Programme
Wednesday 9th July 2025
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | 13:30 | - | Registration, Lunch and Networking |
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Keynotes | Chair: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Matthew Cobb | University of Manchester |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Matt Loose | University of Nottingham |
| 14:30 | 16:00 | Evolving Technologies 1 | Chair: Michael Quail, Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Jason Betley | Illumina |
| 14:50 | 15:10 | Rachel Piddock | Element Biosciences |
| 15:10 | 15:10 | Dan Fordham | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Neil Ward | PacBio |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | - | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | 18:00 | Evolving Technologies 2 | Chair: Michael Quail, Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| 10X Genomics | Nicola Cahill | ||
| Ultima | tbc | ||
| Single Technologies | Johan Stroemqvist | ||
| Roche | Bernd Timmermann | ||
| 18:00 | 19:30 | - | Drinks Reception and Poster Session 1 |
| - | Close end of day 1 |
Thursday 10th July 2025
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | 09:30 | - | Coffee and Pastries |
Parallel Session A - LT2
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 11:00 | Plant and Animal Genomics | Chair: Al Darby, University of Liverpool |
| 9:30 | 9:55 | Mara Lawniczak | |
| 9:55 | 10:20 | Antony Hall | Earlham Institute |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | - | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | 13:05 | Spatial Genomics | Chair: Iain Macaulay, Earlham Institute |
| 11:30 | 11:55 | Christobal Uauy | John Innes Centre |
| 11:55 | 12:20 | Mathieu Bourdenx | University College London |
| 13:05 | 14:00 | - | Photo, Lunch and Poster Session II |
| 14:00 | 15:30 | Epigenetics/Human & Clinical Genomics | Chair: Ania Piskorz, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Florent Mouliere, Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre | Towards multi-modal liquid biopsies |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Carolin Sauer, EMBL-EBI | Multimodal liquid biopsy analysis in children with cancer using long-read sequencing on a national scale |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | - | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | 17:30 | Computational Biology | Chair: Sion Bayliss, University of Bristol |
| 16:00 | 16:25 | Zamin Iqbal | University of Bath |
| 16:25 | 16:50 | Nicole Wheeler | University of Birmingham |
Parallel Session B - LT3
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 11:05 | Evolutionary Genomics | Chair: Matt Loose, University of Nottingham |
| Ian Henderson | University of Cambridge | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | - | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | 13:00 | Microbial Genomics | Chair: Lauren Cowley, University of Bath |
| Josie Bryant | Wellcome Sanger Institute | ||
| Elita Jauneikaite | Imperial College London | ||
| 13:00 | 14:00 | - | Lunch and Poster Session II |
| 14:00 | 15:35 | Microbial Communities & Microbiome | Chair: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Chris Quince | Earlham and Quadram Institutes |
| 15:35 | 16:00 | - | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | 17:35 | Human & Clinical Genomics | Chair: Jonathan Coxhead, Newcastle University |
| Andrew Parrish | Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust - Exeter Genomics Laboratory | ||
| Genomics England | Generations Study | ||
| - | Close end of day 2 |
Conference Dinner
Genome Science Conference Dinner The Magpie Suite, St James’ Park - Newcastle United Football Club
Friday 11th July 2025
| Start (GMT) | Finish (GMT) | Presenter | Presentation Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | 09:30 | - | Coffee and Pastries |
| 09:30 | 11:05 | New Methods in Genomics | Co-chairs: Victoria Wright, Iain Macaulay |
| Yujia Qing | University of Oxford | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | - | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Keynotes | Chair: Michael Quail, Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| Gil McVean | The Ellison Institute of Technology | ||
| Wendy Bickmore | University of Edinburgh | ||
| 12:30 | THE END | - | Lunch and Leaving |
| - | Close end of day 3 |