Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2025/2026

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2025

11 - 15 August

Montpellier, France - La 17e édition du colloque international
Ecology & Behaviour (E&B) - info

11 - 15 August

Troms, Norway - Field course: Northern Biodiversity Hotspots, Flora of Skibotn and surroundings - info

12 - 15 August

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn UNESCO World Heritage, Switzerland - Conference/workshop on “The evolutionary consequences of unintended artificial selection on population viability” in the Swiss Alps - info

15 - 25 August

Portal, USA - Bee Course (ten-day workshop) - info

17 - 22 August

Barcelona, Spain - ESEB 2025 (Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology) - info

17 - 22 August

Venice, Italy - Venice Summer School 2025: Emergence & Evolution of Multi-Level Regulatory Systems - info

18 August

Wales, UK & Bluesky #BOUatEOU - WOODLAND BIRDS - one-day symposium at 15th European Ornithologists' Congress - info

18 - 22 August

Wales, UK - 15th European Ornithologists' Congress - info

18 - 22 August

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Analysing Biodiversity Through Time and Space Using R - info

25 - 28 August

Madrid, Spain - Journal of Molecular Evolution: A European Meeting - info

27 August - 11 September

The Lake District – University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus, UK - Field workshop on the taxonomy and natural history of freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna - info

28 - 30 August

Woods Hole, USA - Mobile Genetic Elements meeting - info

1 - 5 September

PE&RC course (location yet unknown) - Soil Biology Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions - info

1 - 12 September

Wageningen, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - The Art of Modelling - info

5 - 19 September

Instats - Live Streaming Course - Single-Cell Analysis
with Bioconductor (Sep 5th, Sep 12th, Sep 19th) - info

7 - 11 September

Ferrara, Italy - SIBE (Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology) Summer School - info

8 - 9 September

London, UK - Annual Meeting Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology (MASAMB) 2025 - info

8 - 10 September

Warsaw, Poland - Polish Evolutionary Conference - info

8 - 11 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Invasion Genomics in R - info

8 - 12 September

Florence, Italy - EMBO Practical Course on Genome sequencing, assembly, curation, and downstream analyses - info

8 - 12 September

Aussois, France - Fifth edition of the Software and Statistical Methods for Population Genomics (SSMPG) summer school - info

9 - 11 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - AI for Genomics: From CNNS and LSTMS to Transformers - info

15 September

PR Stats - LIVE COURSE – Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Communities Using R With The VEGAN package (VGNR08) - info

15 - 17 September

Ede, The Netherlands - 2nd EPS Summer school "Plant Development" - info

15 - 19 September

Roscoff, France - Evolutionary and ecological genomics of polyploidy in plants:temporal dynamics across scales of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems - info

15 - 19 September

Werbellinsee, Germany - Ecological immunology workshop - info

15 - 19 September

PR Stats - LIVE COURSE – Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Communities Using R With The VEGAN package (VGNR08) - info

15 - 24 September

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Python Machine Learning in Biology - info (September 15th, 17th, 19th, 22th, and 24th)

17 - 19 September

Cardiff, UK - Annual meeting/conference #EGG2025 (Ecological Genetics SIG) - On scales of time - info

22 - 24 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Species Distribution
Modeling with Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (BART) Methods - info

22 - 26 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Population Genomics using ancient DNA Data - info

22 September - 1 October

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Network Analysis and Modelling (September 22nd, 24th, 26th, and 29th & October 1st, 2025) - info

22 September - 3 October

PE&RC - ONLINE COURSE - Structural Equation Modelling - info

26 - 27 September

Leuven, Belgium - Workshop: “Behavior Across the Tree of Life: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges” - info

29 September - 2 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Assembling Genomes with Oxford Nanopore: A Hands-On Guide to Long-Read Sequencing - info

29 September - 3 October

Cape Town, South Africa - Joint meeting between 2 highly impactful networks, the GGBN (Global Genome Biodiversity Network) and the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) - info

29 September - 3 October

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course Theoretical Ecology: Bifurcations in dynamical systems - info

30 September - 2 October

Mainz, Germany - Workshop: The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the interdisciplinary divide - info

1 -10 October

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Bioinformatic tools for transcriptomic data analyses (October 1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 10th) - info

3 - 5 October

Tremont, USA - 52nd annual Southeastern Population, Ecological, and Evolutionary Genetics meeting (SEPEEG, pronounced "seepage") - info

6 - 10 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Sex Chromosome Evolution - info

6 - 17 October

Paris, France - Free Taxonomic training workshop in Paris on black corals (Antipatharia) - info

7 October

Wageningen, The Netherlands - EPS Theme day 2 '“Interactions between Plants and Biotic Agents' - info

7 - 16 October

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to the Analysis of Morphological Disparity (October 7th, 9th, 14th, and 16th) - info

9 - 11 October

Barcelona, Spain - EMBO workshop "Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life" - info

13 - 15 October

Houston, USA - LIVE and ONLINE SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides - info

13 - 16 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to CRISPR for Ecology and Evolution Studies - info

13 - 17 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Environmental Metagenomics - info

15 - 16 October

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - Annual SORTEE conference (The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) - info

