In our best understanding, the Universe is dominated by two elusive components: dark matter and dark energy. There is a strong effort to constrain these dark components using galaxies as their tracers.
Dr. Violeta Gonzalez-Perez is organising a symposium to explore this project during the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting:
https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2022/session.jsp?id=S2
This year the meeting is taking place in Valencia, at the end of June.