The 25th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium will be held at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas, on May 30–31, 2026. The meeting will take place in the Health Education Building on the KUMC campus. The event will begin Saturday morning and conclude Sunday afternoon.
We look forward to welcoming faculty, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
Registration and abstract submission deadline is May 11th. To be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract by April 15th. Oral presentations will be chosen from submitted abstracts.
Co-chairs
Dr. Bret Freudenthal
Dr. Ryan Barnes
Dr. Anja Bielinsky
University of Virginia
"From Replication Errors to Mitotic Rescue: Maintaining Genome Integrity Across the Cell Cycle"
Dr. Joann Sweasy
University of Nebraska Medical Center
"DNA Repair and Human Diseases"
Dr. Alessandro Vindigni
Washington University, St. Louis
"Mechanisms of DNA Replication Stress Response in Cancer"
Dr. Scott Williams
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
"Genome maintenance at the interface of DNA topology and transcription"