Upcoming events
If you missed a webinar or workshop, you can browse past events in our archive, view training materials on Zenodo, or watch recordings on our YouTube Channel.
MEETING: Microbiome analysis community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss microbiome analysis research
WEBINAR: Our Future Health: A world-leading platform for discovery, aetiological and translational research
Discover how Our Future Health is building the world’s largest prospective cohort study of 5 million participants to catalyse discovery and translational research.
MEETING: eDNA community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss eDNA research
MEETING: Metabolomics bioinformatics community
Join members of the metabolomics bioinformatics community who meet regularly to discuss bioinformatics methods and challenges in metabolomics.
MEETING: Bioinformatics Workflows community
Come together online with others who are creating, modifying and reusing workflows for bioinformatics.
WEBINAR: Australian Microbiome – enabling insights into environmental microbial ecosystems
Join Dr Andrew Bisset to explore how the Australian Microbiome initiative provides a uniquely comprehensive, national-scale dataset to track microbial communities and their responses to environmental change.
WEBINAR: Future of AI in Life Sciences
Australian BioCommons is mapping the future of AI in the life sciences. Join the webinar to hear the results of our national consultation and preview our new training program.
WORKSHOP: Unlocking nf-core: customising workflows for your research
A practical workshop to set you up with the foundational knowledge required to run and customise nf-core workflows in a reproducible manner.
MEETING: Single Cell and Spatial Omics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss single cell and spatial omics research
MEETING: Multiomics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss multiomics research in Australia
MEETING: Genomics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss genomics research in Australia
MEETING: Australian Structural Biology Computing Community
Join the quarterly meeting of the Australian Structural Biology Computing community.
nf-core hackathon: Australian Outpost
Join us in Sydney to participate in the international nf-core hackathon.
MEETING: Australasian Computational Proteomics
Join this informal and diverse group of Australian proteomics researchers and bioinformaticians online to talk about computational infrastructure and services - all welcome.
HACKATHON: AI for Science - Australia
This is an exciting opportunity for Australian life science projects to receive support to realise performance gains and speedups in their computation.
WEBINAR: The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills, roles and careers
Join Dr Simon Breeden to discuss the background, development and impact of the Technician Commitment, an internationally recognised initiative that is driving culture change for the technical community.
MEETING: ABLeS User Group
Join ABLeS program participants for updates and to hear how researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians are using the service
MEETING: Workflows Community Initiative - FAIR computational workflows
Join members of the Workflows Community Initiative working group on FAIR computational workflows at their fortnightly meeting.
WORKSHOP: Nextflow on HPC
Learn how to take your bioinformatics pipelines to the next level by scaling them on Australia’s national high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Integrating AI tools into Gen3
Director of CTDS, Robert Grossman, will share with the community the roadmap for AI in Gen3.
Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2025
The Australian Outpost will gather to work locally and check in regularly with our international colleagues at this year’s BioHackathon Europe.
WORKSHOP: Spatial omics
Learn how to analyse data from in situ spatial (e.g. CosMx, Xenium) experiments with Seurat in R to visualise gene expression within tissue samples.
MAGs Hackathon: Australian Outpost
The Australian Outpost will gather in Melbourne to work locally and check in regularly with our international colleagues at this year’s Optimising Metagenome Assembled Genomes building workflows hackathon.
WEBINAR: Getting started with spatial omics
Start navigating the evolving field of spatial omics and the numerous methods available and explore considerations for analysis of spatial omics data.
WORKSHOP: Machine learning in the life sciences
A hands-on introduction to machine learning: what it is, its advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional modelling approaches and the types of scenarios where it may be the right tool for the job.
WORKSHOP: Nextflow for the life sciences
Get started on the path to writing your own reproducible and scalable scientific workflows using Nextflow.
WEBINAR SERIES: Leveraging deep learning to design custom protein-binding proteins
Be inspired by case studies that show you how deep learning methods are speeding up the process of designing proteins with desirable biophysical properties.
CO-WORKING: Sharing your bioinformatics workflows to make them findable and citable
Get an introduction to workflow registries and support to register your workflows on WorkflowHub.
WEBINAR SERIES: AI in the life sciences: Exploring possibilities, inspiring change
Gain insights on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping life sciences and discover ways to integrate AI into your research.
Galaxy Training Academy 2025
This week-long, completely free, global online event will help you master the Galaxy platform for data analysis.
WEBINAR: No code, no problem - data analysis for biologists with Galaxy Australia
Learn why Galaxy is versatile platform for online analysis of biological data whether you are new to data analysis or are looking to take your workflows to the next level.
WORKSHOP: Retrieving nucleotide sequencing data from the European Nucleotide Archive
This workshop provides an introduction to the ENA data and metadata model and data retrieval tools, followed by an opportunity to practice retrieving a range of different data types from the ENA using a variety of tools and protocols.
MEETINGS: 'Roundtable' Community Discussions with the ENA
Join our online 'Roundtable' Community Discussions with members of the ENA team.
WORKSHOP SERIES: Submitting sequencing data and genome assemblies to the European Nucleotide Archive
This series of workshops will introduce the ENA data and metadata model followed by hands-on exercises on submitting data using example data sets. It’s designed with flexibility in mind - apply to attend the workshop(s) most relevant to you.
nf-core hackathon: Australian Outpost
Join us in Sydney to participate in the international nf-core hackathon.
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Join us in Sydney to participate in the international nf-core hackathon.
WEBINAR: Deciphering AI for the Life Sciences
Move beyond the AI hype and discover how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied in the Life Sciences
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Machine Learning in R - from data to knowledge
Gain a foundational understanding of standard machine learning processes and practice your newly acquired skills in this hands-on session with real-world datasets.