2026 Long-Read Sequencing Symposium

Registration closed on Octobert 9th, please email jduong06@uw.edu with any questions.

The Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine is hosting our 4th annual Long-Read Sequencing Symposium on October 26th, 2026 at the Seattle Children's Research Institute: Cure McKinstry Auditorium from 9:30AM-4:30PM, lunch provided. We're grateful for the generous contributions from our sponsors in making this event happen:

We are planning a full-day symposium with both invited and contributed talks about how long-read sequencing is being used locally.

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This year, we have Dr. Harriet Dashnow, PhD from the University of Colorado Anschutz as a Keynote speaker for our event. Dr. Dashnow obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), a Bachelor of Science (Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and a Master of Science (Bioinformatics) with Dean’s Honours from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She currently holds a K99/R00 from NHGRI. She is best known for her work in detecting STR expansions, and has also published bioinformatic methods for clinical exome sequencing and microbial gene detection.

We will also be hearing from the following speakers:

• Alex Mendenhall
• Alice Berger
• Anica Wandler
• Ben Mallory
• Candace Myers
• Christopher Seward
• Christy LaFlamme
• Elana Thieme
• Gus Gustafson
• Lei Yang
• Min-Hwan Sohn
• Neha Sudhir
• Nene Kondo
• Paul Valdmanis
• Ruihong Wang
• Runhang Shu
• Adriel Barrios-Anderson
• Samvardhini Sridharan
• Sophie Gibson