Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2025/2026

2025

24 - 27 June

St. Andrews, Scotland - Short and long time-scales in Speciation Genomics: Machine Learning approaches - info

25 - 27 June

Paris, France - 10th edition of Nanotech France 2025 Int. conference and exhibition - info

29 June -
9 July

Gansu, China - PE&RC course - Sustainable Cropping Systems at different levels of integration - info

30 June -
3 July

Plön, Germany - Workshop Evolutionary Rescue - bridging the gap between theory and experiments - info

30 June -
4 July

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Statistical Analyses with R - info

30 June -
4 July

Lisbon, Portugal - cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - Advanced R for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - info

July

Gabon, Central Africa - The Field School in Tropical Ecology (ECOTROP) - A National Science Foundation supported eight-week summer field course in tropical ecology and conservation- info

1 - 3 July

Leicester, UK - Workshop Statistical Mechanics of the Climate System and of Ecosystems - info

1 - 4 July

Wageningen, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - Bayesian Statistics - info

2 - 15 July

Kruger National Park, South Africa - African Field School on Design and Analysis of Camera Trap Studies 2025 - info

3 - 6 July

Athens, Greece - International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR) - info

6 - 19 July

Lisbon, Portugal - SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - info

7 - 9 July

Poznan, Poland - Poznan Summer School of Bioinformatics; Oxford Nanopore sequencing: data analysis and applications - info

7 - 9 July

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Reproducibility in Bioinformatics - info

7 - 10 July

Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland, Aotearoa - New Zealand - Genetics Society Australasia (GSA) Conference - info

8 - 10 July

Nashville, USA - ISEMPH 2025 (International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health) - info

9 - 11 July

Ankara, Turkey - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium - info

12 - 13 July

Nashville, USA - “Monkey” Trial Centennial Symposium - info

13 - 18 July

Lucca, Tuscany, Italy - Gordon Research Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics - info

13 - 18 July

Florence, Italy - International conference on statistical Physics-Statphys - info will follow

13 - 18 July

San Jose, USA - Workshop in phylogenetic comparative methods for early career biomechanists - info

14 - 18 July

Beijing, China - Taming the BEAST" summer school - info

14 - 18 July

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Eukaryotic (eDNA) Metabarcoding - info

20 - 24 July

Beijing, China - Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2025) - info

21 - 24 July

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Conservation Genomics - info

21 - 25 July

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Generalised Additive Mixed Models (GAMM): modelling space-time correlation structures - info (July 21st, 23rd, and 25th)

21 - 25 July

Lisbon, Portugal - cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - Measuring Biodiversity: How to get data, assess its quality and measure different aspects of diversity - info

28 July -
5 August

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Geometric Morphometrics in R - info

28 July -
8 August

Berlin, Germany - Summer Course in Flower Morphology and Angiosperm diversification - info

3 - 9 August

Pantanal, Brazil - Metabarcoding Course - info will follow

7 - 8 August

Berlin, Germany - Free workshop - Demographic Resilience of wild animals - info

11 - 15 August

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

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

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

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 - 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

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 - 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 September - 3 October

PE&RC - ONLINE COURSE - Structural Equation Modelling - 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

9 - 11 October

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

15 - 16 October

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

20 - 24 October

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

3 - 14 November

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

18 November

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

8 - 12 December

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

2026

17 February - 6 March

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

31 March -
2 April

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

28 June -
1 July

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