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WYMM Summit: MEAI 2025
13 - 14 October 2025 EAT
Nairobi, Kenya

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

Day One: WYMM Summit: MEAI
Day Two: WYMM Summit: MEAI

9:00 am - 4:45 pm EAT

Agenda (subject to change)

Speaker

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

To follow

Shahida Moosa, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm​

Networking Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm ​

Infectious disease talk

Vineet K Sharma, IISER 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

picture of Chinchu Jayaprakash

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...

picture of Shahida Moosa

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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