ISEMPH Monthly Bulletin
March 2026
1. Updates on the ISEMPH Annual Meeting 2026 in Kiel, Germany. The early bird fee registration is still open, please check ISEMPH - 2026 in Kiel, Germany for information and registration. We have 5 confirmed keynote speakers:
Johannes Krause – Max Planck Institute Jena, Germany
Trevor Graham – Institute of Cancer Research London, UK
Lynette Leidy Sievert – UMass Amherst, USA
Brendan Bohannan – Univ. of Oregon, USA
Marisa Azad – Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
The regular abstract submission is now closed, but late breaking abstracts will still be accepted, as posters only.
The travel award decision announcement is ongoing now.
Further deadlines:
· March 15: Omenn Prize nomination deadline. Please use this link to submit your nomination(s).
· April 1, 2026: Abstract decision announcement
· April 15, 2026: Early-bird registration deadline; all presenters must be registered and paid
· June 15, 2026: Regular registration deadline
2. A new ISEMPH logo poll was launched, please participate here.
3. Join ClubEvMed to engage with short talks on cutting-edge evolutionary medicine research by leaders in the field https://sites.duke.edu/clubevmed/upcoming/
The next Club EvMed, on March 30th at 12:30 pm EST, is titled How vulnerable is gestation? A critical reappraisal of the Dutch Hunger Winter studies and will be presented by Dr. Chris Kuzawa and Sasha Post from Harvard. The link to register is https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/jhGq-CZJSn2Re7kmcAya2g
4. Consider publishing in EMPH. The call for the new special issue: Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health is still open.