GCC2026 — Talks¶
All 35 peer-reviewed talks at GCC2026, in final schedule order, grouped by session block. Talks ran 15 minutes (12 + 3 Q&A).
Author lists are verbatim from the official schedule and abstract book. No institutional affiliations were published for any presenter — see the caveat on the overview page. Full abstracts for every talk are inline on the schedule page and in the abstract book PDF.
Video: three day-long recordings with session-level chapters. Per-talk links do not exist; offsets must be derived from the 15-minute slot grid.
| Day | Video | Session chapters |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Jun 22 | 4h 36m | 00:00 Opening · 08:30 Galaxy Live · 50:20 SIG overview · 1:01:35 Talks 1 · 2:10:35 Talks 2 · 3:35:55 Talks 3 |
| Tue Jun 23 | 3h 28m | 00:04 Keynote · 59:00 Talks 4 · 2:16:15 Talks 5 · 2:58:34 Lightning talks |
| Wed Jun 24 | 5h 15m | 00:04 Community Update · 48:25 Talks 6 · 2:06:42 Fishbowl · 3:20:04 Talks 7 · 4:50:55 Galaxy in Research |
Talks 1 — Galaxy framework and platform direction¶
Monday, 10:50–12:05 · moderator Marisa Loach · video from 1:01:35
This session, together with Talks 6, is where Galaxy declared its agentic direction. Read them as a pair.
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:50 | Building an AI-Native Galaxy: Agent Operations, Agent Framework, and MCP | Baker Dannon, Chilton John, Van Den Beek Marius |
| 11:05 | Benchmarking AI Agents in Galaxy: Live Integration Testing and Bioinformatics Workflow Evaluation | Collins Tyler*, Qiu Junhao*, Morais Paulo Cilas Lyra Jr, Savage Michelle, Goecks Jeremy (*equal) |
| 11:20 | Beyond the Tool Panel: New Features for Improved Tool Discovery and Management | Awan Ahmed, Grüning Björn, Lopez David, Schatz Michael |
| 11:35 | User-Defined Tools: From LLM-Generated Analysis to Reproducible, Validatable Workflows | Van Den Beek Marius, Baker Dannon, Chilton John |
| 11:50 | Charting the Course: Developing the First Cross-Project Roadmap for the Galaxy Ecosystem | Kucher Natalie |
Building an AI-Native Galaxy is the architectural statement: an Agent Operations layer, an MCP server, and an Agent Framework registry with intent routing and handoffs, surfaced in-app as ChatGXY and reachable from external MCP clients including Claude Desktop and Cursor. Benchmarking AI Agents in Galaxy is its necessary complement — the MCPeval live integration framework, LLM-as-judge evaluation, and BixBench-Verified-50. A platform shipping an agent layer and a benchmark for it in the same session is the healthy version of this trend.
Talks 2 — Infrastructure, federation, and service operations¶
Monday, 13:00–14:30 · moderator Martin Čech · video from 2:10:35
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours — A Galaxy perspective on outsourcing user identity management | Price Gareth, Goonasekera Nuwan, Bromhead Catherine, Mather Marius, Zhu Amanda, Mok Winnie, Winter Uwe, Lee Justin, Makunin Igor, Hyde Cameron, Ward Nigel, Manos Steven, Amarapathy Samitha |
| 13:15 | A New Star in the Galaxy: Canada is Joining the UseGalaxy.* International Federation | Coulombe Charles, Davis John, Gauthier Carol, Fortin Jérôme, Barrette Michel, Jacques Pierre-Étienne |
| 13:30 | Modern Analysis Scales, And So Too Must Galaxy | Coraor Nate |
| 13:45 | Evolving TPV: recent advances in resource-aware scheduling for Galaxy | Goonasekera Nuwan, Van Den Beek Marius, Bromhead Catherine, Bernt Matthias, Chilton John, Grüning Björn |
| 14:00 | The Global Galaxy Registry: Structured Metadata and Dynamic Discovery Across 180+ Instances | Savage Michelle, Grüning Björn, Price Gareth, Schatz Michael |
| 14:15 | Secure Cloud-based Analysis of Human Genomic Data with Galaxy on AnVIL | Afgan Enis*, Narvaez-Bandera Isis*, Suderman Keith, Morais Lyra Jr Paulo Cilas, Schatz Michael, Goecks Jeremy (*equal) |
The federation story is the one to track: Canada joining UseGalaxy.*, a registry spanning 180+ instances, and resource-aware scheduling (TPV) maturing. Galaxy is operating as a genuinely federated international infrastructure, which is the thing most workflow platforms claim and few achieve.
