We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Genome Biology: Computation, Technology, and Discovery which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 12, and will conclude after the banquet on Thursday evening, and depart on Friday, October 16, 2026. 

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Genome Biology. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Genome organization

2. Epigenetic and transcriptional gene regulation

3. RNA and translational regulation

4. Cell state dynamics, lineage, and developmental kinetics

5. Single-cell and spatial multi-omics

6. Cancer and computational immunology

7. Genomic variation, disease and evolution

8. AI and machine learning for genome biology

9. Perturbation technologies and functional screens

Keynote Speaker:

Xiaole Shirley Liu, GV20 Therapeutics

Invited Speakers:

Maria Anisimova, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Kin Fai Au, University of Michigan Medical School

Christophe Dessimoz, University of Lausanne

Melissa Fullwood, Nanyang Technological University

Jing-Dong Jackie Han, Peking University

Kyogo Kawaguchi, RIKEN

Tommy Lam, The University of Hong Kong

Ben Lehner, Sanger Institute

Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania

Wanlu Liu, Zhejiang University

Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel MacArthur, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Marta Melé, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Yin Shen, University of California, San Francisco

Yufeng Shen, Columbia University

Mile Sikic, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

Martin Steinegger, Seoul National University

Bin Tian, The Wistar Institute

Xiao Wang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Zefeng Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology

Kai Ye, Xi'an JiaoTong University

Haiyuan Yu, Cornell University

Chaolin Zhang, Columbia University

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2026.