This year’s annual meeting of the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) will take place from November 20-23 in Salt Lake City, UT. Once again, SMR has designated a special session of the Congress specifically to rare melanomas. Dr. Kasey Couts will be presenting her research on mucosal melanoma immune responses in this session. Other research personnel, including Robert Van Gulick and Morgan MacBeth, will be presenting posters on their research involving rare melanomas including a summary of the biorepository’s rare melanoma models and the identification of a new BRAF gene splice variant in ocular melanoma. You can follow highlights from this year’s meeting on SMR’s twitter account (@SocietyMelanoma).