Programme
| Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Wednesday 9th July 2025
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00-13:30 | Registration, Lunch & Networking | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Keynotes | Chair: Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) |
| 13:30 | Francis Crick, the father of genomics and phylogenetics | Matthew Cobb (University of Manchester) |
| 14:00 | Rapid intraoperative diagnostics of CSF tumours | Matt Loose (University of Nottingham) |
| 14:30-16:00 | Evolving Technologies 1 | Chair: Michael Quail (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
| 14:30 | Driving the multiomics revolution: The latest innovations from Illumina | Oliver Miller (Illumina) |
| 14:50 | High-Dimensional Biology: Advancing Single-Cell and Spatial Multiomics with AVITI24TM | Rachel Piddock (Element Biosciences) |
| 15:10 | From big dreams to real possibilities… | Dan Fordham (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) |
| 15:30 | Innovation across the technology spectrum | Neil Ward (PacBio) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30-17:50 | Evolving Technologies 2 | Chair: Michael Quail (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
| 16:30 | Access the Full Richness of Biological Complexity with New Single Cell and Spatial tools from 10X Genomics | Nicola Cahill (10X Genomics) |
| 16:50 | Low cost, high accuracy sequencing from Ultima Genomics | Alex Watkins (Ultima) |
| 17:10 | Next Evolution in Sequencing: Volumetric DNA Sequencing in Solution and Cells | Johan Stroemqvist (Single Technologies) |
| 17:30 | Sequencing by Expansion (SBX), a versatile, high-throughput single-molecule sequencing technology for a variety of applications | Bernd Timmermann (Roche) |
| 18:00-19:30 | Drinks Reception and Posters |
Thursday 10th July 2025
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:15 | 09:15 | Genomics Community UK Networking Breakfast | |
| 08:30 | 09:20 | - | Coffee and Pastries |
Parallel Session A - G.56
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 09:20-11:00 | Plant and Animal Genomics | Chair: Al Darby (University of Liverpool) |
| 09:20 | Decoding multiple layers of Genomics using Twist Bioscience | Sponsor Talk (Twist) |
| 09:30 | Wheat Pan Genomics | Antony Hall (Earlham Institute) |
| 09:55 | Fly genomes and transposable element invasions | Andrea Betancourt (University of Liverpool) |
| 10:20 | Artificial Lighting Induces Gene Expression Responses Linked to Oxidative Stress in Bats | Tom Jenkins (University of Exeter) |
| 10:35 | Performance assessment of a rapid library preparation kit for short-read RNA sequencing | Thomas Brabbs (Earlham Institute) |
| 10:50 | Exploring the power of 10X spatial applications: A focus on Visium HD and Xenium In situ tools in plant and animal studies | Sponsor Talk (10x Genomics) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Spatial Genomics | Chair: Iain Macaulay (Earlham Institute) |
| 11:30 | Enabling Spatial Omics at true single-cell resolution | Sponsor Talk - Matthieu Pesant (Takara Bio Europe) |
| 11:40 | Spatial transcriptomics of developing flowers across time | Christobal Uauy (John Innes Centre) |
| 12:05 | A Longer Look: Benchmarking Long-Read Sequencing for Single-cell Tanscriptomics | Anita Scoones (Earlham Institute) |
| 12:30 | Spatiotemporal and Single-cell Sequencing of chicken trachea reveals differences in host Responses after Vaccination with Pathogenic and Attenuated Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) | Graham Freimanis (The Pirbright Institute) |
| 12:45 | Introducing Illumina Spatial Technology | Sponsor Talk - Illumina (Andrew Slatter) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Photo, Lunch and Poster Session II | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Epigenetics/Human & Clinical Genomics | Chair: Ania Piskorz (CRUK Cambridge) |
| 14:00 | “NGS: What are you missing?” | Sponsor Talk - Miles Collier (Dovetail) |
| 14:10 | Towards multi-modal liquid biopsies | Florent Mouliere (The University of Manchester) |
| 14:35 | Barcoded ultra-long read sequencing for genetic exploration of cancer samples | Joe Fenwick (Newcastle University) |
| 14:50 | Understanding gene expression involved in immune response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection | Lee Murphy (The University of Edinburgh) |
| 15:05 | Sponsor Talk - Riki Aydeniz (PacBio) | |
| 15:20-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Computational Biology | Chair: Sion Bayliss (University of Bristol) |
| 16:00 | Using rearrangement distances and historical samples to study plasmid evolution and epidemiology | Zamin Iqbal (University of Bath) |
| 16:25 | Machine Learning and AI approaches for understanding Prokaryotic Pangenomes | James McInerney (University of Liverpool) |
