Conferences, Courses, Workshops and Schools 2025/2026

2025

13 - 18 July

Lucca, Tuscany, Italy - Gordon Research Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics - info

13 - 18 July

Florence, Italy - International conference on statistical Physics-Statphys - 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

14 - 18 July

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Eukaryotic (eDNA) Metabarcoding - info

20 - 24 July

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

21 - 24 July

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Conservation Genomics - info

21 - 25 July

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Generalised Additive Mixed Models (GAMM): modelling space-time correlation structures - info (July 21st, 23rd, and 25th)

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 -
5 August

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Geometric Morphometrics in R (July 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, and August
1st, 4th, 5th, 2025) - 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

4 - 8 August

Copenhagen, Denmark - Summer course in analysis of high throughput data for population genetics 2025 - info

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

11 - 15 August

Troms, Norway - Field course: Northern Biodiversity Hotspots, Flora of Skibotn and surroundings - 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

18 - 22 August

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Analysing Biodiversity Through Time and Space Using R - 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

28 - 30 August

Woods Hole, USA - Mobile Genetic Elements meeting - info

1 - 5 September

PE&RC course (location yet unknown) - Soil Biology Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions - info

1 - 12 September

Wageningen, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - The Art of Modelling - info

7 - 11 September

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

8 - 9 September

London, UK - Annual Meeting Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology (MASAMB) 2025 - info

8 - 10 September

Warsaw, Poland - Polish Evolutionary Conference - info

8 - 11 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Invasion Genomics in R - info

8 - 12 September

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

8 - 12 September

Aussois, France - Fifth edition of the Software and Statistical Methods for Population Genomics (SSMPG) summer school - info

9 - 11 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - AI for Genomics: From CNNS and LSTMS to Transformers - info

15 September

PR Stats - LIVE COURSE – Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Communities Using R With The VEGAN package (VGNR08) - info

15 - 17 September

Ede, The Netherlands - 2nd EPS Summer school "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

15 - 19 September

PR Stats - LIVE COURSE – Multivariate Analysis Of Ecological Communities Using R With The VEGAN package (VGNR08) - info

15 - 24 September

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Python Machine Learning in Biology - info (September 15th, 17th, 19th, 22th, and 24th)

17 - 19 September

Cardiff, UK - Annual meeting/conference #EGG2025 (Ecological Genetics SIG) - On scales of time - info

22 - 24 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Species Distribution
Modeling with Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (BART) Methods - info

22 - 26 September

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Population Genomics using ancient DNA Data - info

22 September - 3 October

PE&RC - ONLINE COURSE - Structural Equation Modelling - info

26 - 27 September

Leuven, Belgium - Workshop: “Behavior Across the Tree of Life: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges” - info

29 September - 2 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Assembling Genomes with Oxford Nanopore: A Hands-On Guide to Long-Read Sequencing - info

29 September - 3 October

Cape Town, South Africa - Joint meeting between 2 highly impactful networks, the GGBN (Global Genome Biodiversity Network) and the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) - info

29 September - 3 October

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

30 September - 2 October

Mainz, Germany - Workshop: The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the interdisciplinary divide - info

6 - 10 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Sex Chromosome Evolution - info

6 - 17 October

Paris, France - Free Taxonomic training workshop in Paris on black corals (Antipatharia) - info

9 - 11 October

Barcelona, Spain - EMBO workshop "Evolution and origins of multicellularity across the tree of life" - info

13 - 15 October

Houston, USA - LIVE and ONLINE SMBE Satellite Meeting: Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides - info

13 - 17 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Environmental Metagenomics - info

15 - 16 October

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - Annual SORTEE conference (The Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) - info

20 - 23 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Population Genomic Inference from Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing Data - info

20 - 24 October

Roscoff, France - Jaques Monod Conference - A multidimensional view of speciation: bridging micro and macro-evolution - info

20 - 24 October

Physalia - ONLINE COURSE - Autumn School in Bioinformatics,
designed to introduce researchers to the concepts and practical skills needed for analysing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data - info

24 October

Groningen, The Netherlands - National Open Science Festival - info

27 - 29 October

Cambridge (Wellcome Genome Campus), UK - Understanding Life: Using Large scale Biodiversity Reference Genomes” - info

27 - 30 October

Crete, Greece - The Brain Conference: Principles of the Adaptive Mind - info

27 October - 7 November

Transmitting Science - LIVE ONLINE COURSE - Bayesian
phylogenetic inference with BEAST2 - info

3 - 14 November

PE&RC - ONLINE COURSE - Postgraduate course Intermediate Programming in R - info

4 - 5 November

Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain - International Symposium: “Coastal Resilience: Mitigating Threats for Healthy Oceans” - 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

7 - 12 December

Ede, The Netherlands - PE&RC course - No Frontiers in Microbial Ecology: The role of microbiomes in a sustainable
future for our planet - info

7 - 14 December

Pretoria, South-Africa - ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course/Workshop, South Africa 2025 - info

8 - 12 December

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

2026

25 - 30 January

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Life History Theory - info will follow

17 February - 6 March

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

15 - 20 March

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - Spatial Ecology - info will follow

31 March -
2 April

Nottingham, UK (Zoom & Bluesky) - Birds and people - BOU2026 Annual Conference - info

12 - 17 April

The Isle of Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands - RSEE course - New Frontiers in Microbial Ecology & Climate change - info will follow

28 June -
1 July

Copenhagen, Denmark - Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2026) - info will follow