Program
SCDNA26 is the second International Conference on Storage and Computing with DNA. Discover the conference program and join the discussion with leading experts from around the world.
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Conference sessions at a glance
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Wednesday
May 27th
9:30 Keynote speech 1
Damien Woods
Maynooth university
“Thermodynamically favoured DNA data structures and algorithms”
10:15 Keynote speech 2
Vincent Coltellino
US Library of Congress
“Moving forward: perspective from an archival institution”
11:30 Session 1 "Biosecurity in the European Biotech Act"
Andreas Prenner
DG SANTE
11:50 Session 1 (continued)
Roundtable moderated by Robertas Skliaustas – Genomika
- Vincent Coltellino – US Library of Congress
- Manu Shivakumara – IBBIS
- Andreas Prenner – DG SANTE (remotely)
- TBC – Twist Bioscience
- Dominique Loqué – Biomemory
- Q&A
14:00 Session 2 "DNA data storage: from molecular memory to scalable reality"
Session moderated by: Jérôme Charmet – HES-SO
- Martin Jost – Kilobaser
- Marthe Colotte – Imagene
- Tomaž Karčnik – Biosistemika
- TBC – Genomika
- Felix Full – Eurofins
- Fabian Schroeder – EkoRefugium
- Q&A
15:45 Session 3 "DNA data storage from idea to applications"
Roundtable moderated by Tomaž Karčnik – Biosistemika
- Peter Faulhaber – Former CEO & President of Fujifilm Recording Media
- Carlo Wesseling – Netherlands Army
- Andrej Filipčič – CERN
- Robert Grass – Haelixa
- Discussion
Thursday
May 28th
9:00 Keynote speech 3
Jeff Nivala
University of Washington
“DNA Data Storage, art, and public engagement”
9:45 Session 4 "End-to-end data storage analysis (1)"
Session chaired by: Vincent Franceschini
- Pierre-Yves Burgi & Michaël El Kharoubi
“Towards autonomous end-to-end DNA data archiving with a built-in quality-control” + Q&A - Xingyu Jiang
“DNA Data Storage on-the-go” + Q&A - Jérémy Mateos
“Wetlab validation of JPEG DNA coding system for image storage on synthetic DNA” + Q&A - Ivan Barišić
“Bacteria-based technologies for DNA data storage” + Q&A
11:30 Session 5 "Digital processing (1)"
Session chaired by: Alessia Marelli
- Puru Sharma
“Improving Consensus Finding in DNA Data Storage with Base-Level Quality Scores” + Q&A - Huaming Wu
“VoiceArk: A Progressive DNA Storage System for Robust and Scalable Speech Archiving” + Q&A - Alessia Marelli
“Assembly-Aware Simulation and Fragment Clustering for DNA Data Storage with DNAssim” + Q&A - Adi Levy
“Expected Recovery Time in DNA-based Distributed Storage Systems” + Q&A
14:00 Keynote speech 4
Roger Rudoff
Atlas Data Storage
“High Density CMOS-based synthetic DNA data storage systems”
14:45 Session 6 "DNA data storage in products and materials"
Session chaired by: Marthe Colotte
- Ibon Santiago
“Polymer-DNA Composite Fibers as a Versatile Platform for DNA Data Storage” + Q&A - Francesca Granito
“DNA-of-Things: Embedding Digital Data from Newspaper Printing to DNA-Encoded Construction Material Passports” + Q&A
16:00 Session 7 "Private and encrypted data storage in DNA"
Session chaired by: Jérôme Charmet
- Tom de Greef
“Molecular encryption for controllable random access in DNA data storage” + Q&A - Zohar Yakhini
“Private Information Retrieval for Large-Scale DNA-Based Data Storage” + Q&A
16:40 Poster session
Accepted posters here.
Friday
May 29th
9:00 Keynote speech 5
Eitan Yaakobi
Technion
“Coding for efficient and scalable DNA synthesis”
9:45 Session 8 "Strand displacement & DNA Origami for data storage"
Session chaired by: Zohar Yakhini
- Sing-Ming Chan
“Associative Handhold-mediated Strand Displacement Mechanisms for Data Manipulation in DNA Nanostructure-Based Data Storage Devices” + Q&A - Anastasiya Malyshava
“Combinatorial 4-way and 6-way Strand Displacement for Programmable Reversible Data Manipulation on DNA Origami” + Q&A - Ferenc Fördös
“Biologically Replicable, Thermostable Data Storage in DNA Origami” + Q&A - Gangamallaiah Velpula
“Effect of different cations on controlling the orientation of chiral double-L DNA origami on solid substrate” + Q&A
11:30 Session 9 "End-to-end data storage analysis (2)"
Session chaired by: Roger Rudoff
- Tomaž Karčnik
“Robust DNA Data Storage via Block-by-Block Synthesis: The PEARL-DNA Architecture” + Q&A - Chandler Petersen
“Boolean Search with Scalable Strand Displacement Circuits in DNA Data Storage” + Q&A - Jaroslav Kocisek
“Nanocluster positioning on DNA nanostructures for robust information storage” + Q&A - Yingfu Li
“Toward Practical DNA Storage and Computation with Improved DNA-Ligating DNAzymes” + Q&A
14:00 Session 10 "Synthesis technologies and commercial impact"
Session chaired by: Robert Grass
- Vincent Franceschini
“Making DNA Data Storage IT Friendly and DC-ready” + Q&A - Rodney Agayan
“Scaling NGS Analyses for Ultra-High-Complexity DNA Data Storage Libraries” + Q&A - Hamed Sabzalipoor
“Combinatorial DNA Data Encoding via Automated Multi-Trimer Integration in Maskless Photolithographic DNA Synthesis” + Q&A - Jory Lietard
“Nanopore sequencing of synthetic libraries of RNA oligonucleotides” + Q&A
15:50 Session 11 "Digital processing (2)"
Session chaired by: Eitan Yaakobi
- Serge Kas Hanna
“DNA-MGC+: A Codec for Reliable and Efficient DNA Data Storage” + Q&A - Tomer Cohen
“Correcting Tail Deletions in Rank Modulated Composite Encoding for Data Storage in DNA” + Q&A - Gunavaran Brihadiswaran
“Deep Learning-Guided DNA-DNA Binding Prediction for Scalable DNA Data Storage” + Q&A - Chris Takahashi
“An Adaptable DNA Codec for In-Memory Compute”
17:10 Closing session
Final remarks by DNA Data Storage Alliance & DigNA