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UPCOMING & REGIONAL SATELLITE MEETINGS

2025

SMBE Regional Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics in Agriculture, Environment, Biodiversity conservation and Health for Africa, 2025, University of Eldoret

Dates: September 8-11, 2025
Location: The Nobel Hotel and Conference Centre, Eldoret, Kenya
Website and registration: here

Registration Deadline: August 15, 2025

Symposium Details and Guest Speakers: PDF here

Event flyer: PDF here

Invited Speakers: Prof. Paul Grobler, Prof. Dr. Ralph Tiedemann, Prof. Miriam Kinyua, Dr. Raphael Mrode, Prof. Hannes Svardal, Prof. Dr. Walter Salzburger, Prof. Anne Muigai, Prof. Willem van Schaik, Prof. Anise N. Happi, Dr. Rispah Torrorey-Sawe

Organizers:

  • Dr. James Barasa Echessa - Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Eldoret, Chairperson
  • Prof. Lizzy Aluoch Mwamburi - Director of Research and Innovation, University of Eldoret, Member
  • Dr. Samuel Kariuki - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eldoret, Member
  • Dr. Vivian Tuei - Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, College of Health Sciences, Moi University, Member
  • Dr. Wilson Sawasawa - Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Member
  • Dr. Kennedy Pkania - Department of Biotechnology, University of Eldoret, Member
  • Dr. Emily Chemoiwa - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eldoret, Secretariat
  • Dr. Benson Nyongesa - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Eldoret, Member

2024

2024 SMBE Regional Meeting in Taiwan: Evolutionary Genomics & Bioinformatics
Dates: March 28-30, 2024
Location: Shih-Liang International Conference Hall, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Website: https://www.tsecb.org.tw/conferences/2024smbe_regional_meeting
Registration Deadline: March 15, 2024.
Summary Report (PDF): HERE

Invited Speakers:

  • Sudhir Kumar (Temple University)
  • Ben-Yang Liao (National Health Research University, Taiwan)
  • Yukinori Okada (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University, Sweden)
  • Yi-Hsien Su (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
  • Hsin-Hung David Chou (National Taiwan University)
  • Trees-Juen Chuang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Chia-Lin Chung (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Alison Feder (University of Washington)
  • Kerry Geiler-Samerotte (Arizona State University)
  • Chih-Horng Kuo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Chris Marx (University of Idaho)
  • Naoki Osada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  • Sheng-Feng Shen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Yasuka Toda (Meiji University, Japan)
  • Hurng-Yi Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Dong-Hong Wu (Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taiwan)
  • Shu-Dan Yeh (National Central University, Taiwan)
  • Soojin Yi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Organisers:

  • Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang Ming Chia Tung University, Taiwan)
  • Wen-Hsiung Li (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Yoko Satta (Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
  • Hurng-Yi Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Chau-Ti Ting (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Ben-Yang Liao (National Health Research Institute, Taiwan)
  • Hsiao-Han Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
  • Hsueh-Fen Juan (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Chia-Lang Hsu (National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan)
  • David Hsin-Hung Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Cheng-Ruei Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Huai-Kuang Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

2024 SMBE Satellite Meeting: Ancient DNA -- Beyond Allele Frequencies

Dates: 29th-31st July

Location: Trinity College, Dublin

Website: https://www.tcd.ie/Genetics/events/ancient-dna-2024/index.php

Registration deadline:  9th February 2024

Invited speakers:  Dr Leo Speidel, Dr Lara Cassidy, Dr Benjamin Peter

Organisers: Dr Emily Breslin, Dr Marco Rosario Capodiferro, Dr Kevin G. Daly, Dr Anahit Hovhannisyan, Dr Valeria Mattiangeli, Dr Victoria E. Mullin, Dr Linda Ongaro
Program PDF: HERE
Abstract Book PDF: HERE
Scientific Report PDF: HERE
Financial Report PDF: HERE

2024 SMBE Satellite Meeting: Pathogen Pangenome Evolution Between and Within their Hosts
Dates: 26-28th November 2024
Location: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
Website:  https://smbepangenomes.bacpop.org/
Registration Deadline: 31st October (abstracts 31st August)
Organisers: John Lees, Jukka Corander, Caroline, Colijn, Koji Yahara, Fiona Whelan, Claire Gorrie, Stephen Bentley
Summary Report (PDF): HERE

Invited speakers:

  • Marco Molari
  • Gerry Tonkin-Hill
  • Evangelos Mourkas
  • Leah Roberts
  • Sofia Morfopoulou
  • Rebecca Gladstone
  • Guillaume Meric
  • Danielle Ingle
  • Christophe Fraser
  • Hsiao-Han Chang
  • Jemma Geoghegan
  • Liam Shaw
  • Jumpei Ito

2024 SMBE Regional Meeting: I Brazilian Congress on Evolutionary Biology
Dates: 20-22 November 2024
Location: Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Website:  https://sbbevol.org/
Registration Deadline:  09 November 2024 (Abstract Submission)
Summary Report (PDF): HERE

Organisers:

  • Fabricius Domingos (Professor, Universidade Federal do Paraná — South Brazil)
  • Fernanda Caron (PhD Student, Universidade Federal do Paraná — South Brazil)
  • Mariana Vasconcellos (Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Matheus Salles (PhD Student, Universidade Federal do Paraná — South Brazil)
  • Márcia Beltrame (Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul — South Brazil)
  • George Pacheco (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo — Norway)

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

  • Alena Mayo Iñiguez (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz — Southeast Brazil)
  • Aline Ghilardi (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte — Northeast Brazil)
  • Ana Lúcia Tourinho (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso — Central-West Brazil)
  • Andrea Pedrosa-Harand (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil)
  • Clarisse Palma da Silva (Universidade Estadual de Campinas — Southeast Brazil)
  • Eduardo Tarazona Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais — Southeast Brazil)
  • Fabricio Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais — Southeast Brazil)
  • Fernanda Werneck (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia — North Brazil)
  • Frederico Henning (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro — Southeast Brazil)
  • Jose Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho (Universidade Federal de Goiás — Central-West Brazil)
  • Kateryna D Makova (Penn State University — USA)
  • Kelly Zamudio (University of Texas at Austin — USA)
  • Luiz Eduardo Vieira Del Bem (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais — Southeast Brazil)
  • Maria Emilia Yamamoto (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte — Northeast Brazil)
  • Mário de Pinna (Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Nelio Bizzo (Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Pedro Godoy (Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Santiago Benitez-Vieyra (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba — Argentina)
  • Tábita Hünemeier (Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Tiago Quental (Universidade de São Paulo — Southeast Brazil)
  • Waldemir Rosa (Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana — South Brazil)

2024 SMBE Regional Meeting: Long-term Population Resilience
Dates: TBD
Location: Belem, Brazil
Website:  TBD
Registration Deadline: TBD
Organisers: Sibelle Torres Vilaça, Alexandre Aleixo

2023

SMBE Satellite Meeting and Workshop on Evolutionary and Genomic Consequences of Drive
Dates: June 12 - 17 2023
Location: Arolla, Switzerland
Website: http://blogs.rochester.edu/larracuente/2023-smbe-workshop-on-evolutionary-and-genomic-consequences-of-drive/
Registration deadline: Registration is now closed
Invited speakers: Vogan, Aaron; Pomiankowski, Andrew; Keleman, Reka; Runge, Jan; Kitano, Jun; Dawe, R. Kelly; Dyer, Kelly; Reinhardt, Josie; Courret, Cecile; Swanepoel, Callie; Fagen, Brandon; Burga, Alejandro; Veyrunes, Fred; Ross, Laura; Fishman, Lila.
Organisers: Amanda Larracuente, Robert Unckless, Anna Lindholm, Daven Presgraves

 

