Upcoming Fall 2025 Conference Highlights & Organizer Interviews
Our Fall 2025 line-up features exciting topics across infectious disease, artificial intelligence and plant engineering, at venues from right here at home in Colorado all the way to Geneva, Switzerland! Find out more about upcoming meeting highlights, important deadlines for scholarship and abstract submissions, and organizer insight videos below.
- Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes
- AI in Molecular Biology
- Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections
- Plant Epigenetics and Epigenome Engineering
August 10–13, 2025 | Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Scientific Organizers: Akiko Iwasaki, Avindra Nath, Hannah Davis and Daniel M. Altmann
Program Highlights:
- Epidemiology, Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Long COVID
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Immunological Dysfunction and Mechanisms of Long COVID
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Post-Acute Infection Syndromes (PAIS)
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Gut, Sex and other Influences on the Manifestation of PAIS
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Neurological and Vascular Damages in Long COVID
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Perspectives in Personalized Medicine
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Clinical Trials for PAIS
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Panel Discussion with the Global Virus Network: Long COVID: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Emerging Treatments
Important Deadlines:
- Early Registration Deadline: June 24, 2025
- Scholarship Deadline: May 13, 2025
- Short Talk Abstract Deadline: May 13, 2025
- Poster Abstract Deadline: July 17, 2025
September 15–18, 2025 | Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Scientific Organizers: David R. Kelley and Jean Fan
In addition, we aim to train and inspire the next-generation of scientists who will drive the interface of AI and biology towards novel application and capabilities. We expect to draw participants across a wide range of disciplines, fostering collaboration between technical experts in AI and biology researchers to develop innovative solutions towards a better understanding of disease and its prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment. Anticipated outcomes include new interdisciplinary research directions, advances in tools and technologies, and collaborations that will define the future of the field.
- Extracting Interpretable Insights from Biological AI
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Parsing and Annotating the Noncoding Genome
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Mapping Cellular Interactions in Tissues with Spatial Imaging and Genomics
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Learning a Language of Cellular Morphology from Imaging
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Toward an Integration of AI and Systems Biology
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Analyzing and Harnessing Proteins
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Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation and Responsibility in AI-Driven Biology with Academic and Industry Leaders
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Panel Discussion: Complementarity of Industry and Academia
- Closing Keynote Address by Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baker (read more)
- Early Registration Deadline: July 17, 2025
- Scholarship Deadline: May 20, 2025
- Short Talk Abstract Deadline: May 20, 2025
- Poster Abstract Deadline: August 21, 2025
Emerging and re-emerging viruses remain a persistent threat, causing widespread illness and death, from localized outbreaks to global pandemics. Recent pandemics and outbreaks of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, avian influenza, MERS, Ebola, Marburg, and mpox, reveal that there are critical gaps in our understanding and emphasize the urgent need to rethink our preparedness strategies. This meeting will integrate virology, immunology, epidemiology and public health perspectives to generate multidisciplinary and integrative solutions to address viral threats, including the development of global outbreak prevention strategies, vaccines and therapeutics.
This meeting will provide unique networking opportunities for researchers, clinicians, and public health professionals from broad arenas to connect and collaborate, in order to strengthen global efforts in prevention, detection, and response to emerging viruses-- ultimately protecting global health from future epidemic and pandemic threats.
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Predictive Modeling and Surveillance
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Transformative Strategies for Viral Discovery, Diagnosis, Prediction & Response
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Pandemic Preparedness and Response Strategies
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Vaccines & Therapeutics
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Zoonoses 1 - One Health
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Zoonoses 2 – Virus-Host Interactions
- Lunch Featuring Women in Pandemic Preparedness
- Covering Arboviruses, Filoviruses, Nipah Virus, Chikungunya, Rift Valley Fever, COVID, Monkeypox, Ebola, Marburg and Influenzas
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Panel Discussion: Scientific Challenges & Research Strategies for Pandemic Preparedness
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Keynote Address: Richard Hatchett, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CEPI
Important Deadlines
- Early Registration Deadline: August 14, 2025
- Scholarship Deadline: June 17, 2025
- Short Talk Abstract Deadline: June 17, 2025
- Poster Abstract Deadline: September 18, 2025
Scientific Organizers: Doris Wagner, Xuehua Zhong, Toshiro Ito and Claudia Köhler
Program Highlights:
- Epigenetic Regulation of Transposable Elements and Genome Organization
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Gene Regulation in the Context of Chromatin
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DNA Methylation and Noncoding RNAs in Epigenetics
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Epigenetics in (de) Differentiation, Growth and Development
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Histone Variants, Occupancy, and Modifications
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Epigenetic Regulation of Environment/Stress Response and Memory
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Panel Discussion: Epigenome Engineering
Important Deadlines:
- Early Registration Deadline: August 14, 2025
- Scholarship Deadline: June 18, 2025
- Short Talk Abstract Deadline: June 18, 2025
- Poster Abstract Deadline: September 18, 2025

