Tag Archives: conferences
Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) Comes Storming Back!
Chris Hunter - February 6, 2023
After 2 cancellations due to the pandemic, the Plant and Animal Genomes conference returned to its in-person format in January with its 30th edition. A number of the talks focused on the effects of climate change either on biodiversity or crop development. It seems only fitting then, that the weather provided a suitable demonstration with […]
Cell Biology in Washington DC: GigaScience at ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio 2022
Chris Armit - January 29, 2023
Write-up of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2022 Meeting
The Importance of Data Sharing in Neuroscience – GigaScience at INCF 2022
Chris Armit - September 27, 2022
The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility had its annual INCF 2022 Neuroinformatics Assembly and Chris Armit has a write up of the event.
Open Science Milestones and the return of in-person meetings at ISMB2022
Scott Edmunds - July 19, 2022
Write-up of GigaScience’s 10th birthday at ISMB2022 in Wisconsin, birthday series of papers, and it’s efforts to map to the UNESCO Open Science Recommendations
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.
Another Virtual Birthday: GigaScience at ISMB2021
Chris Armit - August 2, 2021
ISMB2021 was held online again so GigaScience had to celebrate their birthday with a video & virtual cake cutting, plus this writeup of the talks by 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.