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

Michaël El Kharroubi
University of Geneva
Towards autonomous end-to-end DNA data archiving with a built-in quality-control

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

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

Tao Han
Tianjin University
VoiceArk: A Progressive DNA Storage System for Robust and Scalable Speech Archiving

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

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

Connor Nurmi
McMaster University
Toward Practical DNA Storage and Computation with Improved DNA-Ligating DNAzymes

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

Chris Takahashi
University of Washington
An Adaptable DNA Codec for In-Memory Compute

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

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

Alexander Bittner
CIC nanoGUNE
Humidity analysis on the nanoscale

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

Tao han
Tianjin University
CIS-T-Based Secure Image Representation for DNA Storage

Alexander Hebel
TUM - Technical University of Munich
Bacterial expression of gene-encoding DNA origami structures

Robertus Hudi
Universitas Pelita Harapan
Reconstruction Algorithms Optimization on DNA Storage System using CUDA

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

Miguel Jimenez-Munoz
University of Leeds
DNA Switchable Systems for Electrochemical Information Processing

Emilia Juricke
University Paderborn
Ion-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Ligated DNA Origami 6-Helix-Bundles

Simonas Juzénas
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

Jackson Kellock
Atlas Data Storage
Ultra-High-Density Oligonucleotide Synthesis Using Nanoelectrode Arrays for Scalable DNA Data Storage

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

Asad Usmani
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Fast RDF-analytics From Large-scale DNA-based Archives

Kaya Wernhart
EkoRefugium
– DNA Staple Codes: Bounds and Constructions
– DNA Staples: A unified platform for DNA storage and computing

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