CANS day 2026

We are happy to invite you to CANS Day 2026, which will take place on 4–5 November 2026 in the MH building at UiT. This year’s CANS Day will be organised as a lunch-to-lunch.

There will be two tracks: 

1. Drug Discovery
2. Evolution

Download the full programme here (pdf)

Registration and abstract submission

The deadline for registration and abstract submission was 25 September 2026. 

We hope many of you will join and contribute to making this a lively and useful CANS Day.

Invited speakers: 

• Angus Buckling, University of Exeter - microbial evolution
• Stephan A. Sieber, Technical University of Munich - drug discovery
• Harry Thorpe, University of Oslo
• Hege Salvesen-Blix, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• Christine Årdal, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Full programme and venue to be announced. Day 2 will include a panel discussion.

Abstract deadline: September 25

Organising committee

• Veronika K. Pettersen
• Elizabeth G Aarag Fredheim
• Yannik Karl Heinz Schneider
• Jakob Peder Pettersen
• Natasa Skalko-Basnet
• Cindy Jittrapan Given
• Juliana Miranda Tatara

Contact person for the 2026 CANS Day

Veronika K. Pettersen
veronika.k.pettersen@uit.no