👩‍🔬🎤 LongTREC on Tour:

From 29 June to 1 July 2026, the Botanical Garden of Valencia hosted VALT 2026, the Valencia Long-Reads Transcriptomics Symposium. All twelve LongTREC Doctoral Candidates took the stage with an oral presentation. They shared how long-read transcriptomics is helping them study isoforms, chromatin, single cells and tissues, plants, plankton and disease.

Monday, 29 June

• Tianyuan Liu (I2SysBio-CSIC): SQANTI-Epi: Linking Chromatin State to Isoform Regulation via Integrated Fiber-seq and Long-read RNA-seq
• Pablo Angulo Lara (IIT): Long-read sequencing uncovers transcriptional allele-specific dosage compensation in aneuploidy
• Mahmud Sami Aydin (Stockholm University): De novo transcript construction and isoform clustering from gene clusters
• Juan Francisco Cervilla (Earlham Institute): Evaluation of gene fusion expression of B-ALL samples at single cell resolution
• Eamon McAndrew (IPMC-CNRS): Long-read single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to explore the diversity of isoform expression

Tuesday, 30 June

• Yalan Bi (MPI for Molecular Genetics): Interactome predictions from long-read transcriptome sequencing (LRTS) data
• Fabian Jetzinger (BioBam): To join or not to join: handling biological replicates in lrRNA-seq data
• Fabio Zanarello (CRG): Transferring gene models across species to annotate lncRNA loci
• Nadja Nolte (NIB): Using long-read RNA-seq for studying heat stress response in polyploid potato
• Carmen Lafuente Sanz (CEA – Genoscope): Revealing the hidden genetic diversity of marine plankton

Wednesday, 1 July

• Leda Katopodi (CRG): Charting the tRNAome in health and disease
• Satrio Wibowo (University of Nottingham / Oxford Nanopore): Improving Adaptive Sampling for Transcriptomics

Together, these talks showcased the breadth of the LongTREC training network, from new computational tools and quality-control frameworks to applications in human health, plants and the environment.

Learn more here: https://longtrec.eu/valt/