20 - 23 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Population Genomic Inference from Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing Data - info

20 - 24 October

Roscoff, France - Jaques Monod Conference - A multidimensional view of speciation: bridging micro and macro-evolution - info

20 - 24 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Autumn School in Bioinformatics,
designed to introduce researchers to the concepts and practical skills needed for analysing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data - info

23 October

Nijmegen, The Netherlands - EPS Theme day 3: Metabolism and Adaptation - info

24 October

Groningen, The Netherlands - National Open Science Festival - info

27 - 29 October

Cambridge (Wellcome Genome Campus), UK - Understanding Life: Using Large scale Biodiversity Reference Genomes” - info

27 - 29 October

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE -  Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R (October 27th and 29th) - info

27 - 30 October

Crete, Greece - The Brain Conference: Principles of the Adaptive Mind - info

27 - 30 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - An Introduction to Nanopore Direct RNA Sequencing (RNA004) - info

27 - 31 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - RAD-seq Data Analysis - info

27 October - 7 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Bayesian
phylogenetic inference with BEAST2 (October 27th, 29th, and 31st & November 3rd, 5th, and 7th) - info

3 - 7 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Bioinformatic Analysis of Transposable Elements - info

3 - 7 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Deep Learning for Biologists - info

3 - 7 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Museomics: An Introduction to Genomic Analyses of Natural History Collections - info

3 - 14 November

PE&RC - ONLINE COURSE - Postgraduate course Intermediate Programming in R - info

4 November

Wageningen, The Netherlands - EPS Theme day 4 'Genome Biology and Gene Regulation' - info

4 - 5 November

Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain - International Symposium: “Coastal Resilience: Mitigating Threats for Healthy Oceans” - info

6 - 7 November

Wageningen, The Netherlands - PE&RC Course - Genome Assembly - info

10 November

Utrecht, The Netherlands - EPS Theme 1 – Developmental Biology of Plants - info

10 - 19 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Model-Based Statistical Inference in Evolutionary Biogeography (November 10th, 12th, 14th, 17th, and 19th) - info

11 - 13 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Environmental variables: how to download and process them with R (November 11th and 13th) - info

12 - 14 November

Vila do Conde, Portugal - conference/workshop on the use of Ancestral Recombination Graphs in the study of evolution - info

13 - 14 November

Leiden & Utrecht, The Netherlands - TOPX Summit - Leading Together in Life Sciences & Health: Building High-Performing Teams to Drive Innovation and Benefit Society - info

13 - 14 November

Animal Behaviour Live (an international online platform dedicated to promoting sustainable, inclusive, and accessible scientific events) - Annual Online Conference - info

16 - 21 November

Ede, The Netherlands - Crop Physiology: Drivers of adaptation to change - info

17 - 19 November

GADMA Workshop - ONLINE - Workshop on Demographic Inference from genomic data! - info

17 -21 November

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - Chemical Communication in the Anthropocene: Concepts and Methods - info

17 - 28 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Finite Element Analysis Applied to Life Sciences (November 17th, 19th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 28th) - info

18 November

London, UK (Online & Bluesky) - A day at the museum - #BOUasm25 - BOU autumn 2025 conference - info

19 - 20 November

Wageningen, The Netherlands - EPS Course 'CRISPR/Cas Technology – From Innovation to Communication' - info

20 November

Linnean Society of London, UK - One-day symposium - Hybrid Day Meeting - Organismal resilience in a rapidly changing world - info

25 - 28 November

Brisbane, Australia - West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium - info

27 November

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 28th edition Current Themes in Ecology - Increasing Human Health: Nature as Solution - info

7 - 12 December

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - No Frontiers in Microbial Ecology: The role of microbiomes in a sustainable
future for our planet - info

7 - 14 December

Pretoria, South-Africa - ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course/Workshop, South Africa 2025 - info

8 - 11 December

Kunming, China - AsiaEvo Conference - 'The Evolution
and Development of Animal Appendages' - info

8 - 12 December

Banyuls-sur-Mer, Frane - ATLASea Winter School 2025: From Sampling to Reference Genome Acquisition - info

10 - 12 December

Utrecht, The Netherlands - EPS workshop 'Transcription factors and transcriptional regulation' - info

11 - 18 December

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Naturalistic and Scientific Illustration 1: Traditional Techniques (December 11th, 15th, and 18th) - info

12 - 19 December

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Proteomic Methods for Species Identification of Archaeological and Palaeontological Materials (December 12th, 15th, 17th, and 19th) - info

2026

25 - 30 January

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Life History Theory - info will follow

17 February - 6 March

Berlin, Germany - Course on Programming for Evolutionary Biology - info

15 - 20 March

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Spatial Ecology - info will follow

30 - 31 March

Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands - Annual Meeting Experimental Plant Science 2026 - info

31 March -
2 April

Nottingham, UK (Zoom & Bluesky) - Birds and people - BOU2026 Annual Conference - info

12 - 17 April

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - New Frontiers in Microbial Ecology & Climate change - info will follow

28 June -
1 July

Copenhagen, Denmark - Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2026) - info will follow

24 - 26 August

Utrecht, The Netherlands - Summer school 'Environmental Signaling in Plants' - info