SMBE Satellite Workshop on Pathogen Pangenome Evolution Between and Within their Hosts

Registration is now closed. If you have registered and haven’t heard from us, please contact us.

Registration costs:

• £200: Senior researchers, industry attendees.
• £120: Early career researchers. (A fee waiver will be offered on a case-by-case basis.)
• £120: Local attendees (within Japan).
• £15: Remote attendance.

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.

Registration payments

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.

Please note the payment link will not be sent immediate after your registration. We will send the relevant links for part two in October and November.

Cancellation: We will be unable to offer refunds for registrations after 31st October.

Reduced registration fees

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.

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.

We are grateful to our funders, without whom we would not be able to organise this meeting:

• Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
• Microbiology Society.
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory.