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After the event

In line with the SMBE guidelines, this website will remain online until at least the end of 2027 as an archive of the event. A report on the event should also shortly be available on the SMBE website.

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Topics

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:

  • The use of metagenomics for pathogen surveillance.
  • Analysis and interpretation of selection in pathogen populations
  • The role of evolutionary analysis in emerging infectious diseases, spanning bacteria and viral species including SARS-CoV-2
  • New tools for evolutionary and pangenome analysis, including genome graphs.
  • The union of evolutionary and epidemic modelling for inferring outbreak and epidemic dynamics.

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.

Speakers

We have the following confirmed speakers:

More information

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:

  • Haneda airport, Tokyo (30-45 minutes to venue)
  • Narita airport, Tokyo (1hr to venue)
  • Osaka airport (4hrs to venue)

Visa details can be found on the ministry of foreign affairs website, including a list of nationalities which can obtain an exemption.

Agenda

A schedule is available.

Hybrid attendance

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.

Bursaries for early career researchers

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.

Code of conduct

Our code of conduct is the same as SMBE’s, which can be found here: https://www.smbe.org/smbe/ABOUT/CodeofConduct.aspx