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2026
16 - 17 April
Bath, UK - Meeting on ‘Insect Infection, Immunity and Microbionts’ - info
17 - 19 April
Mertola, Portugal - Mertola Evolution Conference 2026 edition: Natural selection in the wild - info
17 - 19 April
Sierra Nevada Research Station, Wawona, Yosemite National Park, USA - The 14th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop 2026 - An integrative meeting of biologists focusing on symbiosis research - info
22 - 23 April
Lund, Sweden - SHOW: Simultaneously Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop - info
24 - 27 April
Taipei, Taiwan - EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions" - info
29 - 30 April
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - Two-day symposium on "Ecology and Evolution in the Anthropocene" - info
30 April -
2 May
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada - Ontario Ecology, Ethology and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C) - The theme of this year's conference is 'Co-existing within nature' - info
4 - 8 May
Heraklion, Crete, Greece - Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology (MCEB) - info
6 - 8 May
Oslo, Norway - Sparrow Meeting 2026 - info
11 - 15 May
Memphis, TN, USA - Conference Memphis Pangenomics 2026 (MemPanG26) - info
15 May –
31 July
University of Connecticut, Mansfield, USA - Introduction to R Workshop - info
18 - 22 May
Paris, France - SLiM workshop (SLiM is a free, open-source evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios) - info
19 - 20 May
Genome Annotation Workshop - VIRTUAL with LIVE instruction - info
19 - 22 May
Kelowna, BC, Canada - 33rd International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses conference (hybrid) - info
28 - 29 May
Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands - NWO Life 2026 - info
1 - 3 June
Plön, Germany - Workshop: Women In Evolutionary Biology II - info
1 - 5 June
Bordeaux, France - Bordeaux Summer School - Philosophy in biology and medicine - info
2 -5 June
Oeiras, Portugal - EMBO Workshop (HYBRID WORKSHOP) "The rules of the game: biophysical and molecular principles in cellular evolution" - info
8 - 12 June
Berlin, Germany - Conference Biodiversity Exploratories 20 (BE20) - info
9 - 12 June
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - 10th European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting 2026 *(Euro Evo Devo 2026) - info
9 - 12 June
Pacific Grove, USA - The 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference - info
13 - 19 June
Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden - Midwater Science and Engineering Community Conference (MidSEC) - info
13 - 20 June
Guarda, Switzerland - Summer School in Evolutionary Biology - info
15 - 17 June
Prague, Czech Republic - JME: A Road to LUCA - Symposium 'Filling the gap between prebiotic chemistry and life as we know it' - info
15 - 19 June
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Course: Introduction to Viral Bioinformatics - info
15 - 19 June
Tartu, Estonia - SLiM workshop (SLiM is a free, open-source evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios) - info
15 - 19 June
Quebec City, Canada - North American Forest Genetics
Society (NAFGS) Conference. Conference Theme: Connecting Research Across Scales & Disciplines to Uncover Species’ Evolutionary Potential & Strengthen Forest Resilience - info
15 - 22 June
Campania, Italy - EMBO Practical Course "Population Genomics: background and tools" - info
20 - 24 June
Cleveland, USA - Evolution 2026 (joint meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution) - info 
21 - 27 June
Owens Valley Station, near Bishop, USA - Workshop in phylogenetic comparative methods for early career
biomechanists - info
23 - 26 June
Stockholm, Sweden - first International Conference on
Palaeogenomics - info
28 June -
1 July
New York, USA - ICCFGG conference featuring sessions on canine and
feline population genomics and evolution - info
28 June -
2 July
Copenhagen, Denmark - Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2026) - info
29 June -
1 July
London (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), UK - HYBRID EVENT - Symposium International State of the World’s Plants and Fungi - info
29 June -
3 July
Cornwall, UK - Evolution x Ecology 2026 Conference - info
29 June -
3 July
Tours, France - XIII European Congress of Entomology (ECE 2026) - info
29 June -
3 July