| 16:50 | Accurate bioinformatic host pangenome depletion using fast minimizer search | Bede Constantinides (University of Birmingham) |
| 17:05 | Ultra-long Sequencing Reveals Structural Heterogeneity of Common Dicentric Chromosomes in Childhood Cancer | Eleanor Woodward (Newcastle University) |
| 17:20 | Technology Platforms at the Earlham Institute: Research, Collaboration and Service | Sponsor Talk - Alex McNeil (Earlham Institute) |
Parallel Session B - G.06
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 09:20-10:50 | Evolutionary Genomics | Chair: Matt Loose (University of Nottingham) |
| 09:20 | The Future of Exponentially Scalable Single Cell-omics | Sponsor Talk - ParseBio (Ryan Wall) |
| 09:30 | Cycles of centromere evolution | Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge) |
| 09:55 | Hanging on the Tree of Life: Sequencing All Life and the Genomic Impact of Jumping Elements in Sloths. | Marcela Uliano-Silva (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
| 10:20 | High-Resolution Mapping of Bacterial Evolution Under Antibiotic Stress Using Single-Cell Whole-Genome Sequencing | Matt Bawn (Newcastle University) |
| 10:35 | Testing the regulatory effects of indels and structural variants using massively parallel reporter assays | Lindsey Plenderleith (The University of Edinburgh) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Microbial Genomics | Chair: Lauren Cowley (University of Bath) |
| 11:30 | Accurate detection of small non-coding RNAs using NEBNext Low-bias Small RNA Library Prep Kit | Sponsor Talk - New England BioLabs |
| 11:40 | Spatially-resolved host-pathogen interactions across the lung | Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
| 12:05 | Pathogen Genomics in Maternal and Neonatal Health: Informing Targeted Interventions for Better Outcomes | Elita Jauneikaite - (Imperial College London) |
| 12:30 | Genomic epidemiology of plasmids carrying the iuc5 locus and antimicrobial resistance genes in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from One Health settings | Keira Cozens (University of Bath) |
| 12:45 | PyamilySeq: Transparent and interpretable gene (re)clustering and pangenomic inference highlights the fragility of conventional methods. | Nicholas Dimonaco (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Photo, Lunch and Poster Session II | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Microbial Communities & Microbiome | Chair: Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) |
| 14:00 | Empowering Discovery: Agilent’s Integrated Genomics Solutions for the Future of Precision Science | Sponsor Talk - Agilent |
| 14:10 | Resolving MAGs from complex microbiomes with long reads | Chris Quince (Earlham Institute) |
| 14:35 | Making the most of microbiome biobanks: Enabling Cross-Cohort and Multi-Kingdom Analyses | Greg Young (Newcastle University) |
| 14:50 | Beyond Taxonomic Composition: Metagenomic Evidence for Functional Niche Displacement in the Rumen Microbiome. | Katie Lawther (Queen’s University Belfast) |
| 15:05 | Perspectives on applying metagenomics to infectious disease diagnostics and monitoring | Justin O’Grady (Ellison Institute of Technology) |
| 15:20-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-17:20 | Human & Clinical Genomics | Chair: Katherine Johnson (Newcastle University) |
| 16:00 | Rapid genomic sequencing: Where are we and where are we going | Andy Parrish (The Exeter Genomics Laboratory) |
| 16:25 | The Generation Study: Insights from the first year | Katie Handley (Genomics England) |
| 16:50 | Investigating mitochondrial DNA replication dynamics using thymidine analogues and ONT long read sequencing. | Katja Menger (Newcastle University) |
| 17:05 | Size Matters - Enhance your long-read sequencing data and yields | Sponsor Talk - Yourgene Health |
Conference Dinner
Genome Science Conference Dinner The Magpie Suite, St James’ Park - Newcastle United Football Club
Friday 11th July 2025
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:15 | Coffee & Pastries | |
| 09:15-11:00 | New Methods in Genomics | Co-chairs: Sally James, Iain Macaulay |
| 9:15 | Sponsor Talk - Element | |
| 9:30 | Towards nanopore proteomics: Single-molecule detection of post-translational modifications on full-length proteins | Yujia Qing (University of Oxford) |
| 9:55 | Leveraging single-cell long-read sequencing and machine learning for therapeutic target identification | Adam Cribbs (University of Oxford) |
| 10:20 | Revealing mechanisms of chemo-resistance and sensitisation with next generation lineage tracing technologies | Kirsty Sawicka (CRUK Cambridge) |
| 10:45 | Reveal the power of the 6-base genome | Sponsor Talk - Biomodal |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Keynotes | Chair: Michael Quail (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
| 11:30 | Shining a light on the dark genome | Wendy Bickmore (University of Edinburgh) |
| 12:15 | Lunch & end |