Programme

Nextflow Symposium will take place at the Kendrew Theatre in the EMBL-EBI South Building. If you are not familiar with the campus, please check out the Logistics pages. 

All timings are listed in GMT.

9:00am Registration

9:30am Symposium Welcome

Andy Yates, Team Leader, Genomics Technology Infrastructure, EMBL-EBI

9:40am Keynote: Title Coming Soon.

Paolo Di Tommaso, CTO and Co-founder, Seqera Labs

10:40am Refreshment Break

11:00am Community: Predicting the protein function impact of every single amino acid substitution in human pangenomes.

Nuno Saraiva-Agostinho, Scientific Programmer, Ensembl, EMBL-EBI

11:20am Community: How Nextflow is a key to the digital transformation of WSI's pipeline solutions.

Nathan Cunningham, Director of Platform Solutions, Wellcome Sanger Institute

11:40am Community: Modernizing MGnify: Nextflow and nf-core for microbiome research.

Martin Beracochea, MGnify Production Project Leader, EMBL-EBI

11:50am Community: pgsc_calc: A reproducible workflow to calculate polygenic scores.

Samuel Lambert, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge & Visiting Researcher, EMBL-EBI

12:00pm Migrating Ensembl pipelines to Nextflow for enhanced production-ready workflow

Disha Lodha, Bioinformatician, Ensembl Metazoa, EMBL-EBI

12:10pm Group Photo, Lunch and Poster Session

• Workflows Community of Practice, Wellcome Genome Campus

• Simon Pearce, Principal Bioinformatician, Cancer Biomarker Centre, Cancer Research UK

• Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Senior Bioinformatician, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Eerik Aunin, Senior Bioinformatician, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Damon-Lee B Pointon, Bioinformatician, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Batuhan Cakir, Bioinformatician, Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Priyanka Surana, Principal Bioinformatician, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Lunch will be catered from Aromi for all dietary requirements requested.

1:00pm nf-core: Title Coming Soon.

Harshil Patel, Head of Scientific Development, Seqera Labs

1:40pm Community: Resource optimisation and sustainability in Sanger Tree of Life.

Matthieu Muffato, Informatics Infrastructure Team Lead, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Damon-Lee B Pointon, Bioinformatician, Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute

2:00pm Community: YASCP: A next-gen pipeline for ultra-large scale scRNA quality control & analysis.

Matiss Ozols, Principal Bioinformatician, Human Genetics Informatics, Wellcome Sanger Institute

2:10pm Community: Speeding up variant annotation in the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) using Nextflow.

Likhitha Surapaneni, Bioinformatics Developer, Ensembl, EMBL-EBI

2:20pm Community: Using cfDNA methylation to detect and subtype cancer.

Simon Pearce, Principal Bioinformatician, Cancer Biomarker Centre, Cancer Research UK

2:40pm Refreshment Break

3:00pm Panel Discussion: Scaling Sustainably

Peter Clapham, Wellcome Sanger Institute (Chair)

Stacy Gorelik, Seqera Labs

Leanne Haggerty, EMBL–EBI

Martin Pollard, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Andrew Menzies, Wellcome Sanger Institute

4:00pm Closing Remarks

Julia Wilson, Associate Director, Wellcome Sanger Institute

4:15pm Networking and Drinks Reception