Events

CAPRI Round 66, co-organized with SEPIQ 2026, asks participants to predict three nanobody complexes with the same protein, HER2. Predictions run November 2–20, 2026, with server submissions due November 6 and human…

Online — 2 sessions

AI Lund (Lund University) holds a minisymposium on 9 November 2026 (on-site in Lund or online) and a hackathon on 10-13 November in Lund on digital twins of scientific instruments, using a virtual light microscope as the…

Lund University, Lund, Sweden (symposium also online) — Hybrid

A mini-symposium on human phage therapy with Sylvain Moineau, Nancy Tawil, Félix-Antoine Garneau-Picard and Tristan Ferry at Université Laval. Talks will also be accessible on Zoom.

Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, salle Hydro-Québec (1210), Université Laval, Québec — Hybrid

Bimonthly London evening on how computation is transforming biomolecular science, run by three London PhD students. Flash talks from Kieran Didi (Oxford / NVIDIA), Tudor-Stefan Cotet (Adaptyv Bio), Joey Bose (Imperial /…

London, United Kingdom (exact venue shown after registration) — In person

Planet A and Bits in Bio host a London discussion on generating and sharing data for biological AI on November 17, 5–8 PM. Registration is free and subject to host approval; the address is shared after registration.

London, United Kingdom — In person

The 2026 annual Phages.fr symposium takes place at the Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), on the Paul Sabatier campus of the University of Toulouse.

Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Paul Sabatier campus, University of Toulouse — In person

The fifth Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium takes place November 18–19, 2026 at UC Berkeley, covering viral diversity, virus–host interactions and phage-based technologies for microbiome manipulation.…

East Pauley Ballroom, MLK Building, UC Berkeley, California — In person

Health Hub EDIH, GeNeDis and OnMune run a one-day, free, hybrid hackathon (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, or online) on integrating open multi-omics data and applied AI for non-small cell lung…

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece (or online) — Hybrid

A weekend hackathon at ETH Zurich D-BSSE in Basel for about 70 participants, open to anyone with no university affiliation or expertise required, with two industry challenges: de novo binder design (best designs tested…

D-BSSE ETH, Basel, Switzerland — In person

Hands-on two-day workshop by the Belgian Society for Viruses of Microbes (BSVoM), coordinated by Dr Jean-Paul Pirnay and Dr Maya Merabishvili, on isolating, characterising, selecting and producing therapeutic phages,…

Queen Astrid Military Hospital (QAMH), Brussels, Belgium — In person

Phage Australia schedules its one-day course at Westmead on November 6, 2026, covering practical delivery, diagnostics, quality assurance, regulations and clinical experience. The online option is asynchronous:…

Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, 176 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW, Australia — In person — 2 sessions

IAS–USA hosts a free November 30 webinar on phage biology and translation, susceptibility testing, and AI-assisted phage discovery, with a question-and-answer session.

Online

Phage Pathways' Friday Phage Power Hour seminar on Zoom with Mikayla Borton of Colorado State University, who will discuss the Genome Resolved Open Watersheds (Rivers) project and multi-omics approaches for understanding…

Zoom (virtual) — Online

A two-hour workshop at the ELLIS UnConference 2026 (Palais des Congres de Paris, 8 December 2026) on when teams of AI agents improve scientific discovery, with invited talks, lightning talks, a panel and posters. It…

Palais des Congrès de Paris, Paris, France — In person

VIB Conferences' new AI and computational biology meeting, in Leuven, Belgium on 9-10 December 2026, covers four themes (genome to function, cell to system, disease modelling, innovation in machine learning) with…

Leuven, Belgium — Hybrid

The I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better biology workshop will bring machine-learning and life-science researchers together in Sydney on December 11, 2026, to examine where AI fails beyond benchmarks. Topics include…

Sydney, Australia — In person — 13 sessions

CSIR-IMTECH will host a four-day hands-on workshop in Chandigarh on December 15–18, 2026, covering programming, microbial genomics, microbiome analysis and generative AI. It is aimed at PhD scholars and postdocs, with 20…

CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India — In person

Virtual first day of the Phage Pathways bioinformatics workshop with the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: an introduction to JGI and bioinformatics from Simon Roux, Natalia…

Online — Online

Phage Pathways' Friday Phage Power Hour seminar on Zoom with Alissa Bleem of the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly NREL), whose work covers synthetic biology and microbial engineering, including functional…

Zoom (virtual) — Online

VoM-UK returns to Northumbria University in Newcastle on January 21–22, 2027, bringing postgraduate and early-career researchers together with group leaders and industry for talks, posters and collaboration.…

Business and Law Building, City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne — In person