The 2025 SoS Committee and Boston University Bioinformatics Program are pleased to announce that this year's seventeenth annual BU Student-organized Symposium (BU SoS) will be held in person on Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, from 9 AM to 5 PM. Graduate students organize every aspect of this symposium, from nominating and inviting keynote speakers to planning the schedule of events. Join us for an exciting lineup of invited speakers, lightning talks, and poster presentations on student research!

Register to attend the event using the link under the event description. A general outline of the day’s events will be sent out to registrants.

Submit an abstract for the student poster/lightning talk competition by Tuesday, May 13th: https://forms.gle/1uE8mvoxXfyQ856K8.

SoS 2025 Distinguished Speakers:

- Evan Appleton: Boston University Bioinformatics PhD Program Alum (2015), Head of Stem Cell Biology / Reprogramming & Principal Scientist at Colossal Biosciences.

- Samuel L. Díaz Muñoz: Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at University of California, Davis.

- Julia Salzman: Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Biochemistry at Stanford University.

- Brian Chen: Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute Affiliate, University of California San Francisco.

- Sean Gibbons: Associate Professor, Institute of Systems Biology.

2025 Student Organizing Committee: Jillian Petrosky, Joseline Velasquez-Reyes, Steph Hao, Sarah Bald, Alec Candib, Dillon Scott.