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Tuesday, October 13
Time: Barcelona, Paris — UTC+2
1PM – 2:45PM
Welcome & Seqera Product Keynote

Evan Floden, CEO and Co-Founder, Seqera

2:45PM – 3PM
Coffee Break
3PM – 3:30PM
Pipelines for Oncology
oncoanalyser 3.0: Platform-Agnostic Cancer Genomics, Nextflow's Strict Syntax

Rayan Hassaine, Bioinformatician, Hartwig Medical Foundation

3PM – 3:30PM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Faster, Higher, Stricter: What's new with nf-core infrastructure

Julian Flesch, PhD Candidate and affiliated, University of Tübingen

3PM – 3:30PM
Training & Community
Nextflow Across Australian BioCommons: Training, Services and Community

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

3:30PM – 3:45PM
Pipelines for Oncology
Using DeepClone to study somatic mutagenesis and selection at high resolution

Ferriol Calvet, PhD student, IRB Barcelona

3:30PM – 3:45PM
Tooling & Ecosystem
nf-core/seqsubmit: pipeline for automated data submission to INSDC resources

Ekaterina Sakharova, Senior Bioinformatician, EMBL-EBI

3:30PM – 3:45PM
Training & Community
TaxoFlow: A Tutorial to Build a Pipeline for Metagenomics Classification

Jeferyd Yepes, Bioinformatician, University of Fribourg

3:45PM – 4PM
Pipelines for Oncology
From production Nextflow to cross-pipeline MRD variant calling via nf-core/sarek

Saba Nafees, Senior Computational Scientist, Myriad Genetics

3:45PM – 4PM
Training & Community
From bioinformatics scripts to nf-core pipelines: my Nextflow transition

Haris Spyridis, MSc Graduate in Functional Genomics, Nextflow Ambassador

3:45PM – 4:15PM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Bringing nf-core to regulated environments with ClinBias Cloud

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

4PM – 4:30PM
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

4PM – 4:15PM
Training & Community
Teaching Nextflow Config, Not Code: Enabling Self-Sufficient Users in Mali

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

4:15PM – 4:30PM
Training & Community
Nextflow in Action: Building your first real pipeline

Ira Iosub, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Francis Crick Institute

4:15PM – 4:45PM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Config builder: an nf-core tool to guide config file creation

Michael Geaghan, Senior Bioinformatician, Sydney Informatics Hub

4:30PM – 4:45PM
Training & Community
The Human Infrastructure: What Nextflow Ambassadors Build Beyond the Code

Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, Senior Developer Advocate, Seqera

4:45PM – 5PM
Tooling & Ecosystem
Depictio: building interactive dashboards from nextflow workflow outputs

Thomas Weber, Scientific Workflows Developer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

4:45PM – 5PM
Training & Community
Run it like a learner: Using AI to develop, maintain, and translate Nextflow training

Geraldine Van der Auwera, Lead Developer Advocate, Seqera

5PM – 5:15PM
Coffee Break
5:15PM – 5:30PM
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

5:15PM – 5:45PM
Platforms & Infrastructure
NASA GeneLab Workflows: Using Nextflow to Enable Processing Across Platforms

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

5:30PM – 5:45PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
Scaling microbial population genetics on AWS with the PopMAG Nextflow pipeline

Daniel Sabogal-Rodriguez, Bioinformatics Engineer, Loka

5:45PM – 6PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
Needles in the Metagenomic Haystack: Environmental Pathogen Detection with Nextflow

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

5:45PM – 6:15PM
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

6PM – 6:15PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
ONT Long-Read NGS detects SARS-CoV-2 Variants via Wastewater-based epidemiology

Dhvnit Mehta, Student, Gujarat Technological University

6:15PM – 6:30PM
Platforms & Infrastructure
CBRA: A community-driven bioinformatics infrastructure for standardized rare disease diagnostics

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

6:15PM – 6:30PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
IS Sentinel: detecting novel insertion sequence elements in bacterial genomes

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

6:30PM – 6:45PM
Platforms & Infrastructure
Building a Unified Genomics Pipeline Ecosystem at Core Facilities

Maxime Garcia, Bioinformatician and System Developer, National Genomics Infrastructure

6:30PM – 6:45PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
HTTM: bringing genome-wide digenic interaction screens to nf-core

Simon Jeanneau, PhD Student, Université de Sherbrooke

6:45PM – 7PM
Pipelines for Microbiology
PlastizymeFinder: a pipeline for predicting plastic-degrading enzymes

Hongo Koffi Anderson, PhD Student, Nangui Abrogoua University

6:45PM – 7:15PM
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)

7:15PM – 7:20PM
Day 1 Wrap Up
Wednesday, October 14
Time: Barcelona, Paris — UTC+2
1PM – 2:20PM
Nextflow Keynote
2:20PM – 2:50PM
Keynote: Hard and Ambitious: How Prima Mente is Building the Capabilities to Uncover Novel Biomarkers and Targets for Neurological Disorders

Hannah Maden, Co-founder and COO, Prima Mente

2:50PM – 3PM
Coffee Break
3PM – 3:30PM
Genomics at Scale
Adding Depth to 61M New Variants in the Genomics England Research Aggregate

Simon Murray, Bioinformatics Engineer, Genomics England

3PM – 3:30PM
AI for Bioinformatics
Building Reproducible Biological World Models with Nextflow

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

3:30PM – 4PM
Genomics at Scale
From Bottleneck to Benchmark: scaling Bioinformatics at ALLOX using the Seqera Platform/Nextflow

Andrei Papkou, Platform Bioinformatician, ALLOX

3:30PM – 4PM
AI for Bioinformatics
Automation and agentification in bioinformatics pipelines

Dongze He, Data Scientist, Altos Labs

4PM – 4:15PM
Genomics at Scale
What's New in MultiQC

Phil Ewels, Senior Product Manager for Open Source, Seqera

4PM – 4:15PM
AI for Bioinformatics
nf-diffuser - applying Nextflow conventions to generative AI

Sam Ireland, Software Developer, Deep Mountain Software

4:15PM – 4:45PM
Genomics at Scale
Scaling Clinical Genomics Pipelines in Nextflow to >100,000 Samples/Year

Aroon Chande, Staff Bioinformatics Engineer, Color Health

4:45PM – 5PM
Coffee Break
5PM – 5:30PM
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

5PM – 5:30PM
Genomics at Scale
How the Anthony Nolan Research Institute uses Nextflow for sequencing analysis

Matthew Gordon, Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Anthony Nolan

5:30PM – 6PM
Pipelines for Everything Else
Leveraging Nextflow to Advance Therapeutic Molecule Manufacturing Solutions at Lonza

Daniel Fabian, Associate Director, Head of Bioinformatics Innovation Team, Lonza

5:30PM – 6PM
Genomics at Scale
Scaling Pancreatic Cancer Genomics with Nextflow

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

6PM – 6:15PM
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

6PM – 6:30PM
Genomics at Scale
Processing genetic data at Our Future Health

Ben Elsworth, Lead Data Engineer, Our Future Health

6:15PM – 6:45PM
Pipelines for Everything Else
Productionising Bayesian Concentration-Response Modelling with Nextflow

Mark Liddell, Bioinformatics Engineer, Unilever

6:30PM – 7PM
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

6:45PM – 7PM
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

7PM – 7:15PM
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.

7:15PM – 7:20PM
Day 2 Wrap Up