Meetings, conferences, symposia, and workshops from around the world related to diatoms are posted here. Contact us to include your event.
The 7th edition of the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB2026) will be organized in Bruges between November 17th and 20th 2026. Find out more about the venue here. The WCMB 2026 will fly the UN Ocean Decade flag, as it has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Event. The overall theme of the Conference is “The marine biodiversity insights we need, for the ocean we want”. As the Conference will take place a little over halfway through the UN Ocean Decade, it will provide an excellent opportunity to take stock of ongoing actions and initiatives, but also evaluate what still needs to be tackled by the end of the Decade. We are proud to host INQUA 2027 in India — a land where tradition meets science, and diversity thrives through culture, cuisine, and heritage. Join us from 28 January to 3 February 2027 for Diatoms are an extremely diverse group of single-celled photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabiting aquatic and terrestrial habitats worldwide. Being responsible for about 20% of annual global carbon fixation, they play major roles in ocean food webs and global biogeochemical cycles. For the biotechnology industry, diatoms are a valued target because of their silica cell wall properties, high lipid content, and diverse secondary metabolites. Omics and systems biology approaches, advanced (sub-)cellular imaging technologies and gene editing tools, have begun to reveal the genetic underpinnings of growth, reproduction, and responses to biotic and abiotic stressors in established and emerging model diatom species. Combined with the rapidly expanding genome-scale resources for ecologically and industrially important species, and insights from (meta)omics-based approaches on natural communities, these developments offer unprecedented opportunities to understand the biology, diversity, ecology, and evolution of diatoms, and apply synthetic biology strategies to enhance their unique metabolic capabilities. Coming Soon: information on the next International Diatom Symposium in Europe Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague at the Symposium Secretariat Guarant National The European Phycological Congress series began in Cologne, Germany in 1996 and has since continued the tradition of bringing together phycologists from around the world every four years. Its main objective is to provide a forum for discussion of the latest scientific, technological and societal developments in phycological research. EPC9 includes plenary presentations, a series of symposia grouped into different themes, contributed papers and posters covering a wide range of topics. To encourage cross-community connections, each symposium will address micro- and macroalgae from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems whenever possible. We look forward to welcoming you to Krakow,Poland in August 2027 for EPC9!
XXII INQUA 2027 Congress
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“Quaternary Science as Societal Services.”
Explore India’s remarkable Quaternary sites and experience its warmth, history, and hospitality. We invite the global community to come together, collaborate, and contribute to science for a shared future.
