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ISMB 2026: Evolution & Comparative Genomics COSI
ISMB 2026 July 12-16, 2025 Washington, DC (in-person and virtual attendance)
The nineth edition of the EvolCompGen session will held on July xx-xx, 2026, as part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference (ISMB 2026), that will take place on July 12-16, 2025 in Washington, DC (in-person and virtual attendance).
The COSI calls for paper and abstract submissions on topics of Evolution & Comparative Genomics including phylogeny, phylogenomics, comparative genomics, genome rearrangements, orthology, paralogy, recombination, lateral gene transfer, genome variation, population genomics, comparative epigenomics, epidemiology, cancer evolution genomics, genome annotation.
The goal of the track is to foster exchange and collaborations between developers and users of computational methods in evolution and comparative genomics within the ISCB.
The track will feature a mix of proceedings talks and contributed talks from the submitted abstracts. In addition, there will be a poster session. Talks can be on unpublished work or work published after January 1st 2024, and delivered by speakers at any career stage.
Grants to cover registration fees will be available for presenting students and postdocs. The procedure for application will be communicated to the relevant people in the talk/poster acceptance email.
Paper submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/proceedings Starts : Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Deadline : Tuesday, January 20, 2026.
Abstract submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/abstracts Starts : Monday, January 12, 2026. Deadline : Thursday, April 9, 2026.
Program
Organizing Committee
- Lars Arvestad, COSI co-chair (Stockholm University)
- Edward Braun, (University of Florida)
- Christophe Dessimoz (University of Lausanne & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
- Dannie Durand, COSI co-chair (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Nadia El-Mabrouk, Abstract co-chair (University of Montreal)
- Wataru Iwasaki, (University of Tokyo)
- Katharina Jahn, Abstract co-chair (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
- Alexey Markin, Webinars (Iowa State University, USA)
- Erin Molloy, (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Aida Ouangraoua, Communication and website (University of Sherbrooke)
- Janani Ravi, Communication and website (Michigan State University)
- Celine Scornavacca (University of Montpellier, France)
- Giltae Song, Abstract co-chair (Pusan National University)
- Maureen Stolzer, Award co-chair (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Valeriia Vasylieva, Webinars (University of Sherbrooke)
- Louxin Zhang, Award co-chair (National University of Singapore)
Key Dates
More detailed information could be found at Keydates.
Abstract for talks and posters
- Call for Abstracts Opens: Monday, January 20, 2025
- Abstracts Submission Deadline (for talks and posters): Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Late Poster Submissions Open: Monday, April 21, 2025
- Talk and/or Poster Acceptance Notifications: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Late Poster Submissions Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Late Poster Acceptance Notifications: Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Abstract submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/abstracts
Proceedings Papers
- Call for Proceedings Opens: Thursday, December 5, 2024
- Proceedings Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Conditional Acceptance Notification: Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Revised Papers Deadline: Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Final Acceptance Notification: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Paper submission page : https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/call-for-submissions/proceedings