Grapedia II: from Omics Data to Vineyard Impact

Grapedia II is an international symposium and workshop focused on how large-scale grapevine omics and functional datasets can be transformed into usable knowledge for cultivar improvement, vineyard performance, sustainability, and climate adaptation.

Building on the first Grapedia symposium, this meeting will bring together researchers working across grapevine genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, metabolomics, phenomics, genetics, functional genomics, gene characterisation, systems biology, bioinformatics, data science, and viticulture. The meeting will focus not only on generating new datasets, but on making these datasets structured, interoperable, interpretable, and useful through community resources such as Grapedia.

The symposium will be structured around three broad themes:
Day 1 — Data as a community resource
Day 2 — From data to biological insight
Day 3 — From knowledge to cultivar and vineyard impact

The programme will include keynote lectures, oral presentations, tool demonstrations, flash talks, and daily discussion sessions. We are aiming for a highly interactive meeting focussed on data-driven cultivar and viticultural improvement.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Dario Cantu
Jędrzej Jakub Szymanski
Camille Rustenholz
Alain Goossens
Yongfeng Zhou
David Navarro-Payá

Abstract submissions are welcomed across a broad range of data-driven and functional grapevine research, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, pangenomics, metabolomics, multi-omics integration, tools and platforms, functional genomics, phenomics, germplasm diversity, and vineyard performance.

Early-bird registration deadline: 27 November 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2027

Further information about the meeting, including registration, abstract submission, programme details, and venue information, is available here: https://grapedia.org/grapedia-second-meeting/