Program

Day 1 – June 23 (Mon.)
Time
Grace Auditorium
Bush Auditorium
Bush Fireplace
Nicholls Biondi
Hawkins
3:00 – 5:00
Check-in & Registration
5:00 – 7:00
Dinner
7:00 – 8:00
Opening Ceremony
8:00 – 9:00
GBCC2025 LIVE!
Day 2 – June 24 (Tue.)
Time
Grace Auditorium
Bush Auditorium
Bush Fireplace
Nicholls Biondi
Hawkins
7:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00
Interactive Genomic Analytics with responsive notebooks, in-the-browser computation, and AI-assisted development
Sergei Pond
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Oral Session 1
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30
Exploring Galaxy Workflows
Marius van den Beek
Inference Challenges and Corrections for AI-Predicted Outcomes
Stephen Salerno
Galaxy Backend Architecture and Software Development
John Davis and Ahmed Awan
Deploying Autonomous Galaxy Workflows for Materials Laboratories
Greg Watson
Making Space Count - Strategies for Analysing Spatial Omics Data
Ellis Patrick
2:30 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 5:00
Oral Session 2B
Oral Session 2A
5:00 – 6:00
Networking with wine & cheese
6:00 - 7:00
Dinner
7:30 – 9:30
Posters 1
Day 3 – June 25 (Wed.)
Time
Grace Auditorium
Bush Auditorium
Bush Fireplace
Nicholls Biondi
Hawkins
7:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00
From classes to community - How Bioconductor has advanced my research
Charlotte Soneson
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:15
Lightning Talks
11:15 – 12:00
Birds of a Feather Sessions
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00
Oral Session 3
2:00 – 3:30
Streamlining Bioinformatics: Adding Bioconductor Tools in Galaxy
Daniel Blankenberg
Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor
Tuomas Borman
Immunopeptidogenomics Pipeline in Galaxy for MHC-Bound Neoantigens
Pratik Jagtap
AnVIL: Secure, scalable computing for controlled access data
Frederick Tan
Galaxy History Based Alignment Comparison in IGB
Ann Loraine
3:30 – 4:00
Break
4:00 – 5:00
Oral Session 4
5:00 – 6:00
Birds of a Feather Sessions
6:00 – 8:00
Banquet
8:00 – 11:00
DJ Party & Galaxy 20th Anniversary Celebration
Day 4 – June 26 (Thurs.)
Time
Grace Auditorium
Bush Auditorium
Bush Fireplace
Nicholls Biondi
Hawkins
7:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00
Conquest of Abundance: Genomics in a Time of Plenty
Jason Williams
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Oral Session 5
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch + Departure
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Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference 2025

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), New York
June 23-26, 2025

Interested in extending your stay? Join our CoFest on June 27-28!

Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference (GBCC) 2025 is the first-ever joint conference between the Galaxy and Bioconductor communities, uniting two leading platforms in computational science and open data analysis.

This unique event replaces the Bioconductor and Galaxy Community Conferences (BioC2025 and GCC2025), offering an exceptional opportunity for scientists, researchers, software developers, and educators to connect and collaborate across genomics, biomedical research, environmental science, cheminformatics, imaging, machine learning, and high-performance computing.

GBCC2025 features keynote talks, invited presentations, poster sessions, hands-on workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions, hosted at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, a world-renowned venue for innovation and collaboration.

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Keynote Speakers

Charlotte Soneson

Charlotte Soneson

Research Associate, Computational Biology Platform, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Charlotte Soneson is a distinguished computational biologist from Osby, Sweden. She earned her master’s degree in engineering physics and a PhD in mathematics from Lund University. Her professional journey includes roles as a bioinformatician and project manager at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Lausanne, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. Since October 2018, she has been a research associate at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, contributing significantly to the Computational Biology Platform. Charlotte has made notable contributions to the Bioconductor project, an open-source software initiative for bioinformatics, and was honored with the Bioconductor Award in 2021 for her outstanding involvement. In 2023, she received the Ruth Chiquet Prize for co-developing einprot, an open-source software package for the statistical analysis of quantitative proteomics data. https://csoneson.github.io/ and https://fosstodon.org/@csoneson.

Sergei Pond

Sergei Pond

Professor, Department of Biology, Temple University

Dr. Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Temple University, where he also serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Science and Technology. He is the Director of the Center for Viral Evolution and leads the Pond Laboratory, which focuses on developing statistical models and computational tools for analyzing large-scale sequence data, particularly from rapidly evolving pathogens. Dr. Pond’s research encompasses molecular epidemiology of HIV, dynamics of immune repertoires, pathogenesis and within-host evolution of HIV and SIV, and optimal utilization of next-generation sequencing data. He has an h-index of 81, with over 40,000 citations, reflecting his significant contributions to the field. In 2023, Dr. Pond was appointed as the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at Temple University. Additionally, he co-leads a hub of the NIH-funded Bioinformatics Resource Center, BRC-Analytics, established to advance bioinformatics research. http://lab.hyphy.org/#about.

Jason Williams

Jason Williams

Assistant Director for External Collaborations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

Jason Williams is the Assistant Director for Diversity and Research Readiness at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s DNA Learning Center (DNALC). In this role, he develops national biology education programs and leads education, outreach, and training for CyVerse, the U.S. national cyberinfrastructure for life sciences. In addition to his work at the DNALC, Jason is the founder of LifeSciTrainers.org, a global initiative promoting a community of practice among professionals who develop short-format training for life scientists. He also serves as an advisor to various cyberinfrastructure, bioinformatics, and education projects and initiatives in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Australia. https://www.cshl.edu/labdish/a-science-career-path-jason-williams/.

Our Generous Sponsors

We are deeply grateful to our sponsors whose generous support makes GBCC 2025 possible. Their commitment to open science underpins every keynote, workshop, and collaboration that drives advances in computational biology. Thanks to these partnerships, we can host world‑class speakers, provide hands‑on trainings, and foster a vibrant CoFest sprint. By investing in our community, our sponsors exemplify the spirit of innovation and shared discovery that defines GBCC. Thank you for fueling progress and empowering scientists around the globe.