Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Fantastic Andrea, congratulations! 🙌

I'm so honored to have received one of the Young Investigator Awards! 🎊🎉🥳😱 Looking forward to the conference!

Congratulations Olga!

Very happy to have been selected for the Young investigator award ✨ See you in Copenhangen folks ! Many thanks to @official-smbe.bsky.social !!

🏅 Recipients of the different SMBE 2026 awards have now been notified. If you didn’t receive a message, you were unfortunately not selected this time. The conference remains open to all interested participants, and we’d love to see you in Copenhagen.

🔗 smbe2026.org

#SMBE2026

🧬EvolCompGen presents: Christian Landry on the Evolution of gene duplication, from redundancy to dependency
@christianlandry.bsky.social

🗓️ Join us on Monday, March 23 at 11:00 AM EDT

📌 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

SMBE 2026 Workshop: Facing the polycrisis: building a more just and sustainable academia

🗓️ July 2

🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

The workshop will offer a space to discuss the roles and responsibilities of researchers in the face of the multiple crises our institutions are living.

#SMBE2026

📨 Please send your nominations to Anne Yoder (anne.yoder@duke.edu) or Rebekah Rogers (secretary.smbe@gmail.com) by March 15.

❗ Deadline approaching - we remind our followers that the SMBE is soliciting nominations for SMBE President-Elect, and two Councilors whose terms will begin on Jan. 1, 2027 (positions for 3 years).

GHIST aims to benchmark population genetics inference methods through community competition. Top competitors earn authorship and cash prizes. In this kickoff workshop, participants will learn about the competition and make their first challenge submissions.

ghist.bio

SMBE 2026 Workshop: Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament (GHIST) kickoff

🗓️ June 28

🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

📣 ERGA is offering 2 awards to support participation in #SMBE2026, each covering 50% of the early-bird onsite registration fee.
Apply by 22 March 2026: www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean...

Please, share this opportunity with ERGA colleagues who may be interested. @official-smbe.bsky.social

SMBE 2026 Workshop: Future Directions in Vertebrate Genomics Research

🗓️ June 28

🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

The workshop is organized as part of the activities associated with the completion of Phase I of the Vertebrate Genomes Project.

#SMBE2026

Dear Laurie, the LOC is still parsing through submissions to ensure that we give an opportunity for presentations to as many colleagues as possible. Some of this process requires the team to reevaluate logistic conditions on the ground, but we are trying to give back feedback still within this week.

SMBE 2026 Spinoff event: Ancient DNA plant meeting

🗓️ June 27-28

🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

Talks on plant evolution and domestication based on genetic studies based on archaeobotanical remains and herbarium material.

More information: plantpalaeogenomics.com

@jazminrm.bsky.social

#SMBE2026

The SMBE IDEA Task Force stands with all women doing science: cis and trans, in every country, under every condition. In war zones, under authoritarian regimes, where their existence is an act of resistance.

March 8 carries weight. Science is only as strong as who it includes.

#WomenInSTEM #March8

🗳️ Nominations for SMBE President-Elect, and two Councilors
🗓️ Deadline: March 15, 2026

The SMBE is soliciting nominations for SMBE President-Elect and two Councilors whose terms will begin on January 1, 2027.

Each of these positions is for a duration of three years.

#society

We recommend a read of the new MBE editorial on how society journals work towards protecting the scientific record.

Publishing in society journals, such as @molbioevol.bsky.social or @genomebiolevol.bsky.social, promotes transparent science that benefits the research community.

See you there!

So proud of my masters student Simon Ploesch of getting a flash talk accepted at #SMBE2026 for his work on evolution of the marmoset innate immune system !!

🙌 The new logo of Molecular Biology and Evolution is now live!

This new look will carry us forward while maintaining the same rigor and commitment to the molecular evolutionist community as an SMBE journal.

#evobio #molbio #science #biology #societyjournal

The acceptance for our @mstange.bsky.social @official-smbe.bsky.social symposium is up! We had an amazing choice of abstracts. We ranked abstracts blindly and has such a long "short list" that we had to randomly select between some talks. We really hope that those offered a poster will also come!

❗Starting today, researchers who submitted abstracts to SMBE 2026 will be notified of the result of submission.

Due to the high volume of submissions, results may be communicated up to the following week. We kindly ask for your patience while we finalize the communication of results.

#SMBE2026

Nos complace anunciar que la convocatoria de resúmenes ya está abierta. Envíen sus resúmenes 🤩 smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-esp...

We are pleased to announce the abstract call is open. Submit your abstracts now 🤩 smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-eng...

The APSPM 2026 Organising Committee,
Caroline Puente-Lelievre @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social
Jordan Douglas
Ashar Malik @proteinmechanic.bsky.social

"APSPM 2026 brought together an energising and diverse community working at the intersection of protein structure & evolution. Thoughtful discussions, strong engagement, and both new and long-standing collaborations that emerged will help reshape evolutionary biology. Excited for what’s next."

The 2026 SMBE Australasian Protein Structural Phylogenetics Meeting took place last week in Brisbane (Australia) to discuss this rapidly growing field.

Thank you to all participants and congratulations to the organizing team, who brought to life a fantastic event!👏

@strphy.bsky.social

#StrPhy26

Nandita Garud of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA) is presenting a plenary talk at SMBE 2026.

Title: "Evolution in the human gut microbiome"

@nanditagarud.bsky.social

#SMBE2026

Moises Exposito-Alonso, Professor at UC Berkeley (USA; @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social), will join us in Copenhagen to present a plenary talk at SMBE 2026.

Title: "Rapid adaptation and extinction across climates in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis thaliana"

#SMBE2026