Mini-symposia should comprise 4-8 presentations on a single topic of substantial current interest and importance in mathematical biology. Mini-symposia sessions will be 2 hours in length. We invite minisymposium organizers to put together proposals that reflect the diversity of the mathematical biology community. For more information, please visit the SMB website on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Mini-symposia are only accepted for in-person presentation, so please make sure that your invited speakers will be attending the meeting in person.

The mini-symposium proposal should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s), a short description of the mini-symposium topic and goal, and the name, affiliation and talk title for each of the suggested speakers. In addition, we invite you to briefly describe (100 words or less) how the proposed mini- symposium takes into account and supports the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Please submit your proposal using the web form available here by midnight on March 6. Decisions concerning minisymposia will be made by March 24. Questions may be directed to smb2023@osu.edu.

Please make sure that your mini-symposium speakers agree to present in person and are not double-booked, i.e. they may present in only one mini-symposium. Also, if they are part of a mini-symposium, they are not allowed to submit a contributed talk or a poster. An exception to the one-presentation rule is made for presentations that are focused on education or diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Please check back in late March for contributed talk abstract submission.