Key information and dates:
The event will be hybrid: in-person and virtual (real-time or on-demand) participation will both be possible.
Registration is now open. Registration closes 31st October.
Registration costs:
Registration includes access to all talks, the museum and a reception on the first evening. We are grateful for your contributions to the event, which allow us to put together a diverse programme of speakers from all career stages.
We do have a maximum number of on-site attendees slots available.
Registration is in two steps:
Please note that your registration will not be confirmed until this payment has been received. We recommend paying the registration as soon as possible, the latest possible date will be 31st October but we cannot guarantee in-person places.
NB: If you are an ECR applying for a fee-waiver and have indicated this, we will hold your space until abstract decisions have been made.
If you are purchasing an ECR registration, please send proof of your ECR status (e.g. current employer contract, PhD certificate or similar) to smbe-pangenome-payment at bacpop dot org within 14 days.
If you are purchasing a local registration, your address should be in Japan.
Abstracts can be submitted using this form.
Abstract submission will close on 31st August, with decisions expected to follow in September.
Please email smbe-pangenomes at bacpop dot org if you have any questions.
The conference will take place in the Auditorium in Japan Gallery at the National Museum of Nature and Science, located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan.
Major airports in Japan:
Visa details can be found on the ministry of foreign affairs website, including a list of nationalities which can obtain an exemption.
The schedule will include:
There will be five scientific sessions mapping to the topics above, running from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday afternoon:
Virtual attendees will be able to stream the talks, or watch recordings after the event. Session chairs will ensure questions from the online audience are included in the sessions.
We hope to offer a number of partial or full bursaries for early career researchers with accepted abstracts. This is available during abstract submission, please select ‘yes’ for the ECR option, and follow the details to submit your request.
Our code of conduct is the same as SMBE’s, which can be found here: https://www.smbe.org/smbe/ABOUT/CodeofConduct.aspx
The pathogen evolutionary biology community is getting closer to being able to capture all molecular variation, and looking at it deeply both within single hosts and across the entire population during transmission. To fully link the new scale of data with sound evolutionary theory, we need strong collaborations between microbiologists, evolutionary biologists, computational biologists, statisticians and mathematical modellers and communicable disease controllers.
This meeting will bring the community together to reflect on advances made during the pandemic, and how this will affect our future research. Through a series of invited talks, we will explore the leading edge of pathogen pangenome evolution, including:
This forum will also allow for trainees and early-career investigators to learn from and connect with many of the leading researchers in the field.
Understanding infectious disease pathogenesis and transmission through the lens of evolution is a critical area of research. One or two symposia would not be able to cover this breadth of topics, whereas the additional time of a satellite meeting would allow these topics to be covered in sufficient detail. We are delighted that SMBE have given support for this satellite meeting on pangenome evolution.
We have the following confirmed speakers so far:
A final schedule will be released in September.
We are grateful to our funders, without whom we would not be able to organise this meeting: