The second annual MorphoBank Connects virtual conference is coming September 17 and 18, 2026 — and we’re inviting presentations from our user community.
MorphoBank Connects highlights innovative ways to leverage MorphoBank, an Open Access repository and collaborative workspace for morphological character matrices, to advance Open Science and FAIR data practices. Following the enthusiastic response to our inaugural 2025 conference, we anticipate engaging presentations, lively discussions, and fun and collaborative information exchange.
We hope you’ll join us as an attendee, a presenter, or both!
Call for presentations
How do you use MorphoBank? We invite presentations that demonstrate how MorphoBank can serve as a central database, collaborative workspace, and secure repository to drive forward Open Science and FAIR data principles. Submissions might include:
- Novel Research Applications: Case studies that leverage morphological character matrices in MorphoBank for evolutionary analyses, ecological modeling, or biodiversity assessments.
- Advanced Workflows & Tools: Descriptions of pipelines or scripts that integrate MorphoBank data with other platforms (e.g., R, Python, GIS) to automate curation, visualization, or statistical analyses.
- Non‑Traditional Uses: Innovative uses of MorphoBank beyond classical character scoring—such as geometric morphometrics, histological image annotations, 3D model integration, or outreach‑focused teaching modules.
- Community Engagement & FAIR Best Practices: Reports on collaborative MorphoBank projects, community‑driven hackathons, metadata standardization efforts, or strategies for enhancing data reusability and reproducibility.
Whether you’re developing new tools, presenting a novel dataset, or demonstrating creative uses of morphological data, your work will help showcase the breadth of possibilities that MorphoBank enables for researchers, educators, and the broader scientific community.
Talks are 15 minutes, followed by a 5 minute question-and-answer session, and will take place on Thursday, September 17, 2026, between 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM Pacific Time.
To apply, submit an abstract of 250 words or less describing the research topic and data you plan to present. References, images, and tables need not be included.
Get inspired and submit
- Looking for inspiration? Watch the presentations from our inaugural 2025 event on YouTube.
- Ready to submit? Complete our abstract submission form. The submission deadline is July 31, 2026.
- Register before August 17, 2026.
- Got questions? Contact us at conference@morphobank.org.
