Science for everyone
Part of the same organisation as the Wellcome Sanger Institute, funded by Wellcome, and based on the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK, our programme is focussed on learning, training, and engagement with genomics.
Wellcome Connecting Science’s mission is to enable everyone to explore genomic science and its impact on research, health and society.
Events
Genomics Lite: Whose genome was sequenced first?
Join us for this YouTube live session, where we'll speak to staff from the Wellcome Sanger Institute about the Human Genome Project, what it was like working on this landmark initiative, how things have changed since its completion and whose genome was sequenced as part of the very first draft human genome!
1 August 2024
YouTube
Genomics Lite: What’s the biggest genome?
Join us for this live YouTube session, where we'll speak to staff from the Wellcome Sanger Institute about genome size. We'll discuss why some organisms have much larger genomes than humans, and what organism has the largest genome, as well as how you go about sequencing such large genomes!
8 August 2024
YouTube
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I am grateful to have had this unique opportunity to have my say on one of society’s most complex and significant issues.
Jury member, Citizens Jury project, 2022
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The team did a truly fantastic job, I was impressed by their energy and professionalism. Conference delegates said that this year's meeting would be impossible to beat!
Wellcome Connecting Science conference committee member, 2023
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Through participating in the Connecting Science Global Training programme, I have managed to forge important networks and collaborations that have proved critical to my own career progression.
Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams, Senior Research Fellow, University College London
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Grateful for conferences that use a hybrid format. Today I got to be at the Mutational Scanning Symposium where I just listened to an amazing keynote lecture.
Wellcome Connecting Science conference delegate, 2023