Talks 3 — Communities, provenance, and cross-domain expansion¶
Monday, 16:00–17:00 · moderator Pierre-Étienne Jacques · video from 3:35:55
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | Galaxy Ecology: 2026 update | Le Bras Yvan, Seguineau Pauline, Galaxy Ecology Community |
| 16:15 | Advancing Earth System Research Through Galaxy, Data Terra, and EOSC Collaboration | Jossé Marie, Seguineau Pauline, Le Bras Yvan, Detoc Jérôme, Norvez Olivier, Grellet Sylvain, Rizzo Alessandro, Keuchkerian Samuel, Delaporte Pascal, Bodéré Erwan, Sarramia David, Guimont Mathieu |
| 16:30 | Natural Language Processing in Galaxy: Integrating Stanford CoreNLP and spaCy for the Digital Humanities | Schneider Daniela, Suderman Keith |
| 16:45 | LabID Meets Galaxy: Continuous Provenance from Samples to Results | Thomas Laurent, Girardot Charles, Scholtalbers Jelle, Monfort Matthias, Reza Nayeem |
LabID Meets Galaxy is the one with the broadest relevance: provenance carried continuously from physical sample to computational result. That is the missing link in most reproducibility stories, which typically start at the FASTQ.
Talks 4 — FAIR data analysis workflows and public health applications¶
Tuesday, 10:30–12:00 · moderator Solenne Correard · video from 59:00
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | FAIRyMAGs: A Modular, FAIR-Compliant Galaxy Workflow Suite for Flexible and Scalable Metagenome-Assembled Genome Reconstruction | Zierep Paul, Batut Bérénice |
| 10:45 | FAIR Workflows and Training for Single-Cell Analysis in Galaxy and Beyond | Loach Marisa, Rue-Albrecht Kevin (Fellow) |
| 11:00 | From legacy pipelines to reusable Galaxy workflows for national bacterial WGS surveillance at Statens Serum Institut | Matusevicius Povilas |
| 11:15 | Leveraging Galaxy's Superpowers to Enhance Fermentation Innovation through the Siduri portal | Barnabé Agnès, Fernandez Emilie, Le Floch Erwan, Lacroix Thomas, Schbath Sophie, Loux Valentin |
| 11:30 | Galaxy-based workflows for genome-resolved and multi-kingdom microbiome analysis: application to the nasal microbiome in Alzheimer's disease | Hojat Ansari Mina |
FAIR Workflows and Training for Single-Cell Analysis in Galaxy and Beyond is the anchor for this corpus — see Themes → single-cell and spatial.
Withdrawn from this session
Phylogenomic and Functional Analysis of Ethiopia's First Marburg Virus Outbreak Highlights a Single Spillover Event and Preserved Vaccine Targets (Bashea Chala, Getu Melak, Gebremicael Gebremedhin, Ali Abraham, Marburg Virus Outbreak Task Force, Tadese Gemechu, Tollera Getachew) appears in the abstract book at Tue 11:00 but was dropped from the final talk program, shifting the rest of the session up a slot. It remained as Posters 2 #7.
Talks 5 — Tool integration and method development¶
Tuesday, 13:00–13:45 · moderator Yvan Le Bras · video from 2:16:15
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Open Source Resources for the Automated Generation of Galaxy Tools | York Spencer, Joshi Jayadev, Raubenolt Bryan, Blankenberg Daniel |
| 13:15 | Integration of experimental protocols into the Galaxy platform to support FAIR experimental workflows | Demange Fanny, Refahi Yassin, Loux Valentin, Paës Gabriel |
| 13:30 | Launching the Scop3P Toolkit Starship into Galaxy: From Earth-Bound Services to Galactic Interactive Tools | Adrián Díaz, Tichshenko Natalia, De Geest Paul, Depoortere Boris, Andrade Buono Rafael, Martens Lennart, Vranken Wim, Ramasamy Pathmanaban |
Followed by lightning talks (13:45–14:30) whose titles and speakers were never published — recoverable only from the Day 2 video at 2:58:34.
Talks 6 — AI, workflows, and guided analysis¶
Wednesday, 10:30–12:00 · moderator Jeremy Goecks · video from 48:25
The most important session at GCC2026 for this corpus.
