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Research Areas

Pharmacy πŸ’Š

Pharmacology πŸ”¬

Medicinal Chemistry βš—οΈ

Artificial Intelligence πŸ€–

Drug DevelopmentπŸ’Š

Economic Analysis πŸ’΅

Infectious Diseases 🦠

Antimicrobial Resistance 🦠

Human Gut Microbiome 🦠

Genomics 🧬

Structural Biology πŸ”¬

Advanced Methods βš—οΈ
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Conference Map and Calendar

Upcoming Conferences and Events

Conference Calendar

Event Location Start Date - End Date Abstract Submission Project
Houston C diff & Microbiome Conference
Visit
Houston, TX May 16, 2025 - May 16, 2025 Abstracts Closed
IDSA IDWeek
Visit
Atlanta, GA October 19, 2025 - October 22, 2025 Abstracts Closed Link
Link
GitHub Universe
Visit
San Francisco, CA October 28, 2025 - October 29, 2025 NA
MS Ignite
Visit
San Francisco, CA November 18, 2025 - November 21, 2025 NA
BARDA Innovation Symposium
Visit
Washington, DC November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025 NA
AWS re:Invent
Visit
Las Vegas, NV December 01, 2025 - December 05, 2025 NA
ASHP Midyear
Visit
Las Vegas, NV December 07, 2025 - December 10, 2025 Abstracts Closed
BPS Annual
Visit
Belfast, UK December 16, 2025 - December 18, 2025 Abstracts Closed
TMC AMR
Visit
Houston, TX January 15, 2026 - January 17, 2026 Abstracts Closed
IMARI Annual
Visit
Las Vegas, NV January 28, 2026 - January 30, 2026 Abstracts Closed
BSAC and GARDP Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Conference
Visit
Online February 04, 2026 - February 05, 2026 Abstracts Closed
Free online conference
AAAS Annual
Visit
Phoenix, AZ February 12, 2026 - February 14, 2026 Abstracts Closed
CSIRO AMR Summit
Visit
Sydney, Australia February 18, 2026 - February 20, 2026 NA
CROI Annual
Visit
Denver, CO February 22, 2026 - February 25, 2026 Abstracts Closed
EMBL AI and Biology
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EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual March 10, 2026 - March 13, 2026 NA
NVIDIA GTC
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San Jose, CA March 16, 2026 - March 19, 2026 NA
ESCMID Annual
Visit
Munich, Germany April 17, 2026 - April 21, 2026 October 15, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Google Cloud Next
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Las Vegas, NV April 22, 2026 - April 24, 2026 NA
ASPET Annual
Visit
Minneapolis, MN May 17, 2026 - May 20, 2026 September 22, 2025 - December 04, 2025
ISPOR Annual
Visit
Philadelphia, PA May 17, 2026 - May 20, 2026 October 31, 2025 - January 09, 2026
ASM Microbe
Visit
Washington, DC June 11, 2026 - June 15, 2026 October 15, 2025 - January 21, 2026
Travel awards: Oct 15 - Dec 2, 2025; Abstracts: Dec 2, 2025 - Jan 21, 2026
Anaerobe Biennial
Visit
New York, NY, USA July 07, 2026 - July 10, 2026 October 23, 2025 - February 01, 2026
Oral: Jan 1, 2026; Poster: Feb 1, 2026
IUPHAR Annual
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Melbourne, Australia July 12, 2026 - July 17, 2026 Abstracts Closed
AACP Pharmacy Education
Visit
Grapevine, TX July 18, 2026 - July 21, 2026 NA
Conference on Beneficial Microbes
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Madison, WI July 19, 2026 - July 23, 2026 February 01, 2026 - April 08, 2026
ASV Annual
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Minneapolis, MN July 27, 2026 - July 30, 2026 December 01, 2025 - February 01, 2026
MSGERC Biennial
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Denver, CO September 09, 2026 - September 11, 2026 April 01, 2026 - July 31, 2026
Rice AI in Health
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Houston, TX September 14, 2026 - September 17, 2026 NA
ESCV Annual
Visit
Porto, Portugal September 16, 2026 - September 19, 2026 February 02, 2026 - May 11, 2026

and many more at:

