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

1 Early Career Workshop

Speaker: TBA

2 SMB Board Meeting

Speaker: Brandilyn Stigler (Southern Methodist University)

3 BMB 2026 OpenVT Workshop on Multiscale Model Sharing and Reproducibility

Speaker: James Osborne

Monday 13 July

Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

4 MS124-1

Speaker: Edward Thommes (University of Guelph and Sanofi)

5 MS124-2

Speaker: John Glasser (Emory University)

6 MS124-3

Speaker: Junling Ma (University of Victoria)

7 MS124-4

Speaker: Monica Cojocaru (University of Guelph)

Metabolic Foundations of Microbial Community Interactions: From Theory to Practice

8 MS146-1

Speaker: Christian Diener (Medical University of Graz)

9 MS146-2

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

10 MS146-3

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

11 MS146-4

Advanced Topics in Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks

12 MS154-1

Speaker: Hoejin Kim (POSTECH)

13 MS154-2

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

14 MS154-3

Speaker: Louis Faul (Université de Fribourg)

15 MS154-4

Speaker: Philippe Robert (INRIA)

Modelling heterogeneity in infectious disease transmission and control

16 MS164-1

Speaker: Emma Fairbanks (University of Manchester)

17 MS164-2

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

18 MS164-3

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

19 MS164-4

Speaker: Nathan Doyle (University of Warwick)

Mathematical Modeling of Cross-Scale Biological Dynamics

20 MS178-1

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

21 MS178-2

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

22 MS178-3

Speaker: Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)

23 MS178-4

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

PDE aspects of neural assemblies

24 MS18-1

Speaker: Delphine Salort (Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions)

25 MS18-2

Speaker: Pierre Roux (Centrale Lyon)

26 MS18-3

Speaker: Suzanne Solem (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

27 MS18-4

Speaker: Zhennan Zhou (Westlake university)

MBI Community Gathering: Emerging Methods and Mathematical Models Arising from Biology

28 MS26-1

Speaker: Grzegorz Rempala (Ohio State)

29 MS26-2

Speaker: Harsh Jain (University of Minnesota Duluth)

30 MS26-3

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

31 MS26-4

Speaker: Jae Kim (KAIST)

Mathematics and the Life-Sciences: dedicated to 65th Birthday of Angela Stevens

32 MS33-1

Speaker: Angela Stevens (University of Muenster)

33 MS33-2

Speaker: Benoit Perthame (Sorbonne Université)

34 MS33-3

Speaker: Davide Ambrosi (Polytechnic University of Turin)

35 MS33-4

Speaker: Nicola Vassena (University of Leipzig)

Phenotypic Plasticity in Tumor Progression

36 MS34-1

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

37 MS34-2

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

38 MS34-3

Speaker: Mohit Kumar Jolly (Indian Institute of Science)

39 MS34-4

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

Meta-Perspectives on Mathematical Biology

40 MS36-1

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

41 MS36-2

Speaker: Benjamin Walker (University College London, UK)

42 MS36-3

Speaker: Kira Pugh (Uppsala University, Sweden)

43 MS36-4

Speaker: Parmvir Kaur Bahia (Artha Science Media)

Mathematical models of vector-borne diseases

44 MS40-1

Speaker: Attila Denes (University of Szeged)

45 MS40-2

Speaker: Jorge Velasco (UNAM)

46 MS40-3

Speaker: Mostafa Adimy (INRIA)

47 MS40-4

Speaker: Roberto Kraenkel (UNESP)

Identifying the origin and consequences of non-genetic cell-to-cell variability

48 MS60-1

Speaker: Alexander Browning (University of Melbourne)

49 MS60-2

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

50 MS60-3

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

51 MS60-4

Speaker: Viktoria Freingruber (TU Delft)

Mathematical Modelling for Alzheimer's Disease

52 MS61-1

Speaker: Giorgia Brennan (University of Oxford)

53 MS61-2

Speaker: Samira Breitling (University of Bologna)

54 MS61-3

Speaker: Silvia Lorenzani (Politecnico di Milano)

55 MS61-4

Speaker: Sofia Farina (University of Bern)

