The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Conference 2026 explores advances in experimental biology across cell, plant, and animal systems, focusing on molecular mechanisms, physiology, and responses to environmental change
Key Topics
Cell Biology
Chromatin structure and function in eukaryotes and beyond
Plant Cell Cycle
Skin stress and tissue homeostasis
Cell Polarity: Mechanisms and Modelling
Nuclear and Cytoskeleton Linkers
Phenomics: Automating Experimental Biology
Plant Biology
Protein versatility
Plant and algal cell walls: origin and evolution
Nutrient sensing and signalling
Exploiting genetic diversity for cereal breeding
Fruit development and ripening
Root biology: modelling across the scales into the rhizosphere
Epigenetics and chromatin
Calcium in green and other kingdoms; an evolutionary perspective
Animal Biology
Neuro-ethology and biomechanics of acoustic communication in vertebrates
General biomechanics
Mechanisms and functions of intraspecific variation: from genes to behaviour
Muscle-tendon biomechanics
Challenges to respiratory gas transport – incl.George Hughes presentation
Conservation Physiology of Marine Fishes
Remodelling of physiological systems in response to environmental change
What are the Limits to Avian Energy Expenditure?
Stress in the Wild: linking conservation physiology with endocrinology
