Organizers:
Alexis Battle, Johns Hopkins University
Matthew Meyerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Aaron Quinlan, University of Utah
Jenny Tung, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University

The 39th annual meeting on Biology of Genomes will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, and run through lunch on Saturday, May 9.

The 2026 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics, complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems. Both technologies and applications will be emphasized. In addition, there will be a special session on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genome research.