Keynote Speakers (TBD)

We are pleased to announce that we have the following confirmed keynote speakers:

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keynote 2

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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 -

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) .

2025 James Fellows Yates at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology for his contributions to significant contributions to the genomic standards and ancientDNA communities and the development of the MInAS (Minimum Information about any Ancient Sequence) project.

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