Details Registration About Topics Speakers Funders Organisers Contact Return To Top

Details

A provisional schedule is now available.

Key information and dates:

The event will be hybrid: in-person and virtual (real-time or on-demand) participation will both be possible.

Please note there is no official conference accommodation ot travel partner. Any emails you receive claiming to be one are fake.

Registration

Registration is now open. Registration closes 31st October.

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.

We do have a maximum number of on-site attendees slots available.

Registration form

Registration is in two steps:

  1. Use the following google form to register for the conference: https://forms.gle/3LD7C8ZuMvqN8zQc9.
  2. Pay for your registration, using the link which will be emailed to you after you have registered.

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.

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.

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.

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 provisional schedule is now 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

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: