Dear All,
Here’s a reminder that Early Bird registration and Abstract Submission for the 4th European Systematics meeting (BioSyst.EU) will close on 31 May.
The meeting will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, 17–19 August 2026, hosted by Uppsala University and the Swedish Systematics Society, in partnership with the Swiss, German, Austrian, French and UK societies, as well as the Swedish Species Information Centre (Artdatabanken) and Wallenberg and SciLifeLab Programme for Data Driven Life Science (Evolution and Biodiversity).
Meeting highlights include:
Keynote lectures by Paul Hebert (Barcode of Life, University of Guelph), Sandra Knapp (NHM London) and Fredrik Ronquist (NRM Stockholm).
Themed symposia accepting abstracts:
• Trait Evolution, Lineage Diversification and Historical Biogeography in a Big Data era. Confirmed invited speaker: Isabel Sanmartín, Botanic Gardens 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
• As well as open sessions for anyone who wants to present a topic that does not fit well in any of the above.
An early-career event the day before the main meeting (16 August), free of charge – with two invited speakers, Seraina Klopfstein (NHM Basel) and Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense, Madrid). The event will be followed by some mingling and discussions, and dinner/beers. So don’t miss out!
Post-conference excursion to Linnaeus’ summer house in Hammarby (20 August).
The journal Systematics and Biodiversity will host a ‘meet the editors’ session and are accepting submissions for a special collection of papers arising from the conference.
Conference dinner at Norrland’s Nation – a place that has been the heart of student life in Uppsala for 200 years. The dinner is included in ticket prices.
For more information and registration: https://www.trippus.net/BioSyst2026
We hope to see many of you there,
Mårten Klinth, Tobias Andermann, Emma Kärrnäs & Aelys Humphreys
