From April 19 to 21, 2026, the First International Conference on Mesoscale Biology (ICMB 2026) was successfully held at the Royal Society in London, United Kingdom. The rapid development of mesoscale in vivo imaging techniques over the past decade has given rise to mesobiology as an emerging discipline, and the successful convening of this conference marks a new stage of development for this interdisciplinary field.

The conference was co-chaired by Professor Dai Qionghai, President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Professor at Tsinghua University, along with Professor Michael Häusser, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor at the University of Hong Kong and University College London. The conference brought together leading global research forces. Invited speakers hailed from 18 top international universities and research institutions across six countries, including MIT, Stanford University, the Allen Institute, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Zhejiang University, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University College London. Together, they shared groundbreaking achievements in mesoscale imaging and mesobiology (particularly in the field of brain science).

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