• Monday 24 June

    • Arrival & registration

      08:30 - 09:30
    • Tutorials and workshops

      09:30 - 16:30

      The tutorials and workshops take place at the congress center in Biel and the Courtyard hotel. 

      Check out the full list.

    • *Special session* Career horizons: navigating diverse paths

      13:30 - 17:00

      This session for SIB PhDs and postdocs aims at showcasing various career paths in bioinformatics. Each career path presentation lasts approx. 15 minute, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

    • Council of Group Leaders

      16:00 - 18:00

      Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

  • Tuesday 25 June

    • Arrival & registration

      08:30 - 09:30

      Croissants & coffee

    • Welcome speech

      09:30 - 09:45

      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès

    • Keynote lecture #1

      09:45 - 10:45

      Room: Kongresssaal / Salle des congrès

    • Meet your peers - Interactive discussion sessions

      10:50 - 11:50

      More infos and how to submit a topic: here

    • Lunch break

      12:00 - 13:00
    • Parallel session 1

      13:00 - 14:00
      • Navigating the rapidly expanding space of Genes and Genomes

        Session chairs: Maria Anisimova and David Francisco
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD

        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Structural bioinformatics: innovative tools to address bio-macromolecular structure and dynamics

        Session chairs: Andrea Cavalli & Joana Pereira
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

    • Reserved time slot (details to be announced)

      14:00 - 15:00
    • Poster session 1 - with coffee

      15:00 - 16:15
    • Parallel session 2

      16:15 - 17:15
    • SIB days summer party

      18:30 - 01:00
  • Wednesday 26 June

    • Lottery prize draw

      09:15 - 09:30
    • Parallel session 3

      09:30 - 10:30
      • Unraveling ecosystem complexity with bioinformatics

        Session chairs: Germán Bonilla-Rosso & Catalina Chaparro Pedraza
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés 

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Personalised health and disease, from molecules to systems

        Session chairs: Janna Hastings and Patrick Pedrioli
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD


        Poster pitches

        TBD

    • Coffee break

      10:30 - 11:00
    • Parallel session 4

      11:00 - 12:00
      • Mathematical and computational approaches to solve biological problems

        Session chairs: Mark Ibberson & Sandra Mitrović
        Room: Konzertsaal / Salle des congrès

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD

        Poster pitches

        TBD

      • Proteins and proteomes, from data to knowledge

        Session chairs: Frédérique Lisacek and Witold Wolski
        Room: Vereinssaal / Salle des sociétés

        Session description

        Oral presentations

        TBD

        Poster pitches

        TBD

    • Lunch break

      12:00 - 13:15
    • Reserved time slot (details to be announced)

      13:15 - 14:15
    • Poster session 2 - with Beers & Bretzels

      14:15 - 15:30
    • Keynote lecture #2

      15:30 - 16:20
    • Poster & lottery prizes and closing remarks

      16:20 - 16:35