Key Dates for ISCB Affiliated Conferences

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues:

Welcome to 2012! As you map out your conference calendar for this New Year, in addition to ISCB's signature conferences (see www.iscb.org/iscb-conferences), be sure to consider participating in these affiliated conferences of our Society. Each one offers a unique mix of scientific content with themes essential to computational biologists and bioinformaticists. Scroll down for details on upcoming key dates and opportunities for the following events. 

• MCBIOS
• VizBi
• AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
• RECOMB
• BioIT-World Conference & Expo
• Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics
• ECCB
• PSB (2013)

MCBIOS 2012, Feb 17-18, at Univ of Mississippi, USA

MidSouth Computational Biology Society's annual meeting – themed "Making Sense of the Omics Data Deluge”

http://mcbios.org/content/2012-mcbios-conference

* Oral and Poster presentations deadline: January 17^th

* Early registration deadline: February 3^rd

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VizBi 2012, Mar 6-8, Heidelberg, Germany

3^rd annual Visualizing Biological Data conference, hosted by EMBL

http://vizbi.org/2012

* Poster submission deadline: February 26^th

* Early registration deadline: January 29^th

* Virtual registration also an option for participation by streaming video and chat

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AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 2012, Mar 19-21, San Francisco, USA

Part of the American Medical Informatics Association's joint summits on translational science; followed by the Summit on Clinical Informatics

http://amia.org/jointsummits2012/tbi-call-for-participations

* ISCB members are eligible for a 10% registration discount

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RECOMB 2012, Apr 21-24, Barcelona, Spain

16^th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

http://recomb2012.crg.cat/

* Highlights submission deadline for previously published papers: January 13^th

* Early registration discount deadline: January 31^st

* Additional 10% discount for ISCB members

* Poster submissions site opening February 7th

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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2012, Apr 24-26, Boston, USA

10^th Anniversary includes 12 parallel tracks and 16 pre-conference workshops

http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com

* Early registration discount period ends January 27^th

* ISCB members receive an additional 10% registration discount

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Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2012, Aug 15-17, Campo Grande, Brazil

Organized by the comp bio special interest group of the Brazilian Computer Society

http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br

* ISCB members receive approximately 14% registration discount

* Full Paper submission period: January 19^th through March 19^th

* Short Paper submission period: January 19^th through June 25^th

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ECCB 2012, Sep 9-12, Basel, Switzerland

Hosted by the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and in conjunction with the SIB annual meeting

http://www.eccb12.org/home

* Workshop and Tutorial proposals deadline: January 15^th

* Subscribe to the conference newsletter via the URL above for alerts on open calls, deadlines, and program updates.

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PSB 2013, Jan 4-8, Hawaii, USA

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing's 18^th annual event

http://psb.stanford.edu/CallForSessionProposals.html

* Call for 2013 Session proposals deadline: February 15^th