The 2026 Workshop on Genomics comes to an end! It has been two intense and inspiring weeks of Genomics in Český Krumlov. We hope everyone is going back home with a renewed excitement for science and new friends and collaborations around the world! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

Our closing lecture given by Nathan Clark, on Evolutionary Adaptation and Comparative Genomics 🌳🧬🙌🏽 #evomics2026

Last computer lab session of the workshop we are back in the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social)!! 🙌🏽💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) introducing the field of Phylogenomics to our participants 🙌🏽🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Maliheh Mehrshad (@mehrshmali.bsky.social) on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics! 🧪🧬🦠 #evomics2026

We ended the day on Wednesday with a computer lab session on gene expression analyses with Rachel Steward 💻📊 #evomics2026

Practical session in the House of Prelate on Comparative Genomics, led by Nathan Clark 🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

Morning lecture on Single Cell Transcriptomics by Arnau Sebé-Pedrós (@arnausebe.bsky.social) in the Town Theatre of Český Krumlov! 🧫🧬💻 #evomics2026

Surprisingly, a local town cat decided that they wanted to learn some pop gen too!! 😸

Evening practical session with Madeline Chase on Population Genomics 🐦🐦🧬💻 #evomics2026

This afternoon, we have Claire Mérot (@clairemerot.bsky.social) teaching structural variants with a computer lab, in the House of Prelate 🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Brian Haas (@brianjhaas.bsky.social) introducing transcriptomics to our participants today 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

On the other side, we have the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social) 🤩🧬💻 A tutorial that anyone can try at home! 🙆🏻‍♀️ Link: share.google/Tkfu8Ji6WaCJ... #evomics2026

For today's evening we have two parallel sessions! 🙆🏻‍♀️ On one side we have Introduction to R, with Miloš Duchoslav (@milosduchoslav.bsky.social) 💻📊 #evomics2026

We continue with an afternoon session on Using LLMs in Bioinformatics, by Scott Handley! What are LLMs? How can we use them to our advantage? But what things should we be aware of? He covers it all! 🤖💻🧬 #evomics2026

After one day of well-needed rest, we start the second week of the 2026 Workshop on Genomics with Evan Eichler, with a lecture on structural variants in the Town Theatre 🧬👤💻 #evomics2026

On Saturday afternoon we had a session led by Dag Ahrén (@dagahren.bsky.social) on Best Practices in Bioinformatics 💻📑 #evomics2026

This Saturday morning we have Chris Wheat (@chriswheat.bsky.social) on stage, with Lies, damn lies... and genomics! 📊📉⁉️ Can we trust the results we are generating? Always good to doubt yourself and be aware of your biases and possible errors 🧐

From theory to practice, we move on to the lab on Genome Annotation with Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 👩🏻‍💻🙌🏽 #evomics2026

We continue the day in the Town Theatre with Genome Annotation, a lecture by Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 🙌🏽🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Olga Vinnere Pettersson giving a lecture on everything one has to take into account when planning a sequencing project 🧪🧬🗒📦 #evomics2026

We finish the day with another practical session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Variant Calling 🧬💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Camilla Santos takes over after the genome assembly sessions, to cover Genome Assembly Curation, the session includes a live demo on how to manually curate a genome assembly 🧬💻🖱lots of cool Hi-C map plots! 📉 #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Marcela Uliano-Silva (@marcelauliano.bsky.social) on Wonders of Genome Assembly! How does a de novo genome sequencing project looks like? What are the steps to follow to get the best genome assembly possible? She covers it all! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬💻 #evomics2026

We ended the day with a practical on genome assembly, with @camillemrcht.bsky.social and @npmalfoy.bsky.social in which participants can try different assemblers with different types of sequencing data! 🧬💻👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

Exercise time! 🤩 Participants generating their own de Bruijn graph! 📝👩🏻‍💻

A classic of the Workshop on Genomics, the Genome Assembly lecture by Camille Marchet (@camillemrcht.bsky.social) and Antoine Limasset (@npmalfoy.bsky.social), teaching us about overlapping sequences and genome assembly graphs 🧬💻 #evomics2026

We had an informal lunch session to discuss Alternative Career Paths to Academia! Very popular, with 45 participants joining 🙆🏻‍♀️ always good to have a plan B 😅 and understand your options! 🤗 #evomics2026

Sequence alignment lecture at the Town Theatre this morning! 🧬💻💎 #evomics2026

We end day 2 with an evening session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Essential File Types in Genomics. Very important to understand the format and structure of the files we will analyse! 🙌🏽💻👀 #evomics2026