Agenda
Thursday, October 23
Microbiology & Ecology
Enabling reproducibility in Agri-Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Christopher Wyatt, Bioinformatician, University College London
Community & Training
Building bioinformatics skills with Nextflow/nf-core: a program for early–mid-career researchers
Patricia Agudelo-Romero, Senior Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
Infrastructure & Automation
Integrating Seqera into Enhanced Process Automation to Fuel Nucleome's Discovery Engine
Pauline Fourgoux, Senior Bioinformatician, Nucleome Therapeutics
Microbiology & Ecology
Nextflow v25 Broke Bactopia, So We Rewrote It
Robert A Petit III, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Community & Training
Collaborative Nextflow training for Australia's dispersed research landscape
Giorgia Mori, BioCloud Training and Communication Officer, Australian BioCommons
Lightning Talks
Coffee break
Infrastructure & Automation
Reads to Results: Architecting Modern Genomics Pipelines with Nextflow and Seqera Platform
Vinay Vyas, Sr DevOps Engineer, Arcus Biosciences
Microbiology & Ecology
WasteFlow 2.0: Multi-Pathogen Respiratory Virus Surveillance in Canada
Zohaib Anwar, Bioinformatician, BC Centre for Disease Control
Community & Training
Updates from the Community Team
Geraldine Van der Auwera, Lead Developer Advocate, Seqera
Infrastructure & Automation
Elevating a Legacy Institute: A Hybrid HPC Strategy with Nextflow
Melanie Nuesch, Head of the High Performance Computing Platform, DRFZ Berlin
Microbiology & Ecology
Metagenome quality metrics and taxonomical annotation visualization through BIgMAG/MAGFlow
Jeferyd Yepes-García, PhD Candidate, University of Fribourg
Community & Training
Nextflow Ambassadors
Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, Senior Developer Advocate, Seqera
Infrastructure & Automation
Optimizing Genomics Workflows with Nextflow & Cloud Computing: Insights from a Research Institution
Jacopo Tartaglia, Bioinformatician, CREA-GB
Wolfgang De Salvador, Senior Product Manager, Azure Storage Microsoft
Microbiology & Ecology
Development of the ENSure Database and Pipeline for Rapid Microbial Testing in Biomanufacturing
Tyler Laird, Bioinformatician, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Community & Training
How I Built the Nextflow Community in Korea
Jehee Lee, Nextflow Ambassador of Korea
Infrastructure & Automation
Benchmarking nf-core/scrnaseq for Mouse Prostate Single-cell RNA-seq: Practical Insights
Nikhila T Suresh, Post Doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University
Microbiology & Ecology
Using Nextflow to Break Computational Barriers: NASA's Approach to Democratizing Space Omics Data
Barbara Novak, NASA GeneLab Data Processing Lead, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Community & Training
From FASTQ to Kappa: My First Experience with nf-core/viralrecon
Mariam Sulaiman, Graduate Research Intern, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Infrastructure & Automation
OpenProblems.bio: Reproducible Benchmarks for Single-Cell Omics at Scale
Robrecht Cannoodt, Data Science Consultant, Data Intuitive
Microbiology & Ecology
Earth Observation with Nextflow: A Use Case–Driven Introduction
Felix Kummer, Research Associate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Community & Training
From beginner to nf-core contributor
Nour Mahfel, Trainee Clinical Scientist (Bioinformatics - Genomics), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Day One Wrap Up
Evan Floden, CEO & Co-Founder, Seqera
Friday, October 24
AI-Assisted Research
Reproducible LLM Driven Molecular Design with Nextflow and BioLM
Andrew Stewart, COO, BioLM
Translational Research
nf-core/oncoanalyser: an accessible and portable pipeline to unify cancer DNA and RNA analysis
Stephen Watts, Senior Bioinformatician, Collaborative Centre for Genomic Cancer Medicine
Nextflow Ecosystem & nf-core
What's new from the nf-core infrastructure team in 2025
Matthias Hörtenhuber, Systems Developer, SciLifeLab Data Centre
Lightning Talks
Coffee break
AI-Assisted Research
AI-Driven Spatial Transcriptomics for Predicting Drug Response in the Tumor Microenvironment
Kayode Raheem, PhD Researcher, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Translational Research
nf-core/differentialabundance: a unified framework for differential analysis
Suzanne Jin, PhD Student, Centre for Genomic Regulation
Susanne Jodoin, Bioinformatician, QBiC
Nextflow Ecosystem & nf-core
MetroFlow : Generating Interactive Metro-Maps from Workflow Code
George Marchment, Université Paris-Saclay
AI-Assisted Research
Somatem: a modular and open source metagenomic analysis pipeline for long-reads with an LLM co-pilot
Prashant Kalvapalle, Postdoctoral Researcher, Rice University
Translational Research
DelMoro: A Nextflow Pipeline for Variant Calling and Streamlined Reporting in Clinical Genomics
Firas Zemzem, PhD Candidate
Nextflow Ecosystem & nf-core
Contributing to nf-core within a translational project for personalized cancer medicine in Germany
Famke Bäuerle, PhD Student, University Clinic Tübingen
AI-Assisted Research
SEQERA: 10 years of MultiQC
Phil Ewels, Senior Product Manager for Open Source, Seqera
Translational Research
GTEx Expression Data Processing Pipeline for Sex- and Age-Stratified Target Discovery
Samantha Klasfeld, Web Developer, Boston Women in Bioinformatics
Nextflow Ecosystem & nf-core
Pipeline Hubs: A Concept for Live, Reproducible Method Comparison in Bioinformatics
Cedric Notredame, PI, CRG
Translational Research
Advancing the nf-core/sammyseq pipeline for 4f-SAMMY-seq toward its first release
Ugo Maria Iannacchero, PhD Student, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council
Margherita Mutarelli, Researcher, ISASI-CNR
Nextflow Ecosystem & nf-core
Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Pipeline Runs with nf-co2footprint, a Nextflow Plugin
Josua Carl & Nadja Volkmann, Software Development, QBiC
Summit Wrap Up
Evan Floden, CEO & Co-Founder, Seqera