GPN 2025 Annual Meeting

Registration and check-in is available at the Registration Table in the main entryway/hallway.

Come and enjoy lunch before heading out to one of Monday afternoon's workshops or meetings.
Lunch will be served in rooms 204/208. Attendees are invited to take their meals and enjoy in general session room 220/230 until meeting time begins at 1:00 pm.

Meeting of the GPN Security Committee

Meeting of the GPN Cyberinfrastructure Program and Cyberteam Engagement Committee.

Meeting of the GPN Network Technical Advisory Committee..

NTAC meeting

Check-in for all sponsors and exhibitors. Afterwards you may prepare your assigned booth. Please contact GPN staff if you have any questions or special needs.

This carpentry style hands-on workshop introduces participants to Nextflow, a powerful workflow management system for building reproducible bioinformatics pipelines. The workshop will also be useful for researchers creating workflows in other domains. Participants will learn core Nextflow concepts—such as processes, channels, and operators—through a hands-on example that uses Illumina short-read data from Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 2.The workshop will guide attendees through creating a complete genomic data processing pipeline that performs quality control with FastQC, read preprocessing with BBDuk, and genome size estimation using GenomeScope. By the end of this four-hour session, participants will understand how to structure bioinformatics workflows in Nextflow, manage inputs and outputs between analytical steps, and implement best practices for pipeline organization. No prior experience with workflow managers is required, however, basic command-line skills are necessary. This workshop emphasizes practical skills that participants can immediately apply to their own research projects.

Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with the command line (bash) is recommended.

Important A laptop is required to participate. ISU students can borrow a laptop through the library’s Tech Lending program.

Max Participants: Around 25–30 would be ideal to ensure a hands-on, interactive experience.

NOTE: you will need to register separately for this workshop officially at Eventbrite at this link: https://GPN2025AM.eventbrite.com Just add them to your cart (if you are already registered for the meeting), they are free to you), and check out.

This will be an introduction to CISA, who we are and what we do. This will be followed by an overview of the current cybersecurity landscape and current threats. I will then present the no-cost, voluntary resources available to help you mitigate those threats and enhance your cyber resiliency. 

Please meet out at the Shuttle in front of Scheman Building front entrance by 3:15 pm.
A Shuttle will take you to the food sciences building and back.
At the end of the tour there is a chance to purchase ice cream.

Love ICE CREAM???
Come visit the Creamery in Ames on the historic Iowa State University campus. Find us on the second floor of the Food Sciences Building, room number 2955. We are excited to teach you about the creamery! Below is a general outline of our tour. ISU Creamery Employees will lead this tour:
1) The shuttle will drop you by the large soybean at the east entrance inside the Food Sciences Building.
2) Visit the courtyard to discuss the history of the ISU Creamery.
3) Visit the micro-creamery to learn how we make ice cream and cheese.
4)Visit the retail store to learn about our student staff and the opportunity for guests to purchase products in the store.

Check out the online store where you can buy products made by ISU students:
https://store.creamery.iastate.edu/products

All registered conference attendees and sponsors are invited to our Opening Night Reception held at Reiman Gardens. The event promises to be an evening of socializing, meeting new people, and reconnecting with others whom you may have not seen for some time. Platinum sponsor Juniper Networks is sponsoring our dinner and sponsor Cloudflare is sponsoring our drinks for the evening.

There will be a welcome during the reception and we will hear from Executive Director of Great Plains Network, Mickey Slimp, Tara Scrivens, Senior Named Account Executive, from co-sponsor Cloudflare along with Mike Newcomb, Field CTO - Higher Education, from co-sponsor Juniper Networks.

Registered attendees may bring a guest by purchasing a guest ticket during registration or at the Monday night Reception check-in table. Dress during the reception will be business casual. Only ages 21 and up please.