Find virtual and in-person data science events, webinars, and trainings from NIAID and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Upcoming Events
NIAID Data Science Webinar: Increasing Findability and Interoperability through the Core Metadata Schema
Wed, May 27, 2026, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.Presented by NIAID's Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) and GO FAIR US, this webinar introduces the NIAID minimal metadata schema, how it supports data discovery and reuse, and how NIAID researchers may use it as a resource. Follow the link to learn more and register.
BV-BRC Workshop - Chicago
Mon, June 1 - Fri, June 5, 2026Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois
NIAID-funded Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC) will host a workshop showing researchers how to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data with BV-BRC tools. Follow the link to learn more and register.
Workshop on Computational Modeling of Proteins for Infectious Disease Researchers
Mon, July 20 - Wed, July 22, 2026NIH NIAID BioViz Lab
Apply by May 20th to participate in this hands-on training workshop designed to equip infectious disease researchers with the skills needed to effectively learn and utilize structural resources and computational tools. Follow the link to learn more and apply.
NCI Data Jamboree: Enhancing Data Sharing and Utility to Advance Cancer Research
Mon, November 16 - Wed, November 18, 2026NIH Neuroscience Center Building, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Maryland 20852
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applicants to participate in the 2026 NCI Data Jamboree. Small teams will collaborate to solve scientific and technical challenges using publicly available datasets. Follow the link to learn more and register.
Seminar Series and Recurring Events
NCI ODS Data Jamboree Seminar Series
The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Data Sharing is hosting a monthly webinar series for presentations from project teams after their inaugural data jamboree in September 2025. Projects included enhancing data interoperability, evaluating data quality and AI-readiness, integrating and analyzing data, and developing educational materials.
Tools for Tomorrow NIAID BRCs Webinar Series
The NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers provide sustainable, data-driven platforms, portable computational tools, and interoperability standards — all designed to serve the infectious diseases research community. Register through the link for an invitation to monthly webinars across the BRCs.
ScHARe Think-a-Thons
Hosted monthly by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Think-a-Thons are open to researchers at any level to learn about and discuss bias mitigation in artificial intelligence and health research. Follow the link to learn more about upcoming meetings and view past meeting recordings.
The Foundations of Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series
Speakers from a variety of biomedical data science disciplines present at this series weekly each Friday at noon ET. Publicly available recordings of past seminars can also be found at this link.
Bridge2AI Educational Materials
These materials include seminar series, blogs, and other educational resources from the NIH-funded Bridge2AI Consortium. Bridge2AI brings together experts across biomedical and behavioral research to develop FAIR datasets and ethical AI/ML practices.
Past Events
Multi-modal Modeling in Precision Medicine: From Data Imputation to Synthetic Data
March 18, 2026Virtual
Sequence Read Archive: Leveraging this petabyte-scale database to drive biomedical discovery
March 13, 2026Virtual
AI Codeathon for Infectious Disease Research
November 12 - 14, 2025Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA