Confirmed speakers and posters at

Storage and Computing with DNA 2026

Meet the experts who will share their groundbreaking research and insights at SCDNA26.

Speakers

Rodney Agayan

Atlas Data Storage

Scaling NGS Analyses for Ultra-High-Complexity DNA Data Storage Libraries

Ivan Barišić

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology

Bacteria-based technologies for DNA data storage

Pierre-Yves Burgi

University of Geneva

Towards autonomous end-to-end DNA data archiving with a built-in quality-control

Gunavaran Brihadiswaran

North Carolina State University

Deep Learning-Guided DNA-DNA Binding Prediction for Scalable DNA Data Storage

Sing-Ming Chan

Imperial College London

Associative Handhold-mediated Strand Displacement Mechanisms for Data Manipulation in DNA Nanostructure-Based Data Storage Devices

Tomer Cohen

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Correcting Tail Deletions in Rank Modulated Composite Encoding for Data Storage in DNA

Tom de Greef

Eindhoven University of Technology

Molecular encryption for controllable random access in DNA data storage

Ferenc Fördös

Karolinska Institutet

Biologically Replicable, Thermostable Data Storage in DNA Origami

Vincent Franceschini

Biomemory

Making DNA Data Storage IT Friendly and DC-ready

Francesca Granito

ETH Zurich

DNA-of-Things: Embedding Digital Data from Newspaper Printing to DNA-Encoded Construction Material Passports

Xingyu Jiang

Southern University of Science and Technology

DNA Data Storage on-the-go

Serge Kas Hanna

CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

DNA-MGC+: A Codec for Reliable and Efficient DNA Data Storage

Jaroslav Kocisek

J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS

Nanocluster positioning on DNA nanostructures for robust information storage

Adi Levy

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Expected Recovery Time in DNA-based Distributed Storage Systems

Yingfu Li

McMaster University

Toward Practical DNA Storage and Computation with Improved DNA-Ligating DNAzymes

Jory Lietard

University of Vienna

Nanopore sequencing of synthetic libraries of RNA oligonucleotides

Anastasiya Malyshava

University of Surrey

Combinatorial 4-way and 6-way Strand Displacement for Programmable Reversible Data Manipulation on DNA Origami

Alessia Marelli

Avaneidi

Assembly-Aware Simulation and Fragment Clustering for DNA Data Storage with DNAssim

Jérémy Mateos

PEARCODE - I3S laboratory

Wetlab validation of JPEG DNA coding system for image storage on synthetic DNA

Chandler Petersen

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Boolean Search with Scalable Strand Displacement Circuits in DNA Data Storage

Hamed Sabzalipoor

Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich

Combinatorial DNA Data Encoding via Automated Multi-Trimer Integration in Maskless Photolithographic DNA Synthesis

Ibon Santiago

CiC Nanogune

Polymer-DNA Composite Fibers as a Versatile Platform for DNA Data Storage

Puru Sharma

National University of Singapore

Improving Consensus Finding in DNA Data Storage with Base-Level Quality Scores

Gangamallaiah Velpula

KU Leuven

Effect of different cations on controlling the orientation of chiral double-L DNA origami on solid substrate

Jan Voges

Leibnitz University Hannover

Robust DNA Data Storage via Block-by-Block Synthesis: The PEARL-DNA Architecture

Huaming Wu

Tianjin University

VoiceArk: A Progressive DNA Storage System for Robust and Scalable Speech Archiving

Zohar Yakhini

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Private Information Retrieval for Large-Scale DNA-Based Data Storage

Posters

Mohammad Amini

CIC NanoGUNE

Structured Polymer Fiber Scaffolds for DNA Data Storage with Spatial Random Access

Anisha Banerjee

TUM - Technical University of Munich

SynDe: Syndrome-guided Decoding of Raw Nanopore Reads

Daniella Bar-Lev

University of Zurich

Secure Shamir Secret Sharing in DNA using a CRISPR-Cas Protocol

Samira Brunmayr

Imperial College London

DNA data storage with adaptive sampling for scalable data retrieval

Verena Dobretzberger

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology

AMP-Nanostructure tags as filing system for cell-based DNA storage

Roee Gross

Technion - Israel Institute of technology

Improved Constructions of Linear Codes for Insertions and Deletions

Yitzchak Grunbaum

Technion - Israel Institute of technology

General Coverage Models – Structure, Monotonicity and Shotgun Sequencing

Alexander Hebel

TUM - Technical University of Munich

Bacterial expression of gene-encoding DNA origami structures

Sharon Istvánffy

Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at TUM (Technical University of Munich)

On-the-Fly vs. Premixed Phosphoramidites for Composite DNA Letters in Photolithographic DNA Synthesis

Emilia Juricke

University Paderborn

Ion-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Ligated DNA Origami 6-Helix-Bundles

Kornelija Kaminskaitė

Genomika

Reviving classic molecular scissors for DNA-based data storage: restriction endonuclease-based ONT nanopore sequencing library preparation

Franziska Kotsch

TUM - Technical University of Munich

Encoding Molecular Barcodes in DNA Origami Tile Arrays with Super-Resolution DNA-PAINT

Shuai Lang

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Data Storage with DNA Network

Jiankai Li

Southern University of Science and Technology

Multivalued DNA Storage on Electrochemical Tapes

Xinyang Li

University Paderborn

Stability of Information-Carrying DNA Origami Nanostructures During Repeated Freeze–Thaw Cycles

Alexander Lindberg

Karolinska Institutet

Towards Lossless, Ambient-Temperature DNA Data Storage using a Solid-Phase Molecular Drive

Mathias Orlando

AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology

In vivo production of oligonucleotides for DNA data storage

Guanjin Qu

Tianjin University

Beezy: A Hybrid DNA Storage Architecture Based on Tree Structures

Lukas Rabbe

University of Paderborn

Hierarchical encoding of digital data on DNA origami nanostructures

Fabian Schroeder

EkoRefugium

DNAbyte: A modular framework for the simulation and analysis of DNA-based data storage

Kaya Wernhart

EkoRefugium

DNA Staple Codes: Bounds and Constructions

Huaming Wu

Tianjin University

CIS-T-Based Secure Image Representation for DNA Storage

Jokin Yeregui-Elosua

CIC nanoGUNE

Molecular random access for DNA data storage via stimuli- responsive vesicles embedded in reusable nanofibers

Shufang Zhang

Tianjin University

Sequence Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Dynamic Windowed Attention Mechanism in DNA Storage