HPRC ASHG 2026 Presentations

HPRC members will be presenting their research at the 2026 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting. The table below highlights HPRC-related presentations, including presenters, presentation titles and additional details.

Presenter	Date	Presentation Type	Name of Presentation
Long Nguyen	Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM	Poster	A Graph-Aware Foundation Model for Human Pangenomes
Neda Gharani, Anthoni Pompetti and Laura Scheinfeldt	Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM	Poster	Happy 20th Anniversary to the NHGRI Sample Repository for Human Genetic Research
Margarita Geleta	Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM	Poster	Point Cloud Local Ancestry Inference: Continuous Coordinate-Based Ancestry Along the Genome Using Transformers
Karen Miga	Thursday, October 22, 9-9:15AM	Talk	The Human Pangenome Project: A New Foundation for Human Genomics
Xinxin (Cici) Bu	Thursday, October 22, 1:15-3:15PM	Poster	UCSD Pangenome Browser: A Web-Based Platform for Interactive Pangenome Visualization
Tiffany Tu	Thursday, October 22, 4:15-6:15PM	Poster	Fine-mapping HLA eQTL Causal Variants Using Donor-Specific Genome Assemblies with Paired Long-Read Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Sequencing
Brittany Leger	Friday, October 23 2:30-4:30PM	Poster	PanCT: A Framework for Quantifying Total and Population-Specific Genomic Diversity in the Human Pangenome
Peter Audano	Saturday, October 24, 9:45AM	Talk	PAV 3: Comprehensive Variant Discovery Across a Range of Variant Types and Sizes
Heather Lawson, Glenn Hickey, Nanibaa’ Garrison, Isabel Angres, Alex Ioanidis, and Andrew Stergachis	Saturday, October 24, 8:15-10:15AM	Workshop	The Human Pangenome Release 3: Data, Tools, Applications, and Ethics