ABACBS 2025 will be held in Adelaide at the iconic Adelaide Oval during the week of November 24, 2025.
We are delighted to be celebrating our 10th in person ABACBS conference this year. The 2025 ABACBS conference will be taking place on Kaurna country. We pay respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The program will follow our traditional format:
Monday, Nov 24 – COMBINE, the EMCR Shark Tank and Symposium on Bioinformatics and Engineered Intelligence (SBEI)
Tuesday & Wednesday, Nov 25–26 – Main ABACBS conference with multiple parallel sessions.
Thursday & Friday, Nov 27–28 – Hands-on workshops to be held at Flinders University City Plaza in the Adelaide CBD.
Key Dates:
July 4th - EOIs to host workshop open
July 8th - Registrations open
July 11th - Abstract submissions open for ABABCS & COMBINE
August 1st - Deadline for EOI to host a workshop
August 8th - Deadline for abstract submissions
August 15th - Extended deadline for abstract submissions! One extension only!
August 21st - Notification of workshop EOI outcomes
August 28th - Notification of workshop EOI outcomes. (We received more applications than anticipated so figuring out some logistics)
September 2nd - Workshop schedule announced.
September 25th - Notification of abstract outcomes
October 3rd - Early Bird Registrations Close
November 24th - ABACBS 2025 begins!
Invited Speakers
ABACBS 2025 is possible thanks to our generous sponsors:
We greatly appreciate the commitment of all our sponsors to supporting and advancing our community. Click on the logo above to be taken to their homepage. If you are interested in supporting this meeting please contact:
conference@abacbs.org or committee@abacbs.org
ABACBS is also delighted to support and partner with The Australasian Human Microbiome Research Network (AHMRN). The AHMRN 2025 symposium will be held on Friday 28th of November 9am to 12:30pm in the Adelaide CBD. We have scheduled our microbiome focused workshops/events around this enabling participants to attend both. For more details click here
Conference organising committee:
Jimmy Breen, Anna Sheppard, Katherine Pillman, Robert Edwards (ABACBS 2025 Co-convenors)
Holly Massacci, George Bouras, Muneeza Maqsood (COMBINE 2025 co-convenors)
Rose Senesi (Events manager)
Jean Yang (ABACBS 2024 co-convenor)
Feargal Ryan
Stevie Pederson
Nora Liu
Belinda Cornes
Liza Kretzschmar
Melanie Smith
Jacqueline Rehn
Paul Wang
Michael Roach
Ning Liu
Monika Mohenska
Ben Curran
Stefano Mangiola
Ashlee Thomson
Nick Warnock
Fuyi Li
Lex Leong
Bhavya Papudeshi
Chung Kok
Vijini Mallawaarachchi
Yassine Souilmi
Kelly Ren