The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution is an international organization whose goals are to provide facilities for association and communication among molecular evolutionists and to further the goals of molecular evolution, as well as its practitioners and teachers.

The Society sponsors an annual meeting – SMBE Conference –  on important, focused, and timely topics. It also confers honors and awards to students and researchers.

This year, the SMBE 2018 will be held at Yokohama, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landmark paper by Kimura (1968) who proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution.