Genome Science


Bristol, July 16-18th

Confirmed academic presentations:

  • Richard Durbin (University of Cambridge) [Keynote]
  • Matt Brown (Chief Scientific Officer, Genomics England) [Keynote]
  • Lucy Burkitt-Gray (UK Biobank) [Keynote]
  • Deborah Williamson (UK Health Security Agency) [Keynote]
  • Alex Cagan (University of Cambridge)[Plant and Animal Genomics]
  • Gary Barker (University of Bristol)[Plant and Animal Genomics]
  • Sandi Deans (University of Edinburgh) [Human & Clinical Genomics]
  • Mike Hubank (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) [Human & Clinical Genomics]
  • Areeba Patel (University of Heidelberg) [Epigenetics]
  • Alex de Mendoza (Queen Mary University of London) [Epigenetics]
  • Peter Holland (University of Oxford) [Evolutionary Genomics]
  • Sandra Álvarez Carretero (University College London) [Evolutionary Genomics]
  • Alan Walker (University of Aberdeen) [Microbes and Microbiomes]
  • Lauren Cowley (University of Bath) [Microbes and Microbiomes]
  • Alexandre Almeida (Cambridge Veterinary School) [Microbes and Microbiomes]
  • Jimmy Lee (Wellcome Sanger Institute) [Single Cell & Spatial Genomics]

Confirmed industry presentations:

  • Jason Betley (Illumina) [Evolving Technologies]
  • Shawn Levy (CSO, Element Biosciences) [Evolving Technologies]
  • Mike Vella (Oxford Nanopore) [Evolving Technologies]
  • PacBio
  • Ultima

Provisional Programme

Tuesday 16th July 2024 (Afternoon)

Start End Session
12:00 13:30 Registration and Lunch
13:30 14:30 Keynotes
14:30 16:00 Evolving Technologies 1
16:25 18:10 Evolving Technologies 2
18:10 19:30 Drinks Reception and Poster Session 1

Wednesday 17th July 2024

Parallel Session A

Start End Session
09:00 10:30 Plant and Animal Genomics
11:30 13:00 Human & Clinical Genomics
13:00 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session II
14:15 16:00 Epigenetics
16:20 18:00 Bioinformatics & Machine Learning in Genomics

Parallel Session B

Start End Session
09:00 10:30 Evolutionary Genomics
11:30 13:00 Microbes and Microbiomes I
13:00 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session II
14:15 16:00 Microbes and Microbiomes II
16:20 18:00 Genome Engineering

Conference Dinner - Evening, Weds 17th [TICKETED]


Thursday 18th July 2024

Start End Session
9:00 11:00 Single Cell & Spatial Genomics
11:30 12:30 Keynotes
13:00 THE END Lunch and leaving