events

Upcoming (and past) events with content related to the European Galaxy community. For events prior to this year, see the events archive.

If you know of any event that should be added to this page and/or to the Galaxy Event Calendar, please add it to the GitHub repository or submit it through this form.

Upcoming Events

Date Topic/Event Venue/Location Contact
14 Apr 2026 NGS Symposium 2026

An interdisciplinary meeting that brings together the community of researchers working with next-generation sequencing technologies and adjacent methods across different fields. Scientists at all stages of their careers are welcome. Galaxy will be presented on day 3.

EU DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
16 Apr 2026 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
4 May 2026 European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2026

A Data Terra session to the European Geoscience Union

NA Vienna Training offered by GTN Member Marie Josse: marie.josse@ifremer.fr
5 May 2026 Biology of Genomes 2026

Biology of Genomes 2026 brings together researchers worldwide to discuss DNA sequence variation, population and comparative genomics, complex traits, functional genomics, and emerging genomic technologies.

NA Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
8 May 2026 Enter the Galaxy: How to leverage the open source platform Galaxy for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Online
18 May 2026 Galaxy Training Academy 2026

The Galaxy Training Academy is a self-paced online training event for beginners and advanced learners who want to improve their data analysis skills in Galaxy and/or in popular fields in bioinformatics. Over the course of one week, we offer a diverse selection of learning tracks for you.

GL Online Training offered by GTN Member Delphine Lariviere, Teresa Müller, Scott Cain, Natalie Whitaker-Allen, Saskia Hiltemann, Diana Chiang Jurado, Armin Dadras
15 Jun 2026 Data science for life scientists - hands-on machine learning for biological data

Hands-on machine learning for biological data using Python in this 5-day course at EMBL-EBI, UK

EU European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom EMBL-EBI Training (courses@ebi.ac.uk)
22 Jun 2026 2026 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2026)

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

EU Clermont-Ferrand, France Training offered by GTN Member Organizing Committee
12 Jul 2026 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2026

Join ISMB 2026 in Washington, DC, and celebrate over 30 years of advancing computational biology!

NA Washington, DC, USA
11 Oct 2026 ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial NGS and Bioinformatic Pipelines

Join the ASM NGS conference to explore the latest in microbial genomics and bioinformatics.

NA Washington, DC, USA
12 Oct 2026 Galaxy Beyond Basics: Mastering Workflows, Automation, and Scalability

Join us for an **intensive, week-long, in-person training** designed to elevate your Galaxy expertise to new heights

EU Paris, France Training offered by GTN Member Anthony Bretaudeau, Bérénice Batut, Gildas Le Corguillé, Solenne Correard, Marie Josse, Laura Leroi, Loraine Guéguen, Clea Siguret, Romane LIBOUBAN, Fabien Mareuil
4 Nov 2026 Biological Data Science 2026

Biological Data Science 2026 convenes computational biologists, data scientists, and experimentalists to explore cutting-edge infrastructure, software, and algorithms for analyzing large biological datasets.

NA Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA

Recent Events (past 12 months)

Date Topic/Event Venue/Location Contact
26 Mar 2026 DOMPS SYMPOSIUM 2026

The use of AI in biological research

Europe Freiburg Training offered by GTN Member Anup Kumar: kumara@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
19 Mar 2026 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
9 Mar 2026 Workshop on high-throughput sequencing data analysis with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy

EU Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Training offered by GTN Member Daniela Schneider
5 Mar 2026 Galaxy Metagenome Training Course 2026

Join us online in the 2026 Metagenome Training Course

GL Online Paul Zierep
3 Mar 2026 Practical Variant Effect Prediction with Deep Mutational Scanning Data

A webinar in the de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE and GHGA knowledge series

EU Online, Global
19 Feb 2026 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
9 Feb 2026 LOVE DATA week with intro to Galaxy & GTN

Celebrate international LOVE DATA week with a series of free online and in person events focused on RDM, including a session on Galaxy and the GTN.

GL Online Anika Erxleben, Saskia Hiltemann, Daniela Schneider, Pavankumar Videm, Diana Chiang Jurado
3 Feb 2026 Introducing Galaxy NUBRI Online
19 Jan 2026 Dutch Reproducibility Network Symposium 2026

Culture Shift: Embedding Reproducibility

EU Leiden, The Netherlands Training offered by GTN Member
15 Jan 2026 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
14 Jan 2026 Galaxy for analysis of human health data

A webinar in the de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE and GHGA knowledge series

EU Online, Global
13 Jan 2026 Introducing Galaxy Tools and Workflows for the University Library Freiburg University Library Freiburg
9 Jan 2026 Tools for Tomorrow: NIAID BRCs Webinar Series

A monthly webinar series from the NIAID BRCs showcasing tools, resources, and strategies that support infectious disease research.

Online Online
9 Jan 2026 PAG 33 Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Join PAG 33 to explore breakthroughs in plant and animal genomics and bioinformatics.

NA San Diego, CA, USA
18 Dec 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
12 Dec 2025 Tools for Tomorrow: NIAID BRCs Webinar Series

A monthly webinar series from the NIAID BRCs showcasing tools, resources, and strategies that support infectious disease research.

Online Online
12 Dec 2025 Tools for Tomorrow NIAID BRC Webinar

Using BRC-Analytics to analyze C. auris data

NA Online scott@galaxyproject.org
4 Dec 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
3 Dec 2025 Introduction to Galaxy, the Open-Source Platform for FAIR Data Analysis (in German)

Are you new to e-science? Do you want to learn ways to analyse your material with digital tools from your browser without any programming skills? Do you want to get an idea of research data management? Register for our introduction at the HeFDI Data School to find out more

GL Online Daniela Schneider
26 Nov 2025 How can I analyse my texts, media, and data in the humanities and social sciences?

You want to analyse your media, text or data digitally, but do not know how? You only have a laptop but no programming skills or money for expensive programs? Do you want to consider good research data management, but do not know how? Galaxy is here for you! This coffee lecture hosted by FDM Thüringen gives you a quick overview of how you can use the open source platform Galaxy (usegalaxy.eu) for your research

GL Online Daniela Schneider
25 Nov 2025 Galaxy Ecology training and collabroation fest

As colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica conservation from Belgium are coming to Concarneau marine station to work on Galaxy Ecology use in their projects, we propose to create an open event, where colleagues from CCAMLR / Antarctica conservation from UK, New Zealand and others are interested to participate remotely, so people wanted to learn how to use and contribute to Galaxy Ecology European Platform during these 3 days.

EU None, France Training offered by GTN Member Yvan Le Bras
24 Nov 2025 2025 Galaxy Admin Training

Learn how to set up your own production quality Galaxy server

EU Brno, Czechia, Europe Training offered by GTN Member Instructors
20 Nov 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
13 Nov 2025 ecoCompute conference 2025

ecoCompute - let’s make digital sustainable!

EU Berlin, Germany
13 Nov 2025 Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
5 Nov 2025 Genome Informatics

Join the CSHL Genome Informatics conference (#gi2025) on computational genomics.

NA Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
4 Nov 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
28 Oct 2025 Science Gateways 2025

Join Science Gateways 2025 to explore portal technologies accelerating scientific discovery.

NA Green Bay, WI, USA
16 Oct 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
14 Oct 2025 ASHG 2025 Annual Meeting

Join the ASHG Annual Meeting in Boston to explore advances in human genetics and genomics.

NA Boston, MA, USA
14 Oct 2025 A practical workshop for (foodborne) pathogen detection from (direct Nanopore) sequencing data using Galaxy

The purpose of this workshop is to gain knowledge on detect (foodborne) pathogens from (direct Nanopore) sequencing data using Galaxy

GL Online Training offered by GTN Member Anna Henger, Abdullah Kahraman
10 Oct 2025 Tools for Tomorrow NIAID BRC Webinar

First in a series of NIAID BRC webinars

NA Online scott@galaxyproject.org
7 Oct 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
6 Oct 2025 - 9 Oct 2025 FAIRyMAGs Hybrid Hackathon 2025: Optimising Metagenomics Assembled Genomes building 🚀

This 4-day hybrid hackathon aims to optimize Metagenomics Assembled Genomes Building workflows

EU Freiburg, Germany Paul Zierep, Bérénice Batut
1 Oct 2025 European Galaxy Days (EGD)

European Galaxy Days meeting in Autumn 2025

EU Freiburg, Germany contact@usegalaxy.eu
30 Sept 2025 Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) In-Person Conference

Join us at the VGP In-Person Conference 2025 to dive deep into the world of vertebrate genomes with top researchers and experts!

NA New York, NY, USA Lauren Shalmiyev (Lshanker01@rockefeller.edu)
24 Sept 2025 From data to discovery - Galaxy workshop at University of Graz

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy

GL Online Training offered by GTN Member Amirhossein Naghsh Nilchi
22 Sept 2025 From data to discovery - Galaxy workshop at University of Graz

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

EU University of Graz, Austria Training offered by GTN Member Amirhossein Nilchi, Pavan Videm, Sebastian Preissl
18 Sept 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
17 Sept 2025 Galaxy: The Open Source Platform as an entry point to Digital Humanities and Research Data Management

Are you new to digital history? Do you want to learn ways to analyse your sources with digital tools from your browser without any programming skills? Do you want to get an idea of research data management? Register for our course at the Historikertag 2025 in Bonn to find out more

GL Bonn, Germany Daniela Schneider
16 Sept 2025 The European Galaxy team at Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany 2025 (Online event)

Discover how the Galaxy Platform is making data analysis accessible to researchers from all backgrounds. Join a live demo and explore real-world use cases at our webinar during the Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025.

