Finland’s largest free Bioinformatics Conference
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29th of May 2026 in Espoo.
The 20th Anniversary of the Bioinformatics days
Just as exactly 20 years ago, The Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CSC – IT Center for Science, Elixir, HIIT, HiLIFE and Switch Point Bio proudly join forces to organize the Bioinformatics day 2026. We are going to have 3 Keynote speakers, 7 talks selected from abstract, 3 poster session, countless networking opportunities and much more!
The event got fully booked in just three weeks after opening the registration! Sign up for the waiting list below:
About the Bioinformatics Day
Bioinformatics day is Finland’s largest free Bioinformatics conference – a yearly event that gathers all bioinformaticians around Finland for a day full of Science, Networking and fun.
In 2025, the Bioinformatics Day was organized for the first time as a collaboration of the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CompLifeSci. We had Tero Aittokallio and Liisa Holm as our keynote speaker, 7 talks selected from abstract, over 30 posters and over 200 registered participants.
In 2026 we are collaborating with CSC – IT Center for Science, HIIT, HiLIFE and Switch Point Bio, and we are expecting the Bioinformatics day to be at least equally spectacular as last year! The Bioinformatics day is free and open for everyone interested in bioinformatics, so sign up now for the wonderful day full of science, networking and fun!
Where: CSC – IT Center for Science: Keilaranta 14, 02150 Espoo
When: 29th of May 2026 from 10 am to 5 pm. And Networking event from 5 pm until late.
Keynote Speakers
Tommi Vatanen
Helsinki University
Tommi Vatanen is an associate professor of microbiology at the Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE), University of Helsinki. Dr. Vatanen’s work focuses on understanding the intricate relationships between the human microbiome and health. He received his PhD in computational biology from Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) and has since worked at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA, USA) and at the Liggins Institute of the University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand) as a senior scientist. His research group at the University of Helsinki develops and utilizes computational models, machine learning and bioinformatics to understand the dynamics of human microbial communities – predominantly the gut microbiomes – and their implications to human development, health and wellbeing
Himel Mallick
Cornell University, USA
Himel is a Principal Investigator and Tenure-track Faculty at Cornell University’s Department of Population Health Sciences and an Adjunct Faculty of Statistics and Data Science at Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His group at Cornell develops computational methods, software, and data products to generate and validate testable hypotheses that accelerate data-driven discovery. Much of his research has focused on reverse translational efforts aiming to integrate vastly different kinds of biological data by leveraging a combination of machine learning, systems biology, and omics data science techniques to enable target identification and biomarker discovery across a range of indications.
Päivi Onkamo
University of Turku
Päivi Onkamo is a professor of Evolutionary Genetics in University of Turku. She and her group are specialized on ancient human population genetics in Finland, studying how and why the gene pool has varied over centuries, and how that affects us now. Since 2006, she has led multidisciplinary multidisciplinary projects ranging from computer science to gene mapping and archeology. Currently she is co-PI in both the UTU profilation Profi7 consortium Human Diversity (https://sites.utu.fi/humandiversity/), and in a brand new Center of Excellence in Human Diversity through Contacts.
Program
Detailed Program
10.15–10.20: Opening words
10.20-11.20 Session 1
Keynote: Tommi Vatanen
Introducing ELIXIR Finland
Introducing Switch Point Bio
11.20–12.10: Coffee, Poster session 1
Session 2: 12.10-13.15
Keynote: Päivi Onkamo
Aaron Barron: Prospective multi-omic landscape of preadolescent anxiety
13.15-14.15 Lunch, Poster session 2
Session 3: 14.15-15.35
Keynote: Himel Mallick
Crina Samarghitean: From Medical Expert Systems to Medical Digital Twins in Rare Diseases
Oussama Batouche: Stability-Informed Multi-Institutional AI Classifier for Adverse Pathology Prediction in Radical Prostatectomy-Treated Prostate Cancer
15.35–16.20: Coffee, Poster session 2, Annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics
Session 4: 16.20-17.15
Zhesi Zhang: miREA: a network-based tool for microRNA-oriented enrichment analysis
Mohieddin JAFARI: SOORENA: Self-lOOp containing or autoREgulatory Nodes in biological network Analysis
Leonardo Almeida-Souza: A deep learning predictor of bindable protein surfaces to guide generative synthetic biology
17.15–17.35: Announcing the bioinformatics thesis competition winner and their presentation
17.35–17.45: Announcing the poster competition winner, Closing words
17.45-22.00 Evening networking event
- 3 keynote speakers
- 7 talks selected from abstracts
- 3 poster sessions with coffee
- Many possibilities for networking
- Almost 150 attendees
The Bioinformatics Day is open to the members of the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics!
The Bioinformatics Day is organized by the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics, CSC – IT Center for Science, HIIT, HiLIFE and Switch Point Bio
HIIT – Helsinki institute for information technology
HIIT is a strategic partnership between Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. We provide support for information and communications technology research through funding and other direct measures, such as funded positions.
- 100 professors, 150 postdocs, 200 PhD candidates
- Helsinki University and Aalto University
- Collaboration, funding, support
HiLIFE
An international institute where outstanding researchers across the University’s campuses solve today’s grand challenges in health and environment together..
- FIMM
- Institute of Biotechnology
- Neuroscience center
Switch Point Bio
Decoding the Immune Switchpoints of Health and Disease
- Turning Immune Biology Into Decision-Grade Evidence
- Identify immune-relevant drug targets
- Explain response variability and guide patient stratification
- Detect immune profiles across different stages of the disease
CSC – IT Center for Science and ELIXIR Finland
CSC builds digital solutions for data management, scientific computing, and education that help researchers, learners, and companies understand the world. We support society’s digitalization and, on our part, promote the green transition with our customers, owners, and partners.
ELIXIR Finland provides authenticaton and authorisation infrastructure (ELIXIR AAI), service to manage data access applications and access rights to sensitive datasets (AAI-REMS), analysis software for gene data (Chipster), cloud services (CSC Cloud) and training.
- Scientific computing
- Data management
- Digitalization of research and education
Past Bioinformatics Days
6th of June 2025 - Turku in Collaboration with CompLifeSci - Sponsored by BioCity
6th of June 2024 - Helsinki - University of Helsinki
25th of May 2023 - Tampere - University of Tampere. Sponsored by Modulight
2nd of June 2022 - Helsinki - University of Helsinki. Sponsored by Blueprint Genetics
20th of May 2021 - Video meeting due to Covid
29th of May 2020 - Video meeting due to Covid
28th of May 2019 - Helsinki - University of Helsinki
11th of May 2018 - Turku -University of Turku
7th of April 2017 - Helsinki - CSC Life Science Center
9th of June 2016 - Tampere, University of Tampered. Sponsored by Medisapiens
10th of June 2015 - Helsinki - Biomedicum
15th of May 2014 - Turku - Åbo Akademi
30th of May 2013 - Espoo - Aalto Yliopisto
9th of May 2012 - Tampere - Tampere University
13th May 2011 - Helsinki - University of Helsinki
27th May 2010 - Helsinki - University of Helsinki
13th May 2009 - Turku - ICT-talo
16th May 2008 - Helsinki - Kumpula Campus
13th of April 2007 - Tampere - Tampere University
31st of March 2006 - Espoo - CSC Life Science Center