📢 VALT Symposium — 29 June 2026, Valencia
📍 Botanical Garden, Universitat de València — stay on marked paths
☀️ Hot & sunny: sunglasses & sunscreen
🌱 Bring a reusable bottle — refill stations available
#LongTREC #LongReadTranscriptomics #VALT2026 #Valencia
📍 Botanical Garden, Universitat de València — stay on marked paths
☀️ Hot & sunny: sunglasses & sunscreen
🌱 Bring a reusable bottle — refill stations available
#LongTREC #LongReadTranscriptomics #VALT2026 #Valencia
June 27, 2026 at 7:20 AM
📢 VALT Symposium — 29 June 2026, Valencia
📍 Botanical Garden, Universitat de València — stay on marked paths
☀️ Hot & sunny: sunglasses & sunscreen
🌱 Bring a reusable bottle — refill stations available
#LongTREC #LongReadTranscriptomics #VALT2026 #Valencia
📍 Botanical Garden, Universitat de València — stay on marked paths
☀️ Hot & sunny: sunglasses & sunscreen
🌱 Bring a reusable bottle — refill stations available
#LongTREC #LongReadTranscriptomics #VALT2026 #Valencia
Next at #VALT2026: Juan Francisco Cervilla on evaluating gene fusion expression in B-ALL at single-cell resolution, using long reads to resolve fusion transcripts cell by cell. #LongTREC #lrRNAseq #FusionGenes
June 29, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Next at #VALT2026: Juan Francisco Cervilla on evaluating gene fusion expression in B-ALL at single-cell resolution, using long reads to resolve fusion transcripts cell by cell. #LongTREC #lrRNAseq #FusionGenes
And to close, the one who made it all possible. 🌅
Closing keynote: Prof. Ana Conesa on SQANTIverse, a unifying framework for long-read transcriptomics.
LongTREC coordinator, VALT organiser, and a field-shaper for years. No one better to end on.
Thank you, Ana. 💙
#VALT2026 #LongReads #SQANTI
Closing keynote: Prof. Ana Conesa on SQANTIverse, a unifying framework for long-read transcriptomics.
LongTREC coordinator, VALT organiser, and a field-shaper for years. No one better to end on.
Thank you, Ana. 💙
#VALT2026 #LongReads #SQANTI
July 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
And to close, the one who made it all possible. 🌅
Closing keynote: Prof. Ana Conesa on SQANTIverse, a unifying framework for long-read transcriptomics.
LongTREC coordinator, VALT organiser, and a field-shaper for years. No one better to end on.
Thank you, Ana. 💙
#VALT2026 #LongReads #SQANTI
Closing keynote: Prof. Ana Conesa on SQANTIverse, a unifying framework for long-read transcriptomics.
LongTREC coordinator, VALT organiser, and a field-shaper for years. No one better to end on.
Thank you, Ana. 💙
#VALT2026 #LongReads #SQANTI
Prof. Mark D. Robinson (Univ. of Zurich) on systematic benchmarking of long-read RNA-seq platforms and doing it properly with Omnibenchmark. Fair, reproducible comparisons from someone who's long pushed for them.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
#VALT2026 #LongReads
June 30, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Prof. Mark D. Robinson (Univ. of Zurich) on systematic benchmarking of long-read RNA-seq platforms and doing it properly with Omnibenchmark. Fair, reproducible comparisons from someone who's long pushed for them.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
#VALT2026 #LongReads
Day 2 is underway! ☀️
We're opening this morning with a keynote from Prof. Matthew Ritchie (WEHI): "Benchmarking and analysing long-read RNA-sequencing data with LongBench and FLAMES."
Rigorous benchmarking and the tools to act on it.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Transcriptomics #LongTREC
We're opening this morning with a keynote from Prof. Matthew Ritchie (WEHI): "Benchmarking and analysing long-read RNA-sequencing data with LongBench and FLAMES."
