Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2025/2026

2025

May / June

ONLINE preparatory courses and language training - The Field School in Tropical Ecology (ECOTROP) / National Science Foundation supported eight-week summer field course
in tropical ecology and conservation - info

5 - 8 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Network Analysis in R - info

5 - 9 May

Lisbon, Portugal - cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - Speaking “nature”: Methods for measuring the impact of environmental pollution on ecosystems - info

5 - 14 May

Transmitting Science - ONLINE COURSE - Manipulation of NGS Data for Genomic and Population Genetics Analyses - info

6 & 8 May

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Evaluating and validating species distribution models with R - info

6 - 9 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Machine Learning
Methods for Longitudinal Data with Python - info

7 - 8 May

Edinburgh, UK - SHOW (Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop) - info

7 May -
28 May

MAYosis webinar series, which will be held on four consecutive Wednesdays from May 7th through May 28th, 2025. Talks will begin promptly at 4 PM - info

11 - 22 May

Crete, Greece - 15th summer school on Computational
Molecular Evolution funded by EMBO Practical Courses - info

12 - 16 May

Granada, Spain - Conference Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology (MCEB) - info

12 - 16 May

Didcot, UK - EMBO Practical Course: Transposable Elements in the Era of Data Science! - info

12 - 16 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Phylogenetic Comparative methods in R - info

12 - 16 May

Lisbon, Portugal - cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - Hands on Functional Diversity: from Ecological Indicators to Ecosystem Services - info

12 - 21 May

Transmitting Science course - LIVE ONLINE - "Modelling and Analysing Multivariate Traits Evolution using R" (4th edition) - info

19 - 21 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Spatial Omics in R/Bioconductor - info

19 - 22 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Genome Annotation - info

21 - 27 May

Transmitting Science course - LIVE ONLINE - Introduction to Palaeogenomics - info

26 - 30 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Population Genomics - info

26 May -
4 June

Transmitting Science course - LIVE ONLINE - Mapping Trait Evolution - info

27 - 28 May

Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands - NWO Life 2025 - The Essentials of Life - info

27 - 29 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Ancient Metagenomics - info

29 - 30 May

Virtual conference - Evolution 2025 (joint meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution) - info

1 - 6 June

Hinxton, UK - K-mer workshop for biodiversity genomics hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science! - info

2 - 5 June

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Network Analysis in Systems Biology with R/Bioconductor - info

2 - 6 June

Milovy, Czechia - European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB30) - info

3 - 5 June

Tübingen, Germany - An SMBE satellite meeting entitled "The Origin, Maintenance and Evolution of Biological Noise"- info

6 - 7 June

Leuven, Belgium - CfA Workshop: “Perspectives on Human Variation: Philosophy meets Evolutionary Anthropology” - info

9 - 13 June

Pembroke, USA - 2025 Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop (EQG25) - info

10 - 13 June

Banyuls, France - Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology (CCBB) conference - info

14 - 21 June

Guarda, Switzerland - Summer School in Evolutionary Biology for master and PhD students - info

16 - 18 June

Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine - IX International Conference
Drosophila in Experimental Genetics and Biology - info

16 - 19 June

South Bend, Indiana, USA - Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference 2025 - info

16 - 19 June

Campus, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands - EPS Course "Applied Statistics for Plant Scientists" - info

20 - 24 June

Athens, Greece - In-person meeting - Evolution 2025 (joint meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution) - info

23 - 25 June

Santa Barbara, USA - Fourth annual meeting of the
Biological and Environmental Data Education (BEDE) Network - info

23 - 26 June

Tromsø, Norway - 2nd SedaDNA Society Conference - info

23 - 27 June

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course 'Resilience of living systems' - info

23 - 27 June

Lausanne, Switzerland - Summer school Summer school on Natural and Directed Evolution - Evolution by Nature and by Design: From molecules to populations - info

23 - 27 June

Maryland, USA - Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales - info

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

30 June -
3 July

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

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 - 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

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

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

14 - 18 July

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

20 - 24 July

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

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 -
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

7 - 11 September

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

8 - 12 September

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

15 - 17 September

Ede, The Netherlands - 2nd EPS Summerschool "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

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

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

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

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