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EMBO | EMBL Symposium-Sex differences in health and disease

Date: April 27-30, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

This symposium examines how genetics, hormones, and environment drive sex differences in physiology, immunity, ageing, and disease. It will highlight mechanisms underlying distinct phenotypes and variable susceptibility or treatment responses in metabolic, infectious, cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological conditions. Bringing together multidisciplinary experts and advanced model systems, the meeting aims to advance understanding of sex-based biology to improve health outcomes.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-07/

Mitochondria & Cell Fate Transitions: From Stemness to Senescence Conference

Date: May 10-13, 2026 | Venue: St. Julian's, Malta

This conference will explore how mitochondria govern key transitions in cell fate - from quiescence to activation, differentiation, plasticity, and senescence. Recent advances show that mitochondrial dynamics, ultrastructure, and metabolite signaling are tightly linked to decisions that define tissue homeostasis, regeneration, immune responses, and aging. These insights have far-reaching implications for understanding stem cell biology, cancer development, and degenerative disease. The meeting aims to bring together a multidisciplinary audience of stem cell biologists, mitochondrial researchers, immunologists, cancer biologists, neuroscientists and aging experts to explore mitochondria as master regulators of cell identity. Key sessions will cover mitochondrial influence on stemness and differentiation, the role of mitochondrial signaling in cell fate, mechanisms of mitophagy and inner mitochondrial membrane remodeling during fate transitions, and how mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to cell senescence and disease.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/197?utm_source=Ageing%26CancerResearch&utm_medium=Linkedin&utm_campaign=FusionMedia&utm_id=Fusion

EMBO Workshop-Building networks: engineering in vascular biology

Date: May 13-15, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Barcelona-Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)

Vascularisation is a rapidly growing field, with researchers across disciplines recognising its crucial role in organ development, disease progression, and therapeutic delivery. Traditionally, vascular biologists have relied on animal models to investigate key processes such as vascular signalling, angiogenesis, and remodelling. These models remain foundational, however, they do not always fully capture human-specific vascular behaviour.
In recent years, advances in multicellular systems, gene editing, stem cell technologies, and bioengineering have created new opportunities to study vascular biology in vitro using human cells.
This upcoming edition of the meeting aims to unite researchers working at the intersection of engineering and vascular biology, facilitating discussions on how to apply cutting-edge techniques in spatial omics, advanced imaging, and the use of AI to vascular research.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EVB26-01/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EVB26-01

EMBO | EMBL Symposium - Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems

Date: June 17-20, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Established in 2010, this biennial symposium brings together both established and early-career researchers from around the world who share a common interest in microtubule biology and its roles in human health and disease. The meeting covers diverse aspects of the field, from chromosome segregation and intracellular transport to cell motility and polarity, emphasizing interdisciplinary advances in genetics, biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology. Through keynote lectures, selected talks, poster sessions, and networking events, the symposium provides a vibrant platform for scientific exchange and collaboration within the global microtubule community.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-09/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EES26-09

EMBO | EMBL Symposium-Mechanobiology across the tree of life

Date: June 9-12, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Cells and tissues actively adjust physical and chemical properties to shape, interact with their environment, and maintain function. Understanding these mechanisms requires integrating biology, physics, and engineering, and comparing systems across evolution.
This symposium gathers diverse researchers to advance knowledge of cell walls, cytoskeletons, and membranes through cutting-edge imaging, biophysical tools, and computational methods. Emphasising early-career scientists, it aims to foster collaboration and deepen insight into mechanobiology from molecules to organisms.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ees26-06/

4th Ubiquitin Function in Health & Disease Conference

Date: July 7-10, 2026 | Venue: Lisbon, Portugal

This conference shifts the spotlight from structural details to biological function. Together, we shall explore how the ubiquitin system orchestrates signal transduction under physiological conditions, what happens when this regulation breaks down and how this knowledge can be harnessed to develop a new generation of exquisitely specific and highly effective medicines. From cancer and chronic inflammation to autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, the therapeutic potential of targeting the ubiquitin system is near endless. We envision this meeting as the premier forum for showcasing the most innovative and translational research in ubiquitin biology. It will serve as a catalyst for discussions on emerging therapeutic strategies and as a hub for collaboration across academia and industry.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/201?utm_source=Ageing%26CancerResearch&utm_medium=Linkedin&utm_campaign=FusionMedia&utm_id=Fusion

