WYMM Summit: MEAI 2025
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 October - 14 October 2025
During our invitation-only, two-day WYMM Summit: MEAI, scientists and thought leaders from across the Middle East, Africa and India will share how they are advancing national and regional programs towards a ‘One Health’ strategy that bridges human genomics, infectious disease surveillance, and agricultural innovation, leveraging the power of rapid, decentralised Oxford Nanopore sequencing
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Please note that this is an in-person event by invitation only. To enquire about attendance please contact events@nanoporetech.com.
Agenda
9:00 am - 4:45 pm EAT | Agenda (subject to change) | Speaker |
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9:00 am - 9:30 am | Registration/refreshments | |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Welcome and updates from Oxford Nanopore Technologies | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Pathogen Genomics initiative plus 'One Health' update | Dr Sarah Mwangio, Africa CDC |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Human genomics talk | Dr. Yaw Bediako. Yemaachi Biotech |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Lighting talks - Agricultural genomics, Human genomics | Dilyara Gritsenko, Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Oxford Nanopore: a game changer for undiagnosed rare diseases in South Africa | Shahida Moosa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Networking Lunch | |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Decoding key eukaryotic genomes and metagenomes from India using long-read technology | Prof. Vineet Kumar Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Agricultural genomics / Plant talk | To follow |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | ONT long read sequencing for rare disease diagnostics and discovery | Prof. Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Dubai Health, United Arab Emirates |
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Networking Break | |
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Breakout sessions including bioinformatics, T2T and ultra-long DNA sequencing | Oxford Nanopore Technologies hosted |
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Closing | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
7:00 pm onwards | Networking drinks reception and evening dinner |
Speakers
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Chinchu Jayaprakash, LifeCore Private Clinic LLC
I am a molecular and cell biologist with more than 10 years of experience working in research and cl...
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Oxford Nanopore: a game changer for undiagnosed rare diseases in South Africa
Shahida Moosa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Prof Shahida Moosa is an internationally-trained clinician-scientist. She is a medical genomicist an...
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Exploring the potential of Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rare disease diagnostics and discovery
Prof. Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Dubai Health, United Arab Emirates
Ahmad Abou Tayoun is the Director of the Dubai Health Genomic Medicine Center, and an Associate Prof...