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

56 MS63-1

Speaker: Sarah Olson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

57 MS63-2

Speaker: Eric Lauga

58 MS63-3

Speaker: David Stein (Flat Iron Institute)

59 MS63-4

Speaker: Sharon Lubkin (North Carolina State University)

Algorithmic Approaches to Biochemical Network Reduction

60 MS65-1

Speaker: Georgio Hawi (University of Sydney)

61 MS65-2

Speaker: Johannes Apelt (Universität Greifswald)

62 MS65-3

Speaker: Santiago Schnell (Dartmouth College)

63 MS65-4

Speaker: Yun Min Song (Institute for Basic Science)

Spatial plasticity and heterogeneity in cancer: from niches to therapy

64 MS69-1

Speaker: David Basanta (Moffitt Cancer Center)

65 MS69-2

Speaker: Guillermo Lorenzo (University of A Coruña)

66 MS69-3

Speaker: Jill Gallaher (Moffitt Cancer Center)

67 MS69-4

Speaker: Kylie Savoye (University of Birmingham)

Mathematical Modelling and Automatic Treatment of the HPT Complex and Thyroid Diseases

68 MS86-1

Speaker: Clara Horvath (TU Wien)

69 MS86-2

Speaker: Isabel Gonzalez Crespo (TU Wien)

70 MS86-3

Speaker: Seth Siriya (Leibniz University Hannover)

71 MS86-4

Speaker: Thomas Benninger

Uncovering life’s equations: hybrid AI for biological dynamics learning

72 MS87-1

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

73 MS87-2

Speaker: Marta Sales Pardo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

74 MS87-3

Speaker: Roman Vetter (ETH Zurich)

75 MS87-4

Speaker: William Lavery (Uppsala University)

Mathematical modeling to propose optimized immunotherapies for chronic disease

76 MS88-1

Speaker: Christian Michael (University of Michigan)

77 MS88-2

Speaker: Doron Levy (University of Maryland)

78 MS88-3

Speaker: Jeanette Johnson (University of Maryland)

79 MS88-4

Speaker: Jordana O'Brien (University at Buffalo)

Immune attack on the nervous system: mathematical models of multiple sclerosis

80 MS11-1

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

81 MS11-2

Speaker: Francesco Pappalardo (University of Catania)

82 MS11-3

Speaker: Georgia Weatherley (Queensland University of Technology)

83 MS11-4

Speaker: Keith Kennedy (Pompeu Fabra University)

Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

84 MS124-5

Speaker: Naveen Vaidya (San Diego State University)

85 MS124-6

Speaker: Troy Day (Queen's University)

86 MS124-7

Speaker: Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation)

87 MS124-8

Speaker: Jane Heffernan (York University)

Mathematical Endocrinology: Models of Regulation, Disease and Dynamics

88 MS13-1

Speaker: Allison Cruikshank (Duke University)

89 MS13-2

Speaker: Cornelia Mihaila (St Michael’s College)

90 MS13-3

Speaker: Erica Graham (Bryn Mawr College)

91 MS13-4

Speaker: Janet Best (The Ohio State University)

Multiscale modeling in bioelectromagnetics

92 MS148-1

Speaker: Annabelle Collin (Nantes Université)

93 MS148-2

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

94 MS148-3

Speaker: Damijan Miklavčič (University of Ljubljana)

Advances in Modeling Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Spread: A cross-disciplinary perspective

95 MS173-1

Speaker: Navid Ghaffarzadegan

96 MS173-2

Speaker: James Duggan (University of Galway)

97 MS173-3

Speaker: Feng Fu (Dartmouth College)

98 MS173-4

Speaker: Ayesha Mahmud (University of California, Berkeley)

Recent perspectives on mathematical-biology education

99 MS22-1

Speaker: Adriana Zanca (The University of Melbourne)

100 MS22-2

Speaker: Alex Capaldi (James Madison University)

101 MS22-3

Speaker: Ashley Ford Versypt (University of Buffalo)

102 MS22-4

Speaker: Kyle Dahlin (Virginia Tech)

MBI Community Gathering: Emerging Methods and Mathematical Models Arising from Biology

103 MS26-5

Speaker: Jay Newby (University of Alberta)

104 MS26-6

Speaker: Leili Shahriyari (UMASS Amherst)

