Meet our confirmed conference speakers for the 2026 conference.
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Netherlands
Ahmad Abou Tayoun, United Arab Emirates
Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, United States
Sarah Aitken, United States
Carl Anderson, United Kingdom
Gregory Barsh, United States
Albert Basson, United Kingdom
Uri Ben-David, Israel
David Bick, United Kingdom
Hans Björnsson, Iceland
Clare Bycroft, United States
Anne Cambon-Thomsen, France
Guillaume Canaud, France
Claudia Carvalho, United States
Paolo Casale, Germany
Victoria Charlton, United Kingdom
Rosa Cheesman, Norway
Wendy Chung, United States
Danny M. Cohn, Netherlands
Ana Conesa, Spain
Emma Davenport, United Kingdom
Jantina de Vries, South Africa
Silvia Domcke, Switzerland
Jose Espejo Valle-Inclan, Portugal
Roseline Favresse, France
Monica Ferrie, Australia
Lars Feuk, Sweden
Hilary Finucane, United States
Rita Fior, Portugal
Doug Fowler, United States
Paul W Franks Sweden
Julien Gagneur Germany
Juliane Glaser Germany
Lucy Godley United States
Ilias Goranitis, Australia
Joost Gribnau, Netherlands
Nadine Großmann, Germany
Mateja Hajdinjak, Germany
Christian Happi, Nigeria
Anton G Henssen, Germany
Azure Hermes, Australia
Aroon Hingorani, United Kingdom
Denes Hnisz, Germany
Daniel Ibrahim, Germany
Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä, Finland
Robert Klitzman, United States
Jennifer Kromberg, South Africa
Tuuli Lappalainen, Sweden
Ben Lehner, United Kingdom
Pilong Li, China
Peter Loskill, Germany
Stina Lou, Denmark
Emma Lundberg, Sweden
Sebastian Lunke, Australia
Nina Mars, Finland
Ellen McDonagh, United Kingdom
Eoin McKinney, United Kingdom
Zosia Miedzybrodzka, United Kingdom
Kerry Montgomery, United Kingdom
Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo, Senegal
Michel Nivard, United Kingdom
Kelly Ormond, Switzerland
Bogdan Pasaniuc, United States
Aleksandra Pękowska, Poland
Len Pennacchio, United States
Adam Phillippy, United States
Jasmine Plummer, United States
Danielle Posthuma, Netherlands
Anya Prince, United States
Paul Quinn, Belgium
Lluis Quintana-Murci, France
Rosa Rademakers, Belgium
Soumya Raychaudhuri, United States
Birgitte Regenberg, Denmark
Dean Regier, Canada
Heidi Rehm, United States
Jean-Yves Roignant, Switzerland
Adam Rutherford, United Kingdom
Sriram Sankararaman, United States
Gerald Schwank, Switzerland
Vorasuk Shotelersuk, Thailand
Erik Sistermans, Netherlands
Pontus Skoglund, United Kingdom
Karoliina Snell, Finland
Oliver Stegle, Germany
Andrew Stergachis, United States
Kim Tallbear, Canada
Cole Trapnell, United States
Arianna Tucci, United Kingdom
Taru Tukianen, Finland
Hemanth Tummala, United Kingdom
Peter Van Loo, United States
Julia Vitarello, United States
Huti Watson, New Zealand
Sarah Weckhuysen, Belgium
Anna Wedell, Sweden
Eva Winkler, Germany
Monica Wojcik, United States
Sarah Wynn, United Kingdom
Loïc Yengo, Australia
Alessio Zippo, Italy
Stephan Züchner, United States
Confirmed as of December 2025