The Festival of Genomics, Biodata & AI workshops offer an interactive space to tackle your own challenges, gain fresh insights and learn from the experiences of others in the field.

Each hands-on session will enable you to take away practical knowledge you can apply immediately.

Workshop places are limited and registering your interest doesn't guarantee a place.

Please note: To be considered for a workshop place you MUST already have an approved place at The Festival.

Computational Biology Upskilling 

Wednesday June 3rd 2026
11:30 – 13:00 Workshop Room 50

 

Level up your bioinformatics toolkit and gain the practical skills to tackle modern data with confidence.

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Skill-Amplified AI for Biological Data: From Mindset to Debugging

Wednesday June 3rd 2026
11.30 - 13:00 Workshop Room 51

This interactive workshop teaches practical workflows for using agentic AI tools as a partner in biological data science, with a focus on building reliable habits and debugging when things break. 

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Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Transcriptomics Data

Thursday June 4th 2026
11:30 - 13:00 Workshop Room 50

Unlock the spatial dimension of gene expression and turn complex tissue data into powerful biological insights.

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Optimising your CV in the AI era

Wednesday June 3rd 2026
14.10 - 15:40 Room 50

This workshop helps life science professionals understand how AI scans, ranks and filters CVs and how to present their experience and skills in a way that is both machine-readable and scientifically credible.

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Beginning with Multi-Omics Data Integration

Wednesday June 3rd 2026
14.10 - 15:40 Workshop Room 51

Discover how to connect diverse omics layers and reveal the systems-level biology hidden within complex datasets.

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Building Single-Cell RNA-seq Atlases: Concepts and Best Practices

Thursday June 4th 2026
14:00 - 15:30 Room 50

This 90-minute workshop offers a clear and practical introduction to single-cell RNA-seq atlases, large-scale reference maps that aggregate/integrate data across multiple studies, iterative QC refinement, standardize metadata, and establish consistent definitions of cell types and states.

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Enhancing Variant Analysis and Interpretation

Thursday June 4th 2026
14:00 - 15:30 Room 51

This workshop will help develop and improve attendees’ skills and knowledge for interpreting genetic variants, including gene curation, variant curation and looking at cutting-edge databases. 

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