Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2026/2027

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2026

2 - 4 February

Wageningen, The Netherlands - EPS Course Advanced Course Microscopy and Spectroscopy in Food and Plant Sciences - info

2 - 6 February

Copenhagen, Denmark - Course on Environmental DNA (this course would suit anyone who wants to start a project with an eDNA component but has limited experience) - info

2 - 6 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Orchestrating Microbiome
Analysis with R and Bioconductor - info

2 - 6 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration - info

3 - 5 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Foundations of Geometric Morphometrics - info

3 - 12 February

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Functional trait diversity: calculating and interpreting a key component
of biodiversity (3, 5, 10 and 12 February) - info

8 - 11 February

Bern, Switzerland - EMBO workshop on the Molecular Mechanisms of Selfish Elements and Strategies - info

9 - 13 February

PR stats - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Processing and Analysis of Spatial Multiplexed Proteomics Data (SPMP01) - info

10 - 19 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - RNAseq Data Analysis for Beginners - info

12 February

Instats - One day seminar - LIVE STREAMING - Exploratory Analysis of Complex Datasets with ChatGPT 2.0 - info

16 - 18 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Analyzing Animal Movement with R - info

16 - 20 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Machine
Learning with R - info

17 February - 6 March

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

18 - 20 February

Paris, France - Symposium on Environmental and Agronomical
Genomics - info

19 - 20 February

Wageningen, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - Meta Analysis - info

23 - 26 February

PR stats - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Single cell RNA-Seq analysis - info

23 - 27 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - eDNA Metabarcoding - info

23 - 27 February

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Comparative Genomics (6th edition) - info

24 - 26 February

University of Connecticut - VIRTUAL BUT LIVE INSTRUCTION WORKSHOP - Bioinformatics: RNA-seq Analysis - info

2 - 6 March

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC - Structural Equation Modelling - info

2 - 6 March

London, UK - Workshop: Integrative biodiversity discovery - info

2 - 6 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Multidimensional Phenotypic Evolution - info

2 - 20 March

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Morphological
Phylogenetics: Principles, Applications, and Techniques (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18 and 20 March) - info

4 March

London, UK - Conference: The Evolution of Darwin’s Finches (from 6 pm to 8 pm GMT) - Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, discuss their work on Darwin's finches, to understand how new species are formed - info

8 - 14 March

Kiola, Australia (Kioloa is about a 2.5-3 hours drive from Canberra) - Workshop dartRverse: Harnessing the Force of R for Conservation Genomics - info

9 - 13 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Spatial Transcriptomics with R/Bioconductor - info

9 - 13 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Assembly and Annotation of Genomes - info

16 - 20 March

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Bayesian Inference in Practice - info

16 - 20 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Introduction to Population Genomics - info

16 - 20 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Metabarcoding in Microbial Ecology - info

16 - 20 March

Paris, France - Course Integrative taxonomy in the "big data" era - info

23 - 25 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Environmental DNA (eDNA) Metabarcoding using Nanopore Sequencing - info

23 - 26 March

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Machine and Deep Learning Methods in Population Genomics and Phylogeography - info

24 March - 30 June

Mondego Science - ONLINE COURSE - Modern Statistical Thinking for Biologists - info

25 - 27 March

Hamburg, Germany - Conference: DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology entitled “Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species”- info

25 - 28 March

Berkely, USA - Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics Conference (ProbGen) - info

29 March -
3 April

The isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Spatial Ecology - info

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 - 10 April

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Conservation Genomics - info

13 - 17 April

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

13 - 21 April

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

20 - 24 April

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

24 - 27 April

Taipei, Taiwan - EMBO Workshop "Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions" - info

4 - 8 May

Heraklion, Crete, Greece - Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology (MCEB) - 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 - 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

25 - 29 May

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

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

Montpellier, France - 11th European Federation for Primatology (EFP) 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

8 - 10 July

Vila do Conde, Portugal - Conference on the evolutionary role of structural variation - info will follow

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

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

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

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

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