Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference Understanding Life: Using Large-scale Biodiversity Reference Genomes Conference dates: 27-29 October 2025 Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, UK and online Bursary and abstract deadline: 14 July Registration deadlines In person: 29 September Virtual: 20 October

Present your insights from studies into #eukaryotic genomes at our #Biodiversity25 conference! 📈

🗓️ 27-29 October 2025
Submit by 14 July 📩

We encourage submissions showcasing best practices for applying new methods and resources to analyse #biodiversity genomes at scale 🌳🧬

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6 Days until BGA24 starts! We have >4500 session signups and still counting!

TreeVal - Damon-Lee Pointon, Yumi Sims and Will Eagles
Verko - Sergey Koren
Annotation with Jose Perez-Silva

Poster showing off the JBrowse2, Smugeplot and EBP Informatics talks that will be at BGA24.

8 day count down!

Join us for some fantastic sessions on:

JBrowse - Colin Diesh

Smudgeplot - Kamil S. Jaron

EBP Informatics talks (1-4)- Xiaofeng Wei
- 1 - Data Management and Best Practise
- 2 & 3 - Genomic Informatics tools and databases
- 4 - Future Trends

Find out more at: thebgacademy.org

A heatmap describing where attendees for BGA24 are from.

15 days until BGA24 now and just look at the range of countries people are signing up from!

You can see more @ thebgacademy.org
And join the Discord @ t.co/xjG91ofi3Y

#bioinformatics #EBP #bga24

2 and a half weeks out from BGA24 and we are fully booked!

No worries though! We will have everything on Youtube and GitHub so you can follow along whenever you have time.

For more information head over to thebgacademy.org

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Less than 4 weeks to BGA24 we have 38 sessions, including Collaborative Annotation with Apollo3 (w/ Matt Berriman), Assembling VGP genomes in Galaxy (w/ Lariviere) and the Colora Assembly Pipeline (w/ Lia Obinu)

Sign up here:
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You can sign up here: thebgacademy.fillout.com/attendee_form

I was wrong last time, but it is now just under 5 weeks to BGA24 and we have 39 sessions signed up to give fantastic talks and live tutorials on processes and tools that underpin the EBP!
From sessions by DTOLs wet lab, assembly and curation teams to Local Contexts and Wise Ancestors, there's a lot!

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It's the 6-week countdown to The Biodiversity Genomics Academy 24, and we 30 fantastic and unique sessions!

You can join us at discord.gg/HBPytGx6sU to keep up to date with information and other attendees!

Session list: thebgacademy.org/BGA24/BGA24

#BGA24 #Bioinformatics #Biodiversity #Genomics