Science and community
A space to share research, open our laboratories and bring genomics into conversation with society.
Scientific meetings, open laboratories and encounters with our community.
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2 January 2026 to 31 January 2026
Concepción · Chile
2 January 2026 to 31 January 2026
Alejandro Maass explores how gene regulation in bacterial metagenomes can help study the environment.
A fingerprint of the gene regulatory capacity of a bacterial metagenome: a way to sensor the environment
2026
5 January 2026 to 10 January 2026
Valparaíso · Chile
5 January 2026 to 10 January 2026
A summer course on mathematical modelling of cancer evolution, organised by Alejandro Maass.
Organisation: Alejandro Maass
2026
8 January 2026 to 9 January 2026
Santiago · Chile
8 January 2026 to 9 January 2026
Valentina Muñoz-Madrid presents tissue-specific coadaptation of codon usage and transfer RNA pools in Drosophila.
Tissue-specific coadaptation of codon usage and tRNA pools in Drosophila melanogaster.
2026
12 January 2026 to 17 January 2026
Santiago · Chile
12 January 2026 to 17 January 2026
Alejandro Maass contributes a presentation connecting DNA and the environment.
Desde el ADN escalando al medio ambiente
Presentation date to be confirmed within the event.
2026
20 January 2026
Quillota · Chile
20 January 2026
An international seminar organised by Romina Pedreschi on metabolomics for a sustainable avocado supply chain.
Organisation: Romina Pedreschi
2026
21 January 2026 to 22 January 2026
Quillota · Chile
21 January 2026 to 22 January 2026
FOVI240006 network workshops on metabolomics workflows, organised by Romina Pedreschi.
Organisation: Romina Pedreschi
2026
10 February 2026 to 15 February 2026
Vancouver · Canada
10 February 2026 to 15 February 2026
Alejandro Maass contributes to an ocean research meeting with a talk on maximum entropy and random dynamical systems.
Principles of maximal entropy / Random dynamical systems
2026
17 March 2026 to 21 March 2026
San Luis Potosí · Mexico
17 March 2026 to 21 March 2026
Alejandro Maass presents research on genomic signatures that can predict an organism’s environment.
Marcas en genomas que predicen su ambiente
2026
27 March 2026 to 1 April 2026
Santiago and Santa Cruz · Chile
27 March 2026 to 1 April 2026
A course and meeting on metabolic modelling, organised by Alejandro Maass and Mauricio Latorre, with CRG presentations.
Organisation: Alejandro Maass, Mauricio Latorre
Exploring the space of metabolic fluxes in microbial communities
Exploring the metabolic potential of prokaryotic communities in the Chilean coast.
2026
5 May 2026 to 7 May 2026
Toulouse · France
5 May 2026 to 7 May 2026
A meeting on cellular automata and symbolic dynamical systems, with Alejandro Maass as organiser and speaker.
Organisation: Alejandro Maass
Automorphisms of low complexity systems and Toeplitz
2026
3 June 2026 to 5 June 2026
Quillota · Chile
3 June 2026 to 5 June 2026
Romina Pedreschi presents advances in controlling physiological disorders in Hass avocado.
Advances in the control of physiological disorders in Hass avocado
Presentation date to be confirmed within the event.
2026
10 June 2026 to 12 June 2026
Madrid · Spain
10 June 2026 to 12 June 2026
Beatriz Díez presents virus–host interactions in microbial mats from the El Tatio geothermal field.
Virus–Host Interactions in Microbial Mats from El Tatio Geothermal Field, Chile
2026
6 July 2026 to 10 July 2026
Santiago · Chile
6 July 2026 to 10 July 2026
Claudio Latorre and Gonzalo Macaya present studies on Inka textiles, isotopes and subsistence responses along the Atacama coast.
Direct dating and stable isotopes of Inka Unku fibers reveal economic and cultural trajectories of imperial textiles
Environmental variability and subsistence response: shellfish diversity and coastal upwelling among Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Atacama Desert
2026
22 July 2026 to 23 July 2026
Rancagua · Chile
22 July 2026 to 23 July 2026
Alejandro Maass takes part in a roundtable on genomics in health.
Genómica en salud
2026
27 July 2026 to 30 July 2026
Concepción · Chile
27 July 2026 to 30 July 2026
Marianne Buscaglia presents how oxygen shapes giant marine virus communities and their genomic adaptation along the Chilean coast.
Oxygen shapes marine giant virus community structure and genomic adaptation along the Chilean Coastal Margin
2026
4 August 2026
Santiago · Chile
4 August 2026
Marianne Buscaglia discusses the Mission Microbiomes CEODOS Chile expedition and the study of ocean microorganisms.
Mapping the Invisible: Mission Microbiomes CEODOS Chile Expedition
2026
20 August 2026
Santiago · Chile
20 August 2026
Valentina Muñoz-Madrid presents the response of Nodularia TAL-12 to prolonged UV-A exposure.
The temporal response of Nodularia TAL-12 to prolonged UV-A exposure: from metabolic suppression to translational remodeling
2026
23 August 2026 to 28 August 2026
Kyoto · Japan
23 August 2026 to 28 August 2026
Four CRG presentations explore dormancy, heatwaves and responses to water deficit in fruit crops.
Carbohydrate dynamics and thermal requirements during dormancy: a multi-site approach in sweet cherry
Metabolic and transcriptomic responses to winter heatwaves reveal accelerated dormancy transition in sweet cherry floral buds
Integrated analysis of water deficit responses in Prunus rootstock-scion combinations: physiological and metabolomics performance
Influence of the rootstock on the physiological and metabolic response of sweet cherry rootstock/scion combinations to water deficit
2026
31 August 2026 to 4 September 2026
Chicago · United States
31 August 2026 to 4 September 2026
Alejandro Maass discusses rigidity and randomisation problems in cellular automata.
Revisiting Rigidity and Randomization Problems for Cellular Automata
2026
7 September 2026 to 11 September 2026
Wrocław · Poland
7 September 2026 to 11 September 2026
Alejandro Maass joins the Chilean-Polish mathematical meeting with a talk on symbolic dynamics.
Rigidity problems in the Dynamics of Endomorphisms of Symbolic Dynamical Systems
2026
8 September 2026 to 11 September 2026
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul · Brazil
8 September 2026 to 11 September 2026
Mauricio Latorre presents a poster on Enterococcus faecalis as a model for cellular and transcriptional responses to metals.
Enterococcus faecalis: an alternative systems biology model to study cellular and transcriptional responses to metals
Presentation date to be confirmed within the event.
2026
20 September 2026 to 24 September 2026
Crete · Greece
20 September 2026 to 24 September 2026
Álvaro Glavic presents a poster on codon usage and transfer RNA abundance during development and environmental stress.
Interplay between codon usage and tRNA abundance during development and environmental stress across biological systems
2026
2 to 6 October 2026
National science programme
2026
5 October 2026 to 8 October 2026
La Serena · Chile
5 October 2026 to 8 October 2026
Mauricio Latorre presents a poster on regulatory reprogramming and metal homeostasis in Enterococcus faecalis.
Multilayer regulatory reprogramming: Enterococcus faecalis as a systems model for study metal homeostasis
Presentation date to be confirmed within the event.
2026
15 October 2026
CRG laboratories
2026
19 October 2026 to 23 October 2026
Fortaleza · Brazil
19 October 2026 to 23 October 2026
Alejandro Maass presents “Topological Cubes” at a meeting on combinatorics, number theory and dynamical systems.
Topological Cubes
2026
25 October 2026 to 29 October 2026
Santiago · Chile
25 October 2026 to 29 October 2026
A Latin American nutrition congress with Romina Pedreschi participating in its organisation.
Organisation: Romina Pedreschi
2026
26 October 2026
CRG community
2026
13 to 15 November 2026
Santiago
2026
19 to 21 November 2026
Santiago
2026
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2027
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2027
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2025
Revisit the topics, programmes and participants from our scientific meetings.
19 Dec 2025
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · Santiago
An international seminar on the scientific, technical and institutional challenges involved in building biological collections for biodiversity genomics.
23–24 Apr 2025
Universidad de Chile · Santiago
A meeting on funding, technology, bioinformatics analysis and genomic workflows, designed to strengthen collaboration across the genomics community.