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Join us at ASHG 2026 to learn how the Illumina Insight Ecosystem is helping researchers connect genomic data and insights to advance discovery.
Visit Illumina booth 701 and attend our Industry Education sessions and Co-Labs to hear more about our products, workflow solutions, and partnerships.
Industry Education sessions
Expanding the genomic toolkit with streamlined long-range and epigenetic insights
Wednesday, October 21
12:15 PM–1:15 PM (ET)
Room 512 ABCEFG
- James Han, Vice President, Bioinformatics, Illumina
- Danny Miller, MD, PhD, FACMG, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Elena Greenfeld, PhD, FCCMG, FACMG, Co-Head, Division of Diagnostic Medical Genetics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
When data connects, biology becomes clear: Revealing human disease through multiomics
Thursday, October 22
12:15 PM–1:15 PM (ET)
Room 512 ABCEFG
- Cande Rogert, PhD, Vice President, Global Head of Advanced Sciences
- Jasmine Plummer, Director, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- David Lanfear, MD, MS, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President of Research, Henry Ford Health
Biological discovery at scale: Building learning systems across population and institutional research programs
Friday, October 23
12:15 PM–1:15 PM (ET)
Room 513 ABC
- Rami Mehio, Senior Vice President, General Manager, BioInsight, Illumina
- John Chambers, Chief Scientific Officer, Precision Health Research, Singapore
- Alisa Gaskell, Vice President Chief Genomics Officer, Precision Medicine Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado
CoLab sessions
Beyond the genome: Proteomics and the next layer of disease biology
Thursday, October 22
4:15 PM–4:45 PM (ET)
Theater 1, Exhibit Hall
- Tala Khosroheidari, Head of Global Scientific Engagement, Illumina
- Ravi Shah, MD, Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
When exposure leaves a mark: Mapping epigenetic memory with DNA methylation arrays
Friday, October 23
2:30 PM–3 PM (ET)
Theater 1, Exhibit Hall
- John Picuri, Global Head of Array Commercial, Illumina
- Charles Breeze, PhD, Kawananakoa Endowed Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University
DRAGEN user group meeting
From data to discovery: Advancing genomic and multiomic research with DRAGEN
Thursday, October 22
6:30 PM–9 PM (ET)
Humaniti Hotel Montreal
340 Rue De la Gauchetière O O, Montreal, QC
- Mary Makarious, PhD, Data Tecnica
- Lynette Lau, M.Sc., SickKids, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Rami Mehio, Senior Vice President, General Manager, BioInsight, Illumina
Poster sessions
| Title | Authors | Poster # |
|---|---|---|
| Resolving difficult-to-map hearing-loss genes using on-flowcell proximity sequencing | Emily Parker, Shunhua Han | 2052F |
| 3D tissue reconstruction for spatial transcriptomic profiling of a human benign nevocellular nevus | Mark Wang, Kareem Ahmad/Kevin Thai | 8116T |
| Enabling flexible small-scale Illumina Spatial Technology workflow for benchtop sequencing platforms | Darren Segale, Kareem Ahmad | 8137F |
| Multiplexed high-throughput NGS-based proteomics assay using CSF and cell or tissue lysates optimized for discovery and translational research | Fiona Kaper, Andrew Slatter | 8165F |
| A streamlined method for simultaneous, high accurate methylation profiling and whole genome sequencing in FFPE sample types | Cande Rogert, Lisa Watson | 8119F |
| Targeted Profiling of CYP2D6, CYP2B6, CYP21A2, and GBA1 in an Integrated Exome-Based NGS Workflow | Severine Catreux, Eric Roller | 2017F |
| Significant optimization of sequencing performance T2T genomes, including long homopolymers via modification of reaction conditions for sequencing | Carolyn Conant | 8179F |
| Proximity-informed structural variant detection with Illumina TruPath Genome | James Han, Sean Truong | 8170W |
| Same-individual multiomics reveals complementary molecular axes of heart failure in an ancestry-diverse CVD cohort | Yongwen Zhuang | 8269F |
| Adapting Illumina Single Cell 3' RNA Kit for 3' Single Cell V(D)J enrichment: Enabling paired TCR α/β recovery on the MiSeq i100 Plus | Robert Meltzer, Robin Bombardi | 8123F |
| Research method for whole-chromosome uniparental disomy (UPD) detection with DRAGEN secondary analysis software | Konrad Scheffler, Shyamal Mehtalia | 5019T |
- Date & Time
- 20 Oct. 2026 – 24 Oct. 2026
- Location
- Palais des Congrès de Montréal
Illumina booth 701
Montreal, Quebec - Canada
- Topic
- Instruments, Software & informatics