Activities

Activities in StarOmics are divided in three basic categories:

Scientific knowledge (K): scientific seminar series, workshops for improvement of scientific knowledge, topic groups, national and international congresses.
Methodological improvement (M): workshops and courses on specific methods, scientific exchanges to learn new methods.
Acquisition and reinforcement of skills (S): courses/workshops for reinforcement of expertise (scientific writing, scientific presentation, developing a grant proposal,..).

Activities are primarily for PhD students belonging to StarOmics. If there are places available, master students, PhD students, postdocs and academics can attend for free but traveling/accommodation expenses cannot be reimbursed.

Cat.	Title	Location	Speakers	Dates	Places
K	Gene Regulation Workshop 2026	University of Lausanne, Génopode C	Tuğçe Aktaş Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Justin Crocker European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany Denes Hnisz Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany Darío Lupiáñez Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD), Seville, Spain Raffaella Santoro University of Zurich, Switzerland	1788732000 7 September 2026	0 / 120
M	Advanced Programming With R	UNIL, room TBC	Dr Frédéric Schütz, UNIL & SIB	1789423200 Fall 2026	0 / 24
M	Teaching and Learning Science	Geneva	Dr Kostas Kampourakis, UNIGE	1789682400 18 September, 25 September and 2 October	0 / 15
	First Steps with Python in Life Sciences	UNIBAS	Dr. Wandrille Duchemin, SIB Bâle Dr. Robin Engler, SIB Lausanne un assistant SIB de Bâle	1790546400 28 - 30 September 2026	5 / 10
K	Genomics and Society	Geneva	Dr Kostas Kampourakis, UNIGE	1795129200 20 November, 27 November and 04 December	0 / 15
K	Lausanne (Gen)Omics Days 2026	University of Lausanne, Génopode C	Confirmed Speakers Emma Hodcroft, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland Jumana AlHaj Abed, University of Freiburg, Germany Peter Meister, University of Bern, Switzerland Albert Tsai, CRBM, Montperlier, France Hugues Roest Crollius, ENS, Paris, France Gabriel Marais, University of Porto, Portugal Mike Ritchie, University of St Andrews, UK Francisca Martinez Real, CABD, Sevilla, Spain Tobias Jores, CEPLAS, Düsseldorf, Germany Idan Efroni, University of Jerusalem, Israel Sanne Klompe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Martin Polz, University of Vienna, Austria Christian von Mering, University of Zurich, Switzerland Jan Baumbach, Universität Hamburg, Germany Lara Urban, University of Zurich, Switzerland Craig Glastonbury, Human Technopole, Milan, Italia	1769986800 2-3 February 2026	22 / 150
	Flow Cytometry Workshop	UNIL, Campus Biopôle, Building SE-C (2nd floor), Room 02/006	Dr Jean-François Mayol, UNIL M. Romain Bedel, UNIL M. Francisco Sala de Oyanguren, UNIL M. Kevin Blackney, UNIL	1771887600 24 February 2026	1 / 12
M	Introduction to R	UNIGE, Sciences II, room 4-404	Dr José Manuel Nunes, UNIGE Dr Nicolas Hulo, UNIGE	1772665200 5-6 & 19-20 March 2026	4 / 20
	Introductory Biostatistics for Biologists	University of Lausanne, Amphipôle 338	Romain-Daniel Gosselin, Dr., DataBio	1772665200 5-6 March 2026	3 / 15
	Data Analysis and Graphing Using GraphPad Prism: An Introduction	University of Lausanne, Amphipôle 338	Dr Romain-Daniel Gosselin, CHUV	1773270000 12-13 March 2026	1 / 12
M	Data Visualization With R	University of Lausanne, Amphipôle 334	Dr Frédéric Schütz, UNIL & SIB	1774821600 30-31 March 2026	6 / 24
	Statistics and Machine Learning for Life Sciences	Streamed	Dr Wandrille Duchemin, SIB Dr Markus Müller, SIB Dr Thuong Van Du Tran, SIB	1774908000 31 March - 1 April 2026	2 / 6
M	AI for Article Writing: A Soft Toolbox	University of Lausanne, Amphipôle 338	Dr Romain-Daniel Gosselin, DataBio	1774994400 1-2 April 2026	5 / 20
	Introduction to Metagenomics Data Analysis of Microbial Communities	UNIFR	Dr Laurent Falquet, UNIFR M. Jeferyd Yepes-Garcia, UNIFR	1777845600 4-6 May 2026	2 / 10
M	NGS - Genome Variant Analysis (SIB)	University of Basel, room TBA	Dr. Wandrille Duchemin, Bioinformatics Trainer & Computational Biologist, sciCORE, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	1781128800 11-12 June 2026	4 / 14
	Machine Learning in Biology - Summer School	UNIBE	Dr. Stephan Peischl, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit (IBU), University of Bern Dr. David Miguel Ferreira Francisco, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit (IBU), University of Bern Dr. Aparna Pandey, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit (IBU), University of Bern Invited Speakers - Wednesday Symposium (17 June) M. Robin Zbinden, Environmental Computational Science and Earth Observation Laboratory (ECEO), EPFL Dr. Guillaume Witz, Microscopy Imaging Center (MIC) & Data Science Lab, University of Bern Dr. Marco Baity-Jesi, Machine Learning & Complex Systems Group, Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) M. Cyril Malbranke, Interschool Institute of Bioengineering (SV), EPFL	1781474400 15-18 June 2026	13 / 30
K	BEFRI OMICS+ & Career Day	UNIBE, Unitobler, Room F021	Martin Wegmann · University Library Bern Sabine Österle · SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Carlo Largiadèr · Biobank Bern Mark Gill · Translational Research Unit Guillaume Witz · Data Science Lab Heidi Tschanz-Lischer · Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit Selected PhD student presentations Alumni Talks	1781820000 19 June 2026	4 / 20
	AlphaFold for protein structure prediction (SIB)	University of Basel, room TBA	Diana Rapota, Computational structural Biology, SIB ; Rok Breznikar, Computational structural Biology, SIB ; Xavier Robin, Computational structural Biology, SIB ; Janani Durairaj, Dr., Computational structural Biology, SIB	1782165600 23-24 June 2026	2 / 8
K	Swiss Drosophila Meeting	UNIGE, Building Sciences II/III	Keynote speakers: Pr. Bertrand Mollereau, ENS Lyon Pr. Carolina Rezaval, University of Birmingham	1782684000 29 June 2026	8 / 20
	Best Practice in Programming	Zurich	Dr John Hennig, SIB, Dr Philipp Wissmann, SIB Dr Swen Vermeul, SIB Dr Uwe Schmitt, SIB	1782943200 2-3 July 2026	7 / 6
K	Single-Cell Omics Workshop - Single-Cell Omic Methods	UNIFR, Campus Pérolles, building 21	Prof. Loyal Goff, Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University, USA Prof. Arnau Sebe-Pedros, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain Prof. Fernando García-Moreno, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Spain Prof. Santiago Carmona, University of Geneva, Switzerland Prof. Silvia Domcke, University of Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Rémy Bruggmann, University of Bern, Switzerland	1783375200 7 July 2026	14 / 25