VIB Events

Upcoming Events

DateTopic/EventVenue/LocationContact
10 March 2025Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy. The course is a beginner course; there is no requirement of any programming skills.

University of Freiburg, GermanyTraining offered by GTN Member Daniela Schneider
27 April 2025European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025

A FAIR-EASE session to the European Geoscience Union

ViennaTraining offered by GTN Member Marie Josse: marie.josse@ifremer.fr

Recent Events

Events in the past 12 months:

DateTopic/EventVenue/LocationContact
21 November 2024microGalaxy Meets IWC - A Hackathon for microbial data analysis workflow FAIRification

One-day hackathon focused on integrating, refining, and FAIRifying microbial data analysis Galaxy workflows within the Intergalactic Workflow Commission (IWC), enhancing their accessibility, reusability for the microbiology community

Bérénice Batut, Paul Zierep
21 November 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
19 November 2024Galaxy Course Brazil!

Curitiba, Brazil Anton Nekrutenko
13 November 2024Biological Data Science

The scope of this meeting will be the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USATraining offered by GTN Member Kelley McGrath: mcgrath@cshl.edu
21 October 2024

EOSC Symposium 2024 invites all EOSC projects. It will take place under the patronage of the German Minister for Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger. The event is being organised by the EOSC Association, the EOSC-A German Mandated Organisation, NFDI, the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, an EOSC-A Member, and with the support of the Horizon Europe project EOSC Focus. The Galaxy Project will join as core pillar of the EU-funded EOSC EuroScienceGateway project.

For EuroScienceGateway: Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer (erxleben@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
8 October 2024Gateways 2024

Help bridge the connection between science and gateways, such as Galaxy.

Bozeman, MT, USA Enis Afgan
7 October 2024Galaxy Training Academy 2024

Are you ready to enhance your data analysis skills? The Galaxy Training Academy is a five-day global online event designed for beginners and those looking to enhance their Galaxy expertise.

Online, GlobalTraining offered by GTN Member Organizing Committee
4 October 2024BRC Analytics Webinar

Please join Anton Nekrutenko and the developer team for the first webinar with BRC Analytics!

Online Anton Nekrutenko
19 September 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
11 September 2024Webinar on data management with DataHub (Onedata)

At 14:00 CEST, join this Webinar if you are interested in the recent Galaxy & Onedata integration (remote data source and Object Store).

Online, Global lukasz.opiola@onedata.org
10 September 2024

Ready to explore the fascinating world of RNA-seq data analysis using Galaxy? Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity! Visit our event webpage now to discover the program details, meet the organising team, and submit your application.

Training offered by GTN Member Pavan Videm & Teresa Müller
10 September 2024sc-verse Conference 2024

Join us at the sc-verse Conference in Munich to explore the latest advancements in single-cell analysis with Galaxy. Discover the innovative features Galaxy offers in this cutting-edge field of single-cell research, and be sure to attend our poster session for an in-depth discussion and the opportunity to engage directly with our team.

Munich, Germany Saim Momin, Amirhossein Naghsh Nilchi & Pavan Videm
7 August 2024Get Started with Galaxy

Join us for a hands-on virtual workshop designed to introduce you to essential bioinformatics skills using Galaxy—perfect for beginners and those looking to refresh their knowledge.

Natalie Whitaker-Allen
22 July 2024Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy. The course is a beginner course; there is no requirement of any programming skills.

University of Freiburg, GermanyTraining offered by GTN Member Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer
19 July 2024Ask Us Anything about Galaxy live webinar

The European Galaxy Team offers a Q&A session for all users

online Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer
18 July 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
25 June 2024

Join us at BioNT, for a 2-day workshop designed to enhance your training skills and explore training and knowledge-exchange roles in bioinformatics. Dive into the theory of learning, the development of training materials and the techniques for assessing training needs. Gain insights into effective training delivery, consulting-like approaches, and teaching technical knowledge. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your training expertise! Registration deadline: 07.06.2024.

Teresa Müller
24 June 20242024 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2024)

The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.

Brno, Czech RepublicTraining offered by GTN Member Organizing Committee
18 June 2024FAIR data management in single-cell analysis

online ELIXIR UK
17 June 2024Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy. The course is a beginner course; there is no requirement of any programming skills.

University of Freiburg, GermanyTraining offered by GTN Member Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer
10 June 2024

The 10th ELIXIR All Hands meeting brings together members of the ELIXIR community from across the ELIXIR Nodes, and collaborators from partner organisations. Galaxy will be presented by different nodes.

fabio.liberante@elixir-europe.org, david.lloyd@elixir-europe.org
5 June 2024

Unlock the power of the Galaxy-VGP workflow in this hands-on webinar and transform your genome assemblies with cutting-edge Hi-C and long-read data techniques!

