Annual Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
SMBE 2008 Annual Meeting
The organizing committee for the SMBE 2008 meeting is pleased to invite you to attend the meeting to be held in Barcelona, June 5-8, 2008.
The meeting will highlight the latest research at the interface of molecular biology and evolution, especially involving the analysis of genomes.
Julio Rozas and Carmen Segarra
SMBE 2008 Organizers
http://www.smbe2008.com
Previous Meetings
The 2007 SMBE conference was held at Dalhousie
University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 24-28, 2007.
Website | Speakers | Schedule
The 2006 SMBE conference was held at Arizona
State University, Arizona, May 24-28, 2006.
Website | Confirmed
Speakers | Preliminary
Schedule
The 2005 SMBE conference was held at Auckland
Convention Center, New Zealand, June 2005.
Overview | Speakers
and Keynotes | Workshop | Programme | Exhibitors
The 2004 SMBE conference was held at Pennsylvania
State University, Pennsylvania, June 17-20, 2004
Overview | Speakers | Schedule | Abstracts | Posters
The 2003 SMBE conference was held in Newport
Beach, California, June 26-29, 2003
Memo to SMBE Meeting Organizers
This brief memo highlights some of the issues for SMBE meeting
organizers. We also encourage you to contact previous
organizers and SMBE council members for advice/feedback.
- Each year, the Society contributes funds to support the
annual meeting. You should check with the President on the
current level of funding. Should your meeting make a profit,
the Society would appreciate the return of any available
funds, although you have no obligation to do so. We also
suggest that you look into event insurance, as the Society
does not accept liability in the case of a loss.
- It is important that online meeting registration and online
abstract submission be up and running sufficiently early,
and in a modality that is easy for people to use. Be
sure that the registration pricing fully implements the current
SMBE policy with respect to meeting fees for SMBE members
vs. nonmembers. Also be sure that submission forms
for abstracts include the means and necessary information
for eligible presenters to indicate that they wish to be
considered for SMBE student and postdoc prizes.
- Meeting organizers are encouraged to work towards involving
as many young molecular evolutionists as possible. Costs
to younger scientists should be minimized, as circumstances
permit by providing registration fees for graduate students
and postdocs, and by making affordable lodgings available. The
meetings should also include adequate forums for student
and postdoc presenters.
- Meeting organizers should keep in mind that SMBE is committed
to inclusion, and that this commitment should be reflected
in the selection of presenters at meetings. We value diversity,
including but not limited to gender, ethnicity, nationality,
research area, institution type, and previous involvement
in SMBE meetings.
Walter
M. Fitch Prize
Beginning with the first annual meeting of the SMBE in 1993,
the Walter M. Fitch Symposium has provided a forum for young
investigators.
Members of the SMBE who are either current graduate students
or postdoctoral researchers and who received the primary doctoral-level
degree no earlier than one year before the first day of the
month of an annual meeting are eligible for the Fitch Prize
awarded at that meeting.
Memberships with or without a subscription to the Journal
are available (see www.mbe.oupjournals.org).
On the basis of abstracts submitted to the Chair of the Fitch
Prize committee, the committee selects about 10 individuals
to enter the competition. Contestants may receive partial travel
support from the Society.
Award History
| 2006 |
Jennifer Cork
North Carolina State University, USA |
Characterizing three candidate balanced polymorphisms
in Arabidopsis thaliana: a reverse genetics approach. |
Joanna Kelley
University of Washington, USA |
Positive selection in primate tooth enamelin and evidence
for human population specific adaptation. |
| 2005 |
Leslie Collins
Massey University, NZ |
Cutting it in the RNA World: The Spliceosome and Splicing
in Ancestral Eukaryotes. |
| 2004 |
Barbary Engelhardt
University of California at Berkeley, USA |
Protein Function Prediction Using a Bayesian Model of
Molecular Function Evolution. |
| 2003 |
Yoav Gilad
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany |
Loss of olfactory receptor genes is coupled to the acquisition
of full trichromatic color vision. |
| 2002 |
Ying Chen
University of Munich, Germany |
Functional analysis of phylogenetically conserved sequence
elements in intron 1 of the Drosophila melanogaster
Adh gene. |
| 2001 |
Jeffrey Townsend
Harvard University, USA |
Global gene expression variation in natural isolates
of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. |
| 2000 |
Eric A. Gaucher
University of Florida, USA |
Functional analysis of proteins using covarion-based
evolutionary approaches: Elongation factors. |
| 1999 |
Dennis Lavrov
University of Michigan, USA |
Arthropod phylogeny based on gene arrangement and other
characters from mitochondrial DNA. |
| 1998 |
Mark Siegal
Harvard University, USA |
Functional evolutionary analysis of genes coplaced into
the Drosophila genome. |
| 1997 |
Christiane Biermann
State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA |
Sequence variation in the sea urchin sperm protein BINDIN
is generated by recombination and length mutations. |
Paul Taylor
University of Leicester, UK |
Diversity and mutational analyses of the Y-specific mini-satellite,
MSY1. |
| 1996 |
Dmitri A. Petrov
Harvard University, USA |
Birth and death of processed pseudogenes in Drosophila:
Molecular evolution of a non-LTR retrotransposable element. |
| 1995 |
Hiroki Oota
University of Tokyo, Japan |
Phylogenetic analysis of 2,000 year old human remains
of Japan (Yayoi period) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. |
| 1994 |
Alan Cooper
Smithsonian Institution, USA |
Avian evolution in New Zealand as revealed by mitochondrial
DNA. |
| 1993 |
Youn-Ho Lee
University of California at San Diego, USA |
The divergence of species-specific abalone sperm lysin
is promoted by positive Darwinian selection: Implications
regarding speciation. |
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