List of participants on January 27, 2021
| Paola | Bonizzoni | University of Milan-Bicocca |
| Gianluca | Della Vedova | University of Milan-Bicocca |
| Yuri | Pirola | University of Milan-Bicocca |
| Raffella | Rizzi | University of Milan-Bicocca |
| Simone | Ciccolella | University of Milan-Bicocca |
| Yoshihiro | Shibuya | Université Gustave Eiffel |
| Priyadarshini | Thirunavukkarasu | National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences |
| Pierre | Peterlongo | Inria |
| Rayan | Chikhi | Institut Pasteur |
| Djamal | Belazzougui | CERIST |
| Karel | Břinda | Harvard Medical School |
| Matthias | Zytnicki | INRAE |
| Travis | Gagie | Dalhousie University |
| Massimiliano | Rossi | University of Florida |
| Jens | Stoye | Bielefeld University |
| Riccardo | Vicedomini | Institut Pasteur |
| Finlay | Maguire | Dalhousie University |
| Sven | Rahmann | Univresity of Duisburg-Essen |
| Rob | Patro | University of Maryland |
| Simon | Puglisi | University of Helsinki |
| Hideo | Bannai | Tokyo Medical and Dental University |
| Paul | Medvedev | Penn State University |
| Diana | Haider | Dalhousie University |
| Miria | Bernardino | Phd candidate at Dalhousie University |
| Dominik | Köppl | Tokyo Medical and Dental University |
| Jin Jie | Deng | student |
| Luca | Denti | Institut Pasteur |
| Tizian | Schulz | Bielefeld University |
| Somayeh | Kafaie | Dalhousie University |
| Atefe | Gilvari | Dalhousie University |
| Eric | Rivals | LIRMM - CNRS Univ Montpellier |
| Dick | de Ridder | Wageningen University |
| Jouni | Sirén | UC Santa Cruz |
| Nicola | Cotumaccio | Gran Sasso Science Institute |
| Nicola | Prezza | Ca’ Foscari university of Venice |
| Alexandru | Tomescu | University of Helsinki |
| Giuseppe | Romana | Università degli Studi di Palermo |
| Jens | Zentgraf | TU Dortmund University |
| Yoann | Dufresne | Institut Pasteur |
| Sebastian | Schmidt | University of Helsinki |
| Jasmijn | Baaijens | Harvard Medical School |
| Herman | Perera | University of Florida |
| Luc | Blassel | Institut Pasteur |
| Agnieszka | Danek | Silesian University of Technology |
| Leena | Salmela | University of Helsinki |
| Marinella | Sciortino | University of Palermo |
| Jamshed | Khan | University of Maryland |
| Sara | Giuliani | University of Verona |
| Lucas | Robidou | Inria |
| Garance | Gourdel | IRISA - Inria Rennes - ENS Ulm |
| Konogan | Bourhy | CNRS |
| Claire | Lemaitre | Inria Rennes |
| Till | Hartmann | Genome Informatics, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen, University Hospital Essen |
| Miika | Leinonen | University of Helsinki |
| Gregory | Kucherov | CNRS, University Gustave-Eiffel |
| Marco | Sohn | SANS |
| Lucas | Pansani Ramos | Universidade Estadual de Campinas |
| Bastien | Cazaux | LIRMM, Montpellier |
| Chloe | Bessiere | IRMB |
| Manuel | Cáceres | University of Helsinki |
| Davide | Cenzato | University of Verona |
| Tomas | Vinar | Comenius University |
| Askar | Gafurov | Comenius University |
| Ann-Cathrin | Groba | Bielefeld University |
| Roland | Wittler | Bielefeld University |
| Brona | Brejova | Comenius University |
| Vladimir | Boza | Comenius University |
| Andrej | Baláž | Comenius University |
| Andreas | Rempel | Bielefeld University |
| Peter | Peresini | Comenius University |
| Thomas | Krannich | Berlin Institute of Health |
| Younan | Gao | Dalhousie University |
| Marco | Oliva | University of Florida |
| Camila | Duitama | Institut Pasteur |
| Téo | Lemane | Inria |
| Bella | Zhukova | University of Helsinki |
| Jarno | Alanko | University of Helsinki |
| Pierre | Morisse | INRIA - GenScale |
| Pina | Krell | University Bielefeld |
| Benoit | Guibert | IRMB |
| Amatur | Rahman | The Pennsylvania State University |
| David | Koslicki | Penn State University |
| Mayank | Murali | Penn State University |
| Mingfu | Shao | Penn State University |
| Xiang | Li | Penn State University |
| Carl | Zang | Penn State University |
| Adrián | Goga | Comenius University |
| Qi min | Zhang | Penn State University |
| Qian | Shi | Pennsylvania State University |
| Hugues | Richard | Robert Koch Institute, Berlin |
| Zsuzsanna | Lipták | University of Verona |