Rigorous benchmarking and the tools to act on it.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Transcriptomics #LongTREC
June 30, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Day 2 is underway! ☀️
We're opening this morning with a keynote from Prof. Matthew Ritchie (WEHI): "Benchmarking and analysing long-read RNA-sequencing data with LongBench and FLAMES."
Rigorous benchmarking and the tools to act on it.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Transcriptomics #LongTREC
We're opening this morning with a keynote from Prof. Matthew Ritchie (WEHI): "Benchmarking and analysing long-read RNA-sequencing data with LongBench and FLAMES."
Rigorous benchmarking and the tools to act on it.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Transcriptomics #LongTREC
The ocean is full of genomes we've barely read. 🌊
Up next: LongTREC's Carmen Lafuente (Genoscope, CEA) revealing the hidden genetic diversity of marine plankton. Long reads opening up a corner of life that's been hard to see.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #MarinePlankton #NonCannonicalSplicing
Up next: LongTREC's Carmen Lafuente (Genoscope, CEA) revealing the hidden genetic diversity of marine plankton. Long reads opening up a corner of life that's been hard to see.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #MarinePlankton #NonCannonicalSplicing
June 30, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The ocean is full of genomes we've barely read. 🌊
Up next: LongTREC's Carmen Lafuente (Genoscope, CEA) revealing the hidden genetic diversity of marine plankton. Long reads opening up a corner of life that's been hard to see.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #MarinePlankton #NonCannonicalSplicing
Up next: LongTREC's Carmen Lafuente (Genoscope, CEA) revealing the hidden genetic diversity of marine plankton. Long reads opening up a corner of life that's been hard to see.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #MarinePlankton #NonCannonicalSplicing
Heat, stress, and a genome with four copies of everything. 🥔
Next: our own Nadja Nolte (National Institute of Biology) on using long-read RNA-seq to study the heat stress response in polyploid potato. Long reads earning their keep in a properly tricky genome.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Polyploidy
Next: our own Nadja Nolte (National Institute of Biology) on using long-read RNA-seq to study the heat stress response in polyploid potato. Long reads earning their keep in a properly tricky genome.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Polyploidy
June 30, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Heat, stress, and a genome with four copies of everything. 🥔
Next: our own Nadja Nolte (National Institute of Biology) on using long-read RNA-seq to study the heat stress response in polyploid potato. Long reads earning their keep in a properly tricky genome.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Polyploidy
Next: our own Nadja Nolte (National Institute of Biology) on using long-read RNA-seq to study the heat stress response in polyploid potato. Long reads earning their keep in a properly tricky genome.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Polyploidy
We’re honored to host an incredible keynote lineup for #VALT2026 in Valencia! 🇪🇸
🔹 Ana Conesa 🔹 Angela Brooks 🔹 Hagen Tilgner 🔹 Eduardo Eyras 🔹 Matthew Ritchie 🔹 Gloria Sheynkman 🔹 Kin Fai Au
Join us to discuss the future of long-read sequencing. 🧬
Register: www.biobam.com/valt-registr...
🔹 Ana Conesa 🔹 Angela Brooks 🔹 Hagen Tilgner 🔹 Eduardo Eyras 🔹 Matthew Ritchie 🔹 Gloria Sheynkman 🔹 Kin Fai Au
Join us to discuss the future of long-read sequencing. 🧬
Register: www.biobam.com/valt-registr...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:07 AM
We’re honored to host an incredible keynote lineup for #VALT2026 in Valencia! 🇪🇸
🔹 Ana Conesa 🔹 Angela Brooks 🔹 Hagen Tilgner 🔹 Eduardo Eyras 🔹 Matthew Ritchie 🔹 Gloria Sheynkman 🔹 Kin Fai Au
Join us to discuss the future of long-read sequencing. 🧬
Register: www.biobam.com/valt-registr...
🔹 Ana Conesa 🔹 Angela Brooks 🔹 Hagen Tilgner 🔹 Eduardo Eyras 🔹 Matthew Ritchie 🔹 Gloria Sheynkman 🔹 Kin Fai Au
Join us to discuss the future of long-read sequencing. 🧬
Register: www.biobam.com/valt-registr...
