January

SPIE Photonics West BiOS

San Francisco, California (USA) 
30 January – 1 February 2027

April

Advanced Neurotechniques Course

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (USA)

Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy

The University of Chicago (USA)
20 April – 8 May 2026

Optica Biophotonics Congress

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA)
26–29 April 2026

May

OPTOGEN

June

Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School

CERVO Brain Research Center, Quebec (Canada)
1–12 June 2026

Sculpted Light in the Brain

European Conferences on Biomedical Optics

München, Germany
20–24 June 2027

July

FENS Forum 2026

Barcelona, Spain
6–10 July 2026

Measuring brain activity during everyday life with fNIRS

UASLP, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
15 June 2026

fNIRS Summer School

The Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Volumetric Imaging of Neural Circuit Connectivity and Dynamics

Imperial College London

GRC Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology

GRC Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits and Behavior

Imaging Structure and Function in the Nervous System

Neurophotonics Summer School – Neurovascular Imaging Across Scales in Animals and Humans

Boston, Massachusetts (USA) 
26 July – 6 August 2026

August

Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences

DL@MBL: Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis

Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference

September

The Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Advanced Imaging Techniques for Neursocience

October

MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp

Frontiers in Neuroscience Symposium

fNIRS 2026

University of Macau, China

November

Hands-On Course on MINDLAB: Manipulating and Investigating Neural Dynamics for Learning and Ageing in the Brain

Society for Neuroscience

San Diego, California, USA
15–19 November 2025

Ongoing

Holy Shift! Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow

Podcast from Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, USA 

Biophotonics Discovery: The Podcast

Podcast from SPIE Biophotonics Discovery