European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2026)

12 Jul 2026, 09:00 → 17 Jul 2026, 18:00 Europe/Vienna

University of Graz

The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology is a joint event of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB) that takes place every other year.

This year's 14th edition of the conference takes place in Graz, Austria from 13. July to 17. July 2026. Visit our conference website at https://ecmtb2026.org to learn more and to receive the latest news and updates concerning the conference.

A satellite event, the 2026 OpenVT Workshop on Multiscale Multicellular Model Sharing and Reproducibility, is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 12. July 2026. See https://www.openvt.org/pages/events/workshops/2026openvt-ecmtb-smb-workshop.html for more information.

Sunday 12 July

09:00 → 16:00 Early Career Workshop

Speaker: TBA

09:00 → 16:00 SMB Board Meeting

Speaker: Brandilyn Stigler (Southern Methodist University)

13:00 → 17:00 BMB 2026 OpenVT Workshop on Multiscale Model Sharing and Reproducibility

Speaker: James Osborne

Monday 13 July

10:40 → 12:00 Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

10:40 MS124-1

Speaker: Edward Thommes (University of Guelph and Sanofi)

11:00 MS124-2

Speaker: John Glasser (Emory University)

11:20 MS124-3

Speaker: Junling Ma (University of Victoria)

11:40 MS124-4

Speaker: Monica Cojocaru (University of Guelph)

10:40 → 12:00 Metabolic Foundations of Microbial Community Interactions: From Theory to Practice

10:40 MS146-1

Speaker: Christian Diener (Medical University of Graz)

11:00 MS146-2

Speaker: Jürgen Zanghellini (Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna)

11:20 MS146-3

Speaker: Stefan Müller (University of Vienna, Faculty of Mathematics)

11:40 MS146-4

10:40 → 12:00 Advanced Topics in Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks

10:40 MS154-1

Speaker: Hoejin Kim (POSTECH)

11:00 MS154-2

Speaker: Jinsu Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

11:20 MS154-3

Speaker: Louis Faul (Université de Fribourg)

11:40 MS154-4

Speaker: Philippe Robert (INRIA)

10:40 → 12:00 Modelling heterogeneity in infectious disease transmission and control

10:40 MS164-1

Speaker: Emma Fairbanks (University of Manchester)

11:00 MS164-2

Speaker: Luzia Nora Felber (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)

11:20 MS164-3

Speaker: Miguel Zornoza (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)

11:40 MS164-4

Speaker: Nathan Doyle (University of Warwick)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematical Modeling of Cross-Scale Biological Dynamics

10:40 MS178-1

Speaker: Anuraag Bukkuri (City St. George's, University of London)

11:00 MS178-2

Speaker: Daniel Cooney (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

11:20 MS178-3

Speaker: Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)

11:40 MS178-4

Speaker: Jessica Hite (University of Wisconsin -- Madison)

10:40 → 12:00 PDE aspects of neural assemblies

10:40 MS18-1

Speaker: Delphine Salort (Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions)

11:00 MS18-2

Speaker: Pierre Roux (Centrale Lyon)

11:20 MS18-3

Speaker: Suzanne Solem (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

11:40 MS18-4

Speaker: Zhennan Zhou (Westlake university)

10:40 → 12:00 MBI Community Gathering: Emerging Methods and Mathematical Models Arising from Biology

10:40 MS26-1

Speaker: Grzegorz Rempala (Ohio State)

11:00 MS26-2

Speaker: Harsh Jain (University of Minnesota Duluth)

11:20 MS26-3

Speaker: Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

11:40 MS26-4

Speaker: Jae Kim (KAIST)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematics and the Life-Sciences: dedicated to 65th Birthday of Angela Stevens

10:40 MS33-1

Speaker: Angela Stevens (University of Muenster)

11:00 MS33-2

Speaker: Benoit Perthame (Sorbonne Université)

11:20 MS33-3

Speaker: Davide Ambrosi (Polytechnic University of Turin)

11:40 MS33-4

Speaker: Nicola Vassena (University of Leipzig)

10:40 → 12:00 Phenotypic Plasticity in Tumor Progression

10:40 MS34-1

Speaker: Francisco Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

11:00 MS34-2

Speaker: Jin Wang (Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University.)

11:20 MS34-3

Speaker: Mohit Kumar Jolly (Indian Institute of Science)

11:40 MS34-4

Speaker: Russell Rockne (Professor & Chair, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope.)

10:40 → 12:00 Meta-Perspectives on Mathematical Biology

10:40 MS36-1

Speaker: Philip Gerlee (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

11:00 MS36-2

Speaker: Benjamin Walker (University College London, UK)

11:20 MS36-3

Speaker: Kira Pugh (Uppsala University, Sweden)

11:40 MS36-4

Speaker: Parmvir Kaur Bahia (Artha Science Media)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematical models of vector-borne diseases

10:40 MS40-1

Speaker: Attila Denes (University of Szeged)

11:00 MS40-2

Speaker: Jorge Velasco (UNAM)

11:20 MS40-3

Speaker: Mostafa Adimy (INRIA)

11:40 MS40-4

Speaker: Roberto Kraenkel (UNESP)

10:40 → 12:00 Identifying the origin and consequences of non-genetic cell-to-cell variability

10:40 MS60-1

Speaker: Alexander Browning (University of Melbourne)

11:00 MS60-2

Speaker: Arthur Genthon (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

11:20 MS60-3

Speaker: Francesca Ballatore (Université Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné)

11:40 MS60-4

Speaker: Viktoria Freingruber (TU Delft)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematical Modelling for Alzheimer's Disease

10:40 MS61-1

Speaker: Giorgia Brennan (University of Oxford)

11:00 MS61-2

Speaker: Samira Breitling (University of Bologna)

11:20 MS61-3

Speaker: Silvia Lorenzani (Politecnico di Milano)

11:40 MS61-4

Speaker: Sofia Farina (University of Bern)

10:40 → 12:00 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

10:40 MS63-1

Speaker: Sarah Olson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

11:00 MS63-2

Speaker: Eric Lauga

11:20 MS63-3

Speaker: David Stein (Flat Iron Institute)

11:40 MS63-4

Speaker: Sharon Lubkin (North Carolina State University)

10:40 → 12:00 Algorithmic Approaches to Biochemical Network Reduction

10:40 MS65-1

Speaker: Georgio Hawi (University of Sydney)

11:00 MS65-2

Speaker: Johannes Apelt (Universität Greifswald)

11:20 MS65-3

Speaker: Santiago Schnell (Dartmouth College)

11:40 MS65-4

Speaker: Yun Min Song (Institute for Basic Science)

10:40 → 12:00 Spatial plasticity and heterogeneity in cancer: from niches to therapy

10:40 MS69-1

Speaker: David Basanta (Moffitt Cancer Center)

11:00 MS69-2

Speaker: Guillermo Lorenzo (University of A Coruña)

11:20 MS69-3

Speaker: Jill Gallaher (Moffitt Cancer Center)

11:40 MS69-4

Speaker: Kylie Savoye (University of Birmingham)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematical Modelling and Automatic Treatment of the HPT Complex and Thyroid Diseases

10:40 MS86-1

Speaker: Clara Horvath (TU Wien)

11:00 MS86-2

Speaker: Isabel Gonzalez Crespo (TU Wien)

11:20 MS86-3

Speaker: Seth Siriya (Leibniz University Hannover)

11:40 MS86-4

Speaker: Thomas Benninger

10:40 → 12:00 Uncovering life’s equations: hybrid AI for biological dynamics learning

10:40 MS87-1

Speaker: Luke De Bretton-Gordon (University of Oxford)

11:00 MS87-2

Speaker: Marta Sales Pardo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

11:20 MS87-3

Speaker: Roman Vetter (ETH Zurich)

11:40 MS87-4

Speaker: William Lavery (Uppsala University)

10:40 → 12:00 Mathematical modeling to propose optimized immunotherapies for chronic disease

10:40 MS88-1

Speaker: Christian Michael (University of Michigan)

11:00 MS88-2

Speaker: Doron Levy (University of Maryland)

11:20 MS88-3

Speaker: Jeanette Johnson (University of Maryland)

11:40 MS88-4

Speaker: Jordana O'Brien (University at Buffalo)

15:00 → 16:20 Immune attack on the nervous system: mathematical models of multiple sclerosis

15:00 MS11-1

Speaker: Barbara Quintela (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

15:20 MS11-2

Speaker: Francesco Pappalardo (University of Catania)

15:40 MS11-3

Speaker: Georgia Weatherley (Queensland University of Technology)

16:00 MS11-4

Speaker: Keith Kennedy (Pompeu Fabra University)

15:00 → 16:20 Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

15:00 MS124-5

Speaker: Naveen Vaidya (San Diego State University)

15:20 MS124-6

Speaker: Troy Day (Queen's University)

15:40 MS124-7

Speaker: Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation)

16:00 MS124-8

Speaker: Jane Heffernan (York University)

15:00 → 16:20 Mathematical Endocrinology: Models of Regulation, Disease and Dynamics

15:00 MS13-1

Speaker: Allison Cruikshank (Duke University)

15:20 MS13-2

Speaker: Cornelia Mihaila (St Michael’s College)

15:40 MS13-3

Speaker: Erica Graham (Bryn Mawr College)

16:00 MS13-4

Speaker: Janet Best (The Ohio State University)

15:00 → 16:20 Multiscale modeling in bioelectromagnetics

15:00 MS148-1

Speaker: Annabelle Collin (Nantes Université)

15:40 MS148-2

Speaker: Argyrios Petras (Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics)

16:00 MS148-3

Speaker: Damijan Miklavčič (University of Ljubljana)

15:00 → 16:20 Advances in Modeling Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Spread: A cross-disciplinary perspective

15:00 MS173-1

Speaker: Navid Ghaffarzadegan

15:20 MS173-2

Speaker: James Duggan (University of Galway)

15:40 MS173-3

Speaker: Feng Fu (Dartmouth College)

16:00 MS173-4

Speaker: Ayesha Mahmud (University of California, Berkeley)

15:00 → 16:20 Recent perspectives on mathematical-biology education

15:00 MS22-1

Speaker: Adriana Zanca (The University of Melbourne)

15:20 MS22-2

Speaker: Alex Capaldi (James Madison University)

15:40 MS22-3

Speaker: Ashley Ford Versypt (University of Buffalo)

16:00 MS22-4

Speaker: Kyle Dahlin (Virginia Tech)

15:00 → 16:20 MBI Community Gathering: Emerging Methods and Mathematical Models Arising from Biology

15:00 MS26-5

Speaker: Jay Newby (University of Alberta)

15:20 MS26-6

Speaker: Leili Shahriyari (UMASS Amherst)

15:40 MS26-7

Speaker: Reginald Haverford College (McGee)

16:00 MS26-8

Speaker: Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University)

15:00 → 16:20 Novel Tools and Methodologies for Epidemiological Models

15:00 MS29-1

Speaker: Jordan Pellett (Grand Valley State University)

15:20 MS29-2

Speaker: Katie Gurski (Howard University)

15:40 MS29-3

Speaker: Lihong Zhao (Kennesaw University)

16:00 MS29-4

Speaker: Madison Pratt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

15:00 → 16:20 Progresses in Mathematical and Computational Immunobiology and Infections

15:00 MS31-1

Speaker: Frederik Graw (Heidelberg University)

15:20 MS31-2

Speaker: Jessica Conway (Penn State, USA)

15:40 MS31-3

Speaker: Leor Weinberger (University of Miami)

16:00 MS31-4

Speaker: Mason Lacy (Queensland University of Technology)

15:00 → 16:20 Insights into cell-tissue interactions via mathematical modelling and computational simulations

15:00 MS42-1

Speaker: Pilar Guerrero

15:20 MS42-2

Speaker: Anotida Madzamuse

15:40 MS42-3

Speaker: Sabia Asghar (Hasselt University)

16:00 MS42-4

Speaker: Fabian Spill

15:00 → 16:20 State of the art methods in modeling for cell and developmental biology

15:00 MS53-1

Speaker: Caitlin Hult

15:20 MS53-2

Speaker: Daniel Cruz

15:40 MS53-3

Speaker: Lin Wan

16:00 MS53-4

Speaker: Marcus Nahmad

15:00 → 16:20 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

15:00 MS63-5

Speaker: Enkeleida Lushi (Soft Active Matter Lab)

15:20 MS63-6

Speaker: Paula Vasquez (University of South Carolina)

15:40 MS63-7

Speaker: Yuan-Nan Young (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

16:00 MS63-8

Speaker: Francesca Bernardi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

15:00 → 16:20 Personalized forecasting in oncology informed by multiscale multimodal data

15:00 MS74-1

Speaker: Cristina Macaluso (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

15:20 MS74-2

Speaker: Jesús Bosque (Mathematical Oncology Laboratory (MOLAB))

15:40 MS74-3

Speaker: Luciana Luque (CRUK Scotland Institute)

16:00 MS74-4

Speaker: Marina Pérez-Aliacar (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)

15:00 → 16:20 Clinically Focused, Translational Modeling of Cancer

15:00 MS90-1

Speaker: Alexander Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center)

15:20 MS90-2

Speaker: John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine)

15:40 MS90-3

Speaker: Michael Trogdon (Pfizer)

16:00 MS90-4

Speaker: Ryan Woodall (City of Hope)

17:00 → 18:20 Immune attack on the nervous system: mathematical models of multiple sclerosis

17:00 MS11-5

Speaker: Maria Carmela Lombardo (University of Palermo)

17:20 MS11-6

Speaker: Marzia Bisi (University of Parma)

17:40 MS11-7

Speaker: Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta)

18:00 MS11-8

Speaker: Valeria Giunta (Swansea University)

17:00 → 18:20 Mathematical Models of Tumour-Immune Interactions and Cancer Evolution

17:00 MS117-1

Speaker: Domenic Germano (University of Melbourne)

17:20 MS117-2

Speaker: Giada Fiandaca (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique)

17:40 MS117-3

Speaker: Isabella Sodi (University College London)

18:00 MS117-4

Speaker: Matteo Italia (University of Castilla-La Mancha)

17:00 → 18:20 Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

17:00 MS140-1

Speaker: Daniel Cooney (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

17:20 MS140-2

Speaker: Junping Shi (College of William & Mary)

17:40 MS140-3

Speaker: Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University)

18:00 MS140-4

Speaker: Samares Pal (University of Kalyani)

17:00 → 18:20 Mathematical Endocrinology: Models of Regulation, Disease and Dynamics

17:00 MS13-5

Speaker: Leili Shahriyari (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

17:20 MS13-6

Speaker: Renee Brady-Nicholls (Moffitt Cancer Center)

17:40 MS13-7

Speaker: Samuel Handelman (Aerska)

18:00 MS13-8

Speaker: Vijaya Subramanian (Johns Hopkins University)

17:00 → 18:20 Multiscale modeling in bioelectromagnetics

17:00 MS148-4

Speaker: Emil Timlin (Chalmers University of Technology)

17:20 MS148-5

Speaker: Mar Gadea Saez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

17:40 MS148-6

Speaker: Mariya Ptashnyk (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

18:00 MS148-7

Speaker: Tobias Gebäck (Chalmers University of Technology)

17:00 → 18:20 Advances in Modeling Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Spread: A cross-disciplinary perspective

17:00 MS173-5

Speaker: Laura Mueller

17:20 MS173-6

Speaker: Alice Oveson (University of Maryland)

17:40 MS173-7

Speaker: Binod Pant (Northeastern University, USA)

18:00 MS173-8

Speaker: Alex Viguerie (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

17:00 → 18:20 Recent perspectives on mathematical-biology education

17:00 MS22-5

Speaker: Laura Fix (Virginia Commonwealth University)

17:20 MS22-6

Speaker: Rebecca Everett (Haverford College)

17:40 MS22-7

Speaker: Reginald McGee (Haverford College)

18:00 MS22-8

Speaker: Stacey Smith? (University of Ottowa)

17:00 → 18:20 Novel Tools and Methodologies for Epidemiological Models

17:00 MS29-5

Speaker: Michael Robert (Virginia Tech)

17:20 MS29-6

Speaker: Necibe Tuncer (Florida Atlantic University)

17:40 MS29-7

Speaker: Quiyana Murphy (University of Michigan)

