When to attend:
SMB recommends that you attend the conference during your local time zone day time hours. There are three time blocks: Americas, Europe-Africa, and Asia-Oceania. While we encourage participation in the time block where you are located, all talks will be recorded.
Time zone color legend:
The full schedule may also be viewed from the perspective of Americas (North/South), Europe/Africa, or Asia/Oceania:
How to navigate this schedule:
There are multiple ways to navigate the schedule. You may browse by subgroup, below:
- CBBS (Complex Biological and Biomedical Systems)
- CDEV (Cell and Developmental Biology)
- DDMB (Data Driven Modeling in Biology)
- DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
- ECOP (Population Dynamics & Ecology)
- EDUC (Education)
- EVOP (Population Dynamics & Evolution)
- IMMU (Immunobiology and Infection)
- MEPI (Mathematical Epidemiology)
- MFBM (Methods for Biological Modeling)
- MMPB (Multiscale Modeling in Physiology and Biophysics )
- NEUR (Mathematical Neuroscience)
- ONCO (Mathematical Oncology)
Alternatively, click on any box in the full schedule below to view the full list of parallel tracks (e.g. click "Minisymposium 1" to view all minisymposia at that time).
Pre-conference Program
Public lecture & Mentoring Workshop
Sunday, June 13, 2021
The day before the conference (Sunday, June 13, 2021) will consist of an opening Public Lecture (Sandra Loerakker), an early-career mentoring workshop, and a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) panel discussion.
| Time (PDT) | Scheduled Event | Speaker |
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| 9:00am | Opening Public Lecture | Sandra Loerakker (click to view abstract) |
| 10:00am | Introduction | Stacey Smith? |
| 10:30am | Challenges in Grad School | Shelby Scott |
| 11:00am | Things I Wish I'd Known as a Postdoc | Rebecca Everett |
| 11:30am | How to get a tenure-track job | Stacey Smith? |
| 1:00pm | Panel discussion (Non-academic careers) | Facilitated by Rebecca EverettPanelists: Blerta Shtylla, Helen Moore, Susan Massey, Malidi Ahamadi |
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DEI Discussions
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| 2:00pm | Discussions Celebrating and Building Diversity in Mathematical Biology: Setting the Stage for SMB 2021 | Facilitated by Stacey Finley, Suzanne Sindi, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn and the SMB DEI Committee. |
Conference Schedule
| Americas(PDT) | EuropeAfrica(BST) | AsiaOceania(KST) | Day 1Monday (Tuesday) | Day 2Tuesday (Wednesday) | Day 3Wednesday (Thursday) | Day 4Thursday (Friday) |
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| 07:45am | 03:45pm | 11:45pm (next day) | Opening & welcome | NSF Mathematical Biology | Journal of Mathematical Biology Info Session | Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Info Session |
| 08:15am | 04:15pm | 12:15am (next day) | Plenary 1Carrie Diaz Eaton | Plenary 4George Karniadakis | Plenary 7Timothy Elston | Plenary 10David Basanta |
| 09:30am | 05:30pm | 01:30am (next day) | Minisymposium 1 | Minisymposium 7 | Minisymposium 13 | Minisymposium 19 |
| 11:00am | 07:00pm | 03:00am (next day) | NSF Mathematical Biology | Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Info Session | Break (30 minutes) | Journal of Mathematical Biology Info Session |
| 11:30am | 07:30pm | 03:30am (next day) | Minisymposium 2 | Minisymposium 8 | Minisymposium 14 | Minisymposium 20 |
| 01:00pm | 09:00pm | 05:00am (next day) | Mentoring luncheon (Americas) | Subgroup meeting | SMB meeting | Career fair&DEI Discussions |
| 02:15pm | 10:15pm | 06:15am (next day) | DEI panel | Contributed talks 4 | Contributed talks 7 | Special session 1:Mathematical Biology in Industry,SIAM (1.5hrs) Special session 2:Mathematics in Medicine (1.5hrs) |
| 03:15pm | 11:15pm | 07:15am (next day) | Contributed talks 1 | Poster session 2 | Poster session 4 | |
| 04:15pm | 12:15am (next day) | 08:15am (next day) | Plenary 2Denise Kirschner | Plenary 5Michael Savageau | Plenary 8Leah Edelstein-Keshet | |
| 05:15pm | 01:15am (next day) | 09:15am (next day) | Break (30 minutes) | Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks | ||
| 05:45pm | 01:45am (next day) | 09:45am (next day) | Minisymposium 3 | Minisymposium 9 | Minisymposium 15 | |
| 07:15pm | 03:15am (next day) | 11:15am (next day) | Break (30 minutes) | |||
| 07:45pm | 03:45am (next day) | 11:45am (next day) | Minisymposium 4 | Minisymposium 10 | Minisymposium 16 | |
| 09:15pm | 05:15am (next day) | 01:15pm (next day) | Mentoring luncheon (Asia/Oceania) | Subgroup meeting (replayed) | SMB meeting (replayed) | |
| 10:30pm | 06:30am (next day) | 02:30pm (next day) | Contributed talks 2 | Contributed talks 5 | Contributed talks 8 | |
| 11:30pm | 07:30am (next day) | 03:30pm (next day) | Poster session 1 | Poster session 3 | Poster session 5 | |
| 01:15am (next day) | 09:15am (next day) | 05:15pm (next day) | Plenary 3Presentations from Paper Prize Winners | Plenary 6Jennifer A. Flegg | Plenary 9Anita Layton | |
| 02:15am (next day) | 10:15am (next day) | 06:15pm (next day) | Minisymposium 5 | Minisymposium 11 | Minisymposium 17 | |
| 03:45am (next day) | 11:45am (next day) | 07:45pm (next day) | Break (30 minutes) | |||
| 04:15am (next day) | 12:15pm (next day) | 08:15pm (next day) | Minisymposium 6 | Minisymposium 12 | Minisymposium 18 | |
| 05:45am (next day) | 01:45pm (next day) | 09:45pm (next day) | Mentoring luncheon (Europe/Africa) | Subgroup meeting (replayed) | Book Publishing @ Springer | |
| 06:45am (next day) | 02:45pm (next day) | 10:45pm (next day) | Contributed talks 3 | Contributed talks 6 | Contributed talks 9 | |