In October 2026, Arturo Bujarrabal-Dueso presented at the leading European Federation for Aging Research (EFAR).

In October 2026, Bjoern Schumacher opened the leading European Federation for Aging Research (EFAR).

On 11th - 13th October 2026, Ilze Skujina presented at the 15th Alliance for the Healthy Aging Conference, at CECAD Cologne, Germany. For more information please visit here https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/outreach/events/2026-15th-alliance-for-healthy-aging-conference

On 11th - 13th October 2026, Emma Teeling opened the 15th Alliance for the Healthy Aging Conference, at CECAD Cologne, Germany. For more information please visit here https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/outreach/events/2026-15th-alliance-for-healthy-aging-conference

In August 2026, Maggie Weber, from Prof Teeling's lab, visited the research lab of Prof Jan Vijg at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, to learn about Single-Molecule Mutation sequencing (SSM seq).

On September 9, 2026 the second event in the series “Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging Society—Future Tasks and Perspectives for (Bio)Medical Research” took place, an initiative launched by CECAD in cooperation with the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

This was an International Workshop on Entropy and Its Applications in Aging Biology.For more information please go to https://sites.google.com/view/entropyinaging/home?authuser=0

Matae Ahn was invited to speak at the Human Proteome Organization World Congress (HUPO2025) to share how we can learn from bats to better fight human aging and age-related diseases together on 13 November 2025

Linfa Wang has been invited to deliver a keynote lecture, “Lessons from Bats on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses and Biomedicine in General,” at the 10th International Conference on Emerging Zoonoses and Transboundary Diseases in June 2026.

On 17 June 2026, Linfa Wang presented a talk on ‘Bats, viruses and pandemics’ at the San Raffaele Institute in Milan.