WELCOME to the NGS Symposium 2026!
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT
The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg is hosting the 7th NGS Symposium on the 14th-16th of April 2026.
This interdisciplinary meeting will bring together the community of researchers working with next-generation sequencing technologies and adjacent methods across different fields. Scientists at all stages of their careers are welcome.
The conference will cover the following specific research topics:
- Single molecule and single cell - Characterization of molecular heterogeneity and intracellular variability via sequencing at single-molecule and single-cell resolutions
- Spatial-omics - Spatial-omics profiling of transcriptomic and genomic landscapes within tissue microenvironments
- Epigenomics and TFs - Analysis of epigenetic modifications and transcription factor dynamics shaping gene regulation
- Cancer and Precision medicine - Application of insights in precision oncology for personalized therapeutic approaches
- AI and ML - Incorporation of AI and Machine Learning into NGS data analysis
- Frameworks and Workflows - Establishing scalable, reproducible and streamlined pipelines for NGS data analysis
- "Genomics in the Could" - Panel discussion on bioinformatic analysis with cloud-based tools and workflows
TARGET AUDIENCE
This event is aimed at all life scientists with hands-on experience working with NGS technologies, regardless of career stage, from PIs to students. Both academic as well as non-academic participants are welcome.
Registration is mandatory, but free of charge.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
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PROGRAM
You can find the program here.
Please note that the program is susceptible to change and will be continuously updated. Please visit the page again at a later time for further details.
DATE AND LOCATION
The conference will take place at the Communication Center of the DKFZ main building, from 12:30 of Tuesday the 14th of April until early afternoon on Thursday the 16th of April 2026.
Display location in Google Maps
DKFZ Communication Center
Address (marked red):
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
69120 Heidelberg
Access with public transport (marked blue) via stops Kirschnerstraße (bus lines 20, 28 and 31) or Jahnstraße (tram lines 21 and 24).
BOARD OF ORGANIZERS
Anaïs Bardet, PhD
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France
Juan Caballero Perez, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
Lars Feuerbach, PhD
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Philippe Hupé, PhD
Institut Curie, Paris, France
Stéphanie Le Gras, PhD
Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience (INCI), Strasbourg, France
Laboratory of Cognitive and Adaptive Neuroscience (LNCA), Strasbourg, France
Charlotte Soneson, PhD
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Basel, Switzerland
Michael Stadler, PhD
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Basel, Switzerland
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
ORGANIZER
This event is subject to the DKFZ data protection policy.