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The European Galaxy Days will be held from the 1st to 3rd of October 2025 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. This 3-day meeting will be similar to the events we held in 2023, 2022, 2018, 2016, 2014, and 2012. The first two days will give an overview of the current state of the Galaxy framework and community with several talks, demonstrations, and Birds of a Feather sessions. As part of a CoFest, the third day offer the opportunity to continue the discussions, to code and hack as well as enjoy the Galaxy community.
We are holding 3 events in the same week:
- The ELIXIR Galaxy Community Face-to-face (F2F) meeting,
- The EuroScienceGateway Final Conference,
- The European Galaxy Days (EGD) meeting.
Updates
- The talks of this event will be streamed using this Zoom link.
- Restaurant tipps
- Have a look at our blog post (with links to all presented slides)
Schedule
Overview
| Day | Time | Event | Location | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 09:00–10:00 | European Galaxy Days & ELIXIR Galaxy Community Arrival & Welcome · Community update talks |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 10:30–13:00 | European Galaxy Days & ELIXIR Galaxy Community Arrival & Welcome · Community update talks |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 13:00–14:00 | Lunch break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 14:00–16:00 | ELIXIR Galaxy Community Community overview & interactions with ELIXIR platforms |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 01.10.2025 (Wed) | 16:30–17:30 | ELIXIR Birds of a Feather (BoFs) Session 1 1. H.-R. Hotz: Running a local Galaxy server (Small-Scale Admin SIG) 2. Y. Le Bras: Galaxy for citizen science |
Building 101 | 01 009 / 013 & 01 016 / 018 |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 09:00–10:00 | European Galaxy Days New developments talks |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 10:30–13:00 | European Galaxy Days New developments talks |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 13:00–14:00 | Lunch break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 14:00–16:00 | European Galaxy Days Meets EuroScienceGateway Talks to connect communities |
Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 02.10.2025 (Thu) | 16:30–17:30 | Birds of a Feather (BoFs) Session 2 1. Galaxy Tool Management 2. microGalaxy for Microbiology |
Building 101 | 01 009 / 013 & 01 016 / 018 |
| 03.10.2025 (Fri) | 09:30–17:30 | European Galaxy Days EGD CoFest & Hackathon |
Building 101 | 01 009 / 013 & 01 016 / 018 |
| 03.10.2025 (Fri) | 09:30–17:30 | EuroScienceGateway Final Conference | Building 101 | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 03.10.2025 (Fri) | 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 03.10.2025 (Fri) | 13:00–14:30 | Lunch break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
| 03.10.2025 (Fri) | 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break | Building 101 | 02 016 / 018 |
Day 1 – Wednesday, October 1st
| Time | Speaker | Title | Duration | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | — | Arrival and Registration | 30' | Main corridor |
| 09:00–09:30 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz Björn Grüning Mihail Anton | Welcome, Logistics & General Galaxy and ELIXIR Update | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:30–09:45 | Marisa Loach | Special Interest Groups and Working Groups: the Galaxy Governance Model | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:45–10:00 | Bérénice Batut | The Microbiology Galaxy Lab and the effort from the microGalaxy to build the first community-driven gateway for reproducible and FAIR analysis of microbial data | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 10:00–10:30 | — | Coffee Break & Poster session Posters: Martin Cech & Martin Demko (Czech Galaxies -- lessons, approaches, and challenges) Eli Chadwick (RO-Crate – Capturing FAIR research outputs throughout the ELIXIR landscape) Teresa Müller (Galaxy Training Academy) Marie Jossé (Improving the Qualification and Calibration of Ocean Biogeochemical Data Using Galaxy) Charles Girardot: LabID workflow integration: Recording data-provenance from sample to workflow results Florian Heyl: Spatial transcriptomics quality control and how to find high quality regions Melanie Föll: Using Qupath in Galaxy for spatial proteomics | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 10:30–10:50 | Volodymyr Savchenko | Galaxy and Astronomy community | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 10:50–11:10 | John Chilton | Building More Usable Galaxy Workflows with Improved Dataset Collections | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:10–11:25 | Mina Hojat Ansari | FAIRYMAGS: A Galaxy Workflow for MAG Recovery Applied to Termite Microbiomes | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:25–11:35 | Leandro Liborio | Managing materials science workflows with Galaxy at STFC | 10' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:35–11:45 | Titusz Pan | The ISCC Discovery Protocol: Decentralized signing, timestamping, and discovery for the International Standard Content Code (ISCC) | 10' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:45–11:55 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | Switzerland (Special Interest Group) | 10' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:55–12:15 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | Small Scale Admins (Special Interest