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 Mwangi, Africa CDC |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Human genomics talk | Dr Yaw Bediako. Yemaachi Biotech |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Advances in sequencing plant viral genomes | Dr 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 | Prof. 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 | Layered decoding of genome information through Smart Sustainable Sustained Surveillance | Rajesh Pandey, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), India |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Exploring the potential of Oxford Nanopore 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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Navigating the genomic frontier: lessons from building Africa's continental surveillance capacity
Dr Sarah Mwangi, Africa CDC, Ethiopia
Dr Sarah Mwangi is the implementation science expert for Genomics at the Africa Pathogen Genomics In...
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Who you miss matters. The African Cancer Atlas: leveraging African data to diversify precision oncology
Dr Yaw Bediako, Yemaachi Biotech, Ghana
Yaw Bediako is a Ghanaian immunologist and biotech entrepreneur with a PhD from Northwestern Univers...
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Breaking boundaries: international accreditations for genomics with Oxford Nanopore WGS
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...
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Decoding key eukaryotic genomes and metagenomes from India using long-read technology
Prof. Vineet Kumar Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
Dr. Vineet K. Sharma is a Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal sin...
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Advances in sequencing plant viral genomes
Dr Dilyara Gritsenko, Institute of plant biology and biotechnology, Kazakhstan
Dilyara Gritsenko is an Associate Professor and molecular biologist with over 15 years of experience...
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Layered decoding of genome information through Smart Sustainable Sustained Surveillance
Rajesh Pandey, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), India
In love with Genomics, its strengths and a proponent of Democratisation of Genomics. Principal Scien...
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Advancing ecological and evolutionary research with Oxford Nanopore sequencing: from viral eco-genomics to telomere-to-telomere assemblies
Prof. Govindhasamy Umapathy, CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Prof. Umapathy, after doing M.Sc. Wildlife Science (Gold medalist) from Bharathidasan University, Ti...
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Establishing a pathogen genomics network and centre of excellence in the West Africa Sub-region
Dr Abdul Karim Sesay, MRCG Unit, The Gambia at LSHTM, Gambia
Dr Abdul Karim Sesay PhD, MBE is an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Genomics Strategic Core ...
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Oxford Nanopore based DNA and RNA sequencing in genomic characterisation of Acute Leukaemia
Dr Mayur Parihar, Tata Translational Cancer Research Center/Tata Medical Center
Senior Consultant, Haemato-Pathology, Cytogenetics and Molecular Pathology Head, Department of Cyto...
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Panel Speaker
Dr Anirvan Chatterjee, Haystackanalytics, India
Dr. Anirvan Chatterjee is a genomics researcher and entrepreneur working to improve infectious disea...
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Panel Speaker
Dr Eric Ochomo, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
Dr. Eric Ochomo is a Senior Research Scientist leading KEMRI's entomology department in Kenya. He sp...
