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31 August 2026
Start Time End Time Room AD Room BC Room EF Room 4 Room 8
08:00 10:00 Arrival & registration
10:00 11:00 Opening ceremony
11:00 12:00 Distinguished keynotes - Jeremy Farrar
12:00 13:30 Lunch
12:00 13:30 Poster session 1 & exhibition
13:30 14:30 Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
From Signals to Risk: Scalable Genotyping and Genetic Inference.
Proteins and structural biology
Protein–Protein Interactions: Discovery, Stoichiometry & Affinity
Biodiversity, sustainability, envirobioinformatic
Advances in Gut Microbiota Analysis, linking microbiota to health
Forum public (French) Elixir
Session 1: Human Data and Tools
14:30 14:45 Room change
14:45 15:45 Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Diseases: from detection to drugs
Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
Sequence Data structures and search
Industry and innovation session Forum public (French) Biodiversity, sustainability, envirobioinformatic
Metagenomic Sequence Analysis (Cleanup, Inverton Detection, and Alignment Visualisation)
15:45 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 17:15 Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Single-Cell
Transcriptomics and gene regulation
Methods for spatial omics
Proteins and structural biology
Applied Structural Biology: Proteomics, Evolution & Interactions
Forum public (French) Elixir
Session 2: Plant Science and Systems Biology
17:15 18:30 Welcome reception
18:30 22:30 Speakers' dinner
 
1 September 2026
Start Time End Time Room AD Room BC Room EF Room 4 Room 8
08:45 09:00 In Memoriam
09:00 10:00 Distinguished keynotes - Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas
10:00 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 11:30 Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Agents & Spatial
Proteins and structural biology
Immune molecule design
Biodiversity, sustainability, envirobioinformatic
LLM and Agent Based Modelling (in Health and Protein-Protein Interactions)
Focus session: From data to discovery: expanding the frontiers of computational biology
11:30 11:45 Room change
11:45 12:45 Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
RNA regulation and chromatin context
Transcriptomics and gene regulation
RNA genomics:  from basic mechanism to medical application
Proteins and structural biology
Generative & Predictive Deep Learning for Protein & RNA
Elixir
Session 3: ELIXIR resources and training
12:45 14:00 Lunch and exhibition
14:00 15:00 Distinguished keynotes - Stephen Quake
15:00 15:15 Room change
15:15 16:15 Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
Cancer Biomarkers and Immune targets
Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Metabolism
Transcriptomics and gene regulation
Networks - from 3D interactons to protein-protein interactions
Focus session: International women in computational biology: stories & journeys
16:15 16:45 Coffee break
16:15 17:45 Poster session 2 & exhibition
17:45 18:15
18:15 23:59 Conference party
 
2 September 2026
Start Time End Time Room AD Room BC Room EF Room 4 Room 8
09:00 10:00 Transcriptomics and gene regulation
Transcription regulation:  from data to predictive models
Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Network-based approaches to Diseases
Proteins and structural biology
Biomolecular Dynamics, Conformational Sampling & Structural Variant Analysis
Elixir
Session 4: Strategic panel: Connecting data and compute for AI-driven health innovation
10:00 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 11:30 Systems biology, multi-omics integration, modeling
Advanced Modeling and Machine Learning
Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
Interpretable genomics and model trust
Biodiversity, sustainability, envirobioinformatic
Diving into Virus Host Prediction and Coral Microbiome Diversity
Entrepreneurs' stories session
11:30 13:00 Poster session 3 & exhibition
Career workshop
12:30 13:15 Lunch & exhibition
13:15 14:15 Transcriptomics and gene regulation
Single cell - cell types to trajectories
Genomics, epigenomics, and genome editing
Evolutionary graphs and Biosynthetic Inference
Proteins and structural biology
Structure-Based Drug Discovery & Binding Pocket Analysis
Focus session: Digital earth, living planet: biodiversity and climate in the age of big data
14:15 14:30 Room change
14:30 15:30 Distinguished keynotes - Aleksandra Walczak
15:30 16:00 Conference closing
16:30 18:00 SIB CGL Meeting (upon invitation only)
 

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