Cancer Immunology: Across Space & Time

Date: July 10-13, 2026 | Venue: Lisbon, Portugal

Despite tremendous advances made by the field, a significant number of cancer patients still fail to receive benefit from state-of-the-art cancer immunotherapies. Overcoming this clinical gap will require fresh perspectives focused not only on the effector T cell but the network of interactions between adaptive, innate, stromal, and tumor cells that evolve over time and across anatomical sites to govern disease progression and response to therapy. This conference will provide a platform to explore the interplay between developing tumors and the resident and circulating immune landscape, examining how interactions within the tumor micro- and macro-environments shape systemic immune surveillance. Emphasis will be placed on a holistic, systems-level approach to dissecting, perturbing, and treating the cancer ecosystem with spatial and temporal resolution.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/200?utm_source=Ageing%26CancerResearch&utm_medium=Linkedin&utm_campaign=FusionMedia&utm_id=Fusion

EMBO Workshop-Chemical biology 2026

Date: September 8-11, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

The conference sets the stage for the dissemination and exchange of new developments in diverse, emerging fields within chemical biology. It is the largest and longest-standing conference in the field, being a platform for inspiration, collaboration, and networking for researchers in academia and industry.
We aim to provide the possibility for every chemical biologist to meet and discuss with peers topics ranging from tool development to biological applications, from computational protein design to new drug modalities.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/CHB26-01/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=CHB26-01

Immune Aging Conference

Date: September 28-October 1, 2026 | Venue: Lisbon, Portugal

Aging is a complex and multi-dimensional process that affects all tissues of all organisms. Accumulating evidence suggests that disruption of immune homeostasis and responses with age plays a significant role in the aetiology and pathogenesis of many aging-associated diseases. Recent advances in genomic technologies (e.g., single cell, spatial approaches), combined with advances in molecular techniques (CRISPR-Cas9), enable precise descriptions of molecular and cellular changes associated with immune system aging in human cells as well as in model organisms. With these advances, we are in need of interdisciplinary settings to promote interactions to foster collaborative research and career advancement across disciplines.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/204utm_source=Ageing%26CancerResearch&utm_medium=Linkedin&utm_campaign=FusionMedia&utm_id=Fusion

4th Metabolism in Health & Disease Conference

Date: October 10-13, 2026 | Venue: Lisbon, Portugal

Metabolism is central to most biological processes that impact health and disease, from subcellular organelles to whole-body homeostasis. Correct metabolic rewiring drives development and maintenance of tissues, whereas metabolic dysfunction is a factor in key issues that affect worldwide populations such as aging, cancer and metabolic diseases. Despite the huge advances in metabolism research, key questions need answering to translate our knowledge into impactful solutions.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/205?utm_source=Ageing%26CancerResearch&utm_medium=Linkedin&utm_campaign=FusionMedia&utm_id=Fusion

EMBO | EMBL Symposium-DNA replication and genome maintenance: from basic biology to human health

Date: October 20-23, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Recent progress has advanced our understanding of eukaryotic DNA replication, but key questions remain regarding replisome structure, origin firing, and coordination with chromatin, transcription, and chromosome segregation. Accurate replication is essential for genome stability, and replication stress contributes to diseases such as cancer. This symposium brings together experts to discuss DNA replication mechanisms, stress responses, and their impact on development, aging, and disease, promoting further insights into both fundamental biology and therapeutic applications.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-13/

Defining and defeating metastasis: from plasticity to immune evasion to therapy resistance

Date: November 10-13, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Metastasis research is a nexus for several of the most exciting areas and technical developments of current cancer biology and translational molecular medicine. High-resolution intravital imaging, single-cell sequencing, and integrated genomics approaches, innovative tissue modelling and co-culture systems for disease screening and patient stratification all have enormous implications for our basic understanding of the mechanisms of this deadly disease, and hold great promises for progress in its successful treatment.
This symposium will cover emerging key concepts of latent metastasis and dissemination of tumour cells including evolution and genetic diversity of metastasis, circulating tumor cells, stemness, dormancy and stromal reprogrammig, transcriptional and epigenetic control, motility and invasive signaling, metastatic heterogeneity, EMT and plasticity, immune evasion, and metabolic adaptations.
The meeting will provide a unique interdisciplinary exchange on current approaches and future collaborations on metastasis and its therapeutic challenges.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-05/?utm_source=ACRT&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EES26-05

EMBO Workshop-Brain (epi)genome

Date: April 21-24, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

The brain’s remarkable cellular diversity — encompassing hundreds of distinct neuronal and glial cell types — emerges from a single genome through sophisticated regulatory mechanisms.
This EMBO Workshop unites experts in genomics, neuroscience, and epigenetics to explore how gene regulation and chromatin architecture generate neural diversity and shape brain function. Leveraging advances in single-cell, spatial, and 3D genomics, it will address mechanisms underlying neuronal identity, connectivity, plasticity, and disease.
By integrating insights from human and model systems, the meeting aims to accelerate discovery and strengthen the neurogenomics community.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/brg26-01/

2026 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management and Safety Engineering (EMSE 2026)

Date: March 20-22, 2026 | Venue: Chengdu, China

2026 2nd International Conference on Engineering Management and Safety Engineering (EMSE 2026) will be held on 20-22 March 2026 in Chengdu, China. With a focus on the latest challenges and opportunities facing engineering management and safety engineering today, the conference aims to bring together scholars, industry experts, and policy makers from home and abroad to discuss and exchange advanced theoretical research, best practices, and emerging technologies. Being an interdisciplinary platform, the conference will cover multiple dimensions of engineering management, including project planning, implementation, compliance, and post-assessment. Safety engineering topics will also be highlighted, involving safety management, risk assessment, case studies and implementation of safety regulations and standards, and the effectiveness of safety training. This international academic conference is expected to provide new perspectives and references for the development of project management and safety engineering, and at the same time to promote the close cooperation between academia and practice, contributing wisdom and motivation for the enhancement and innovation of the industry.

Website:

https://www.ic-emse.com/

EMBO | EMBL Symposium - The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

Date: March 17-20, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

This symposium will bring together researchers from cellular, molecular, ecological, physiological, and theoretical disciplines to explore the evolution and dynamics of host–microbe interactions. It will focus on the cellular systems, metabolic pathways, and ecological factors that drive transitions between pathogenic and beneficial symbioses. A central theme is understanding how hosts distinguish between friend and foe, maintain partner fidelity, and achieve stable symbiotic relationships, offering insights into the mechanisms underlying symbiotic complexity.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-03/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EES26-03

EMBO | EMBL Symposium-AI and biology

Date: March 10-13, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming virtually all areas of science, and the life sciences are no exception. Following the success of the inaugural 2024 meeting – which brought together an engaged community of researchers both in person and online – the 2026 edition marks the second installment of this growing scientific gathering.
AI-based methods are pushing the limits of what is possible in experimental design, data analysis, simulation, and modelling. The aim of this symposium is to catalyse synergistic interactions between AI researchers in different subfields of biology and biomedicine by exploring shared theoretical approaches, cross-domain experiments, foundation models, and data integration, as well as shared topics in dissemination of tools, agent-based workflows and collaboration with experimental labs. Furthermore, we will look into the future and discuss how the concerted actions of AI and life science communities can enable both fields to exploit the full potential of the ongoing data deluge and find new application areas ripe for disruption by AI.
AI-based analytics is subject to active research in at least three major application areas: sequencing, imaging and structural biology. While all three domains are experiencing very fast growth, the developments are largely happening independently. The aim of our symposium is to convene these communities to discuss topics of mutual interest to make progress, including on the theoretical/methodological side and on the more strategic issues of identifying the next areas of high potential.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-02/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EES26-02

7th DNA Repair/Replication Structures & Cancer Conference

Date: February 24-28, 2026 | Venue: Playa Mujeres, Mexico

The 7th DNA Replication/Repair Structures & Cancer Conference (7th DRRSC), held on February 24-28, 2026, will bring together scientists from diverse disciplines to exchange cutting-edge findings and foster collaboration in cancer research. The meeting will focus on DNA replication, transcription, and repair stress responses, their links to inflammation, and the exploitation of synthetic lethality for DNA damage response (DDR) defects. Featuring the latest basic and clinical discoveries, advanced transdisciplinary methods, and mechanistic insights into dynamic molecular complexes, the conference aims to stimulate discussion, catalyze collaborations, and provide actionable insights to advance research within and between laboratories as well as across the broader scientific community.

Website:

https://fusion-conferences.com/conference/190

EMBO | EMBL Symposium - Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution

Date: February 24-27, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

The symposium will focus on the common principles driving the emergence of collective behavior across biological systems, from cells and tissues to whole organisms and animal groups. Key topics include coordination, cooperation, emergence, interaction, and decision-making, examined in diverse systems such as bacterial biofilms, cytoskeletal elements, cell migration, tissue and organ formation, disease models, and animal behavior, integrating both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/EES26-01/?utm_source=scieExpress&utm_medium=mpreferral&utm_id=EES26-01

EMBL Conference-The new cardiobiology: engineering, vascular, and molecular insights

Date: February 16-19, 2026 | Venue: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death, with many disease-driving mechanisms still unclear. Building on the successful 2024 inaugural meeting, this conference will gather experts in cardiac and vascular biology, tissue engineering, and systems biology to explore emerging insights into molecular pathways, gene–environment interactions, and multi-organ influences. By fostering interdisciplinary exchange, it aims to accelerate breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiovascular disease.

Website:

https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/ncb26-01/

The 6^th Thermal Management Industry Conference and Exposition

Date: December 3-5, 2025 | Venue: Shenzhen, China

Focusing on the real-world challenges and future opportunities in the thermal management industry, this conference aims to clarify the current market landscape and evolving technological trends, supporting the industry’s high-quality and sustainable development.
The event will feature in-depth discussions on policy directions, scientific foundations, key materials, cutting-edge technologies, and engineering practices related to thermal management. By fostering cross-sector collaboration, the conference seeks to inspire innovation and promote the integration of scientific research with industrial applications.

Website:

https://www.itherm.cn/index/active/active_show/cat_id/17.html

2025 National Conference of Deans and Heads of Engineering Management Programs

Date: November 28-30, 2025 | Venue: Xuzhou, China

The 2025 National Conference of Deans and Heads of Engineering Management Programs will be held on November 28–30, 2025, at the China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. The conference, themed “Intelligent Collaboration and Green Innovation”, aims to advance engineering management education through curriculum reform, pedagogical innovation, and enhanced integration between academia and industry. Key topics include the 2025 curriculum guidelines for Engineering Management, Engineering Cost, and Real Estate Development & Management programs, innovative program development, first-class course construction, and emerging trends in engineering management education.

Website:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hZ9_t0oGc2Ec5pmNYAOJ6g?scene=1&click_id=13

Redox Biology in Health & Disease Conference

Date: Nov 3-6, 2025 | Venue: Riviera Maya, Mexico

The meeting will focus on advances in our understanding the intricate roles and interactions of ROS, NAD, and GSH within the framework of redox biology, not only highlighting their importance in health and disease but also underscoring the potential of therapeutic interventions that aim to balance these crucial molecules. Such strategies hold the promise of preventing and treating a diverse array of diseases, particularly those associated with aging and oxidative stress.

Website:

https://www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/185

The 4th Academic Conference on Digital Twins and Intelligent Construction & Exchange Conference on Intelligent Construction and Building Robotics Development

Date: October 27-28, 2025 | Venue: Chongqing, China

Digital twins, as an effective approach to achieve the integration of physical and information systems, hold significant potential in promoting the concept of intelligent construction. The 4th Academic Conference on Digital Twins and Intelligent Construction will be hosted by Chongqing University and organized by the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, together with the National Key Laboratory of Mountainous Civil Engineering Safety and Resilience. The conference will take place on October 27–28, 2025, in Chongqing. Concurrently, the 3rd “Construction·Smart Future” Building Robotics Competition and related exhibitions and forums will be held by the Chongqing Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Committee, with representatives from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Chongqing Municipal authorities invited to attend.

Website:

https://smartcity.cqu.edu.cn/info/1008/1410.htm

The 16th International Symposium on DNA Damage Response & Human Disease (isDDRHD-2025)

Date: October 17-20, 2025. | Venue: Qingdao, China

The 16th International Symposium on DNA Damage Response & Human Disease (isDDRHD-2025) will take place in Qingdao, China from October 17th to 20th, 2025. Hosted by Shandong University and the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, this symposium focuses on the theme of DNA repair mechanisms and related human pathological processes, including cancer and aging. Topics include, but not limited to, DNA damage signalling and DNA repair, genomic stability, human diseases and aging, as well as the development of anti-cancer and anti-aging interventions. The isDDRHD series, launched in 2010, with a theme focusing on DNA damage response, genome stability and related human diseases, has evolved into one of the strongest and most respected research conferences in China.

Website:

https://isddrhd2025.gdna-cn.com/index/?lang=cn