VALT 2026 Round Table, in a few lines that stuck:
🔹 Move from the gene to the transcript as the unit of biology
🔹 Technical ground truth ≠ biology
🔹 A zoo of RNA modifications now waiting for AI to learn
And of course: there'll be a next VALT. 🌅
#VALT2026 #LongReads
🔹 Move from the gene to the transcript as the unit of biology
🔹 Technical ground truth ≠ biology
🔹 A zoo of RNA modifications now waiting for AI to learn
And of course: there'll be a next VALT. 🌅
#VALT2026 #LongReads
July 1, 2026 at 1:59 PM
VALT 2026 Round Table, in a few lines that stuck:
🔹 Move from the gene to the transcript as the unit of biology
🔹 Technical ground truth ≠ biology
🔹 A zoo of RNA modifications now waiting for AI to learn
And of course: there'll be a next VALT. 🌅
#VALT2026 #LongReads
🔹 Move from the gene to the transcript as the unit of biology
🔹 Technical ground truth ≠ biology
🔹 A zoo of RNA modifications now waiting for AI to learn
And of course: there'll be a next VALT. 🌅
#VALT2026 #LongReads
Where next? 🔮
Before the close, the Scientific Committee take on the VALT 2026 Round Table: The Future of Long-Read Transcriptomics.
Three days of chromatin, benchmarking, proteoforms and RNA mods behind us, now the conversation turns to what comes next.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
Before the close, the Scientific Committee take on the VALT 2026 Round Table: The Future of Long-Read Transcriptomics.
Three days of chromatin, benchmarking, proteoforms and RNA mods behind us, now the conversation turns to what comes next.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
July 1, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Where next? 🔮
Before the close, the Scientific Committee take on the VALT 2026 Round Table: The Future of Long-Read Transcriptomics.
Three days of chromatin, benchmarking, proteoforms and RNA mods behind us, now the conversation turns to what comes next.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
Before the close, the Scientific Committee take on the VALT 2026 Round Table: The Future of Long-Read Transcriptomics.
Three days of chromatin, benchmarking, proteoforms and RNA mods behind us, now the conversation turns to what comes next.
#VALT2026 #LongReads
Roll up your sleeves: from long reads to proteins, hands-on. 🧬💻
This afternoon's workshop is Long-Read Proteogenomics with LRP2, led by Gloria Sheynkman, Megan Schertzer and Julia Lewandowski.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteogenomics
This afternoon's workshop is Long-Read Proteogenomics with LRP2, led by Gloria Sheynkman, Megan Schertzer and Julia Lewandowski.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteogenomics
July 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Roll up your sleeves: from long reads to proteins, hands-on. 🧬💻
This afternoon's workshop is Long-Read Proteogenomics with LRP2, led by Gloria Sheynkman, Megan Schertzer and Julia Lewandowski.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteogenomics
This afternoon's workshop is Long-Read Proteogenomics with LRP2, led by Gloria Sheynkman, Megan Schertzer and Julia Lewandowski.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteogenomics
Aggressive cancers hide their complexity in the transcriptome. 🧬
Camilla Ugolini closes the session with BRIGHT, a long-read resource built to resolve transcript and epitranscriptomic complexity in aggressive breast cancer.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #BreastCancer #Epitranscriptomics
Camilla Ugolini closes the session with BRIGHT, a long-read resource built to resolve transcript and epitranscriptomic complexity in aggressive breast cancer.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #BreastCancer #Epitranscriptomics
July 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Aggressive cancers hide their complexity in the transcriptome. 🧬
Camilla Ugolini closes the session with BRIGHT, a long-read resource built to resolve transcript and epitranscriptomic complexity in aggressive breast cancer.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #BreastCancer #Epitranscriptomics
Camilla Ugolini closes the session with BRIGHT, a long-read resource built to resolve transcript and epitranscriptomic complexity in aggressive breast cancer.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #BreastCancer #Epitranscriptomics
RNA modifications that shift in real time. ⏱️
Logan Mulroney takes the stage to present direct RNA nanopore sequencing of human pancreatic beta cells, revealing how modifications change rapidly after glucose stimulation.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #DirectRNA #Epitranscriptomics
Logan Mulroney takes the stage to present direct RNA nanopore sequencing of human pancreatic beta cells, revealing how modifications change rapidly after glucose stimulation.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #DirectRNA #Epitranscriptomics
