Diagnostic Innovation and Genomic Insights for Solid Tumours at NW GLH

Cancer Diagnostics Stage

Speakers

Eleanor Baker, Clinical Scientist - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Helene Schlecht, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Northwest Genomic Laboratory Hub - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
13:05 13:20
( Your local time: - )

Integrating the Devyser CFTR NGS assay into routine Newborn Screening in Norway – efficient, flexible and scalable

Live Lounge Stage

Speakers

Alexander D. Rowe, Head of Bioinformatics and Biobank, Norwegian Newborn Screening Program - Department of Newborn Screening, Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway
13:00 14:10
( Your local time: - )

Lunch Break

Main Stage
12:30 13:00
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: From Precision Medicine to Precision Analysis: Integrating Long-Reads as a Frontline Diagnostic

Main Stage

Speakers

Anna Lindstrand, Director of the Clinical Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory - Karolinska University Hospital

Christopher Watson, Associate Professor of Molecular Diagnostics - University of Leeds

Andrew Beggs, Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery - University of Birmingham
12:00 12:30
( Your local time: - )

Sequencing of the UK biobank using Oxford Nanopore

Main Stage

Speakers

Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Principal Investigator - deCODE
11:30 12:00
( Your local time: - )

Nanopore Sequencing to Understand and Diagnose Brain Tumours

Main Stage

Speakers

Matthew Loose, Academic Lead of DeepSeq - University of Nottingham
10:45 11:00
( Your local time: - )

Hope, Perseverance, and the Promise of Advanced Therapies

Main Stage

Speakers

Funmi Vanessa Ullam, Parent of a Child with a Chronic Condition
09:30 10:00
( Your local time: - )

Evaluating Constellation: Insights into NHS Paediatric Acute Care Pathways

Main Stage

Speakers

Andrew Parrish, Rare and Inherited Disease NHS Genomic Network of Excellence - Exeter Genomics Laboratory (South West GLH), Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Emma Baple, Professor of Genomic Medicine - University of Exeter

Richard Capper, Senior Director of Global Research Customer Segment Marketing - Illumina
10:00 10:45
( Your local time: - )

Panel Discussion: Practical Strategies to Deliver the Next Decade of UK Health and Care – What’s Next for Our NHS?

Main Stage

Speakers

Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer - NHS England

Richard Scott, Chief Executive Officer - Genomics England

Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive Officer - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
09:00 09:30
( Your local time: - )

The Future for Genomics and the NHS Shaped by New Government Strategies

Main Stage

Speakers

Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer - NHS England

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