Delphine Larivière, Ibrahim Jivanjee
17 May 2024Making clinical datasets FAIR

online ELIXIR UK
16 May 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
14 May 2024

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary Meeting will focus on collaboration and engagement with their global community through the sharing of local experiences, best practices and recommendations. The European Galaxy project is invited to talk about Research Data Management in Galaxy and to give an overview of Galaxy features that serve different parts of the data life cycle.

the organizer: RDA Secretariat (secretariat@rda-foundation.org)
7 May 2024Biology of Genomes

The 2024 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics, complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USATraining offered by GTN Member Kelley McGrath: mcgrath@cshl.edu
15 April 2024Introduction to Galaxy and the European Galaxy Server - Talk

We present the Galaxy project and the European Galaxy Server with its features and applications for scientists

Time: 16:00 (s.t.), Location: University of Freiburg, Bibliothek der Biometrie im Herderbau, Tennenbacher Str. 46, Raum 03.060, 79104 Freiburg Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer
12 April 2024Galaxy for Oceanographic Insights

1H webinar on harnessing Galaxy for Oceanographic Insights with ODV and DIVAnd Interpolation

onlineTraining offered by GTN Member Marie Josse: marie.josse@ifremer.fr
11 April 2024

The Freiburg Team presents the European Galaxy Sever and the Galaxy Project

Björn Grüning
21 March 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
18 March 2024

Joint training event of de.NBI and RTG2355 about RNAseq Analysis

Training offered by GTN Member Anika Erxleben-Eggenhofer, Jochen Blom
11 March 2024Hackathon - Improving the annotation of Galaxy resources for microbial data analysis and beyond

This hackathon aims to improve the annotation of Galaxy resources for microbial data analysis and beyond

Bérénice Batut, Paul Zierep
6 March 2024Materials Galaxy Community Meeting

Online, Global Gregory Watson
5 March 2024

Join us at BioNT, for a 2-day online workshop. Everyone manages their data, but the question is, how well? In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to manage your data properly to make it reusable in the long term, to make your analyses reproducible, and to make your processes transparent. You will learn the basic concepts of research data management, including the FAIR Data Principles. You will also learn about relevant policies, draft a data management plan and learn about the use and benefits of electronic lab notebooks. By the end of this workshop, you will also be able to make your computational results trustworthy and reproducible. Registarion deadline is extended until the 25.02.2024.

Teresa Müller
4 March 2024Workshop on High-Throughput Data Analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy. The course is a beginner course; there is no requirement of any programming skills.

University of Freiburg, GermanyTraining offered by GTN Member Anika Erxleben
27 February 2024Computational Applications in Secondary Metabolite Discovery (CAiSMD): an online workshop - 2024

Galaxy is participating in the Computational Applications in Secondary Metabolite Discovery (CAiSMD) online workshop. Paul will give an oral presentation about the potential of Galaxy for novel secondary metabolite discovery, especially in the context of metagenomics research. There will also be a hands-on session demonstrating a simple use case.

Training offered by GTN Member Paul Zierep
26 February 2024Hackathon Image Analysis in Galaxy

This hackathon addresses the improvement of Galaxy for image analysis

University of Freiburg, Germany Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Yi Sun, Björn Grüning
8 February 2024

An overview of the Galaxy project and an intro to using Galaxy for data science. Not using biology data.

Online, Global Enis Afgan
7 February 2024Materials Galaxy Community Meeting

Online, Global Gregory Watson
6 February 2024

Join us at BioNT, for a 3-day workshop (comprising 1 half-day session and 2 full days) designed to introduce HPC to new audiences. The first day is dedicated to guiding participants through the basics of file systems and the Unix shell. This foundation is a prerequisite for the other days which introduces HPC resources, the cluster management tool Slurm, and how to run applications and workflows on such resources. Registarion deadline is extended until the 15.01.2024.

Teresa Müller
5 February 2024Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT)

The General Meeting is AGBT’s flagship event for bringing together global leaders, researchers, and innovators.

Orlando, FL, USATraining offered by GTN Member Leisa Zigman, President: leisaz@agbt.org
18 January 2024Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting

Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
12 January 2024International Plant and Animal Genome Conference

The scientific program at PAG includes informative speakers, technial presentations, poster sessions, and workshops are all excellent forums for the exchange of ideas and applications on recent developments.

San Diego, CA, USATraining offered by GTN Member Organizing Committee
21 December 2023

Topics in machine learning and complex systems supporting biomedical research.

Zagreb, Croatia Enis Afgan
11 December 2023

The 2nd BioHackaton Germany will take palce in Bielefeld and has 11 exciting projects.

23 November 2023Galaxy for Next Generation Sequencing at Inbix

Vellore, India Sona Charles, Kiran Telukunta, Prash
21 November 2023

A 4-day workshop to learn how to programm in Python3 for individuals who have limited or no prior programming experience. The initial 3 days are dedicated to introducing participants to fundamental concepts of Python programming. This foundation will empower participants to independently engage and gradually improve their computing skills. Close the workshop with a brief introduction of GitLab, with an exploration of Jupyter Book and guidance on hosting a website using GitLab.

Teresa Müller