Bioinformatics Day – Finnish Society For Bioinformatics

Finland’s largest free Bioinformatics Conference

In collaboration with:

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, HIIT and HiLife proudly join forces again 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 spots are filling up fast! Sign up now to ensure your spot at the most spectacular Bioinformatics event of the year!

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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 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 9 am to 4 pm. And Networking event from 4 pm until late.

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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 – To be updated.

3 keynote speakers
7 talks selected from abstracts
3 poster sessions with coffee
Many possibilities for networking
Almost 150 attendees

Detailed Program (To be updated)
10.00-9.15 Opening words
10.15-11.00 Keynote speaker, Talks selected from abstracts
11.00-11.45 Poster session 1 and Coffee
11.45-12.15 Keynote speaker, Talks selected from abstracts
13.15-14.15 Lunch, Poster session 2
14.15-15.00 Keynote speaker, Talks selected from    abstracts
15.00-16.00 Poster session 3 and Coffee
16.00-17.00 Talks selected from abstracts
17.00-17.30 Announcing the Best Bioinformatics thesis winner, Announcing the poster competition winner
Closing words

Networking continues until late

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 and HiLiFe

Finnish Society for Bioinformatics

The Finnish Society for Bioinformatics is for everyone interested in Bioinformatics in Finland

Supporting Bioinformaticians
The central hub for bioinformaticians in Finland
Networking events, jobs, information and much more

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CSC – IT Center for Science

We build 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.

Scientific computing
Data management
Digitalization of research and education

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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