Tag Archives: conference
GigaScience at SPNHC 2022
Chris Armit - June 27, 2022
Write up of the meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC 2022) by Chris Armit.
GigaScience at VIZBI 2022
Chris Armit - April 7, 2022
Write-up of the The 12th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI) conference
The Women in Science Conference 2021: Challenges are simply a problem waiting for a solution
Scott Edmunds - November 4, 2021
The 7th Women in Science Conference took place in Qingdao, as a satellite meeting of ICG-16 again organized by our Publishing Director Laurie Goodman. Here is a write-up by our Junior Editor Hongfang Zhang.
Sequencing genomes across the planet at Biodiversity Genomics 2021
Chris Armit - October 7, 2021
Biodiversity Genomics 2021 was again virtual and brought together researchers across the world who are sequencing all of the corners of the tree of life. Here we have a write-up from Chris Armit.
GigaScience at VIZBI 2021
Chris Armit - April 14, 2021
GigaScience are huge fans of the VIZBI – Visualising Biological Data – conference and our Data Scientist Chris Armit details the major highlights of VIZBI 2021.
GigaScience at Cell Bio 2020 Virtual
Chris Armit - January 5, 2021
Chris Armit attended Cell Bio 2020 Virtual (the online ASCB|EMBO Meeting) and here provides a write-up of the excited Cell Biology on display in this conference.
Predicting the Outcome of COVID-19: GigaScience at the Human Cell Atlas COVID-19 Virtual Symposium
Chris Armit - October 23, 2020
The Human Cell Atlas organised a COVID-19 Virtual Symposium on the 1st and 9th October 2020 to highlight important research findings in host responses, pathophysiology, and immunology. Chris Armit from the GigaScience team attended this virtual conference and report below on some of the key investigations that are helping us to understand the mechanisms of COVID-19 disease.
Updates from sequencing the tree of life. Biodiversity Genomics 2020
Chris Armit - October 22, 2020
Biodiversity Genomics 2020 was a virtual event aiming to bring together researchers across the world to “sequence life for the future of life”, sequencing all of the corners of the tree of life.
Birthdays and Online Conferences go Viral. ISMB2020 & BCC2020 in the time of COVID-19
Chris Armit - July 27, 2020
Meetings In the Time of Coronavirus: Conferences go Viral June-July usually marks peak conference season when the GigaScience team is on the road, but with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down travel and public gatherings it has been a strangely static summer. As we launched at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Long […]
GigaScience at ASCB|EMBO 2019 Meeting, Washington DC
Chris Armit - December 19, 2019
The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC was the venue for this year’s ASCB|EMBO 2019 Meeting that took place on 7-11 December 2019. The American Society of Cell Biology conference, now merged with the EMBO meeting, is the largest yearly gathering for the cell imaging community, and GigaScience has attended in the past. […]