Welcome to the 23nd RECOMB-CG
The 23nd RECOMB-CG conference is co-located with RECOMB 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The RECOMB satellite conference on Comparative Genomics, founded in 2003, brings together leading researchers in the mathematical, computational, and life sciences to discuss cutting-edge research in comparative genomics, with an emphasis on computational approaches and novel experimental results. The program includes invited speakers, contributed talks, and poster sessions.
Contributions on any theoretical and/or empirical approach to genome-wide comparison are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Genome evolution
- Genome rearrangements
- Genomic variation, diversity, and dynamics
- Gene identification and annotation
- Methods for genome assembly
- Cancer evolutionary genomics
- Comparative epigenomics
- Population genomics
- Pangenomics
- Phylogenomics and phylodynamics
- Paleogenomics
- Epidemiology and related areas
- Metagenomics
- Machine learning in genomics
We encourage submissions that offer new biological findings or otherwise highlight their relevance to biology.
Key Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Paper submission deadline | February 13, 2026 |
| Reviews due | March 16, 2026 |
| Author notification for papers | March 20, 2026 |
| Final camera-ready version due | March 27, 2026 |
| Poster submission deadline | May 4, 2026 |
| Registration open | TBA |
| Conference starts | May 24, 2026 |
| Conference ends | May 25, 2026 |
Committees
Program Committee Chair
- Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Steering Committee
- Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Jens Lagergren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, USA
- David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Krister M. Swenson, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, France
Program committee (so far)
- Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University
- Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut
- Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
- Paola Bonizzoni, University of Milano Bicocca
- Sèverine Bérard, Université de Montpellier
- Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University
- Miklos Csuros, University of Montreal
- Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University
- Guillaume Fertin, LS2N, UMR CNRS 6004, University of Nantes
- Martin Frith, AIST & University of Tokyo
- Pawel Gorecki, University of Warsaw
- Maribel Hernandez Rosales, CINVESTAV Irapuato Unit
- Asif Javed, HKU
- Jaebum Kim, Konkuk University
- Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke
- Kevin Liu, Michigan State University
- Istvan Miklos, Rényi Institute
- Siavash Mirarab, University of California, San Diego
- Aida Ouangraoua, Université de Sherbrooke
- Fabio Pardi, LIRMM - CNRS
- Teresa Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH
- Aakrosh Ratan, University of Virginia
- Michael Sammeth, Coburg University
- Celine Scornavacca, ISE-M, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, France
- Sagi Snir, Institute of evolution
- Giltae Song, Pusan National University
- Yanni Sun, City University of Hong Kong
- Wing-Kin Sung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Nadia Tahiri, University of Sherbrooke
- Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
- Tamir Tuller, Tel Aviv University
- Fábio Henrique Viduani Martinez, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
- Tomas Vinar, Comenius University in Bratislava
- Yong Wang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
- Yufeng Wu, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut
- Jie Zheng, ShanghaiTech University