Conferences

Future events we are co-organizing:

• ECCB (European Conference on Computational Biology) 2026, Geneva, Switzerland, August 31 – September 4, 2026 (organized by SIB; chairs of the scientific committee: Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL and Niko Beerenwinkel, ETHZ)

Past events we co-organized:

• Basel Computational Biology Conference (BC2), Switzerland, September 8-10, 2025, “Evolution and Environmental Bioinformatics” session (chairs: Anne-Florence Bitbol, EPFL and Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, U of Lausanne)
• StatPhys29 conference, Florence, Italy, July 13-18, 2025 (Anne-Florence Bitbol was a member of the “Biological physics” topic committee, chaired by Lisa Manning, Syracuse U, USA)
• Machine Learning for Protein-Protein and Protein-Ligand Interactions, November 3-8, 2024, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, organized by Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL), Jennifer Listgarten (UC Berkeley), Tomas Pluskal (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Christoph Steinbeck (U of Jena)
• Physics of Biological Data Analysis, July 21-August 18, 2024, Aspen Center for Physics, USA, organized by Marianne Bauer (TU Delft), Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL), Ilya Nemenman (Emory) and Greg Stephens (VU Amsterdam & OIST)
• Les Houches School on Theoretical Biophysics, July 3-29, 2023, Les Houches, France, organized by Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL), Thierry Mora (ENS Paris), Ilya Nemenman (Emory) and Aleksandra Walczak (ENS Paris)
• Biological Evolution Across Scales: Mathematical modelling and statistical inference, April 17–21, 2023, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by Alia Abbara, Celia García-Pareja and Umberto Lupo (EPFL)
• Quantitative Evolution, Phylogeny and Ecology: from models to data and back, January 11-February 19, 2021, Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris, France, organized by Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL), Claude Loverdo (CNRS – Sorbonne Université), Mikhail Tikhonov (Washington University in St-Louis) and Aleksandra Walczak (CNRS – ENS). Turned into a fully online program due to the pandemic
• Q-Bio conference, July 31-August 3, 2019, San Francisco, USA – Anne-Florence Bitbol was the chair of the program committee