Group) | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:15–12:35 | Marisa Loach | The Single Cell and Spatial Omics Community | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:35–12:50 | Solenne Correard | The Biodiversity Galaxy Lab: A Collaborative Hub with curated tools, workflows and training for FAIR and Reproducible biodiversity analysis | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:50–13:05 | Jérôme Detoc | Study of marine data in Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 13:05–14:00 | — | Lunch Break | 55' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 14:00–14:15 | Leonid Kostrykin | Streamlining the User Experience for Reproducible Image Analysis in Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:15–14:30 | Maria Chavero-Diez (Online Presentation) | From Galaxy to EGA: Orchestrating Sensitive Data Access for Interactive Federated Analysis | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:30–14:45 | Paul De Geest | Dynamic meta-scheduling in Galaxy with TPV Broker for smarter workload distribution | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:45–15:00 | Mirela Minkova | On-demand, Reproducible Galaxy Instances in a Secure Environment for the Dutch Scientific Community | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:15–15:30 | Matthias Bernt | Automatic tool generation for the SAQC and OGS tool (suites) | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:30–15:45 | Giuseppe Profiti | Infrastructure changes to run a Galaxy server in a hospital setting | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:45–16:00 | Paul Zierep | Precision Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Helicobacter pylori-Induced Gastritis Using Multi-Omics Machine Learning Signatures Or The Synergy Between Complex Research Projects and Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 16:00–16:30 | — | Coffee Break & Poster session Posters: Martin Cech & Martin Demko (Czech Galaxies -- lessons, approaches, and challenges) Eli Chadwick (RO-Crate – Capturing FAIR research outputs throughout the ELIXIR landscape) Teresa Müller (Galaxy Training Academy) Marie Jossé (Improving the Qualification and Calibration of Ocean Biogeochemical Data Using Galaxy) Charles Girardot: LabID workflow integration: Recording data-provenance from sample to workflow results Florian Heyl: Spatial transcriptomics quality control and how to find high quality regions Melanie Föll: Using Qupath in Galaxy for spatial proteomics | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 16:30–17:30 | Yvan Le Bras | Birds of a Feather (Galaxy for citizen science) | 60' | 01 009 / 013 |
| 16:30–17:30 | Hans-Rudolf Hotz | Birds of a Feather (Running a local Galaxy server – Small-Scale Admin SIG) | 60' | 01 016 / 018 |
Day 2 – Thursday, October 2nd
| Time | Speaker | Title | Duration | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00–09:15 | Daniela Schneider | Broadening the Galaxy: Introducing Digital Humanities in Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:15–09:30 | Arash Kadkhodaei | Serving locally hosted LLMs with Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:30–09:45 | Lucille Delisle | pyGenomeTracks – make a publishable figure out of your NGS data | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:45–10:00 | Arthur Barreau | Two-Step Approach for Galaxy Tool Development Using Jupyter (“Interactive JupyterLab Notebook”) | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 10:00–10:30 | — | Coffee Break & Poster session Posters: Martin Cech & Martin Demko (Czech Galaxies -- lessons, approaches, and challenges) Eli Chadwick (RO-Crate – Capturing FAIR research outputs throughout the ELIXIR landscape) Teresa Müller (Galaxy Training Academy) Marie Jossé (Improving the Qualification and Calibration of Ocean Biogeochemical Data Using Galaxy) Charles Girardot: LabID workflow integration: Recording data-provenance from sample to workflow results Florian Heyl: Spatial transcriptomics quality control and how to find high quality regions Melanie Föll: Using Qupath in Galaxy for spatial proteomics | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 10:30–10:50 | Marius van den Beek | The Future of Galaxy Tools | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 10:50–11:05 | Alireza Heidari | Simple and Secure Credential Handling for Tools in Galaxy | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:05–11:20 | JosĂ© Manuel DomĂnguez | New integrations: eLabFTW and RSpace ELNs, ARC middleware for distributed computing | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:20–11:40 | Nicola Soranzo | Making Galaxy workflows sustainable and FAIR | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:40–12:00 | Yvan Le Bras | Galaxy Ecology: 2025 Update | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:00–12:20 | Pauline Seguineau Jérôme Detoc | Galaxy Earth-System | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:20–12:40 | Beatriz Serrano-Solano | Update by the Imaging Community | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:40–13:00 | Anthony Bretaudeau | Modern genome browsing in Galaxy with Jbrowse2 | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 13:00–14:00 | — | Lunch Break | 60' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 14:00–14:20 | Lukasz Opiola | Galaxy & Onedata integration, managing Galaxy data using Onedata, BYOD & BYOS | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:20–14:35 | Martin Cech | Automating Galaxy Tool Management Through a GitHub Repository Template | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:35–14:55 | Jain Smitesh | Sustainability of Galaxy (EuroScienceGateway) | 20' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 14:55–15:10 | Nikolay Vazov | A 'trivial' task : how to access my files and projects on the HPC filesystem from galaxy? | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:10–15:25 | Marco Antonio Tangaro | Laniakea Nebula: VPN-Based Isolation for Galaxy Private Deployments | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:25–15:40 | Teresa Müller | Exploring the Galaxy Training Network: What's Here, What's New | 15' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 15:40–15:50 | Eli Chadwick | Highlighting RO-Crate features in Galaxy and why you should use them | 10' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 16:00–16:30 | — | Coffee Break & Poster session Posters: Martin Cech & Martin Demko (Czech Galaxies -- lessons, approaches, and challenges) Eli Chadwick (RO-Crate – Capturing FAIR research outputs throughout the ELIXIR landscape) Teresa Müller (Galaxy Training Academy) Marie Jossé (Improving the Qualification and Calibration of Ocean Biogeochemical Data Using Galaxy) Charles Girardot: LabID workflow integration: Recording data-provenance from sample to workflow results Florian Heyl: Spatial transcriptomics quality control and how to find high quality regions Melanie Föll: Using Qupath in Galaxy for spatial proteomics | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 16:30–17:30 | Martin Cech | Birds of a Feather (Galaxy Tool Management – how to save admins’ sanity) | 60' | 01 009 / 013 |
| 16:30–17:30 | Bérénice Batut | Birds of a Feather (microGalaxy for Microbiology) | 60' | 01 016 / 018 |
Day 3 – Friday, October 3rd
| Time | Speaker | Title | Duration | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00–17:30 | — | EGD CoFest & Hackathon | 480' | 01 009 / 013 |
| 09:00–17:30 | — | Sub-Hackathon: secure sensitive data transfer from FEGA and analysis in Galaxy (ELIXIR-commissioned service) | 480' | 01 016 / 018 |
| 09:00–09:30 | Oana Marchis & Armin Dadras | Welcome and final report from WP1 | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 09:30–10:00 | Eli Chadwick | Achievements of WP2 | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 10:00–10:30 | — | Coffee Break & Poster session Posters: Martin Cech & Martin Demko (Czech Galaxies -- lessons, approaches, and challenges) Eli Chadwick (RO-Crate – Capturing FAIR research outputs throughout the ELIXIR landscape) Teresa Müller (Galaxy Training Academy) Marie Jossé (Improving the Qualification and Calibration of Ocean Biogeochemical Data Using Galaxy) Charles Girardot: LabID workflow integration: Recording data-provenance from sample to workflow results Florian Heyl: Spatial transcriptomics quality control and how to find high quality regions Melanie Föll: Using Qupath in Galaxy for spatial proteomics | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 10:30–11:00 | Marco Antonio Tangaro | Achievements of WP3 | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:00–11:30 | Sebastian Luna-Valero | Achievements of WP4 | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Nikolay Vazov | Achievements of WP5 | 30' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 12:00–13:00 | All ESG partners | Final discussions and wrap-up | 60' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 13:00–14:00 | — | Lunch Break | 60' | 02 016 / 018 |
| 14:00–16:00 | All ESG partners | Final technical report preparation | 90' | 00 036 (Hörsaal) |
| 16:00–16:30 | — | Coffee Break | 30' | 02 016 / 018 |
Venue
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Institute for Informatics
Georges-Köhler-Allee, 101
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
Logistics
Getting to Freiburg
Freiburg can be easily reached by train with the ICE from the North (via Frankfurt and Karlsruhe) and the South (via Basel) Deutsche Bahn.
How to reach Freiburg from Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg airport (EuroAirport)?
- Option 1: Use the French/German exit and take the airport shuttle bus to Freiburg main station (Hauptbahnhof).
- Option 2: Use the Swiss exit and take the local bus (#50) to the train station in Basel and from there take a train to Freiburg.
How to reach the venue from Freiburg Hauptbahnhof?
- Option 1: Local train; Take the Breisgau S-Bahn from Hauptbahnhof Freiburg to Gottenheim/Breisach towards “Freiburg Messe/Universität”.
- Option 2: Tram 4 direction “Messe”; Exit at the stop “Technische Fakultät” (see tram plan).
The mobile app of the local public transport company bwegt can also be very helpful to check the schedule of the trains and buses.
Tram tickets for local transport
Here you can find the types of tram tickets that VAG offers. The 2x4 rides ticket and the day pass are convenient options for several days and/or passengers.
Event rules and regulations
Code of Conduct
The European Galaxy Days will abide the Galaxy Project Code of Conduct. Please, make sure that you read it before the event.
Questions?
If you want to present, help, have suggestions or questions, please get in touch with us. Simply contact:
Armin Dadras (dadras@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Hans-Rudolf Hotz (hrhotz@googlemail.com)
Björn Grüning (bjoern.gruening@gmail.com)
Funding
EuroScienceGateway was funded by the European Union programme Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04) under grant agreement number 101057388 and by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee grant number 10038963.