Welcome to Manchester!
Please join us at Genome Science UK 2026. This ever-popular genomic technologies and applications conference will be held at The University of Manchester from 14–16 September 2026.
Confirmed Speakers
Keynotes
- Samra Turajlić, CRUK Manchester Institute
- Dario Bressan, CRUK Cambridge Institute
- Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE
Session speakers
- Bill Newman, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine
- Saskia Sanderson, King’s College London
- Johan Henriksson, Umeå University
- Andrew Beggs, University of Birmingham
- Paul Kaye, University of York
- Aimee Parker, Quadram Institute
- Joao Pedro Magalhaes, University of Birmingham
- Richard Mair, CRUK Cambridge Institute
- John Lees, EMBL-EBI
- Sarah Ennis, University of Southampton
- Alexander Sang-Jae Suh, Max Planck Institute
- Vicky Hunt, University of Bath
- Sophie Nixon, University of Manchester
- Philip Ashton, University of Oxford
Technology sessions
- Illumina
- PacBio
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies
- Roche
- Ultima Genomics
- Element Biosciences
- DNAe
Sessions
- Human & Clinical Genomics
- Single Cell Genomics
- Spatial Genomics
- Cancer & Ageing
- Computational Biology and AI
- Plant and Animal Genomics
- Microbial Genomics
- Microbial Communities & The Microbiome
- Evolutionary (Microbial) Genomics
Conference Dinner
Living Worlds Gallery, Manchester Museum