SMBE Satellite Meeting on Molecular Evolution in Small Populations
Dates: June 28-30, 2023
Location: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Website: https://smbe-smallpops2023.com/
Registration deadline: Registration currently full; waitlist available
Invited speakers: Uma Ramakrishnan, Yvonne Willi, Fuwen Wei, Diego Ortega del Vecchyo, Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska, Jana Wold, Zachary Szpiech, Sergio Nigenda-Morales, Nancy Chen, Marianne Dehasque, Klaus Koepfli, Eduardo Eizirik, Henrique Figueiró, Aaron Shafer, Giorgio Bertorelle
Organisers: Stephen J Gaughran, Annabel Beichman, Chris Kyriazis, Bridgett vonHoldt, Andy Foote
Post Meeting Reports: Scientific Report (PDF) Logistical Report (PDF)


Regional meeting: Mexico Population Genomics Meeting 6 (MexPopGen6)
Dates: October 12th and 13th, 2023
Location: Center of Genomic Sciences, Cuernavaca, México
Website: https://www.mexpopgen.com.mx/
Registration deadline: 26th of June
Invited speakers: Genevieve Wojcik, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Ella Vázquez Domínguez
Organisers: Miriam Bravo-López, Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Federico Sánchez-Quinto, Mashaal Sohail, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Idalia C Rojas-Barrera, Verónica Reyes-Galindo, Nancy
Saavedra-Sotelo

Regional Meeting in China (Shanghai)
Dates: October 20th-22nd, 2023
Website:https://pog.fudan.edu.cn/smbeshanghai2023
Invited speakers: Jonathan Pritchard and Xiaomei Fu
Organisers: Daniel Falush
Post Meeting Report: Scientific Report (PDF) Financial Report (Excel)

Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth
Dates: November 6-9, 2023
Location: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - USA
Website: https://agriliferegister.tamu.edu/website/56645/
Registration deadline: June 30th.
Program PDF: HERE
Abstract Book PDF: HERE
Keynote Speakers: Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Invited Speakers: David Begun, Christina Cheng, Manyuan Long, Christian Rödelsperger, Jorge Ruiz-Orera, Alan Saghatelian, Gisela Storz, Yusuke Suenaga, Diethard Tautz, Eve Wurtele
Organisers: Claudio Casola, Texas A&M University; Li Zhao, Rockefeller University: Victor Luria,  Yale University; Nikolaos Vakirlis, BSRC “Alexander Fleming”
Post Meeting Report: Summary Report (PDF) Financial Report (Excel)

 


SMBE Satellite Meeting on Mechanisms of Cellular Evolution
Date: November 8th – 11th, 2023
Time and timezone: 8AM - 7PM, MST
Website: https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=746305&eb=&ebs=*/encrypted_id/*
Registration deadline: September 1, 2023 (for abstract submission), October 30, 2023 (for attending only)
Invited Speakers: Georg Hochberg, Christian Landry, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Sonja-Verena Albers, Kazuo Inaba, Sri Iyer Biswas, Suckjoon Jun, Anja Spang, Shelley Copley, Alan Moses, Sandy Johnson, Audrey Gasch, Brian Metzger
Organizers: Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Wei-Chin Ho, Michael Lynch, Wayne Frasch, George Hochberg, Ke Hu, John McCutcheon, and Jeremy Wideman


Regional Meeting in India: Molecular mechanisms in evolution
Dates: December 16th-17th, 2023
Location: Dehradun, India
Website: https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/molecular-mechanisms-in-evolution/
Registration deadline: Not announced yet
Invited speakers: Jordi Van Gestel (Plenary speaker), Helen Alexander (Plenary speakers), Sabari Sankar Tirupathy, Nishad Matange, Riddhiman Dhar, Deepa Agashe, Krishna Swamy, Laasya Samhita, Janhavi Joshi, Imroze Khan
Organisers: Laasya Samhita, Shraddha Karve
Post Meeting Report: Summary Report

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