Montpellier, France - 11th meeting of the European Federation
for Primatology - info
6 - 9 July
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Zoonoses, AMR, and BioInformatics (ZAMBI) meeting (The meeting will cover evolutionary topics related to emerging zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, and bioinformatics.  We aim to have a strong trainee focus complemented by talks from leading Canadian researchers and training workshops on topics such as research data management and outbreak response) - info
6 - 10 July
Mersin, Turkey - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium (EEBST) - info
6 - 17 July
Budapest, Hungary - Biomedical Data Science Summer School and Conference - info
6 - 18 July
Bath, UK - Computational and experimental microbiomics course - info
8 - 10 July
Vila do Conde (near Porto), Portugal - Conference on the evolutionary role of structural variation - info
12 - 16 July
Washington, USA - Conference Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)
(the flagship conference of the International Society of Computational Biology) - info
14 - 18 July
Cincinnati Ohio, USA - Animal Behavior Society Conference - info
14 - 15 July
Washington, USA - The 27th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2026) - info
15 - 17 July
Reading, UK - Annual meeting of the British Ecological Society’s Macroecology and Macroevolution Special Interest Group - info
20 - 27 July
Monterrey, Mexico - RADSeq wetlab & bioinformatics workshop - info
20 - 31 July
Berlin, Germany - Berlin Summer Course in Flower Morphology and Angiosperm Diversification - info
26 - 30 July
Saskatoon, Canada - International Association for Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) Congress - info
27 - 31 July
Monte Verità, Switzerland - Microbial Predation Conference 2026 - info
28 - 31 July
Kiel, Northern Germany (directly on the coast of the Baltic
Sea) - Annual meeting of the International Society of Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH) - info
3 - 4 August
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ICBEE 2026: International Conference on Biological and Environmental Engineering - info
3 - 13 August
Vale Natural Reserve (RNV) in Linhares, Espirito Santo, Brazil - International course 'Recent Advances in Conservation Genetics (ConGen Global)' - info
16 - 20 August
Freiburg, Germany - 20th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) - info
17 - 21 August
Reykjavik, Iceland, SLiM workshop (SLiM is a free, open-source evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios) - info
24 - 26 August
Utrecht, The Netherlands - Summer school 'Environmental Signaling in Plants' - info
26 - 28 August
Antwerp, Belgium (with access to Antwerp Zoo) - 7th European Conservation Genetics Meeting - info
2 - 4 September
Antwerp, Belgium - Cichlid Science Meeting 2026 - info
6 - 10 September
Firenze, Italy - Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology congress - info
29 September
York, UK (Zoom & Bluesky) - Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity | #BOUasm26 - BOU autumn 2026 conference - info
4 - 9 October
The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE Course 'New Frontiers in microbial ecology & Climate change' - More info will follow
4 - 10 October
Mallorca, Spain - MAllorca Science School - Workshop: Balearic Isle Island Conservation - info
6 - 9 October
Białowieża, Poland - Białowieża Ecology Conference (BEC) - info
11 - 16 October
Hixton, Cambridge, UK - Scalable Genomics and Pangenomics workshop - info
12 - 14 October
Plön, Germany (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) - Symposium “Tracing Evolution through Cell Lineages” - info
13 - 14 October
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - Annual SORTEE conference (The Society/for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) - info
2 - 6 November
Roscoff, France - Jacques Monod Conference on the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions - info
2 - 6 November
Bangkok, Thailand - 10th International Barcode of Life
Conference - info
14 - 17 November
Singapore - Third Asian Ornithological Conference (AOC) - info
2027
8 - 12 January
Glen Cove, New York, USA - Symposia at the ASN stand-alone meeting in Long Island (East Coast meeting American Society of Naturalists) - info
6 - 8 April
Nottingham, UK (Zoom & Bluesky) - Avian disease ecology - BOU2027 Annual Conference - info
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