Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2026/2027

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2026

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

7 - 9 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - AI for Genomics: From CNNs and LSTMs to Transformers - info

7 - 10 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Conservation Genomics - info

13 - 16 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Computational Pangenomics - info

13 - 17 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Epigenomics Data Analysis - info

13 - 17 April

Montpellier, France - European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU) meeting - info

13 - 17 April

Mertola, Portugal - Conservation Genetics course - info

13 - 17 April

PR stats - LIVE ONLINE - Machine Learning for Ecological Time Series Using R (METR01) - info

13 - 21 April

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - The Genomic
Footprint of Natural Selection: Inference from Population Data - info

14 April

Ede, The Netherlands - 2026 NLSEB (Netherlands Evolutionary Biology) meeting - info

14 - 17 April

Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland - Symposium on Triploidy in Parasitic Worms - info

15 - 17 April

Montpellier, France - 3-day satellite meeting dedicated to D. suzukii - 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

20 - 24 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - DNA Methylation in Ecology and Evolution - info

21 - 24 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - A Hands-on Course in Bayesian
Modelling and Evolutionary Analysis using RevBayes - 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

27 - 29 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Statistical Methods for Metatranscriptomics - info

27 - 29 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Practical Somatic Variant Analysis in Cancer Genomics - info

27 April - 7 May

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Modelling
and analysing multivariate traits evolution using R (27, 28, and 30 April & 5 and 7 May) - info

29 - 30 April

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - Two-day symposium on "Ecology and Evolution in the Anthropocene" - info

4 - 7 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Multivariate Data Analysis with R and vegan - 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

PR stats - Machine Learning for Time Series using Python - Online recordings and live Q&A - info

18 - 20 May

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

18 - 22 May

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) - info

18 - 27 May

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Manipulation
of NGS data for genomic and population genetics analyses (18, 20, 22, 25 and 27 May) - info

19 - 22 May

Kelowna, BC, Canada - 33rd International Dynamics &
Evolution of Human Viruses conference (hybrid) - info

19 - 28 May

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Proteomic Methods for Species Identification of Archaeological and Palaeontological Materials - info

25 - 29 May

Heraklion, Crete, Greece - Physalia: Marine Genomics course - 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

1 - 5 June

PR stats - LIVE ONLINE - Introduction to Processing and Analysis of Spatial Multiplexed Proteomics Data (SPMP02) - info

2 -5 June

Oeiras, Portugal - EMBO Workshop (HYBRID WORKSHOP) "The rules of the game: biophysical and molecular principles in cellular evolution" - info

3 - 9 June

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

8 - 12 June

Berlin, Germany - Conference Biodiversity Exploratories 20 (BE20) - info

8 - 12 June

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Evolutionary
Macroecology in R: Exploring Biodiversity Patterns at Large Scales - 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 -
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 - 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

14 - 18 July

Cincinnati Ohio, USA - Animal Behavior Society Conference - 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

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

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

6 - 9 October

Białowieża, Poland - Białowieża Ecology Conference (BEC) - 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

6 - 8 April

Nottingham, UK (Zoom & Bluesky) - Avian disease ecology - BOU2027 Annual Conference - info