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.

Floris and Yi-An attended the EMBO Workshop on Telomere function and maintenance in health and disease (May 25–30, 2026) in Lazise, Italy. Floris’s abstract was selected for an oral presentation, and Yi-An gave a lightning talk.

Rhyker and Simon Puglisi presented at RECOMB-Seq 2026 (May 24–25, 2026) in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Four new manuscripts from the lab have been posted online:

• Chromosome-arm-specific telomere length governs dual modes of structural genome instability
• A complete human pancreatic cancer genome
• Telomere dysfunction in human astrocytes drives acrocentric chromosome instability
• KaryoScope: rapid, alignment-free sequence annotation for the pangenome era

Floris presented at the CSHL Biology of Genomes meeting (May 5–9, 2026) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

Floris gave an invited seminar at Yale University in New Haven, CT, hosted by Roel Verhaak.

Floris gave an invited talk at the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Data Science Laboratory Seminar in Bethesda, MD, hosted by Mikhail Kolmogorov.