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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><strong>SMBEeverywhere 2022-23 Program</strong></span><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>SMBEEverywhere </strong>is a series of ten virtual, 1-day <strong>Global Symposia</strong> 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.</span></p>
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</strong><a href="http://www.smbe.org/smbe/MEETINGS/SMBEeverywhere/GS1.aspx"><strong>GS1: </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>SMBEeverywhere Launch: Presidential Plenaries, Graduate Student Excellence Symposia, and Panel Discussion on Parachute Science</strong></span></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong></strong><br />
</span></span><em><span style="font-family: arial; color: #ff0000;">Anyone wishing to submit an abstract for a poster presentation <span style="text-decoration: underline;">that does not fit into one of the specific themes of the GS series</span> is welcome to submit an abstract to GS1.<br />
</span></em><strong style="font-family: arial;">Date:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> July 11, 2022 <br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Time:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> 14:00 - 22:00 UTC<br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Abstract submission deadline: </strong><span style="font-family: arial;">May 31, 2022<br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Registration deadline:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> June 11, 2022 <br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Geo region/Timezone:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> All<br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Invited Speakers:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><em style="font-family: arial;">Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), James McInerney (Univ of Nottingham), GSE nominees, panel participants. </em><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />
</span><strong style="font-family: arial;">Organizers:</strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> Stephen Wright (Univ of Toronto, Canada) and Sarah Schaack (Reed College, USA)</span></p>
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GS2: Sustainability, Equity, and Efficiency in Computational Biology<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date: </strong>July 12, 2022 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Time: </strong>16:00 - 20:00 UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong> </strong>May 31, 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline: </strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;">June 11, 2022</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers: </strong></span><em style="font-family: arial;">Jason Grealey (Children's Medical Research Institute, Australia), Sudhir Kumar (Temple Univ)</em><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers:</strong> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Beatriz Mello (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Alessandra Lamarca (Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brazil), and Sudhir Kumar (Temple Univ, USA)</span></p>
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GS3: Mutational Biases and Adaptation<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> August 2, 2022 <br />
<strong>Time: </strong>12:00 - 20:00 UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> June 28, 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline: </strong>July 5, 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> NA/SA…Europe/Africa<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers:</strong> </span><em style="font-family: arial;">Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Alejandro Couce (Polytechnic Univ of Madrid)<br />
</em><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>James Horton (Univ of Bath, UK) and David McCandlish (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)</span></p>
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GS4: Using Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) to Infer Evolutionary Processes<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> September 30, 2022 <br />
<strong>Time: </strong>14:00-21:00 UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline: </strong>August 19, 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline:</strong> September 2, 2022 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone: </strong>NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers: </strong></span><em style="font-family: arial;">Wilder Wohns (Broad Institute) <br />
</em><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers:</strong> Christian Huber (Pennsylvania State, USA), Débora Brandt (UC Berkeley, USA), </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo (National Autonomous Univ of Mexico, MX), Charleston Chiang (Univ of Southern California, USA)</span></p>
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GS5: Evolutionary Genomics of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date: </strong>October 20, 2022 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Time:</strong> 14:00 - 22:00 UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> September 8, 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline: </strong>September 22, 2022 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone: Oceania</strong>....NA/SA…Europe<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers: </strong></span><em><span style="font-family: arial;">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)<br />
</span></em><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>Santiago Castillo-Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MX), Ellen Leffler (Univ of Utah, USA), Azim Ansari (Univ of Oxford, UK)</span></p>
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GS6: Genetics of Adaptation<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> November 19, 2022 <br />
<strong>Time:</strong> 03:30 AM-11:30 AM UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline: </strong>30 Sep 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline: </strong>15 Oct 2022<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> Asia/Oceania<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers (tentative):</strong> </span><em style="font-family: arial;">Jun-Yi Leu (Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica), Jun Kitano, NIG, Japan; <span style="color: #ff0000;">in-person graduate student workshop on Nov 18</span><br />
</em><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>Krushnamegh Kunte and Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)</span></p>
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GS7: Beyond the SNP: Structural Variants and Repetitive DNA in Genomics and Evolution<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> February 15, 2023 <br />
<strong>Time:</strong> TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline:</strong> TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone: </strong>Oceania...NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers:</strong> Rachel O’Neill (Univ of Connecticut, USA), Tim Connallon (Monash Univ, Australia) <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>Julie Blommaert, Nicolas Altemose, Brianna Sierra Chrisman, Valentina Peona, Maren Wellenreuther, Jana Wold</span></p>
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GS8: Genomics in a Changing World: Conservation, Invasive Species, and Climate Change<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> February 23, 2023 <br />
<strong>Time: </strong>10pm-5am UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> 15th January 2023<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline:</strong> 30th January 2023 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> Oceania....NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers:</strong> 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) <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>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)</span></p>
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GS9: Epigenomics in Evolution<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date: </strong>March 01, 2023 <br />
<strong>Time: </strong>TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline:</strong> TBD<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> Oceania....NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers: </strong></span><em style="font-family: arial;">TBD<br />
</em><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers:</strong> 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)</span></p>
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GS10: Genetics and Evolution of Sex Differences<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Date:</strong> April 27 - April 28, 2023 <br />
<strong>Time:</strong> 7pm April 27 - 4am April 28 UTC<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Abstract submission deadline:</strong> February 15, 2023<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Registration deadline: </strong>March 27, 2023 <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Geo region/Timezone:</strong> Oceania....NA/SA<br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Invited Speakers: </strong></span><em style="font-family: arial;">David Page (Whitehead Institute and MIT) and Mark Kirkpatrick (Univ of Texas at Austin)</em><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Organizers: </strong>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)</span></p>
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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
Abstract: Sexual dimorphism is one of the most conspicuous examples of evolution by natural selection and is observed across numerous phenotypes and species. It is even observed in molecular processes like mutation and recombination that directly shape patterns of genetic variation. However, the heritable components of traits under sex-differential selection stem largely from genetic sequences that are co-inherited between the sexes (e.g., autosomes, X chromosomes). This genetic constraint gives rise to genetic variants with opposing fitness effects in each sex, which can shape genomes over short and long evolutionary timescales (e.g., they can affect the evolution of sex chromosomes), influence population extinction, and maintain genetic variation for fitness and disease. However, despite a decade of genomic-era research, studying sex-differential genetic effects and evolution remains very challenging. This symposium will bring together theoreticians and empiricists to present cutting-edge research and novel approaches aimed at understanding the evolutionary causes and genetic consequences of sex differences
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)