The 2025 Workshop on Genomics is being held 5-18th of January, 2025 in Český Krumlov, Czechia. This is the 14th time the Workshop on Genomics will be held in Czechia.

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Competitions
  • As a tradition we have a T-shirt design competition! Best T-shirt design will feature on the Workshop on Genomics 2024 T-shirts! Submit your design by Friday 10th at the latest! (For inspiration, check out previous designs here!)
  • BINGO!
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Schedule

Week 1 : 5-12 January, 2025

Date Day Time Presenter Topic LOCATION
5th Jan Sunday 18 – 22 Everyone Reception Dinner Hotel Zlaty Andel
6th Jan Monday 09 – 12 Josie Paris Daniel Kintzl Introduction and Orientation Town Services Town Theatre
Monday 14 – 17 Mike Zody Sequencing Technologies Town Theatre
Monday 19.30 – 22 Everyone Dreams, Fantasy Dreams, and Genomics Krumlov Mill (map)
7th Jan Tuesday 09 – 12 Guy Leonard Mercè Montoliu Nerín AMIs, the Cloud, and Computing Introduction to UNIX (Presentation) House of Prelate
Tuesday 14 – 17 Mike Zody Essential File Types in Bioinformatics House of Prelate
Tuesday 19 – 22 Mercè Montoliu Nerín Introduction to UNIX (Presentation) House of Prelate
8th Jan Wednesday 09 – 12 Rayan Chikhi  Alignment Town Theatre
Wednesday 14 – 17 Katharina Hoff Genome Annotation: Theory and Principles Town Theatre
Wednesday 19 – 22 Katharina Hoff Genome Annotation practical House of Prelate
9th Jan Thursday 09 – 12 Camille Marchet & Antoine Limasset Genome Assembly: Theory and Principles Town Theatre
Thursday 14 – 17 Camille Marchet & Antoine Limasset Genome Assembly practical House of Prelate
Thursday 19 – 22 Fritz Sedlazeck Structural Variant Calling (Lab) House of Prelate
10th Jan Friday 09 – 12 Olga Vinnere Pettersson Experimental Design in Genomics Town Theatre
Friday 14 – 17 Erik Garrison Variant Calling (Lab) House of Prelate
Friday 19 – 22 Workshop Team Introduction to R (Lab) House of Prelate
11th Jan Saturday 09 – 12 Chris Wheat Lies, Damn Lies, and Genomics (Part 2) Town Theatre
Saturday 14 – 17 Guy Leonard Genomics Adventure House of Prelate
Saturday 19 – late! Everyone Town Tour @ 19.00 Mid-Workshop dinner @ 20.00 Town Square Krumlov Mill (map)
12th Jan Sunday All Day Everyone Free Day Up to you!

Week 2 : 13-18 January, 2025

Date Day Time WHO Topic LOCATION
13th Jan Monday 09 – 12 Evan Eichler Genome Structural Variation Town Theatre
Monday 14 – 17 Erik Garrison Pangenomics (Lab) House of Prelate
Monday 19 – 22 Vincenza Colonna Population Genomics (Lab) House of Prelate
14th Jan Tuesday 09 – 12 Brian Haas Transcriptomics Town Theatre
Tuesday 14 – 17 Rachel Steward RNAseq and Gene Expression (Lab) House of Prelate
Tuesday 19 – 22 Guy Leonard Genomics Adventure / Open Lab House of Prelate
15th Jan Wednesday 09 – 12 Sonya Dyhrman Genomics in the Ocean Town Theatre
Wednesday 14 – 17 Francesco Cicconardi Comparative Genomics (Lab) House of Prelate
Wednesday 19 – 22 David Barnett Microbiome / eDNA Analysis (Lab Part 1   |   Lab Part 2 ) House of Prelate
16th Jan Thursday 09 – 12 Marcela Uliano-Silva Wonders of Genome Assembly! Town Theatre
Thursday 14 – 17 Valentina Peona Transposable Elements (Lab) House of Prelate
Thursday 19 – 22 Dag Ahrén Best Practices in Handling Genomic Data (Lab Git | Lab Conda) House of Prelate
17th Jan Friday 09 – 12 Rayan Chikhi BIG DATA Town Theatre
Friday 14 – 17 Everyone Round Table Discussions, T-shirts, and certificates House of Prelate
Friday 19 – 22 Everyone End of Workshop Party You decide!
18th Jan Saturday All Day Everyone Departure

Workshop Information

Our philosophy is to train participants in the most relevant topics in genomics, in a vibrant, immersive and inclusive environment. The Workshop on Genomics was developed in response to the increasing demand for training on how to effectively analyse and manage data generated by modern sequencing technologies. The Workshop curriculum includes extensive coverage of fundamental techniques required of all studies utilising modern sequencing data. While the Workshop on Genomics topics may change from year-to-year, efforts are made to devote time to techniques being used widely in the field (e.g. genomics study design, genome assembly, genome annotation, alignment, variant calling). Join our Newsletter (bottom of this page) to get announcements, or stay updated through Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, and Facebook. The Workshop registration fee is $1,950. We provide approximately 90 hours of teaching during the two week workshop. Our price is therefore approximately $22 an hour. Note that this amount does not cover travel, lodging or boarding. Many important details regarding fees and other information can be read on our FAQ page. The Workshop on Genomics 2025 is organised by: Josephine Paris, Workshop Director, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy Rayan Chikhi, Course Engineer, Institut Pasteur, France Joan Ferrer Obiol, Faculty Liaison, Colorado State University, US Guy Leonard, Lead Developer, University of Oxford, UK Mercè Montoliu Nerín, Equality, Diversity, and Outreach, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, UPM, Spain Miloš Duchoslav, Content support and local operations liaison, Charles University in Prague, Czechia Daniel Kintzl, Český Krumlov Coordinator Scott Handley, Evomics Director, Washington University, US We also count on a group of talented teaching assistants (TAs) to help with the organization and preparation of the computer practicals.   Assisted by the Scientific Advisory Board: Dag Ahrén, Lund University, Sweden Bill Cresko, University of Oregon, US Sonya Dyhrman, Columbia University, US Rosa Fernández, Institute of Evolutionary Biology CSIC-UPF, Spain Sophie Shaw, All Wales Medical Genomics Service, UK Alexander Suh, University of Bonn, Germany Emiliano Trucchi, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy Chris Wheat, Stockholm University, Sweden