Keynote speakers
We are delighted to announce the following speakers for scverse conference 2026, with more to be confirmed.
Phil Ewels
Seqera
Product Manager for Open Source at Seqera, with a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge. He previously worked at the National Genomics Infrastructure (SciLifeLab, Stockholm) and the Babraham Institute in Cambridge. Phil co-founded the nf-core community and authored MultiQC, RustQC, and SRA-Explorer, and is a passionate advocate for user-friendly open-source software.
Tingying Peng
Helmholtz Munich
Group leader at Helmholtz Munich and a TUM Junior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich. Her research develops artificial-intelligence methods for quantitative biological image analysis across modalities including cryo-electron tomography, light-sheet microscopy, and digital pathology. Her group builds open-source tools for the bioimaging community and collaborates closely with experimental labs to enable data-driven discovery.
Erwin Schoof
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he leads the Cell Diversity Lab. After an MSc from Utrecht University and a PhD from DTU, he carried out postdoctoral work on normal and malignant hematopoiesis as an EMBO Fellow with John Dick (Toronto) and a Lundbeck Fellow with Bo Porse (Copenhagen). His lab develops high-sensitivity single-cell and spatial proteomics to study how cellular heterogeneity drives cell fate and therapy response in cancer.
Muzlifah Haniffa
Wellcome Sanger Institute & University of Cambridge
Head of the Cellular Genomics Programme and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and Professor of Clinical Dermatology at the University of Cambridge. A clinician-scientist, she has pioneered the application of single-cell genomics to decode the developing human immune system and to understand cell and tissue dynamics in human skin in health and disease. She is co-Vice Chair of the Human Cell Atlas consortium and coordinates its Development Bionetwork, and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and EMBO.
Contributed talks & posters
A large part of the program is built from the community. Selected contributed talks and posters are chosen from submitted abstracts — see the call for proposals for how to take part.