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INVITED SPEAKERS

The below images are of all of the invited conference speakers and their job title's. 

Photo of Wendy Bickmore

Wendy Bickmore

Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit

Photo of Professor Andrew Bowman

Andrew Bowman

Associate Professor, Warwick

Photo of Brad Cairns

Brad Cairns

Professor and Chair, Oncological Sciences, Spencer Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah

Chief Academic Officer, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah

Photo of Professor Vincenzo Costanzo

Vincenzo Costanzo

Associate Professor at the Department of Oncology and Hematology-Oncology, University of Milan

Photo of Professor Anne Ferguson Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith

Arthur Balfour Professor of GeneticsPro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Cambridge

Photo of Jorge Ferrer

Jorge Ferrer

Group Leader, Coordinator, Computational Biology and Health Genomics Programme, CRG

Photo of Professor Monica Gullerova

Monika Gullerova

Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Photo of Tineke Lenstra

Tineke Lenstra

Group leader, Netherlands Cancer Institute

Photo of Massimo Lopes

Massimo Lopes

Coordinator of Master in Cancer Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Photo of Professor Chris Lord

Chris Lord

Deputy Head of Division, Group Leader of the CRUK Gene Function Laboratory

 Professor of Cancer Genomics in the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research, London

Photo of Professor Thomas Schalch

Thomas Schalch

Professor of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Leicester 

Photo of Professor Evi Soutoglou

Evi Soutoglou

Professor of Genome Stability (Genome Damage and Stability), School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex


Photo of Alex Stark

Alex Stark

Senior Group Leader, Medical University of Vienna

Photo of Professor Nitika Taneja

Nitika Taneja

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center

Photo of Michiel Vermeulen

Michiel Vermeulen

Member of the management board,  Interdisciplinary Research Platform

Professor, Molecular Biology, Radboud University


As part of the organisation of this conference, The University of Birmingham is collecting income via registration fees and sponsorships on behalf of the Birmingham Centre of Genome Biology 2025 organising committee.

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