BEFRI OMICS+ & CAREER DAY / 2026 Bern · CH
Annual Symposium · 06 / 2026

BEFRIOMICS+& Career Day

More than omics — a day in two parts, where method meets meaning and where data, careers and disciplines intersect. This year's focus: Open Research Data & FAIR principles.

When
19 June 2026
Where
University of Bern
Unitobler F021
Time
09:00 — 16:30

01 — Programme

A day in two parts

The morning summit gathers researchers and Core Facility staff around Open Research Data and FAIR workflows. The afternoon is designed for Master students and research labs.

I

Morning Summit

Postdocs · PIs · Facility staff

09:00 — 12:15
09:00 – 09:15Welcome & Opening Remarks
Part A — External Keynotes: Open Research Data & FAIR
09:15 – 09:45Keynote: The Institutional ViewOpen Research Data For Good. Reasoning & infrastructure @ UniBEMartin Wegmann · University Library Bern
09:45 – 10:15Keynote: The National ViewFAIR by Design. National data infrastructures for Personalised Health Research @ SPHN, SIBSabine Österle · SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
10:15 – 10:45Keynote: The Applied ViewTalk title to be confirmedThierry Sengstag · sciCORE, University of Basel
10:45 – 11:15Coffee & Networking Break
Part B — Local Showcase: The Bernese Omics Ecosystem
11:15 – 11:30Facility Presentation: Biobank BernCarlo Largiadèr · Biobank Bern
11:30 – 11:45Facility Presentation: TRUTRU: Advancing tissue-based research across disciplinesMark Gill · Translational Research Unit
11:45 – 12:00Facility Presentation: Microscopy Imaging CenterReproducible High-Performance Bioimage AnalysisGuillaume Witz · Microscopy Imaging Center
12:00 – 12:15Facility Presentation: IBUFrom FASTQ to FAIRHeidi Tschanz-Lischer · Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit
II

Career + Poster Session

Master students · Research labs

13:30 — 16:30
13:30 – 14:30Alumni Talks — The Career CompassMadleina Caduff · Diabetes Center BernMax Suter · State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)Daniel Probst · Wageningen University
14:30 – 15:30Master Thesis Showcase — The Future of Bernese ResearchFlorence Kurz · Janosch Imhof · Aymeric SchmidAnkitha Kumble · Mathilde Jacquey
15:30 – 16:30Poster Session & Closing Apéro

02 — Venue

How to get there

Unitobler, Room F021

→ Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern
→ University of Bern, Main Campus
→ Tram 3 / 5, stop “Unitobler”

03 — Registration

Join us on 19 June

Use the registration form to sign up for the event and, if applicable, to submit a poster for the afternoon poster session. Both are handled through the same form.

↓ Registration covers participation + poster submission

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