Opening Keynote Speaker

Tuesday 1 September, 2026     

Conway Rooms, Te Pae    

Opening Keynote Speaker: Manolis Kellis

Manolis Kellis is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT, a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT where he directs the MIT Computational Biology Group (compbio.mit.edu). His research is in disease genetics, epigenomics, gene circuitry, non-coding RNAs, comparative genomics, and phylogenetics. He has authored >250 journal publications that have been cited >200,000 times and has helped direct several large-scale genomics projects.  Among many honours, he received the US Presidential Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.

Key Dates:

Friday 1 May, 2026

Registration & Abstract Submission Open

Wednesday 24 June, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline

Friday 17 July, 2026

Early Bird Registration Deadline 4pm

Thursday 20 August, 2026

Registrations close 4pm

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