Annual Meeting of the AGD + NGS-CN^* 2025

10./11. October

Guthrie's Next March: Towards Genomic Newborn Screening.

Where?

Universitätsclub Bonn, Konviktstraße 9, 53113 Bonn (in-person event only)

When?

October 10. and 11., 2025.

Preliminary program

Friday, October 10

11:00–12:00 Screening of Posters in the Auditorium

12:00–13:00 Lunch Break and Opening of the Industrial Exhibition

13:00-13:15 Welcome and Opening of the Scientific Symposium

13:15–16:15 Session 1: German NGS competence network

Session Chair: Joachim Schultze, DZNE Bonn

13:15–13:45 DcGc Dresden

Innovative Research Projects and Impact

13:45–14:15 NCCT Tübingen

Bioinformatics and Data Management

14:15–14:30 Jing Zhang SPT Labtech I Sponsored Talk

Automating NGS Library Prep on firefly® - Higher Throughput, Lower Complexity, Superior Data Quality

14:30–14:45 Biobreak

14:45–15:15 WGGC Düsseldorf

Future Prospects and Data Management

15:15–15:45 WGGC Cologne

Future Prospects and Sustainable Success

15:45–16:00 Ligia Mateiu PacBio Sponsored Talk

Profiling Genetic and Epigenetic Variation in and Around Tandem Repeat Regions

16:00–16:45 Coffee Break, Industrial Exhibition and Poster Viewing

16:45–19:00 Session 2: Genomic Newborn Screening (gNBS)

Session Chair: Peter Krawitz, IGSB Bonn

16:45–17:15 Heiko Brennenstuhl, Uniklinikum Heidelberg

Building the gNBS Roadmap: From Technical Feasibility to National Implementation

17:15–17:45 Dalia Kasperaviciute, Genomics England UK

Update from the Generation Study: The Genomic Screening Study for Treatable Conditions in 100,000 Newborns in England

17:45–18:15 Christian Netzer, Uniklinik Köln

Genomic Newborn Screening – Progress at a Price

18:15–18:45 Samuel Kroll, Illumina Sponsored Talk

Leveraging Multiomics Data and AI to Accelarate Precision Medicine

18:45–19:00 Biobreak

19:00–20:00 Martina Cornel, University Medical Center Amsterdam

Keynote Lecture: Pros and Cons of DNA Testing in Public Health Newborn Screening Programs

20:00-22:00 Buffet, Opening Networking Mixer and Game Night

Saturday, October 11

8:30–10:30 Session 3: From Health Data to Clinically Useful AI

Session Chair: Sebahattin Cirak, RWTH Aachen

08:30–09:00 Henrike Heyne, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Leipzig

Predicting Epilepsy with Large-Scale Clinical Data

09:00–09:30 Steffen Hess, BfArMf

Forschungsdatenzentrum

09:30–09:45 Alicia He, New England Biolabs Sponsored Talk

Breaking Through Bias to Redefine Precision in Small RNA Library Prep

09:45–10:15 TBA

Large Language Models for Reporting

10:15–10:45 Carolin Victoria Schneider, RWTH Aachen

TBA

10:45–11:00 Rajat Roy, Watchmaker Sponsored Talk

The Power of Positive: TAPS Methylation Analysis Unlocks Comprehensive Tumor Multiomics

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break, Industrial Exhibition and Poster Viewing

11:00–13:00 Session 4: Update MV-GenomSeq – Current Status and Outlook

Session Chair: Stephan Ossowski, Uniklinikum Tübingen

11:30–12:30 Panel discussion following impulse presentations

12:30–13:00 Bernd Timmermann, Roche Sponsored Talk

Sequencing by Expansion (SBX), a Versatile, High-Throughput Single Molecule Sequencing Technology for a Variety of Applications

13:00–16:00 Closing, Buffet, Industrial Exhibition

13:30–14:45 Oral presentations of poster prize winners 2024 and awards 2025

Tori Pantel, RWTH Aachen

14:15–16:00 AGD General Assembly / NGS-CN Strategy Meeting

16:00 End of Meeting

Download (preliminary) detailed scientific program (Version 3)