EU Online, Global Diana Chiang Jurado
9 Sept 2025 Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
4 Sept 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
3 Sept 2025 AnVIL Community Conference 2025

Connect with the AnVIL community this September in Nashville to explore cloud-powered genomics.

NA Nashville, TN, USA
26 Aug 2025 Galaxy @ CoRDI 2025

Do you want to learn how Galaxy can help you with your research and reproducible research data management? Join us at CoRDI!

EU Aachen, Germany Daniela Schneider
21 Aug 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
19 Aug 2025 2025 NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

Join the 2025 NCI ITCR Annual Meeting to explore cutting-edge cancer informatics tools and collaborations.

NA Rockville, MD, USA
5 Aug 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
17 Jul 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
10 Jul 2025 Upcoming Online Talk at Imperial College London: Discover Galaxy – From Analysis to FAIR Data Management

Learn how Galaxy supports research data analysis and FAIR data management in this online talk hosted by Imperial College London.

EU Armin Dadras
8 Jul 2025 The first Galaxy Tool Development Workshop in Freiburg, Germany

Learn to build and publish Galaxy tools in our first hands-on workshop in Freiburg.

EU Georges-Köhler-Allee 79, 79110 Freiburg im Breisgau (Seminar Room 079), Germany Time: 10:00 (CET) until 16:00 (CET) Armin Dadras
1 Jul 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
30 Jun 2025 From Data to Discovery: Metagenomics, RNA-Seq - NGS Bioinformatics with Galaxy

This course introduces scientists to the data analysis platform Galaxy

EU Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Training offered by GTN Member Daniela Schneider, Teresa Müller
23 Jun 2025 Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference

Get ready for the first-ever Galaxy and Bioconductor Community Conference (GBCC 2025)! Join us in New York for an unforgettable event packed with cutting-edge bioinformatics workshops, inspiring keynotes, and amazing networking opportunities.

NA Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA Organizing Committee
19 Jun 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
10 Jun 2025 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex NGS made easy

These series of webinars and tutorials aim at improving basic and applied knowledge associated with NGS technologies and their applications in the field of Tuberculosis.

GL Online Training offered by GTN Member Daniela Brites, Christoph Stritt, Andrea Cabibbe, Arash Ghodousi, Peter van Heusden, Liliana Rutaihwa, Andrea Spitaleri, Galo A. Goig
5 Jun 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
3 Jun 2025 Galaxy Community Board Meeting: 🪑GCB GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
26 May 2025 Bioinformatics Made Easy: A Hands-On Galaxy Workshop for Biologists

This workshop is designed for biologists and life scientists who want to analyse sequence data using the Galaxy – without needing programming expertise. Participants will learn how to perform key bioinformatics tasks

GL Online Sarah Büker
19 May 2025 Workshop - Introduction to Galaxy for Digital Humanities and Research Data Management

Join us for our workshop introducing Galaxy for Digital Humanities and Research Data Management in Freiburg

EU DH Lab, Freiburg, Germany Training offered by GTN Member Daniela Schneider
15 May 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
13 May 2025 Tools Platform and Single Cell Omics: ’Bring Your Workflow’ to WorkflowHub

Discover how to make your workflows FAIR, citable, and shareable at this hands-on ELIXIR event with WorkflowHub and Single Cell Omics experts.

EU Online (Zoom) - 10:30–12:00 BST Armin Dadras
12 May 2025 Galaxy Training Academy 2025

The Galaxy Training Academy is a self-paced online training event for beginners and advanced learners who want to improve their Galaxy data analysis skills. Over the course of one week, we offer a diverse selection of learning track for you.

Online Training offered by GTN Member academy@galaxyproject.org
8 May 2025 Galaxy Europe presents at the “Data Snacks” Series – Presentation by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam

Discover how Galaxy simplifies data analysis and management across scientific fields during the next Data Snacks session!

EU Time: 13:00 (CET), Online (Zoom) Armin Dadras
6 May 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon
27 Apr 2025 European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2025

A FAIR-EASE session to the European Geoscience Union

NA Vienna Training offered by GTN Member Marie Josse: marie.josse@ifremer.fr
22 Apr 2025 - 24 Apr 2025 Galaxy Imaging Hackathon 2025 Freiburg, Germany Beatriz Serrano-Solano, Diana Chiang Jurado
17 Apr 2025 Small Scale Galaxy Admins Meeting GL Online, Global Lucille Delisle, Hans-Rudolf Hotz
8 Apr 2025 Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community Meeting: 🖖🏾SPOC GL Online, Global Wendi Bacon