[ELIXIR-ITA_ml] GCC2021: Registration & Abstract Submission Open

[General ELIXIR-Italy Mailing list]

Dear All,


The 2021 Galaxy Community Conference 
<https://www.vibconferences.be/events/gcc2021-virtual-edition>(GCC2021) 
will take place in a *virtual format from 28 June to 10 July 2021*. GCC 
brings together hundreds of faculty, clinicians, researchers, and 
students, all working in and supporting data-intensive science that is 
accessible, sharable and reproducible.

The conference will be affordable, especially for researchers and 
students based in low, lower-middle, or upper-middle income countries 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFR1b8Al0DE0Ovn1pFJYlLchVUl2At82Dt4MRudvtRY/edit?usp=sharing>. 
Please send an email to conferences a vib.be to request a discount code 
before purchasing your tickets.


Format


Conferenceevents <https://gcc2021.sched.com/>will be held twice, once in 
theiroriginal Ghent time zone (GCC EMEA + APAC) 
<https://gcc2021.sched.com/overview/type/B.+Meeting-EMEA-APAC>, and 
again9 hours later in the Americas (GCC Americas) 
<https://gcc2021.sched.com/overview/type/C.+Meeting-Americas>.The event 
features a training week, three days of conference, and two days of 
CollaborationFest (CoFest).


Training week


All training sessions are pre-recorded, so you can work through them at 
your own pace, and manage your own time. A large community of trainers 
from the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) 
<https://training.galaxyproject.org/> will be available 24/7 for online 
support to answer all your questions on Slack (a chat platform). The 
training week features 3 Training Tracks, aimed at scientists, 
developers and system administrators. Details on the Science, Developer 
and Admin Tracks can be found on theGCC2021 Training Week page 
<https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2021/training/>.


Conference


GCC2021 welcomes submissions that use, implement, or extend the Galaxy 
platform and ecosystem, including - but not limited to - integrating and 
analyzing large and diverse datasets in any area of research; enhancing 
reproducibility in computational analyses, and fostering collaboration 
and communication in scientific workflow development.


Presentations can be regular talks (15 minutes), lightning talks (5-6 
minutes), posters and/or demos. Abstract submission 
<https://www.vibconferences.be/events/gcc2021-virtual-edition#abstracts>for 
talks and poster/demos is open until May 7.


CoFest


The CoFest will be organised around the different Galaxy Working Groups 
<https://galaxyproject.org/community/wg/>. If you have an idea for a 
project, you can register it already as a cluster idea 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c0L4mc7s2JOx0uq6HGP3QE3V5Za20GfCh1e-KKbOoV4/edit#>. 
If you would like to participate in a proposed project, you can also 
sign up 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15TWgpszWEF_QHfWIG818UYJMagcRiio7PckhxrmJtiM/edit#gid=0>.


Key dates


  *

    Abstract submission: May 7

  *

    Early bird registration ends: June 1

  *

    Birds of a Feather (BoF) proposals due: July 2

  *

    Late registration ends: June 21

  *

    Abstract notification of acceptance: May 25

  *

    CoFest call for topics: July 2


Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need more details or have 
questions.


Beatriz on behalf of the GCC organisers

-- 
Dr Beatriz Serrano-Solano (she/her)
Bioinformatics Group
Dept. Computer Science
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee, 106
79110 Freiburg
Germany

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