The Brazilian Conference on Bioinformatics
X-Meeting2027
June 8–11, 2027Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Four days of research, methods, and conversation across biology and computation.
Registration opens soon.
The largest bioinformatics conference in Brazil
For more than twenty years, X-Meeting has brought together the Brazilian and international bioinformatics community. Across its editions it has welcomed tens of thousands of researchers, students, and industry participants. In 2027 we expect 800 to 1,000 attendees in Niterói, on Guanabara Bay, for four days of research, methods, and conversation across biology and computation.
20+
years of editions
The national meeting of the Brazilian bioinformatics community for more than two decades.
Tens of thousands
of participants to date
Researchers, students, and industry across more than two decades of editions.
800–1,000
attendees expected in 2027
June 8–11, 2027, at the Distrito de Inovação da Cantareira, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.
Scientific scope
Provisional areas of interest. Conference tracks will be announced with the program.
Genomics
Genome assembly, variation, and comparative analysis
Single-cell and spatial analysis
Cell states, tissues, and spatial context
Structural bioinformatics
Protein structure, function, and interactions
Systems biology
Networks, pathways, and quantitative models
Biological AI
Machine learning on sequences, structures, and images
Reproducible methods
Workflows, software, and open data practice
Voices from past editions
A selection of the distinguished scientists who have spoken at previous editions of X-Meeting.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002
Kurt Wüthrich
ETH Zürich / Scripps ResearchSwitzerland / USA
Awarded the Nobel Prize for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1993
Richard J. Roberts
New England BiolabsUSA / United Kingdom
Awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of split genes (introns) and the mechanism of eukaryotic mRNA splicing.
Father of the Human Genome Project
Charles DeLisi
Boston UniversityUSA
Widely recognized as the father of the Human Genome Project, which he conceived, funded, and initiated during his tenure at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Co-author of the Smith–Waterman algorithm
Michael Waterman
University of Southern CaliforniaUSA
A founding father of computational biology who co-developed the Smith–Waterman local sequence alignment algorithm and the Lander–Waterman model for genome mapping.
Pioneer of protein crystallography
Sir Tom Blundell
University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
A pioneer in protein X-ray crystallography and structural bioinformatics who co-developed structural homology modeling methods and founded Astex Pharmaceuticals.
Structural biology of RNA
Elena Conti
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry / EMBLGermany
A world-leading structural biologist renowned for elucidating the atomic mechanisms of eukaryotic RNA transport, quality control, and exosome-mediated degradation.
Non-coding RNA and the end of “junk DNA”
John Mattick
UNSW Sydney / Garvan Institute of Medical ResearchAustralia
Revolutionized modern genomics by overturning the “junk DNA” dogma and showing that long non-coding RNAs form the regulatory architecture of complex organisms.
Reactome, IntAct, PRIDE, and BioModels
Henning Hermjakob
EMBL-EBIUnited Kingdom
Head of Molecular Systems at EMBL-EBI, leading global open-science bioinformatics infrastructures including Reactome, IntAct, PRIDE, and BioModels.
Keynote speaker, X-Meeting 2026
Alessandra Carbone
Sorbonne Université / Institut Universitaire de FranceFrance
Winner of the Joliot-Curie Prize, renowned for mathematical and machine learning models that predict protein–protein interactions, coevolving residues, and viral evolution.
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Meet at Cantareira
Cantareira Innovation District
Distrito de Inovação da Cantareira
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The district occupies the historic Cantareira station building on the shore of Guanabara Bay, for more than a century a departure point for crossing the bay. Today it connects universities, research centers, startups, companies, and public institutions around research, technology, and innovation.
Niterói lies across Guanabara Bay from the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Arrival and accommodation
Directions, local transport, and accommodation guidance will be published here once confirmed.
Join us in June 2027
June 8–11, 2027 · Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
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