A list of microbiome-related conferences, symposia, and scientific meetings happening in 2026.
This repository is intended for:
- researchers & clinicians
- PhD students & postdocs
- industry & biotech scientists
- anyone working in microbiome science 🦠
📍 Banff, Canada
🗓 19–22 January 2026
🔬 Focus: host–microbe interactions, microbiome metabolism, translational research
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📍 London, UK
🗓️ 27–29 January 2026
🔬 Focus: translating microbiome science into real products (strong industry + investor angle)
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📍 San Francisco, California, USA
🗓 03 February 2026
🔬 Focus: advances in microbe engineering
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📍 Brussels, Belgium
🗓 03–05 February 2026
🔬 Focus: pharmabiotics, LBPs, microbiome-based drugs, regulation & clinical translation
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📍 Málaga, Spain
🗓 4–6 February 2026
🔬 Focus: human microbiome, probiotics & prebiotics — from research to clinical practice (primarily Spanish-language event)
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📍 Dublin, Ireland
🗓 11–13 February 2026
🔬 Focus: biotics, gut microbiota, clinical & industry applications
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📍 Miami, USA
🗓 18–20 February 2026
🔬 Focus: microbe-centric view of microbiomes across human, animal, plant and environmental systems
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📍 London, UK
🗓 02–04 March 2026
🔬 Focus: host–microbiome interactions, health & disease, emerging tools
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📍 La Jolla, California, USA
🗓 11 March 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome research and innovation (program TBA)
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📍 Porto, Portugal
🗓 14–15 March 2026
🔬 Focus: gut microbiome in clinical practice, diet-based modulation
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📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🗓 18–19 March 2026
🔬 Focus: partnering, dealmaking & collaboration across microbiome biotech and pharma
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📍 Belgrade, Serbia
🗓 19–21 March 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome across the life course, from early life to aging, with emphasis on clinical translation
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📍 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
🗓 12–15 April 2026
🔬 Focus: soil biodiversity, soil microbiomes, links between soil health, climate and policy
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📍 Belfast, UK
🗓 13–16 April 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome in health and environment
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📍 Muscat, Oman
🗓 13–16 April 2026
🔬 Focus: microbial ecology, microbiology and biotechnology
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📍 Lisbon, Portugal
🗓 15–16 April 2026
🔬 Focus: human microbiome research, gut health, diet & nutrition, host–microbiome interactions, microbiome data analysis
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📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
🗓 17 April 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome engineering, host-microbe interactions, computational microbiome science
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📍 Munich, Germany
🗓 17–21 April 2026
🔬 Focus: clinical microbiology, infectious disease & microbiome-related diagnostics
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📍 Valencia, Spain
🗓 21–22 April 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome science applied to women’s health, including vaginal and gut microbiome, reproductive health and menopause
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📍 Singapore
🗓 29–30 April 2026
🔬 Focus: gut and skin microbiome, diet and nutrition, pre-/pro-/postbiotics, bioinformatics & machine learning, skin and hair microbiome, environmental impacts, and translational research
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📍 Potsdam, Germany
🗓 05–07 May 2026
🔬 Focus: seed microbiome, microbial inheritance, plant–microbe interactions, environmental and agricultural microbiomes
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📍 Bruges, Belgium
🗓 10–12 May 2026
🔬 Focus: host–microbiome interactions & immune regulation
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📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
🗓 11–12 May 2026
🔬 Focus: gut health and disease, gut–brain axis, biotics, personalized nutrition, industry collaboration
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📍 University Park, PA, USA
🗓 13–14 May 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome and human, animal, agricultural and environmental health
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📍 Boston, MA, USA
🗓 18 May 2026
🔬 Focus: translational microbiome research, host-microbe interactions, disease prevention and treatment
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📍 Seoul, South Korea
🗓 03–05 June 2026
🔬 Focus: human microbiome research, microbiome and immunity, host–microbiome interactions
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📍 Washington, DC, USA
🗓 04–07 June 2026
🔬 Focus: microbiome role in human health and environment
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📍 Vancouver, Canada
🗓 08–10 June 2026
🔬 Focus: probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics & industry translation
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📍 Western Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada
🗓 08–10 June 2026
🔬 Focus: microbial communities, computational microbiome analysis, multi-omics integration, host–microbe interactions, environmental and human health applications
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📍 Dessau, Germany
🗓 21–24 June 2026
🔬 Focus: metaproteomics applications in human, animal and environmental microbiomes, multi-omics integration, bioinformatics
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📍 Kraków, Poland
🗓 22–24 June 2026
🔬 Focus: gut microbiota modulation, pharmabiotics, postbiotics, regulatory updates
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📍 Prague, Czech Republic
🗓 06–10 July 2026
🔬 Focus: viruses of microorganisms (bacteriophages, archaeal viruses, microbial eukaryotic viruses); virus–host interactions, phage therapy, bioinformatics, environmental biotechnology
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📍 Madison, Wisconsin, USA
🗓 19–23 July 2026
🔬 Focus: beneficial microbes, symbiosis & host–microbe biology
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📍 Auckland, New Zealand
🗓 16–21 August 2026
🔬 Focus: microbial ecology & host-associated microbiomes
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📍 Nashville, TN, USA
🗓 24–27 September 2026
🔬 Focus: clinical microbiome, case studies
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📍 San Diego, CA, USA
🗓 01–02 October 2026
🔬 Focus: skin microbiome, cosmeceuticals, TBA
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📍 Tokyo, Japan
🗓 06–08 October 2026
🔬 Focus: probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, fermented foods, and health effects of commensal microbes; early-career research presentations & networking
🎓 Notes: student-led meeting under ISAPP; travel and accommodation grants available for selected abstracts
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📍 Cold Spring Harbor, USA
🗓 27–31 October 2026
🔬 Focus: fundamental microbiome biology & methods
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📍 Lisbon, Portugal
🗓 04–06 November 2026
🔬 Focus: AI & innovation in microbiology
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📍 Berkeley, CA, USA
🗓 18–19 November 2026
🔬 Focus: viral ecogenomics, iral diversity and ecology, virus–host interactions, and applications of viral genomics
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