4th BioSyst.EU Meeting 2026
August 17, 2026 @ 08:00 – August 19, 2026 @ 17:00 CEST
The 4th BioSyst EU meeting is taking place in Uppsala Sweden, 17th – 19th August 2026, and will be organised by the Swedish Systematics Association. The 3-day conference celebrates European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin. An excursion directly after the conference rounds off the program with keynotes and symposia.
The Conference is supported by the KAW initiative DDLS Evolution and Biodiversity research area. Contact DDLS Fellow Tobias Andermann and the DDLS Expert Group.
This conference will bring the European Biodiversity and Systematics community together at its Linnaean origin in Uppsala.
Keynote speakers
There will be three main keynote speakers with internationally leading research profiles: Sandra Knapp, Fredrik Ronquist and Paul Hebert. The latter is the father of DNA barcoding, coming all the way from Canada. The journal Systematics and Biodiversity will also publish a special collection of articles arising from the conference!
Program
During the conference, there will be the following symposia:
- Trait Evolution, Lineage Diversification and Historical Biogeography in a Big Data era. Confirmed speaker: Isabel Sanmartín, Madrid.
- Evolution in Deep Time: Fossils, Phylogenies, and Reconstructing the History of Life
- AI and Automated Species Identification: Assets and Drawbacks
- Advances in Museomics for Biosystematics and Taxonomy
- Are biodiversity and ecosystems the same thing?
- Natural History Collections and their actors
- Taxonomic treatments and revisions and their accessibility in biodiversity databases
- Data-driven research in evolution and biodiversity
- Environmental DNA for species discovery and biodiversity inventory
- Speciation, Adaptation and Phylogeography: Microevolutionary Processes Shaping Biodiversity
- Open session
Early bird before May 31
Registration is open and it costs only 1 500 SEK for students registering before 31 May (BSc, MSc and PhD students). For everyone else the early-bird price is 2 500 SEK.
Early-career Day
There will be an early-career event the day before, free of charge – we have two international speakers this time, Seraina Klopfstein coming from Switzerland and Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez coming from Spain. The early career event will be followed by some mingling and discussions, and dinner/beers. So don’t miss out!
Important dates!
Abstract submission ends 31st May 2026
Early bird registration ends 31st May 2026
Registration ends 17th July 2026
More information and Registration
Registration and event website: https://www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026
About BioSyst EU: https://biosyst.eu/
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