Academia Sinica at ASHG 2026

Oct 20–24, 2026 Montréal, Canada ~7.5k attendees Website

Academia Sinica brings 7 presentations from 3 research groups to ASHG 2026 in Montréal. Its program centres on population genetics, biobank resources and computational analysis. Taiwan Biobank brings long-read sequencing of 200 Taiwanese samples, Fann Lab examines air pollution and Alzheimer’s risk, and 陳弘昕老師研究室 prioritizes disease targets across East Asian and European populations.

Organization	ASHG 2026 Attendance
Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan	2 Staff Scientists · 1 PI · 1 Postdoc
Taiwan Biobanktwbiobank.org.tw Wet lab Builds a Taiwanese population biobank combining genotyping arrays, whole-genome sequencing, methylation and health data. Supports biomedical research on disease onset, progression and treatment. 14 platforms and techniques › Works with Chemagen Blood DNA isolation kit, TWB1 genotyping array, TWB2 genotyping array, Whole-genome sequencing (WGS), Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip, NXType NGS HLA typing Kit, Bruker IVDr nuclear magnetic resonance platform, Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Techniques genotype imputation, genome-wide associations, HLA imputation, variant annotation, DNA methylation profiling, genetic correlations Source: lab pages No funding stated · No openings posted	Poster Wed Oct 21 2:30 pm Part of Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Wednesday Session Establishing a robust quality control and imputation pipeline for harmonizing distinct genotyping arrays at biobank scale Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 8397W Collaborators: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica Large-scale biobanksStatistical geneticsGenetic epidemiologyGenome-wide association study Poster Wed Oct 21 2:30 pm Part of Evolutionary and Population Genetics Poster Wednesday Session Leveraging Long Read Sequencing to Resolve the Structural and Epigenetic Landscape of the Taiwanese Population: A Study of 200 Biobank Samples Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 7019W Exome/genome sequencingPopulation structureLarge-scale biobanks Poster Thu Oct 22 4:15 pm Part of Evolutionary and Population Genetics Poster Thursday Session Taiwan Biobank: A Population-Scale Genomic and Multi-Omics Resource for Human Genetics in Asian Populations Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 7033T Complex traitsDatabasesEpidemiologyLarge-scale biobanks
Fann Labibms.sinica.edu.tw/cathy-fann Dry lab~7 people Analyzes UK and Taiwan Biobanks, GWAS and multi-omics data with machine learning. Applies polygenic risk scores to migraine, Alzheimer’s disease and asthma. 19 papers since 2024 › The Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative provides a cohort for large-scale studies Nature, 2025 Population-specific polygenic risk scores for people of Han Chinese ancestry Nature, 2025 The Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative: A Cohort for Large-Scale Studies bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 2024 Source: OpenAlex author A5028466052 8 platforms and techniques › Techniques Genetic statistics, Genetic epidemiology, GWAS, Machine learning, Polygenic risk scores, Rare-variant analysis, AI clustering, Multi-omics integration Source: lab pages No funding stated · No openings posted	Poster Fri Oct 23 2:30 pm Part of Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders Poster Friday Session Genetic susceptibility and PM2.5 exposure jointly shape Alzheimer’s disease risk in Taiwanese cohorts Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 8253F Collaborators: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei Veterans General Hospital +2 more Alzheimer’s diseaseGene environment interactionPolygenic risk scoreGenome-wide association study
陳弘昕老師研究室ibms.sinica.edu.tw/hung-hsin-chen Dry lab Develops algorithms for longitudinal EHR, biobank, RNA-sequencing and multi-omic data. Uses them to study disease genes, phenotype trajectories and disease incidence. 56 papers since 2024 › The Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative provides a cohort for large-scale studies Nature, 2025 Population-specific polygenic risk scores for people of Han Chinese ancestry Nature, 2025 Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering Nature Genetics, 2025 Source: OpenAlex author A5084182903 7 platforms and techniques › Analyzes RNA-sequencing, Electronic health records (EHR) Techniques Shared segment approaches, Longitudinal analysis, Multi-omic profiling, Genetic epidemiology, Biobank analysis Source: lab pages Currently hiring › “Dr.陳弘昕(Chen,Hung-Hsin ) 誠徵: 博士後研究 1名研究助理 1名” Source: lab positions page No funding stated	Poster Thu Oct 22 4:15 pm Part of Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Thursday Session Ancestry-matched and cross-omics Mendelian randomization prioritizes transcriptomic and proteomic targets across East Asian and European disease phenomes Exhibit & Poster Hall · Board 8361T Collaborators: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Laureate Institute for Brain Research Expression quantitative trait lociLarge-scale biobanksMendelian randomizationPhenome-wide association
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