(Session) Keynote Speakers

It is anticipated we will have 3 Keynote speakers, one for each day. Their details will appear here as soon as they are confirmed.

• Keynote 1

• Keynote 2

• Keynote 3

Dawn Field Awardee

The ‘Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards’ annual award, established in 2022, is to recognize achievements of early-career researchers for their significant contributions to the field of genomic standards. The award honors Dr. Dawn Field (1969-2020) the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) founder and a pioneer in the field of genomic standards. Nominations are made by GSC Board members. Awardees will present their research at the annual GSC meeting. Dr. Dawn Field established the GSC consortium in 2005, building a community of researchers committed to building and implementing genomic metadata standards to make data discoverable and reusable.

Presenting the 2025 winner

Yet to be decided - if you have nominations please contact a GSC board member.

Previous ‘Dawn Field Award for Outstanding Contributions to Genomic Standards’ Awardees:

2022 Raïssa Meyer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for her work on the The Omic Biodiversity Observation Network.

2023 Montana Smith at PNNL for her work on standards for the quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP) genomics.

2024 Savvas Paragkamian at University of Crete for his contributions to the analysis of the GSC’s 1st Island Sampling day data (see GSC’s ISD GitHub) .

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