Meetings & Outreach

The SBOL community meets approximately every six months at COMBINE and HARMONY workshops, and actively engages the broader synthetic biology community at conferences worldwide.

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Workshops & Conferences

EventDateLocationResources
COMBINE COMBINE 2026Sep 2026Keele University, UK
EventDateLocationResources
COMBINE COMBINE 2024Sep 2024Stuttgart, Germany
HARMONY HARMONY 2024Apr 2024University College London, UK
COMBINE COMBINE 2023Oct 2023Farmington, CT, USA
HARMONY HARMONY 2023Apr 2023University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
COMBINE COMBINE 2022Oct 2022Berlin, Germany
HARMONY HARMONY 2022Apr 2022Washington, DC (Hybrid)
COMBINE COMBINE 2021Oct 2021Online (virtual)
HARMONY HARMONY 2021Mar 2021Online (virtual)
COMBINE COMBINE 2020Oct 2020UConn Health, Connecticut, USASlides
HARMONY HARMONY 2020Mar 2020EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UKSlides
COMBINE COMBINE 2019Jul 2019Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, GermanySlides
HARMONY HARMONY 2019Mar 2019Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
COMBINE COMBINE 2018Oct 2018Boston University, MA, USA
HARMONY HARMONY 2018Jun 2018Oxford University, UKSlides
COMBINE COMBINE 2017Oct 2017Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, ItalySlides
HARMONY HARMONY 2017Jun 2017University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USASlides
COMBINE COMBINE 2016Sep 2016Newcastle University, Newcastle, UKSlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 14Mar 2016Raytheon BBN Technologies, Boston, MA, USASlides
COMBINE COMBINE 2015Oct 2015University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USASlides
HARMONY HARMONY 2015Mar 2015Wittenberg, Germany
COMBINE COMBINE 2014Aug 2014University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 10Jan 2014UC Berkeley, CA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 9Apr 2013Newcastle University, Newcastle, UKSlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 8Nov 2012Boston University, MA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 7Jun 2012San Francisco, CA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 6Jan 2012University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 5Jun 2011San Diego, CA, USA
SBOL Workshop SBOL 4Jan 2011Blacksburg, VA, USA
SBOL Workshop SBOL 3Jun 2010Anaheim, CA, USA
SBOL Workshop SBOL 2Jul 2009Stanford University, CA, USASlides
SBOL Workshop SBOL 1Apr 2008University of Washington, WA, USASlides

Outreach & Education

IWBDA IWBDA 2026 Jun 2026 · University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2023 Sep 2023 · Boston, MA, USA
SEED SEED 2023 May 2023 · Los Angeles, CA, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2022 Oct 2022 · Paris, France
SEED SEED 2022 May 2022 · Arlington, VA, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2021 Sep 2021 · Virtual
SEED SEED 2021 Jun 2021 · Virtual
IWBDA IWBDA 2020 Jun 2020 · Worcester, MA, USA
Workshop Software for SynBio Workflows Jun 2020 · San Francisco, CA, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2019 Jul 2019 · Cambridge, UK
Workshop Software for SynBio Workflows Jun 2019 · New York, NY, USA
SEED SEED 2019 Jun 2019 · New York City, NY, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2018 Jul 2018 · Berkeley, CA, USA
SEED SEED 2018 Jun 2018 · Scottsdale, AZ, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2017 Aug 2017 · University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
SEED SEED 2017 Jun 2017 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SynBio Conf SB7.0 Jul 2017 · National University of Singapore
Seminar Living Computing Project May 2017 · Boston University, MA, USA
Seminar EMBL-EBI May 2017 · European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Seminar iBioK Feb 2017 · Kobe University, Japan
Conference IET/SynbiCITE Dec 2016 · London, UK
IWBDA IWBDA 2016 Aug 2016 · Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Seminar Nona Jul 2016 · Chicago, IL, USA
Conference ISMB 2016 Jul 2016 · Orlando, FL, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2015 Aug 2015 · University of Washington, WA, USA
SEED SEED 2015 Jun 2015 · Chicago, IL, USA
Conference ICSB 2014 Sep 2014 · Melbourne, Australia
SEED SEED 2014 Jul 2014 · Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2014 Jun 2014 · Boston, MA, USA
IWBDA IWBDA 2013 Jul 2013 · Imperial College, London, UK
SynBio Conf SB6.0 Jul 2013 · Imperial College, London, UK
Seminar Soundbiolab · University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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