MCEB 2026
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
https://mceb2026.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
We are pleased to announce that the 2026 international conference on Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology (MCEB) will take place in Heraklion, Crete, at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) from May 4 to May 8. The local organization will be handled by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (https://www.ics.forth.gr/), in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBBC) of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (https://www.hcmr.gr/en/), on whose premises the conference will be held in person.
This edition of the meeting will put an emphasis on computational methods in evolutionary genomics. It will focus on recent algorithmic and statistical advances in comparative analysis of genomic data, but also present significant biological results obtained with these new techniques. We hope that the conference will provide a rich and broad overview of the current challenges in this research area and establish new perspectives in order to foster future research projects. Beyond this year’s themes, general concepts, models, methods and algorithms will be presented and discussed, just as in the previous editions of MCEB.
As usual, the meeting will bring together researchers from various disciplines: mathematics, statistics, computer science, phylogenetics, population genetics, molecular epidemiology, biodiversity and macroevolution. Our keynote speakers will introduce a field of research and discuss their own work in this field. The afternoons will be available for short presentations and posters, with plenty of time for discussions.
Keynote Speakers:
Rosa Fernandez http://www.metazomics.com/
Nick Goldman https://www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/nick-goldman/
Laura Kubatko https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kubatko.2/
Dimitris Paraskevis
https://academicmedicaleducation.com/people/dimitrios-paraskevis-phd
David Posada https://dposada.webs.uvigo.es/
Dates:
4-8 May, 2026. The conference will begin on Monday evening and will end on Friday morning.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: January 31st, 2026
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2026
Registration deadline: March 15, 2026