BioC 2020: Where Software and Biology Connect

When: July 27 - 31, 2020
What: Community/Developer Day, Main Conference
Where: Virtual Conference
Slack: Bioconductor Team (#bioc2020 channel)
Twitter: #bioc2020

Sponsor Opportunities

Interested in sponsoring this conference?
Please contact Martin.Morgan@RoswellPark.org

Your sponsorship will help increase diversity and representation at Bioconductor 2020 by:

• Funding travel scholarships for students and postdoctoral fellows.
• Providing caregiver awards to assist in childcare or eldercare costs (new in 2020).
• Offering student diversity scholarships to increase participation of underrepresented minorities (new in 2020).
• Keeping registration costs affordable for academic participants.

Three levels of sponsorship are available. Sponsors of all levels may present a poster highlighting the scientific interests of their organization in the poster sessions.

Platinum: $10,000 USD

• Poster session will be named after these donors.
• Highest recognition, using your logo, in the online and print promotional and scheduling material.
• Two invitations to attend the speaker dinner.
• Up to 8 free registrations.
• A thank-you tweet including your preferred Twitter handle.
• A table during the poster session and social hours.

Gold: $5,000 USD

• Top recognition, using your logo, in the online and print conference promotional and scheduling material.
• Up to 5 free registrations.
• A thank-you tweet including your preferred Twitter handle.
• A table during the poster session and social hours.

Silver: $1,000 USD

• Sponsor names will be listed in the online and print promotional and scheduling material.
• Academic discount on 2 registrations.
• A thank-you tweet including your preferred Twitter handle.

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Approximate conference demographics

• 150+ participants from the global bioinformatics community.

• Academic (50%), corporate (e.g., pharmaceutical; 30%); not-for-profit (e.g., Cancer Center; 15%), and government (5%) participants.

• Lab / group leaders (10%), postdoctoral researchers (40%), bioinformatics core staff (20%), and graduate students (30%).

• PhD (60%), MS (20%), and other degrees.

• Thought leaders contributing to leading-edge methodological development, hands-on practitioners incorporating R / Bioconductor into robust work flows, and researchers developing bespoke solutions.