Program

Wednesday 29 April 2026
09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:45 Opening
10:00 Keynote Speaker: Pascal Mayer
11:00 Session 1
S. Jaudou, Molecular-based cryptography (abstract)
T. de Greef, Molecular encryption for controllable random access in DNA data storage (abstract)
A. Malyshava, Combinatorial 4-way and 6-way Strand Displacement for Programmable Reversible Data Manipulation on DNA Origami (abstract)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Speaker: George Church
14:30 Session 2
C. Couvreur, Impact of Substitution Noise on Transform-Based Image Codecs for DNA Storage (abstract)
E. Dupraz, Optimizing the Number of Sequencing Reads in
Coding Schemes for DNA Data Storage (abstract)
S. Luikham, Nanopore Discrimination of Synthetic Digital Polymers for Molecular Data Storage (abstract)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Departure to Saint Malo
Thursday 30 April 2026
08:30 Session 3
B. Tegin, Robust Composite DNA Storage under Sampling Randomness, Substitution, and Insertion–Deletion Errors (abstract)
R. Tamir How Much Information Can Be Stored Using Very Short Molecules? (abstract)
R. Khabbaz, DNA-MGC+: A Codec for Reliable and Efficient DNA Data Storage (abstract)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Keynote: Robert Grass
11:30 Flash Poster Presentation (poster list)
12:30 Lunch + Poster session
14:00 Keynote Speaker: Bill Banyai
15:00 Session 4
P. Robineau, Towards appropriate environmental assessment of DNA technologies: from abstract comparisons to life-cycle approach (abstract)
J. Luettgau, Toward a Framework for Design Exploration of Low-Cost Parallel Microfluidics Circuits and Algorithms for DNA-based Data Storage Architectures (abstract)
16:00 End of the workshop