Meetings & Conferences

Conference
Dates
Location

ACS Spring 2027

March 21-25, 2027

New Orleans, LA

ACS Fall 2027

TBA

TBA

Algae Biomass Summit

Oct. 12-15, 2026
Tempe, AZ

American Geophysical Union

Dec. 7-11, 2026
San Francisco, CA

American Society for Eng Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition

 June 20-23, 2027
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anti-Biofilm Technologies: Pathways to Product Development

January 2027
TBD

AOAC Annual Meeting and Exposition
Aug. 28-Sep. 1, 2027
Toronto, Ontario Canada

Asia-Pacific Biofilm Conference
TBA
TBA

ASM Microbe
June 22-25, 2027
Chicago, IL

Biotechnology (BIO) International Convention

June 7-10, 2027
Philadelphia, PA

Eurobiofilms

TBA
TBA

European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)

April 9-13, 2027

 

Stockholm, Sweden

FEMS Microbiology

July 5-8, 2027
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Goldschmidt Conference

July 11-16, 2027
Paris, France

IAFP Annual Meeting

July 17-21, 2027 
Kansas City, Missouri

International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Symposium
August 2027
Dates TBD
Budapest, Hungary

International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (ICMRM)
Summer 2027
Dates TBD
Göteborg, Sweden

International Congress on Extremophiles
TBA
TBA

International Congress on Thermophiles
TBA
TBA

International Society for Microbial Ecology 
TBA
TBA

InterPore Annual Meeting
TBA

TBA

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

April 5-9, 2027

Seattle, Washington

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

Nov. 29-Dec. 4, 2026
Boston, MA

Microbiology Society 2026

April 12-15, 2027
Birmingham Birmingham, UK

Microscopy and Microanalysis

August 1-5, 2027
Pittsburgh, PA

Montana Biofilm Science & Technology Meeting
TBA
Bozeman, MT

Remediation Technologies (RemTech) Symposium
October 14-16, 2026
Banff, Alberta, CAN

Sediments Conference
January 25-28, 2027
Austin, TX

SIMB Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels, and Chemicals
April 25-28, 2027
Indianapolis, IN

Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting & Exposition
April 28-May 1, 2027
Seattle, WA

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology Spring Meeting
March 30-April 2, 2027
Washington, DC

Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Annual Meeting
August 1- 4, 2027
Boston, MA

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, & Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting
Feb. 28 - March 3, 2027
Denver, CO

Thesinge Biofilm Meeting on Biomaterial-Associated Infections
TBA
TBA

U.S. Engineered Living Materials Workshop

TBA
TBA

Wound Healing Society Annual Meeting
April 28 - May 2, 2027
Philadelphia, PA

Courses/REUs

Program
Location
Dates
Application Deadline
Link
ELM Spring School 

Ettal, Bavaria, Germany
April 27-30, 2026
February 27, 2026
https://elm-springschool.de/ 

Send applications to:
hannah.jahn-kelleter@leibniz-inm.de 
Summer Course on Microbial Diversity 

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
July 5-Aug 17, 2026
February 11, 2026
https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/microbial-diversity 
Summer Course

Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE)
Singapore

 
June 22-July 3, 2026 
February 21, 2026
https://scelse.sg/summer-course/ 
Summer REU Program on Extreme Biofilms
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT

May 27–July 31, 2026     
March 27, 2026
https://tbi.montana.edu/undergraduate-research-fellowship/index.html 

Summer REU Program on Interactive Biomaterials

 
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
June 1–August 7, 2026
March 2, 2026
https://biomaterials.syr.edu/biomaterials-reu/

Summer REU Program on Microbial Biofilms

 
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
May 26–July 31, 2026
February 15, 2026
https://www.binghamton.edu/centers/biofilm-research/reu/ 

Summer REU Program on Microbiology of Low Oxygen Ecosystems (MLOxE)

 
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
May 26–August 1, 2026
February 14, 2026
https://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/