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Tuesday, October 13
Time: EST (UTC-5)
6AM – 7:30AM
Welcome & Seqera Product Keynote

Evan Floden, CEO and Co-Founder, Seqera

7:30AM – 7:45AM
Coffee Break
7:45AM – 8:15AM
Pipelines for Oncology
oncoanalyser 3.0: Platform-Agnostic Cancer Genomics, Nextflow's Strict Syntax

Rayan Hassaine, Bioinformatician, Hartwig Medical Foundation

7:45AM – 8:15AM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Faster, Higher, Stricter: What's new with nf-core infrastructure

Matthias Hörtenhuber, nf-core infrastructure developer, SciLifeLab Data Centre, Sweden

7:45AM – 8:15AM
Training & Community
Nextflow Across Australian BioCommons: Training, Services and Community

Ziad Al Bkhetan, Product Manager, Bioinformatics Platforms, Australian BioCommons

8:15AM – 8:30AM
Pipelines for Oncology
Using DeepClone to study somatic mutagenesis and selection at high resolution

Ferriol Calvet, PhD student, IRB Barcelona

8:15AM – 8:30AM
Tooling & Ecosystem
nf-core/seqsubmit: pipeline for automated data submission to INSDC resources

Ekaterina Sakharova, Senior Bioinformatician, EMBL-EBI

8:15AM – 8:30AM
Training & Community
TaxoFlow: A Tutorial to Build a Pipeline for Metagenomics Classification

Jeferyd Yepes, Bioinformatician, University of Fribourg

8:30AM – 8:45AM
Pipelines for Oncology
From production Nextflow to cross-pipeline MRD variant calling via nf-core/sarek

Saba Nafees, Senior Computational Scientist, Myriad Genetics

8:30AM – 8:45AM
Training & Community
From bioinformatics scripts to nf-core pipelines: my Nextflow transition

Haris Spyridis, MSc Graduate in Functional Genomics, Nextflow Ambassador

8:30AM – 9AM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Bringing nf-core to regulated environments with ClinBias Cloud

Alexander Peltzer, Senior Principal Scientist Clinical Bioinformatics, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG

8:45AM – 9AM
Pipelines for Oncology
An ultra-low input, ultra-sensitive tumor-informed whole-genome sequencing-based minimal residual disease assay for solid tumors

Nathalia Graf Grachet, Principal Bioinformatics Scientist II, Roche

8:45AM – 9AM
Training & Community
Teaching Nextflow Config, Not Code: Enabling Self-Sufficient Users in Mali

Jean-Paul Courneya, Lead bioinformatics analyst, University of Maryland, Baltimore

9AM – 9:15AM
Training & Community
Nextflow in Action: Building your first real pipeline

Ira Iosub, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Francis Crick Institute

9AM – 9:30AM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Config builder: an nf-core tool to guide config file creation

Michael Geaghan, Senior Bioinformatician, Sydney Informatics Hub

9:30AM – 9:45AM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Depictio: building interactive dashboards from nextflow workflow outputs

Thomas Weber, Scientific Workflows Developer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

9:45AM – 10AM
Coffee Break
10AM – 10:15AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
Extending nf-core with nf-core/bacmodel and nf-core/dartseq workflows

Olga Brovkina, Head of Data Science, Medical Bioinformatics Platform (medBIP), Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), UKSH, Kiel

10AM – 10:30AM
Platforms & Infrastructure
NASA GeneLab Workflows: Using Nextflow to Enable Processing Across Platforms

Barbara Novak, NASA GeneLab Data Processing Lead, Blue Marble Space

10:15AM – 10:30AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
Scaling microbial population genetics on AWS with the PopMAG Nextflow pipeline

Daniel Sabogal-Rodriguez, Bioinformatics Engineer, Loka

10:30AM – 10:45AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
Needles in the metagenome: environmental pathogen detection with Nextflow

William Gardner, Genomic Data Scientist, UW-Madison / Lungfish

10:30AM – 11AM
Platforms & Infrastructure
Bridging the Wet-Lab and Dry-Lab with Benchling and Seqera

Sahil Patel, Corporate Development & Partnerships, Benchling

Rob Newman, Product Manager Lead, Seqera

10:45AM – 11AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
ONT Long-Read NGS detects SARS-CoV-2 Variants via Wastewater-based epidemiology

Dhvnit Mehta, Student, Gujarat Technological University

11AM – 11:15AM
Platforms & Infrastructure
CBRA: A community-driven bioinformatics infrastructure for standardized rare disease diagnostics

Carlos Ruiz Arenas, Postdoctoral Researcher, CIMA - Universidad de Navarra

11AM – 11:15AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
IS Sentinel: detecting novel insertion sequence elements in bacterial genomes

Fernando Falat, Bioinformatician & MSc Student, University of São Paulo (USP)

11:15AM – 11:30AM
Platforms & Infrastructure
Building a Unified Genomics Pipeline Ecosystem at Core Facilities

Maxime Garcia, Bioinformatician and System Developer, National Genomics Infrastructure

11:15AM – 11:30AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
HTTM: bringing genome-wide digenic interaction screens to nf-core

Simon Jeanneau, PhD Student, Université de Sherbrooke

11:30AM – 11:45AM
Pipelines for Microbiology
PlastizymeFinder: a pipeline for predicting plastic-degrading enzymes

Koffi Anderson Hongo, PhD Student, Nangui Abrogoua University

11:30AM – 12PM
Platforms & Infrastructure
Multiomics Data Infrastructure for Reproducible and Scalable Biofoundry Research

Albert Palleja Caro, Team Leader at the Data Science Platform, Novo Nordisk Foundation Biotechnology Research Institute for the Green Transition (BRIGHT)

12PM – 12:05PM
Day 1 Wrap Up
Wednesday, October 14
Time: EST (UTC-5)
6AM – 7:30AM
Nextflow Keynote
7:30AM – 7:45AM
Coffee Break
7:45AM – 8:15AM
Genomics at Scale
Adding Depth to 61M New Variants in the Genomics England Research Aggregate

Simon Murray, Bioinformatics Engineer, Genomics England

8:15AM – 8:45AM
AI for Bioinformatics
Building Reproducible Biological World Models with Nextflow

Vaibhava Lakshmi Ravideshik, Incoming Computational Biologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

8:15AM – 8:45AM
Genomics at Scale
From Bottleneck to Benchmark: scaling Bioinformatics at ALLOX using the Seqera Platform/Nextflow

Andrei Papkou, Platform Bioinformatician, ALLOX

8:45AM – 9:15AM
AI for Bioinformatics
Automation and agentification in bioinformatics pipelines

Dongze He, Data Scientist, Altos Labs

9AM – 9:30AM
Genomics at Scale
Scaling Clinical Genomics Pipelines in Nextflow to >100,000 Samples/Year

Aroon Chande, Staff Bioinformatics Engineer, Color Health

9:15AM – 9:30AM
AI for Bioinformatics
nf-diffuser - applying Nextflow conventions to generative AI

Sam Ireland, Software Developer, Deep Mountain Software

9:30AM – 9:45AM
Coffee Break
9:45AM – 10:15AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
End-to-end Nextflow pipeline for pooled Cell Painting analysis

Erin Weisbart, Senior Computational Biologist, Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

9:45AM – 10:15AM
Genomics at Scale
How the Anthony Nolan Research Institute uses Nextflow for sequencing analysis

Matthew Gordon, Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Anthony Nolan

10:15AM – 10:30AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
Evidence-Aware Cross-Species Benchmarking with Nextflow

Abdullah Alotaibi, Nextflow Developer, STaiMIC

10:15AM – 10:45AM
Genomics at Scale
Scaling Pancreatic Cancer Genomics with Nextflow

Jose Espejo Valle-Inclan, Principal Investigator, Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Center

10:30AM – 10:45AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
NetPerturb: scalable in-silico perturbation scoring from scRNA-seq networks

Diego Marques Coelho, Visiting Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

10:45AM – 11:15AM
Genomics at Scale
Processing genetic data at Our Future Health

Ben Elsworth, Lead Data Engineer, Our Future Health

10:45AM – 11:15AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
Productionising Bayesian Concentration-Response Modelling with Nextflow

Mark Liddell, Bioinformatics Engineer, Unilever

11:15AM – 11:30AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
GeneForge v2.1 A Comprehensive Nextflow Pipeline for Eukaryotic Genome Annotation

Abdoallah Sharaf, Senior Bioinformatician, SequAna - Sequencing Analysis Core Facility, University of Konstanz

11:15AM – 11:45AM
Genomics at Scale
Scaling Upstream Genomics Analysis with Nextflow and Seqera Platform

Suleyman Ucuncuoglu , Research Scientist, Iowa Institute of Human Genetics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

11:30AM – 11:45AM
Pipelines for Everything Else
Ancestry Enrichment of IEI Variants in Brazil via nf-core/Sarek

Daniel Garbozo, Research Assistant, Bioinformatics Group in Multi-Omics and Immunology, New York, NY, USA.

11:45AM – 11:50AM
Day 2 Wrap Up