UPCOMING & REGIONAL SATELLITE MEETINGS
2025
SMBE Satellite Meeting: Molecular Mechanisms of Adaptation and Experimental Evolution
Dates: October 6th-8th, 2025
Location: Hotel Cabañas del Lago, Puerto Varas, Chile
Website and registration link: smbechile2025.cl
Registration Deadline: July 31st
Invited Speakers:
- Rike Stelkens (Stockholm University)
- Lucia Morales (UNAM, Mexico)
- Gilles Fischer (Sorbonne, France)
- Rodrigo Gutierrez (PUC, Chile)
- Christian Landry (Laval University, Canada)
- Jennifer Molinet (iBio, Chile)
- Luis Larrondo (iBio and PUC, Chile)
- Antonis Rokas (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- Helen Murphy (W&M, USA)
- Daniela Delneri (Manchester Uni, UK)
- Miguel Allende (UChile, Chile)
- Dmitri Petrov (Stanford, USA)
- Raquel Quatrini (USS, Chile)
- Dinka Mandakovic (UMayor, Chile)
Organizers:
- Pablo Villarreal (UMayor, Chile)
- Felipe Muñoz (iBio, Chile)
- Jennifer Molinet (UAutónoma, Chile)
- Francisco Cubillos (USACH, Chile)
SMBE Regional Symposium on Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides
Dates: October 13th-15th, 2025
Location: Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Website and registration link: https://www.uh.edu/nsm/biology-biochemistry/news-events/smbe-meeting/index.php
Registration Deadline: July 31st
Invited Speakers:
- Danielle A. Garsin
- Justin Randall
Organizers:
- Moria Chambers (Bucknell University)
- Sarah Lower (Bucknell University)
- Rich Meisel (University of Houston)
- Rob Unckless (University of Kansas)
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
SMBE Regional Meeting: II Latin American Meeting of Evolution (II CLEVOL) in Tucuman, Argentina.
Dates: July 22nd-25th, 2025
Location: Tucumán, Argentina and Guatemala City, Guatemala
Website and registration link: https://iiclevol-tuc-2025.wixsite.com/iiclevol
Registration Deadline: Closed
Invited Speakers: See Program
Organizers:
- IIClevol Tuc CSNAT
- Santiago Benítez-Vieyra, President of the Argentinian Society of Evolutionary Biology [SABE]
SMBE Satellite Meeting: Origin, Maintenance, and Evolution of Biological Noise
Dates: June 3rd-5th, 2025
Location: Tuebingen, Germany
Website and registration link: https://pallareslab.github.io/bionoise2025/
Registration Deadline: Closed
Invited Speakers:
- Francesca Merlin
- Maria Carmo-Fonseca
- Patricia Wittkopp
- Benjamin de Bivort
- Daniel Weinreich
Organizers:
- Luisa F. Pallares
- Julien Y. Dutheil
- Ignacio Bravo
- Daniel Weinreich