SMBE Everywhere is a series of ten virtual, 1-day Global Symposia which will occur in time zones across the globe starting in July 2022 and running through April 2023. Each GS will consist of plenary talks, contributed talks, and a poster session that span 6 to 7 hrs total (with a break in the middle). Talks will be delivered live with the option to record, and recorded talks and posters will be available in the Gathertown space until June 2023. The Gathertown platform will also allow for real-time interactions during and between each GS throughout the year.

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GS1: SMBE Everywhere Launch: Presidential Plenary, SMBE Award Talks, Graduate Student Excellence Symposia, and Panel Discussion on Parachute Science
Anyone wishing to submit an abstract for a poster presentation that does not fit into one of the specific themes of the GS series is welcome to submit an abstract to GS1.

Parachute Science Panel Discussion: See HERE for more information!
Moderators: Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), María Avila (UNAM)
Organizers: Stephen Wright (Univ of Toronto, Canada) and Sarah Schaack (Reed College, USA)

GS2: Sustainability, Equity, and Efficiency in Computational Biology
Date: July 12, 2022               
Time: 16:00 - 20:00 UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED    
Geo region/Timezone: NA/SA
Invited Speakers: Jason Grealey (Children's Medical Research Institute, Australia), Sudhir Kumar (Temple Univ)  
Organizers: Beatriz Mello (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Alessandra Lamarca (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil), and Sudhir Kumar (Temple Univ, USA)

GS3: Mutational Biases and Adaptation
Date: August 2, 2022           
Time: 12:00 - 20:00 UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Geo region/Timezone: NA/SA…Europe/Africa
Invited Speakers: Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Alejandro Couce (Polytechnic Univ of Madrid)
Organizers: James Horton (Univ of Bath, UK) and David McCandlish (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)

GS4: Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) to Infer Evolutionary Processes
Date: September 30, 2022    
Time: 14:00-21:00 UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Geo region/Timezone: NA/SA
Invited Speakers: Wilder Wohns (Broad Institute)  
Organizers: Christian Huber (Pennsylvania State, USA), Débora Brandt (UC Berkeley, USA), Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo (National Autonomous Univ of Mexico, MX), Charleston Chiang (Univ of Southern California, USA)

GS5: Evolutionary Genomics of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
Date: October 20, 2022         
Time: 14:00 - 22:00 UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED        
Geo region/Timezone: Oceania....NA/SA…Europe
Invited Speakers: Kayla King (Univ of Oxford, Oxford, UK), Jacques Fellay (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland), Vaughn Cooper (Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States), Amy Cain (Macquarie Univ, Sydney, Australia)
Organizers: Santiago Castillo-Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MX), Ellen Leffler (Univ of Utah, USA), Azim Ansari (Univ of Oxford, UK)

GS6: Genetics of Adaptation
Date: November 21 & 22, 2022     
Time: 03:30 AM-11:30 AM UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Geo region/Timezone: Asia/Oceania
Invited Speakers: Jun-Yi Leu (Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica), Jun Kitano, NIG, Japan;
Organizers: Krushnamegh Kunte and Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

GS7: Beyond the SNP: Structural Variants and Repetitive DNA in Genomics and Evolution
Date: February 15, 2023       
Time: 7pm - 1am UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Registration Deadline: February 6, 2023
Geo region/Timezone: Oceania...NA/SA
Invited Speakers: Rachel O’Neill (Univ of Connecticut, USA), Tim Connallon (Monash Univ, Australia) 
Organizers: Julie Blommaert, Nicolas Altemose, Valentina Peona, Maren Wellenreuther, Jana Wold

GS8: Genomics in a Changing World: Conservation, Invasive Species, and Climate Change
Date: 22nd February (23 February NZT)
Time: 9pm - 4am UTC (4pm-11pm EST on 22nd Feb and 10am-5pm 23 Feb in New Zealand) 
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Geo region/Timezone: Oceania....NA/SA
Invited Speakers: Carol Eunmi Lee (Univ of Wisconsin, USA), Kara Layton (Univ of Aberdeen, UK), Maui Hudson (Univ of Waikato, NZ), Alana Alexander (Univ of Otago, NZ)         
Organizers: Ang McGaughran (Univ of Waikato), Manpreet Dhami (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research), Priscilla Salloum (Univ of Otago), Michael Knapp (Univ of Otago), Pascale Lubbe (Univ of Otago)

GS9: Epigenomics in Evolution
Date: Mar 1st (NZ/Australia)/Feb 28th (Europe/US)          
Time: 16:00-22:00 UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED
Geo region/Timezone: Oceania....NA/SA
Invited Speakers: Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University), Christina Richards (University of South Florida, University of Tübingen)
Organizers: Dafni Anastasiadi (Plant and Food Research, NZ), Sheri Johnson (Univ of Otago, NZ), Clare Venney (Université Laval, Canada), Maren Wellenreuther (Plant and Food Research and the Univ of Auckland, NZ)

GS10: Genetics and Evolution of Sex Differences
Date: April 26 - April 27, 2023 (Americas/Europe/Africa) and April 27 - April 28, 2023 (Oceania)       
Time: 8pm-11pm UTC
Abstract submission deadline: CLOSED   
Geo region/Timezone: Oceania....NA/SA
Invited Speakers: David Page (Whitehead Institute and MIT) and Mark Kirkpatrick (Univ of Texas at Austin)           
Organizers: Ludovic Dutoit (Univ of Otago, NZ), Sarah Flanagan (Univ of Canterbury, NZ), Arbel Harpak (UT Austin, USA), Filip Ruzicka (Monash Univ, Australia), Ziyue Gao (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA)