Dear EvolDir Community We are delighted to be able to send out a placeholder email for the 2026 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2026) that will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between Sunday June 28th and Wednesday July 1st 2026. Denmark has a long tradition of expertise in both molecular biology and evolution, and thus we are delighted that the SMBE Management Committee accepted our bid. The conference venue will be in central Copenhagen, which is a wonderful and easily accessible city, so we hope to see many of you there. We anticipate the formal website will be released ca East 2025, with more details on deadlines etc. to come after the upcoming 2025 meeting in China. We hope to see many of you here in Copenhagen in a few years time. On behalf of the organizing committee, Tom Tom Gilbert Director DNRF Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics Professor of Palaeogenomics, The Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen & Professor II, NTNU University Museum �ster Farimagsgade 5A 1353 Copenhagen Denmark tgilbert@sund.ku.dk +45 23 71 25 19 Tom Gilbert (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)