Events

Mark your calendars for 03-05 November 2026 in Heidelberg! GHGA spokespersons, team members, and our Scientific Advisory Board will come together to celebrate achievements, share updates, and plan future work.

Organised by de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE, the BioHackathon Germany brings together life scientists, bioinformaticians, and data stewards for an intensive week of collaborative hacking - covering FAIR, identifiers, metadata standards, ontologies and metadata catalogues.

The upcoming conference on "Functional Epigenomics", organised by GHGA member Jörn Walter, features an outstanding line-up of speakers, including GHGA members Oliver Stegle, Joachim Schultze and Philip Rosenstiel. Registration is now open!

This Data Protection Course is designed for anyone who works with personal data in the biomedical field, including healthcare professionals, researchers, administrators, and data stewards.

Learn how metagenomics and metatranscriptomics have revolutionized our understanding of microbial communities, by allowing us to studying them without culturing individual organisms.

Lorenz Grigull from the Center for Rare Diseases at the Bonn University Hospital talked about "The Path to Diagnosis, Misdiagnoses, and Pattern Recognition in Medicine" at the GHGA lecture series. Watch it now!

Alexander Sczyrba from the University Bielefeld talked about „"The de.NBI Cloud - Computing for Life Sciences". Watch it now!

Michael Baudis from the University of Zurich talked about "Federated genomic discoveries: Deploying the GA4GH Beacon protocol". Watch it now!