We had wonderful days at GCB 2024 in Bielefeld. The group was very active:

• We organized a workshop on Just-in-time compiled Python for bioinformatics research.
• Sven co-organized the workshop on Bioinformatics Education, attempting to harmonize BSc curricula in Germany.
• Johanna presented a poster on the unseen species estimation problem.
• Jens gave a highly praised talk on efficiently computing strong vs. weak k-mers in large k-mer sets. We can mark weak k-mers in the human reference genome in 40 seconds.
• We also announced that we will host GCB in Saarbrücken in 2026.