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 | Reproducibility in the Age of Agents | Chilton John, Van Den Beek Marius, Awan Ahmed, Nekrutenko Anton |
| 10:45 | Workflows in the Age of LLMs: Building a Galaxy Workflow Community | Van Den Beek Marius, Delisle Lucille, Bernt Matthias, Maier Wolfgang, Lariviere Delphine, IWC Contributors |
| 11:00 | Starting from Data: Connecting External Resources and Analysis in Galaxy | Callan Danielle, Van Den Beek Marius, Baker Dannon, Rogers David, Cain Scott, Smeds Patrik, Clawson Hiram, Coraor Nate, Beavers Kelsey, Haeussler Maximilian, Schatz Michael, Pond Sergei, Nekrutenko Anton |
| 11:15 | From Research Question to Running Workflow: AI-Guided Analysis in BRC Analytics | Baker Dannon, Van Den Beek Marius, Callan Danielle, Rogers Dave, Nekrutenko Anton |
| 11:30 | The Galaxy History Graph: From State to Structure | Guerler Aysam, Chilton John, Awan Ahmed, Baker Dannon, Van Den Beek Marius, Heidari Alireza, Lopez David, Savage Michelle, Gruening Bjoern, Nekrutenko Anton, Schatz Michael C. |
| 11:45 | AOP-toolkit: Galaxy-enabled LLM pipelines for large-scale toxicological literature mining with secure credential management | Durník Robin, Hecht Helge, Babica Pavel, Sovadinová Iva, Bajard Lola |
Reproducibility in the Age of Agents is the title that should travel outside the Galaxy community. When an LLM agent composes an analysis, what exactly is the reproducible artifact — the prompt, the plan, the resulting workflow, or the run? Galaxy is one of the few platforms with the provenance machinery to answer that concretely, and this session plus The Galaxy History Graph: From State to Structure is that answer taking shape.
Note the reordering: Starting from Data moved from 11:45 in the abstract book to 11:00 on the final schedule.
Talks 7 — Community platforms, mature ecosystems, and field reports¶
Wednesday, 15:00–16:30 · moderator Yvan Le Bras · video from 3:20:04
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | Updates from the Global Galaxy Training Network (GTN) and Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) | Saskia Hiltemann, Natalie Whitaker-Allen, Larivière Delphine |
| 15:15 | A journey around Galaxy on the W4M boat: a feedback from someone caught in the middle | Petera Mélanie, Workflow4metabolomics Coreteam |
| 15:30 | Leveraging Galaxy Across Multiple Scientific Domains | Watson Greg |
| 15:45 | Galaxy Image Analysis: A Decade of Development for Cell Microscopy Image Analysis and Beyond | Kostrykin Leonid, Wollmann Thomas, Gao Qi, Rohr Karl |
| 16:00 | Rewriting the Galaxy Hub — Migrating 4,300 Pages from Gridsome to Astro | Baker Dannon, Alireza Heidari, Grüning Björn |
| 16:15 | Galaxy at BRGM: From Strategic Integration to Operational Challenges in a National Research Infrastructure | Delaporte Pascal, Keuchkerian Samuel |
Galaxy Image Analysis is a decade-scale retrospective on cell microscopy tooling — relevant to the imaging thread the corpus tracks through miccai-2026/ and isbi-2026/, from the open-infrastructure side rather than the methods-paper side.
Posters¶
74 items across two sessions (37 each), all with full abstracts in the abstract book, pp. 53–130. Because GCC allows a "talk & poster" submission option, the number of distinct works is lower than 74.
Most relevant to this corpus:
- #35 (Posters 1) — SPOC, the Single-cell & sPatial Omics Community (Videm Pavankumar)
- #25 (Posters 2) — Unlocking Spatial Biology: End-to-End FAIR Workflows for Spatial Data Analysis in Galaxy (Naghsh Nilchi et al.)
- #15 (Posters 2) — BioFAIR Pathfinder: Connecting Bioconductor, Galaxy, and nf-core (Rue-Albrecht Kevin et al.)
- #14 (Posters 2) — Repository-Coupled scRNA-seq Analysis with Galaxy (Olha Jaroslav et al.)
- #26 (Posters 2) — AI ecosystem for life science data analysis in Galaxy (Kumar Anup et al.) · Zenodo
- #34 (Posters 2) — SemSec: Crypt4GH Recryption for EGA/FEGA (Gundersen Sveinung et al.)
- #13 (Posters 1) — Three Galaxies, One Grid, One Foundation: National Bioinformatics Infrastructure in Czechia (Cech Martin, Demko Martin)
Sources¶
- Schedule (authoritative running order, with inline abstracts): https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2026/schedule/
- Abstract book: https://galaxy-community-conference.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GCC2026-abstract-book.pdf
- Video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4YWcG-HSbw