JOIN US AT ESHG 2026
Finding answers to genetic disease just got easier.
Join us on 13–15 June 2026 at ESHG, and see for yourself how long-read population genomics is impacting clinical research pathways today- not just promising future potential. Visit us to speak with our experts and share more about your research. Learn how PacBio long-read sequencing can help unlock greater interpretive power and improve patient outcomes through accelerated answers, reduced testing complexity, and revealing comprehensive genomic insight in one assay.
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Agenda
Corporate Satellite Symposium
Date: Sunday 14 June, 10.30-11.30
Room: A-5
The power of long-read population genomics to unlock clinical impact
Talk Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|
Welcome and introduction |
Neil Ward (Chair) |
Long-read genomes as a first-tier generic test for genetic vision disorder |
Lonneke Haer Wigmans |
Sweden leading the way in scaling and bridging population and clinical genomics expansions |
Adam Ameur |
Q&A |
All |
Date: Sunday 14 June, 12.15-13.30
Room: A-6
A Comprehensive Sample Preparation Journey for Genomics – from Samples to High Quality Data Ensuring Reproducibility, Robustness, Reliability, and Throughput
Talk Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|
HiFi Long-Read Sequencing for FFPE Tumor Samples: A New Covaris–PacBio Workflow |
Deborah Moine |
Speaker spotlight
Neil Ward
GM & VP, EMEA,
PacBio
Lonneke Haer Wigmans
Researcher,
Radboud UMC
Adam Ameur
Bioinformatician,
SciLifeLab, Uppsala University
PacBio Presentation
Learn more from our bioinformatics experts!
Session number and title: C15.1 – Resolution of the D4Z4 repeat responsible for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy with PacBio HiFi sequencing
Date: Sunday, 14 June 2026
Time: 10.30–10.45am
Location: Hall C
Xiao Chen
Principal I Scientist, Bioinformatics, PacBio
Session number and title: PL3.4 – Population-scale Kinnex long-read RNA sequencing of the 1000 Genomes Project reveals extensive novel regulatory and isoform diversity
Date: Saturday, 13 June 2026
Time: 17.35–18.00pm
Location: Hall C
Poster Sessions
Poster |
Title |
Presenter |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|
P20.043.A |
Genome-wide characterization of mosaicism in tandem repeat regions |
Egor Dolzhenko |
Saturday, 13 June |
P23.040.D |
PCR-free, targeted HiFi sequencing at scale streamlines testing of repeat expansion and difficult inherited disease genes |
Deborah Moine |
Sunday, 14 June |
P15.054.F |
Isocall: a method for population-scale isoform discovery from long-read RNA sequencing data |
Jocelyne Bruand |
Monday, 15 June |
P20.155.E |
An accelerated HiFi whole genome workflow for comprehensive, rapid long-read sequencing |
Nina Gonzaludo |
Monday 15 June |