The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is a scientific and academic organization founded in 1982 to support academic research in the field of molecular evolution. The society hosts an annual meeting, typically in June or July. It also supports satellite meetings throughout the year. The Society's first president was evolutionary biologist Walter M. Fitch.[1] The current President is Stephen Wright.[2]
In 1983, the society began publishing the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution with Oxford University Press.[3] The society began publishing a second journal, Genome Biology and Evolution, in 2009.[4]
2024: Stephen Wright
2023: Kateryna Makova
2022: James McInerney
2021: Harmit Malik
2020: Marta Wayne
2019: Aoife McLysaght
2018: William F. Martin
2017: Laura Landweber
2016: Jianzhi (George) Zhang
2015: Joe Felsenstein
2014: Brandon Gaut
2013: Sudhir Kumar
2012: Charles Aquadro
2011: Ken Wolfe
2010: Jody Hey
2009: Michael Lynch
2008: Paul Sharp
2007: Deborah Charlesworth
2006: Montserrat Aguadé
2005: Jeffrey R. Powell
2004: John C. Avise
2003: Naoyuki Takahata
2002: Michael T. Clegg
2001: Daniel L. Hartl
2000: Wen-Hsiung Li
1999: Andrew G. Clark
1998: Richard C. Lewontin
1997: David Penny
1996: Margaret G. Kidwell
1995: Wesley M. Brown
1994: Masatoshi Nei
1993: Walter M. Fitch