The lab traveled to Melbourne, Florida for the FASEB Science Research Conference on the Consequences of Aneuploidy (September 28 – October 1, 2026), with a selected short talk and three posters:

• Short talk (Floris): Break-induced replication repositions ribosomal DNA and alpha-satellite arrays to chromosome ends in human ALT cancers
• Poster (Griffin): KaryoScope: alignment-free in silico cytogenetics detects clinically relevant structural variants in acute myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma
• Poster (Mimi): Telomere dysfunction in human astrocytes drives acrocentric chromosome instability and nucleolar reorganization
• Poster (Daniel): Alignment-free resolution of chromatin organization across repetitive DNA in telomerase- and ALT-positive cancer cells

Floris gave a seminar at the François Jacob Institute of Biology (CEA) in Fontenay-aux-Roses, hosted by Stéphane Marcand and joined by Zhou Xu of Sorbonne Université.

Floris gave an invited talk at the International Workshop on Chromosomal Instability in Segovia, Spain.

Floris gave a talk at the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Face-to-Face meeting at UC Santa Cruz.

Floris gave an invited talk at Cancer Center Amsterdam, hosted by Myron Best.

Floris presented at IGGSY 2026 — the International Genome Graph Symposium (July 5–9, 2026) at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland.

Floris gave an invited talk at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam, hosted by Mark de Gooijer.

Floris gave an invited talk in the Bioinformatics & Genome Biology Lecture Series at Sapienza University’s “Charles Darwin” Department of Biology and Biotechnology in Rome, Italy, hosted by Simona Giunta.