105 MS26-7

Speaker: Reginald Haverford College (McGee)

106 MS26-8

Speaker: Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University)

Novel Tools and Methodologies for Epidemiological Models

107 MS29-1

Speaker: Jordan Pellett (Grand Valley State University)

108 MS29-2

Speaker: Katie Gurski (Howard University)

109 MS29-3

Speaker: Lihong Zhao (Kennesaw University)

110 MS29-4

Speaker: Madison Pratt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Progresses in Mathematical and Computational Immunobiology and Infections

111 MS31-1

Speaker: Frederik Graw (Heidelberg University)

112 MS31-2

Speaker: Jessica Conway (Penn State, USA)

113 MS31-3

Speaker: Leor Weinberger (University of Miami)

114 MS31-4

Speaker: Mason Lacy (Queensland University of Technology)

Insights into cell-tissue interactions via mathematical modelling and computational simulations

115 MS42-1

Speaker: Pilar Guerrero

116 MS42-2

Speaker: Anotida Madzamuse

117 MS42-3

Speaker: Sabia Asghar (Hasselt University)

118 MS42-4

Speaker: Fabian Spill

State of the art methods in modeling for cell and developmental biology

119 MS53-1

Speaker: Caitlin Hult

120 MS53-2

Speaker: Daniel Cruz

121 MS53-3

Speaker: Lin Wan

122 MS53-4

Speaker: Marcus Nahmad

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

123 MS63-5

Speaker: Enkeleida Lushi (Soft Active Matter Lab)

124 MS63-6

Speaker: Paula Vasquez (University of South Carolina)

125 MS63-7

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

126 MS63-8

Speaker: Francesca Bernardi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Personalized forecasting in oncology informed by multiscale multimodal data

127 MS74-1

Speaker: Cristina Macaluso (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

128 MS74-2

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

129 MS74-3

Speaker: Luciana Luque (CRUK Scotland Institute)

130 MS74-4

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

Clinically Focused, Translational Modeling of Cancer

131 MS90-1

Speaker: Alexander Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center)

132 MS90-2

Speaker: John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine)

133 MS90-3

Speaker: Michael Trogdon (Pfizer)

134 MS90-4

Speaker: Ryan Woodall (City of Hope)

Immune attack on the nervous system: mathematical models of multiple sclerosis

135 MS11-5

Speaker: Maria Carmela Lombardo (University of Palermo)

136 MS11-6

Speaker: Marzia Bisi (University of Parma)

137 MS11-7

Speaker: Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta)

138 MS11-8

Speaker: Valeria Giunta (Swansea University)

Mathematical Models of Tumour-Immune Interactions and Cancer Evolution

139 MS117-1

Speaker: Domenic Germano (University of Melbourne)

140 MS117-2

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

141 MS117-3

Speaker: Isabella Sodi (University College London)

142 MS117-4

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

Advanced Progresses in Population Models Driven by Natural and/or Artificial Intelligence

143 MS140-1

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

144 MS140-2

Speaker: Junping Shi (College of William & Mary)

145 MS140-3

Speaker: Kunquan Lan (Toronto Metropolitan University)

146 MS140-4

Speaker: Samares Pal (University of Kalyani)

Mathematical Endocrinology: Models of Regulation, Disease and Dynamics

147 MS13-5

Speaker: Leili Shahriyari (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

148 MS13-6

Speaker: Renee Brady-Nicholls (Moffitt Cancer Center)

149 MS13-7

Speaker: Samuel Handelman (Aerska)

150 MS13-8

Speaker: Vijaya Subramanian (Johns Hopkins University)

Multiscale modeling in bioelectromagnetics

151 MS148-4

Speaker: Emil Timlin (Chalmers University of Technology)

152 MS148-5

Speaker: Mar Gadea Saez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

153 MS148-6

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

154 MS148-7

Speaker: Tobias Gebäck (Chalmers University of Technology)

Advances in Modeling Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Spread: A cross-disciplinary perspective

155 MS173-5

Speaker: Laura Mueller

156 MS173-6

Speaker: Alice Oveson (University of Maryland)

157 MS173-7

Speaker: Binod Pant (Northeastern University, USA)

