All Hands Meeting 2026: Enabling an effective research infrastructure for Life Sciences in Italy

Bari

Villa Romanazzi Carducci
via Capruzzi, 326
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An opportunity to present ongoing activities, highlight available services, and discuss future developments.

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Overview

The ELIXIR-IT All Hands Meeting (AHM) 2026 will take place on February 9-10, 2026, at Villa Romanazzi Carducci in Bari. This event marks a key moment for the Italian node of ELIXIR, offering an opportunity to present ongoing activities, highlight available services, and discuss future developments.

During the meeting, the achievements of the ELIXIRxNextGenIT project, now approaching its conclusion, will be showcased. The project has significantly contributed to strengthening the ELIXIR-IT infrastructure.

The event will bring together members of the ELIXIR-IT community, participants in the ELIXIRxNextGenIT project, and institutional representatives. It will also welcome anyone interested in learning more about ELIXIR Italy’s research infrastructure and its services.

Scientific Committee

Prof. G. Pesole University of Bari
Prof. R. Casadio University of Bologna
Prof. R. Calogero University of Turin
Prof. R. Percudani University of Parma
Prof. S. Tosatto University of Padua
Dr. A. Facchiano CNR-ISA

Participation

Important Dates

ELIXIR Italy All Hands Meeting date: 9-10 February 2026

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 December 2025

Official templates for contributions

Please note: presentations may be given in Italian, but slides must be in English to ensure maximum accessibility.

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Agenda

Monday, 9 February 2026

12:00

Welcome and Registration

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Welcome and Opening Remarksby Graziano Pesole (Head of Node ELIXIR-IT, University of Bari Aldo Moro and National Research Council) and Francesca De Leo (Scientific Coordinator of ELIXIRxNextGenIT)

14:15

Institutional Speechesby Michele Mazzola (Responsible Officer for ELIXIRxNextGenIT, Ministry of University and Research) and Francesco Dotta (Director, Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Research Council)

14:45

Success Stories of ELIXIR-IT EmpowermentChair: Alessandro Cestaro

14:45

Empowerment of ELIXIR-IT: Achievements and Perspectivesby Francesca De Leo (CNR-IBIOM)

15:00

Strengthening the ELIXIR-IT Omics Infrastructureby Marinella Marzano (CNR-IBIOM)

15:15

Scaling Up ELIXIR-IT Computing and Storage Capabilities for Life-Science Databy Marco Antonio Tangaro (CNR-IBIOM)

15:30

The Intrinsically Disordered Proteins community in ELIXIR: resources, standards and collaborationsby Silvio Tosatto (University of Padua)

15:45

Resources for the structural and functional annotations of proteins and protein variants at Bologna Biocomputing Groupby Pierluigi Martelli (University of Bologna)

16:00

ELIXIR Italy Training Platform: Advancing Bioinformatics Education through ELIXIRNextGenITby Allegra Via (Sapienza University of Rome)

16:15

Coffee Break + Poster Session

17:00

Integration of ELIXIR-IT in the National Research and Infrastructural EcosystemChair: Graziano Pesole

17:00

BBMRI.it and ELIXIR-IT, strategic collaborationby Marialuisa Lavitrano (University of Milan-Bicocca)

17:15

EUBI & ELIXIR: Potential for partnershipby Raman Parashuraman (CNR-IEOMI)

17:30

ICSC, the Italian Research Center on High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing: present status, future outlook and collaborations with ELIXIRby Davide Salomoni (ICSC Foundation)

18:00

Group Photo

19:00

Dinner

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

09:00

Welcome and Registration

09:30

Integration of ELIXIR-IT in the National Research and Infrastructural Ecosystem (Part 2)Chair: Rita Casadio

09:30

Biocomputing & Omics Spoke Flagship of the National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNAby Bruno Fosso (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

09:45

Human Technopole – National platforms providing services to research and the scientific communityby Eugenio Fava (Human Technopole, Milan)

10:00

Leveraging Molecular Biodiversity Data to Build a National Monitoring Networkby Matteo Montagna (University of Naples Federico II)

10:15

ELIXIR-IT in Perspective: Shaping the Future of Life Sciences through Big DataChair: Domenico Coviello

10:15

The magic of genomic data sharingby Teresa D’Altri (Centre for Genomic Regulation – CRG, Barcelona)

10:30

The Health Big Data projectby Pier Giuseppe Pelicci (European Institute of Oncology)

10:45

The European Health Data Spaceby Fidelia Cascini (Italian National Institute of Health)

11:00

AI Factories for Life Sciencesby Alfonso Monaco (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

11:15

Coffee Break

11:45

Synergy Across Scales: Integrating ELIXIR Germany Within the European Infrastructureby Irena Maus (ELIXIR-DE)

12:15

Concluding Remarks

12:30

Lunch

Registration is closed.
The deadline for applications was 1 February 2026.

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