For anyone planning to go to Spain next summer, I am advertising two conference opportunities. At ESEB in Barcelona, I am organizing the symposium, "Gene Content Across Genomes: Models and Genomic Data" with Raquel Assis (Florida Atlantic University, USA). Keynote speakers for this symposium are Ingo Ebersberger (University of Frankfurt, Germany) and Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis (University of Pittsburgh, USA). If you want to speak in this symposium on either your modeling framework or your genomic characterization/genomic data, please do submit an abstract.https://eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia/#S25 Once you have travelled to Spain, the week after ESEB, come join us at Journal of Molecular Evolution: A European Meeting. This meeting is free, with no registration fee. There are still speaking slots and poster spaces available, so please do submit an abstract. https://www.mncn.csic.es/es/investigacion/JME2025 Please join us in both Barcelona and Madrid this August. David Liberles David A Liberles (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)