158 MS173-8

Speaker: Alex Viguerie (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

Recent perspectives on mathematical-biology education

159 MS22-5

Speaker: Laura Fix (Virginia Commonwealth University)

160 MS22-6

Speaker: Rebecca Everett (Haverford College)

161 MS22-7

Speaker: Reginald McGee (Haverford College)

162 MS22-8

Speaker: Stacey Smith? (University of Ottowa)

Novel Tools and Methodologies for Epidemiological Models

163 MS29-5

Speaker: Michael Robert (Virginia Tech)

164 MS29-6

Speaker: Necibe Tuncer (Florida Atlantic University)

165 MS29-7

Speaker: Quiyana Murphy (University of Michigan)

166 MS29-8

Speaker: Summer Atkins (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

Progresses in Mathematical and Computational Immunobiology and Infections

167 MS31-5

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

168 MS31-6

Speaker: Ruy Ribeiro (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

169 MS31-7

Speaker: Stanca Ciupe (Virginia Tech)

170 MS31-8

Speaker: Tyler Cassidy (University of Leeds)

Insights into cell-tissue interactions via mathematical modelling and computational simulations

171 MS42-5

Speaker: Alberto D'Onofrio

172 MS42-6

Speaker: Nadia Loy

173 MS42-7

Speaker: Cordula Reisch (Roskilde University)

174 MS42-8

Speaker: Sofie Verhees

State of the art methods in modeling for cell and developmental biology

175 MS53-5

Speaker: Pascal Buenzli

176 MS53-6

Speaker: Rebecca Crossley

177 MS53-7

Speaker: Samantha Linn

178 MS53-8

Speaker: Tim Tian

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

179 MS64-1

Speaker: Maria Tatulea-Codrean (University of Amsterdam)

180 MS64-2

Speaker: Henry Shum (University of Waterloo)

181 MS64-3

Speaker: Alexander Hoover (Cleveland State University)

182 MS64-4

Speaker: Weifan Liu (Beijing Forestry University)

Personalized forecasting in oncology informed by multiscale multimodal data

183 MS74-5

Speaker: Mohamed Boussena (INRIA, France)

184 MS74-6

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

185 MS74-7

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

186 MS74-8

Speaker: Yi Jiang (Georgia State University, US)

Tuesday 14 July

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

187 MS64-5

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

188 MS64-6

Speaker: Abigail Drumm (WPI)

189 MS64-7

Speaker: Sookkyung Lim (University of Cincinnati)

190 MS64-8

Speaker: Jongmin Seo (Kyung Hee University)

191 SMB Business Meeting

Speaker: Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Florida)

192 BMB Board Meeting

Speaker: Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

193 MS62-1

Speaker: Owen Lewis (University of New Mexico)

194 MS62-2

Speaker: Smitha Maretvadakethope (Imperial College London)

195 MS62-3

Speaker: Lucia Carichino (Rochester Institute of Technology)

196 MS62-4

Speaker: John Stockie (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Newtonian and non-Newtonian Biofluidmechanics: Integrating Theory, Experiments, Modeling, and Simulations

197 MS62-5

Speaker: Mette Olufsen (NC State)

198 MS62-6

Speaker: Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University)

199 MS62-7

Speaker: Thomas Fai (Brandeis University)

200 MS62-8

Speaker: Amy Buchmann (University of San Diego)

Wednesday 15 July

201 BMB NSF Math Bio Funding Session

Speaker: Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation)

Thursday 16 July

Heterogeneity in epidemic modelling

202 MS79-2

Speaker: Eugenio Valdano (INSERM)

203 MS79-1

Speaker: Dongni Zhang (Linköping University)

204 MS79-3

Speaker: Fernando Saldaña (INRAE Nantes)

205 BMB Office Hours of Bulletin Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members

Speaker: Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)

Heterogeneity in epidemic modelling

206 MS79-4

Speaker: Francesca Scarabel (University of Leeds)

207 MS79-5

Speaker: Martina Alutto (KTH)

208 MS79-6

Speaker: Simone De Reggi (Università di Trento)

209 MS79-7

Speaker: Tamas Tekeli (University of Szeged)

210 SMB Reception

Speaker: TBA