Find out which meetings have been canceled, postponed, or are going ahead as planned.
Mar 5, 2020
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Conference organizer | Meeting | Dates and location | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Academy of Neurology | AAN Annual Meeting | April 25-May 1, Toronto, Canada | Canceled |
| American Association for Cancer Research | AACR Annual Meeting 2020 | April 24–29, San Diego, USA | Postponed |
| American Association for Cancer Research | Advances in Prostate Cancer Research | March 12–15, Denver, USA | Postponed |
| American Association for Dental Research and International Association for Dental Research | 2020 IADR/AADR/CADR General Session | March 18–21, Washington, DC, USA | Canceled |
| American Association of Immunologists | IMMUNOLOGY2020 | May 8–12, in Honolulu, USA | Canceled |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | ACS National Meeting & Expo | March 22–26, Philadelphia, USA | Canceled |
| American College of Cardiology | ACC.20/WCC | March 28–30, Chicago, USA | Canceled |
| American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) | 2020 ACMG Clinical Genetics | March 17–21, San Antonio, USA | Canceled |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | JpGU – AGU Joint Meeting | July 12-16, formerly Chiba, Japan, now online | Postponed from May to July and will be held online |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Fall Meeting | December 7–11, San Francisco, USA | No changes announced |
| American Society for Cell Biology | Cell Bio 2020 | December 5–9, Philadelphia, USA | No changes |
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | ASM Microbe 2020 | June 18–22, Chicago, USA | Canceled |
| American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) | Annual meeting | October 27–31, San Diego, USA | No changes announced |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | ARVO 2020 | May 1–7, Baltimore, USA | Canceled |
| British Society of Developmental Biology and the Genetics Society | BSDB/Gensoc 2020 | March 15–18, Coventry, UK | Canceled |
| Cambridge Healthtech Institute | Bio-IT World | Rescheduled for October 6–8, Boston, USA | Rescheduled |
| Cambridge Healthtech Institute | Bioprocessing Summit Europe | July 21–23, Barcelona, Span | Rescheduled for July |
| Cell Symposia | Myeloid Cells: From Development to Function and Dysfunction | June 3–5, Shanghai, China | Postponed (more information coming soon) |
| Cell Symposia | The Conceptual Power of Single-Cell Biology | April 19–21, San Francisco, USA | Postponed (more information coming soon) |
| Cell Symposia | Infection Biology in the Age of the Microbiome | May 18–20, Paris, France | Postponed (more information coming soon) |
| Cell Symposia | Various | Various | All other Cell Symposia are proceeding as planned. |
| Cognitive Neuroscience Society | CNS 2020 | May 2–5, now virtual | The in-person meeting was canceled and a virtual meeting is scheduled instead. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Cell & Developmental Biology of Xenopus: Gene Discovery & Disease | March 25–April 7, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | Canceled. Will be rescheduled for 2021. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Cryo-Electron Microscopy | March 9–22, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | Canceled. Will be rescheduled for 2021. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Expression, Purification & Analysis of Proteins and Protein Complexes | March 25–April 6, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | Canceled. Will be rescheduled for 2021. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression | March 11–14, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | The in-person meeting is canceled, and a virtual meeting will occur instead. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Neuronal Circuits | March 18–21, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | The in-person meeting is canceled, and a virtual meeting will occur instead. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis | March 24–April 7, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA | Canceled. Will be rescheduled for 2021. |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | Various | Various | All other CSHL meetings are currently proceeding as scheduled. |
| Composite and Nanocomposite Advanced Manufacturing-Biomaterials Center | First International Conference on Microbial Polymers | Postponed until June 2021, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA | Postponed |
| Core Technologies for Life Sciences | CTLS2021 (formerly CTLS2020) | Rescheduled for September 14–16, Lisbon, Portugal | Postponed |
| Digestive Diseases Week | DDW 2020 | May 2–5, Chicago, USA | Canceled |
| Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Annual meeting | August 2–7, Salt Lake City, USA | No changes announced |
| Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Pushing Past Barriers - Ecological Science for All | October 22–24, Estes Park, USA | No changes announced |
| EMBO/EMBL Symposia | Various | Various | All conferences and courses scheduled to start before mid-April have been canceled. For events scheduled to start after that, remote participation or streaming services will be made available where possible for people who cannot attend. Further information here. |
| Endocrine Society | ENDO 2020 | March 28–31, San Francisco, USA | Canceled |
| European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) | Euroanaesthesia 2020 | May 31-June 1, Barcelona, Spain | Postponed |
| European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) | European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) | April 18–21, Paris, France | The conference has moved online. |
| Experimental Biology (EB) | Experimental Biology | April 4–7, San Diego, USA | The meeting is canceled and refunds are being offered. The next meeting is scheduled for May 2021. Further information here. |
| Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB) | Science Research Conferences 2020 | April-June, various locations | Canceled |
| Genetics Society of America | TAGC 2020 | April 22–26, Maryland, USA | No changes announced |
| Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation (GAP) | GAP Foundation Innovation Summit | May 5, Washington, DC, USA | Postponed |
| Gordon Research Conferences | Various | March-July, various locations | All conferences have been canceled for the remainder of 2020. |
| International Association for Vegetation Science | IAVS Annual Symposium | July 20–24, Vladivostok, Russia | Canceled |
| Keystone Symposia | Various | March-May, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan March-April, Canada, USA | Twenty-one conferences have been canceled. |
| Metabolomics Society | Metabolomics 2020 | July 6–10, Shanghai, China | The meeting is being rescheduled, likely to December 7–11. |
| Microbiology Society | Annual Conference 2020 | March 31-April 3, Edinburgh, UK | Canceled |
| RECOMB | 24th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology | May 10–13, Padova, Italy | Postponed |
| Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution | SMBE 2020 | June 28–July 2, Québec City, Canada | Canceled |
| Society of Toxicology | 2020 SOT Annual Meeting and ToxExpo | March 15–19, Anaheim, California, USA | Canceled |
| University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) | Geneva Health Forum | Now scheduled for November 16–18, Geneva, Switzerland | Postponed |
| US Human Proteome Organization | US HUPO 2020 Annual Conference | March 8–11, Seattle, USA | Canceled |
