Conference attendees: please refer to the live programme that has been shared with you by email for the latest updates.

The Talks sessions will be held in the Auditorium and built from the abstracts received, except for two Invited talks by local researchers.

Day	Time	Location	Event
Tuesday October 21, 2025	20:00-23:00	Dolça Hermínia (Gothic quarter)	Welcome dinner (included in the registration)
Wednesday October 22, 2025	9:30-9:45	PRBB auditorium	Welcome remarks
	9:45-10:45	PRBB auditorium	Keynote Talk: Drs. Mafalda Dias and Jonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
	10:45-11:25	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 1 (Revisiting dogmas)
	11:25-12:00		Coffee break
	12:00-14:00	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 2 (Cardiovascular system, metabolism)
	14:00-15:30		Lunch, networking (self-organized)
	15:30-17:30	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 3 (Aging, computer vision)
	17:30-18:00		Coffee break
	18:00-20:00	Charles Darwin room	Workshop: Behavioural monitoring (experimental focus)
	20:00	Bar	Drinks for early career scientists (included in the registration)
Thursday October 23, 2025	9:30-10:30	PRBB auditorium	Keynote Talk: Prof. Juana Díez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
	10:30-11:25	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 4 (Rodent resources)
	11:25-11:30	PRBB auditorium	Overview of the posters
	11:30-12:00		Coffee break + posters
	12:00-14:00	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 5 (Behaviour, LMM)
	14:00-15:30	Charles Darwin room	Workshop: Career session for early career scientists (lunch provided)
	14:00-15:30		Lunch, networking (self-organized)
	15:30-16:00	PRBB auditorium	Conference business meeting
	16:00-17:40	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Session 6 (T2T genome assemblies, pangenomes)
	17:40-18:00		Coffee break + posters
	18:00-20:00	Charles Darwin room	Workshop: AI (methods & applications)
Friday October 24, 2025	9:30-11:30	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Sessions 7 (T2T genome assemblies, pangenomes, GN)
	11:30-12:00		Coffee break
	12:00-14:00	PRBB auditorium	Talks: Sessions 8 (Behaviour)
	14:00-15:30		Lunch, networking (self-organized)
	15:30	Charles Darwin room	Unconference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference)
	Dinner		Pizzas for Unconference workshop attendees

Keynote Speakers

Drs. Mafalda Dias & Jonathan Frazer
Probabilistic Machine Learning and Genomics team
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Title: Extending variant effect prediction to non-human species with Deep Learning

Prof. Juana Díez
Laboratory of Molecular Virology
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Title: The host tRNA epitranscriptome: a selective pressure driving viral convergent evolution.

Planned Workshops

• Next-Generation Behavioral Monitoring: Equipment & Analysis (experimental focus)

  Noah Ditto, The Jackson Laboratory
  Topic: Home cage video analysis using Envision™: continuous quantitative analysis of complex behaviors

  Stefano Gaburro, Tecniplast
  Topic: DVC rack solutions for continuous, passive monitoring of mouse behavior and health through integration of data from multiple sensor types

  Christian Jung, PhenoSys
  Topic: The ColonyRack: Expanding the possibilities of study designs on location preference, social hierarchy, and more with large, monitored, interconnected housing racks.

• AI-Accelerated Approaches for Understanding Complex Traits (experimental & bioinformatic focus)

  Robert W. Williams, UTHSC
  Claude is my friend: how to leverage GPT for biomedical research in model organisms.

  Hao Chen, UTHSC
  AI for Researchers in Autumn 2025: Literature Discovery, PDF Conversation, Knowledge Synthesis, and Hypothesis Generation and Evaluation.

  Pjotr Prins, UTHSC
  Preparing 20 thousand datasets and 2 million mouse and rat traitsi and QTL for AI mining.

  General discussion

• Career Workshop (targeted towards PhD students and postdocs)
• Unconference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference)