Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2025/2026

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2025

11 - 13 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Environmental variables: how to download and process them with R (November 11th and 13th) - info

12 - 14 November

Vila do Conde, Portugal - conference/workshop on the use of Ancestral Recombination Graphs in the study of 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

13 - 14 November

Animal Behaviour Live (an international online platform dedicated to promoting sustainable, inclusive, and accessible scientific events) - Annual Online Conference - info

14 November

27th YOUNG SYSTEMATISTS’ FORUM - ZOOM Online - info & registration

16 - 21 November

Ede, The Netherlands - Crop Physiology: Drivers of adaptation to change - info

17 - 19 November

GADMA Workshop - ONLINE - Workshop on Demographic Inference from genomic data! - info

17 - 19 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - R/Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics - info

17 -21 November

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - Chemical Communication in the Anthropocene: Concepts and Methods - info

17 - 21 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Single-cell RNA-seq Analysis with R/Bioconductor - info

17 - 28 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Finite Element Analysis Applied to Life Sciences (November 17th, 19th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 28th) - info

18 November

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

18 - 20 November

Bioinformatics - Virtual bioinformatics workshop: Genome Annotation (virtual but live instruction) - info

19 - 20 November

Wageningen, The Netherlands - EPS Course 'CRISPR/Cas Technology – From Innovation to Communication' - info

20 November

Linnean Society of London, UK - One-day symposium - Hybrid Day Meeting - Organismal resilience in a rapidly changing world - info

24 - 27 November

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

24 - 28 November

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Manual Genome Curation using PretextView course in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute - info

25 - 28 November

Brisbane, Australia - West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium - info

27 November

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 28th edition Current Themes in Ecology - Increasing Human Health: Nature as Solution - info

1 - 3 December

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Structural Variant Detection
and Comparison - info

1 - 5 December

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Phylogenomics - info

7 - 12 December

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - Frontiers in Microbial Ecology: The role of microbiomes in a sustainable future for our planet - info

7 - 13 December

Pretoria, South-Africa - ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course/Workshop, South Africa - info

8 December

Sorbonne Université, Paris - 4th edition of the colloquium “*Expanding evolutionary theories of ageing to take into
account symbioses and interactions throughout the Web of Life*” - info

8 - 11 December

Kunming, China - AsiaEvo Conference - 'The Evolution and Development of Animal Appendages' - info

8 - 12 December

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

8 - 12 December

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Adaptation Genomics - info

10 - 12 December

Utrecht, The Netherlands - EPS workshop 'Transcription factors and transcriptional regulation' - info

11 - 18 December

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Naturalistic and Scientific Illustration 1: Traditional Techniques (December 11th, 15th, and 18th) - info

12 December

Sorbonne Université, Paris - Interdisciplinary colloquium
New Challenges Induced by Microbiomes - info

12 - 19 December

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Proteomic Methods for Species Identification of Archaeological and Palaeontological Materials (December 12th, 15th, 17th, and 19th) - info

15 - 17 December

Barcelona, Spain - Physalia - Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration - info

15 - 17 December

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Genomic Data Visualisation with R - info

15 - 19 December

Madrid, Spain - EvoDevo 2025: Course New Technologies for Developmental Evolutionary Biology Studies (3rd edition) - info

19 December

De Reehorst, Ede-Wageningen, The Netherlands - NEV (Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging) - 37e Entomologendag (Entomology Day) - info

2026

6 - 10 January

Aarhus, Denmark - 12th Biennial Conference of The International Biogeography - info

7 - 9 January

Balliol College, Oxford, UK - Conference: Biological Relativity: Evolution for the 21st Century - info

9 - 14 January

San Diego, USA - PAG 33 (plant and animal genomics) - A 6-day conference - info

11 - 18 January

Český Krumlov, Czechia - Evomics 2026 Workshop on Genomics - info

12 - 16 January

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - UNIX and SHELL scripting for bioinformatics - info

21 - 23 January

Brno, Czech Republic - Symposium on fish mating systems - info

21 - 23 January

Valencia, Spain - Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology - info

25 - 30 January

The isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Life History Theory - info

25 January - 7 February

Ceský Krumlov, Czechia - Workshop on Phylogenomics and
Evolutionary Genomics - info

26 - 29 January

PR stats - LIVE ONLINE TRAINING - Evolutionary Insights with RNA-Seq (RNAA01) - info

26 - 30 January

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

2 - 6 February

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

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

2 - 6 March

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

2 - 6 March

London, UK - Workshop: Integrative biodiversity discovery - info

24 March - 30 June

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

25 - 28 March

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

9 - 12 June

Pacific Grove, USA - The 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference - 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

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 -
3 July

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

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

4 - 9 October

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE Course 'New Frontiers in microbial ecology & Climate change' - More info will follow