  • Cell Symposia
  • Keystone Symposia
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Wellcome Trust
  • University of Texas
  • UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Houston Methodist
  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • UT School of Public Health

Calls for Papers

Journal Due Date Topic Project
Nature Microbiology/Nature Medicine
Link
December 11, 2025 The clinical microbiome Link
BMC Medicine
Link
December 29, 2025 Diabetes and infectious disease
Nature Communications
Link
December 31, 2025 Viral hepatitis
Nature Communications
Link
December 31, 2025 Infection and cancer
npj Digital Medicine
Link
January 10, 2026 Economics of AI in Healthcare
Nature Communications
Link
January 14, 2026 Health policy and systems research
NPJ Antimicrobials and Resistance
Link
January 15, 2026 Pathogen Drug Permeability
Nature Communications
Link
January 31, 2026 Molecular motors and machines
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Link
February 18, 2026 AI methodology in structural biology
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Link
February 20, 2026 Natural bioactives, Gut microbiome, and human metabolism
Nature Communications
Link
February 27, 2026 Therapies for cystic fibrosis
Nature Communications
Link
February 28, 2026 Computational methodology for drug discovery
Nature Microbiology/Nature Health
Link
March 01, 2026 Climate change and infectious diseases
npj Digital Medicine
Link
March 12, 2026 Impact of Agentic AI on Care Delivery
ACS
Link
April 01, 2026 AI for Next Generation Anti-infective Discovery
NPJ Antimicrobials and Resistance
Link
April 07, 2026 Data Science and AI Approaches to AMR
BJP
Link
May 01, 2026 Virtual Cell Models and AI in Drug Discovery
npj Digital Medicine
Link
May 15, 2026 AI for Population Medicine and Public Health
Journal of Bacteriology
Link
May 31, 2026 Biofilms (antibiotic resistance)
Nature Communications
Link
May 31, 2026 Physics-informed machine learning
Nature Communications
Link
May 31, 2026 Mechanistic insights into human host and microbiome interactions
npj Genomic Medicine
Link
June 23, 2026 Artificial Intelligence in Genomic Medicine
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Link
July 15, 2026 Gut microbiome-virome dynamics and interactions
Nature Communications
Link
July 27, 2026 Diagnosis and care of sepsis
Nature Methods/Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Link
July 28, 2026 Methods development in Cryo-ET and in situ structural determination
Nature Immunology
Link
July 30, 2026 Host-Pathogen Interactions – Infection, Immunity and Beyond
Patterns
Link
August 01, 2026 Reanalysis
CID
Link
Ongoing Infection Complications of hurricanes, floods, and weather issues
JID
Link
Ongoing Moving the microbiome from the bench to the bedside
mBio
Link
Ongoing Clinical microbiology

And other great journals

  • Nature
  • Nature Medicine
  • Science
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • The Lancet
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • The Lancet HIV
  • Cell Host and Microbe
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC)
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI)
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (JAC)
  • Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)
  • American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP)

Research Funding Opportunities

Source Title Link Due Date(s)
APhA APhA Foundation Incentive Grants Visit September 1, 2025
ACCP ACCP Foundation Futures Grants Visit September 1, 2025
ASHP ASHP Foundation Research and Education Grants Visit October 7, 2025
SIDP SIDP Grant Programs Visit February 17 - March 14, 2025
Welch Welch Foundation Research Grants Visit January 31, 2025
NIAID Opportunities & Announcements Visit Standard NIH deadlines

Research Resources

Literature

Author.Link
BioRender
Connected Papers
Nature Navigator
OpenRead
Overleaf
Reviewer3
Zenodo
Zotero
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Publishing Groups

Cell Press
Springer Nature
The Lancet Group
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Experimentation

Emerald Cloud Labs
Protocols.io
Springer Nature Experiments
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Vendors

Eppendorf
QIAGEN
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Data Management & Analysis

AWS-Docker
Neurosnap.ai
R for Data Science (R4DS)
REDCap
SciSure
StatsAndR
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Clinical Data Sources

All of Us Research Program
EPIC Research
IQVIA
TriNetX
UK Biobank
VA Phenomics
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