July 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
RNA modifications that shift in real time. ⏱️
Logan Mulroney takes the stage to present direct RNA nanopore sequencing of human pancreatic beta cells, revealing how modifications change rapidly after glucose stimulation.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #DirectRNA #Epitranscriptomics
Logan Mulroney takes the stage to present direct RNA nanopore sequencing of human pancreatic beta cells, revealing how modifications change rapidly after glucose stimulation.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #DirectRNA #Epitranscriptomics
Better quantification, not just more reads. 📊
Keynote: Prof. Kin Fai Au (Univ. of Michigan) on how long reads improve quantitative transcriptome analysis. Co-lead of the LRGASP benchmark and author of miniQuant, showing exactly where long reads earn their place.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Quantification
Keynote: Prof. Kin Fai Au (Univ. of Michigan) on how long reads improve quantitative transcriptome analysis. Co-lead of the LRGASP benchmark and author of miniQuant, showing exactly where long reads earn their place.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Quantification
July 1, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Better quantification, not just more reads. 📊
Keynote: Prof. Kin Fai Au (Univ. of Michigan) on how long reads improve quantitative transcriptome analysis. Co-lead of the LRGASP benchmark and author of miniQuant, showing exactly where long reads earn their place.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Quantification
Keynote: Prof. Kin Fai Au (Univ. of Michigan) on how long reads improve quantitative transcriptome analysis. Co-lead of the LRGASP benchmark and author of miniQuant, showing exactly where long reads earn their place.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Quantification
Day 3 opens with modifications. 🧬
First keynote: Dr Jana Jeschke (Institut Jules Bordet, ULB) on nanopore-resolved epitranscriptomic landscapes in human breast cancer. Reading RNA modifications directly in native molecules, mapped across real tumours.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Epitranscriptomics
First keynote: Dr Jana Jeschke (Institut Jules Bordet, ULB) on nanopore-resolved epitranscriptomic landscapes in human breast cancer. Reading RNA modifications directly in native molecules, mapped across real tumours.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Epitranscriptomics
July 1, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Day 3 opens with modifications. 🧬
First keynote: Dr Jana Jeschke (Institut Jules Bordet, ULB) on nanopore-resolved epitranscriptomic landscapes in human breast cancer. Reading RNA modifications directly in native molecules, mapped across real tumours.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Epitranscriptomics
First keynote: Dr Jana Jeschke (Institut Jules Bordet, ULB) on nanopore-resolved epitranscriptomic landscapes in human breast cancer. Reading RNA modifications directly in native molecules, mapped across real tumours.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Epitranscriptomics
Closing day 2. 🧬
Final keynote: Prof. Gloria Sheynkman (Univ. of Virginia) on going from long reads to proteoforms, linking transcript isoforms to the proteins they actually make. The perfect bookend to a day spent deep in isoforms.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteoforms
Final keynote: Prof. Gloria Sheynkman (Univ. of Virginia) on going from long reads to proteoforms, linking transcript isoforms to the proteins they actually make. The perfect bookend to a day spent deep in isoforms.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteoforms
June 30, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Closing day 2. 🧬
Final keynote: Prof. Gloria Sheynkman (Univ. of Virginia) on going from long reads to proteoforms, linking transcript isoforms to the proteins they actually make. The perfect bookend to a day spent deep in isoforms.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteoforms
Final keynote: Prof. Gloria Sheynkman (Univ. of Virginia) on going from long reads to proteoforms, linking transcript isoforms to the proteins they actually make. The perfect bookend to a day spent deep in isoforms.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Proteoforms
The genome is hiding more proteins than we've annotated. 🔬
Next: Nuo Xu on pairing long-read transcriptomics with Ribo-seq to expand the noncanonical proteome. Translation is happening well beyond the ORFs we already know about.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #RiboSeq #Proteome
