ECMTB 2026 Awards and Farewell

It was a great pleasure to welcome you to Graz for ECMTB 2026. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a memorable week of mathematical and theoretical biology in Graz.

We are putting together a gallery of some of our favourite snapshots from the conference and will add it to the website soon. Certificates of participation have been sent out by email; if you have not received yours please contact us at support@ecmtb2026.org.

The conference programme and its contribution pages remain available online. If you would like to share slides from your talk or other material with your colleagues, please host it online and send the link to support@ecmtb2026.org; we will add it to your contribution detail page.

Closing session awards

At the closing session, we recognised the following outstanding contributions. Congratulations to all award recipients!

Lewis Wolpert Prize for Best Poster — sponsored by the Journal of Theoretical Biology:

• Sofia Almirante (Umeå University) — Dynamics and stability of microbial communities under community-level selection
• Bence Hajdu (Institut Curie) — A mathematical framework to accurately reconstruct cell lineage from single cell transcriptomics on barcoded cells: application for therapeutics optimization

ECMTB'26 Best Poster Award — sponsored by the local organisers:

• Myna Lim (Graduate School of Data Science, KAIST) — One item per disorder: a cross-disorder optimization framework for simultaneous prediction of six psychiatric conditions
• Maiya Tebäck (Uppsala University) — Evaluating and developing models for survival extrapolation
• Cecilia Torboli (University of Udine) — Modeling tumor dynamics under PROTAC therapy: a mathematical model for resistance analysis
• Marjorie Watts (University of Oxford) — Accurate noise models and their impact on parameter inference for mathematical models of collective cell behaviours

ESMTB Best Poster Award — sponsored by ESMTB:

• Theo Andre (Heidelberg University) — Modeling Adult Neural Stem Cells in Zebrafish With Feedback
• Jacob Bendsen (Roskilde University / Novo Nordisk a/s) — Mathematical model of excitation and contraction in cardiomyocytes for simulation of in vitro systems for Heart Failure drug development
• Silvia Bordel-Vozmediano (Mathematical Oncology Laboratory (MOLAB) / University of Castilla-La Mancha) — Challenging the standard protocol: Mechanistic mathematical model for $^{177}$Lu-PSMA therapy optimization
• Valentine Brulard (INRIA) — Fluctuations of plasmid copy numbers in a population
• Andrés Méndiz Fernández (Mathematical Oncology Laboratory (MOLAB) / University of Castilla-La Mancha) — Same Calories, Different Outcomes: the Dynamics of Fasting in Cancer
• Alexandria Johnson (North Carolina State University) — Quantifying the influence of inflammation on spiral artery dynamics through the expansion of a mechanistic endometrial model
• Nicholas Lai (University of Oxford) — Integrating spatial statistics and agent-based modelling to study tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer
• Yann Maugé (Aix-Marseille University – CRCM) — Benchmarking of the robustness of mechanistic generative models in cellular trajectory and gene regulatory network joint inference
• Yunli Qi (University of Oxford | Moffitt Cancer Center) — Learning Optimal Adaptive Therapies in Space and Time: Dynamic Threshold Therapy for Prostate Cancer
• Connor Shrader (University of Utah) — Clonal dynamics deviate from neutral drift in zebrafish spermatogenesis
• Elephes Sung (Imperial College London) — Quantifying serial killing via multiscale Bayesian comparison of models for sequential NK cell responses
• Florence Williams (University College London) — Mathematical Modelling of Antibiotic Diffusion in Bacterial Biofilms

K.P. Hadeler Price for Best Paper — sponsored by the Journal of Mathematical Biology:

• Yifei Li, Matthew J. Simpson and Chuncheng Wang — Lattice-based stochastic models motivate non-linear diffusion descriptions of memory-based dispersal.

We wish you a safe trip home and a great summer!