Conferences and symposiums KI-SciLifeLab Symposium 2026
Warmly welcome to the fifth annual KI–SciLifeLab Symposium. This half-day event is aimed at everyone in the SciLifeLab community at KI, as well as anyone curious about our research who would like to connect and collaborate.
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Program
| Time | Activity | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | Registration and lunch | |
| 12:15 | Welcome from the SciLifeLab Committee at KI | Lars Holmgren, Carsten Daub |
| 12:30 | Completing the Picture: Long-Read Sequencing, Reference Genomes, and Multi-Omics Strategies in Rare Disease Genomics | Anna Lindstrand |
| 12:45 | Dissecting disease one cell at a time with Deep Visual Proteomics | Florian Rosenberger |
| 13:00 | Dissecting the coordination of adaptive gene expression programs in hypoxia | Kathleen Watt |
| 13:10 | Mapping B cell specificities in breast cancer | Sonia Corral Leal |
| 13:20 | Back to Life: Defining Quality of Life After Spinal Cord Injury | Claes Hultling, Inspirational keynote speaker |
| 14:00 | Coffee break / Fika | |
| 14:30 | Measuring and predicting genetic and epigenetic cancer evolution | Andrea Sottoriva, Human Technopole, Milan, International scientific keynote speaker |
| 15:15 | How sex differences and hormonal signaling impact colorectal cancer | Cecilia Williams |
| 15:30 | Towards a blueprint of life: an omics-scale approach to resolve mammalian development | Emma Andersson |
| 15:45 | Targeting DNA replication at its root: from genetic tools to cancer treatments | Bennie Lemmens |
| 16:00 | Wrap up and walk towards SciLifeLab | Address: Tomtebodavägen 23, 171 65 Solna |
| 16:15 | Poster session and voting | Venue: SciLifeLab Delta |
| 17:00 | Poster prize announcement & Mingle | Venue: SciLifeLab Delta, Gamma 2 |
About the event
The afternoon will be filled with research talks from senior and junior members of the KI-SciLifeLab community. Read more about the event at the SciLifeLab website
We are also honored to be joined by two keynote speakers. Andrea Sottoriva, Professor of Cancer Genomics and Evolution, and Head of the Computational Biology Research Centre at Human Technopole in Milan, Italy, will present his research on cancer evolution and treatment resistance using mathematical and computational approaches.
For our second keynote session, we will hear an inspiring lecture from Prof. Claes Hultling, MD, KI researcher into spinal cord injuries, and founder of Spinalis. During a diving accident in 1984, Claes was paralyzed from his chest down, after which he has dedicated his life to increasing knowledge of spinal cord injuries and promoting life quality for persons living with them.
The talks will be followed by a poster session and mingle at SciLifeLab Delta. Please indicate on your registration whether you want to show a poster. All participants including representatives of infrastructure units and committees are welcome to participate. Please note, all KI-SciLifeLab groups are encouraged to show at least one poster representing the research in their group. There will be a poster prize for best research poster!
Seats are limited, secure your spot as soon as possible.
The event is free of charge, but we highly appreciate it if you update us in case you need to cancel your registration.
Organizers
The annual KI-SciLifeLab Symposium is an initiative of the SciLifeLab Committee at KI
Organizers of the 2026 Symposium:
Program committee: