For its 2026 installment, MCEB will take place near Heraklion, Crete. The local organization is jointly handled by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (https://www.hcmr.gr/en/). Talks will take place on the premises of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research and participants will be accommodated in the nearby Astir Beach Hotel (https://www.astirbeach.gr). 

This edition of the meeting will put an emphasis on computational methods in evolutionary genomics. It will focus on recent algorithmic and statistical advances in the comparative analysis of genomic data, but also present significant results in biology obtained with these new techniques. We hope that the conference will provide a rich and broad overview of the current challenges in this research area and establish new perspectives in order to foster future research projects. 

Beyond this year's themes, general concepts, models, methods and algorithms will be presented and discussed, just as in the previous editions of MCEB. As usual, the meeting will bring together researchers originating from various disciplines: mathematics, statistics, computer science, phylogenetics, population genetics, molecular epidemiology, biodiversity and macroevolution... Keynote speakers will introduce a field of research and discuss their own work in this field. Afternoon will be for short presentations and posters, with plenty of time for discussions. We will stop early every day, thus leaving time for other activities.

Practical information, including registration fees, type of accommodation, etc. will be added in the coming weeks...