18:00 MS29-8

Speaker: Summer Atkins (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

17:00 → 18:20 Progresses in Mathematical and Computational Immunobiology and Infections

17:00 MS31-5

Speaker: Melanie Prague (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique)

17:20 MS31-6

Speaker: Ruy Ribeiro (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:40 MS31-7

Speaker: Stanca Ciupe (Virginia Tech)

18:00 MS31-8

Speaker: Tyler Cassidy (University of Leeds)

17:00 → 18:20 Insights into cell-tissue interactions via mathematical modelling and computational simulations

17:00 MS42-5

Speaker: Alberto D'Onofrio

17:20 MS42-6

Speaker: Nadia Loy

17:40 MS42-7

Speaker: Cordula Reisch (Roskilde University)

18:00 MS42-8

Speaker: Sofie Verhees

17:00 → 18:20 State of the art methods in modeling for cell and developmental biology

17:00 MS53-5

Speaker: Pascal Buenzli

17:20 MS53-6

Speaker: Rebecca Crossley

17:40 MS53-7

Speaker: Samantha Linn

18:00 MS53-8

Speaker: Tim Tian

17:00 → 18:20 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

17:00 MS64-1

Speaker: Maria Tatulea-Codrean (University of Amsterdam)

17:20 MS64-2

Speaker: Henry Shum (University of Waterloo)

17:40 MS64-3

Speaker: Alexander Hoover (Cleveland State University)

18:00 MS64-4

Speaker: Weifan Liu (Beijing Forestry University)

17:00 → 18:20 Personalized forecasting in oncology informed by multiscale multimodal data

17:00 MS74-5

Speaker: Mohamed Boussena (INRIA, France)

17:20 MS74-6

Speaker: Russell Rockne (Professor & Chair, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope.)

17:40 MS74-7

Speaker: Víctor M. Pérez-García (Mathematical Oncology Laboratory (MOLAB), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

18:00 MS74-8

Speaker: Yi Jiang (Georgia State University, US)

Tuesday 14 July

10:40 → 12:00 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

10:40 MS64-5

Speaker: Jeungeun Park (State University of New York at New Paltz)

11:00 MS64-6

Speaker: Abigail Drumm (WPI)

11:20 MS64-7

Speaker: Sookkyung Lim (University of Cincinnati)

11:40 MS64-8

Speaker: Jongmin Seo (Kyung Hee University)

12:30 → 14:30 SMB Business Meeting

Speaker: Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Florida)

14:30 → 16:30 BMB Board Meeting

Speaker: Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)

15:00 → 16:20 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

15:00 MS62-1

Speaker: Owen Lewis (University of New Mexico)

15:20 MS62-2

Speaker: Smitha Maretvadakethope (Imperial College London)

15:40 MS62-3

Speaker: Lucia Carichino (Rochester Institute of Technology)

16:00 MS62-4

Speaker: John Stockie (Rochester Institute of Technology)

17:00 → 18:20 Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

17:00 MS62-5

Speaker: Mette Olufsen (NC State)

17:20 MS62-6

Speaker: Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University)

17:40 MS62-7

Speaker: Thomas Fai (Brandeis University)

18:00 MS62-8

Speaker: Amy Buchmann (University of San Diego)

Wednesday 15 July

11:10 → 12:40 BMB NSF Math Bio Funding Session

Speaker: Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation)

Thursday 16 July

10:40 → 12:00 Heterogeneity in epidemic modelling

10:40 MS79-2

Speaker: Eugenio Valdano (INSERM)

11:20 MS79-1

Speaker: Dongni Zhang (Linköping University)

11:40 MS79-3

Speaker: Fernando Saldaña (INRAE Nantes)

12:30 → 14:30 BMB Office Hours of Bulletin Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members

Speaker: Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)

15:10 → 16:30 Heterogeneity in epidemic modelling

15:10 MS79-4

Speaker: Francesca Scarabel (University of Leeds)

15:30 MS79-5

Speaker: Martina Alutto (KTH)

15:50 MS79-6

Speaker: Simone De Reggi (Università di Trento)

16:10 MS79-7

Speaker: Tamas Tekeli (University of Szeged)

18:30 → 21:30 SMB Reception

Speaker: TBA