Next: Nuo Xu on pairing long-read transcriptomics with Ribo-seq to expand the noncanonical proteome. Translation is happening well beyond the ORFs we already know about.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #RiboSeq #Proteome
June 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The genome is hiding more proteins than we've annotated. 🔬
Next: Nuo Xu on pairing long-read transcriptomics with Ribo-seq to expand the noncanonical proteome. Translation is happening well beyond the ORFs we already know about.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #RiboSeq #Proteome
Next: Nuo Xu on pairing long-read transcriptomics with Ribo-seq to expand the noncanonical proteome. Translation is happening well beyond the ORFs we already know about.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #RiboSeq #Proteome
Long reads, full throttle. 🧬
This afternoon's workshop belongs to Pacific Biosciences, with Kinnex front and centre: large-scale automatable RNA-seq, full-length isoform workflows, and SQANTI tooling stretching from bulk to single-cell and single-nuclei.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Kinnex #IsoSeq
This afternoon's workshop belongs to Pacific Biosciences, with Kinnex front and centre: large-scale automatable RNA-seq, full-length isoform workflows, and SQANTI tooling stretching from bulk to single-cell and single-nuclei.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Kinnex #IsoSeq
June 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Long reads, full throttle. 🧬
This afternoon's workshop belongs to Pacific Biosciences, with Kinnex front and centre: large-scale automatable RNA-seq, full-length isoform workflows, and SQANTI tooling stretching from bulk to single-cell and single-nuclei.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Kinnex #IsoSeq
This afternoon's workshop belongs to Pacific Biosciences, with Kinnex front and centre: large-scale automatable RNA-seq, full-length isoform workflows, and SQANTI tooling stretching from bulk to single-cell and single-nuclei.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Kinnex #IsoSeq
Splicing patterns you can actually trust. 🔬
Next: Prof. Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida) showing that variation in splice junctions is reproducible across technologies and conserved across species. Signal over noise- exactly what the field needs.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Splicing #Drosophila
Next: Prof. Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida) showing that variation in splice junctions is reproducible across technologies and conserved across species. Signal over noise- exactly what the field needs.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Splicing #Drosophila
June 30, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Splicing patterns you can actually trust. 🔬
Next: Prof. Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida) showing that variation in splice junctions is reproducible across technologies and conserved across species. Signal over noise- exactly what the field needs.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Splicing #Drosophila
Next: Prof. Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida) showing that variation in splice junctions is reproducible across technologies and conserved across species. Signal over noise- exactly what the field needs.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #Splicing #Drosophila
To join, or not to join? 🎭
That's the question Fabian Jetzinger is putting to us next, on handling biological replicates in lrRNA-seq data.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #lrRNAseq #CallOrJoin
That's the question Fabian Jetzinger is putting to us next, on handling biological replicates in lrRNA-seq data.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #lrRNAseq #CallOrJoin
June 30, 2026 at 9:49 AM
To join, or not to join? 🎭
That's the question Fabian Jetzinger is putting to us next, on handling biological replicates in lrRNA-seq data.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #lrRNAseq #CallOrJoin
That's the question Fabian Jetzinger is putting to us next, on handling biological replicates in lrRNA-seq data.
#VALT2026 #LongReads #lrRNAseq #CallOrJoin
Next at #VALT2026: Anastasiya Grinko on expanding the known transcriptome at the single-cell level, using long reads to surface novel isoforms in macrophages and monocytes from diseased tissues. #LongTREC #lrRNAseq #SingleCellLongRead
June 29, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Next at #VALT2026: Anastasiya Grinko on expanding the known transcriptome at the single-cell level, using long reads to surface novel isoforms in macrophages and monocytes from diseased tissues. #LongTREC #lrRNAseq #SingleCellLongRead
