Award Winners

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper
F1000 Poster Award
RCSB PDB Poster Prize
Art & Science Award

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

Rani Powers, University of Colorado, United States
GSEA-InContext: Identifying novel and common patterns in expression experiments

With Support From:

F1000 Poster Awards

Linhua Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Large-scale assessment of protein function prediction using heterogeneous ensembles

Bhanwar Lal Puniya, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Systems modeling of phenotypic plasticity of CD4+ T cell differentiation

ISCB-SC Education and Internships Committee
The Bioinformatics Internship Program: An Initiative of The ISCB Student Council

Sabrina Nusrat, Harvard Medical School, United States
Visualization of Longitudinal Cancer Genomics Data

Soo Bin Kwon, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Learning a human-mouse functional genomics conservation score

Shreyas Ramesh, Virginia Tech, United States
The Learnability of Taxonomic Divisions

RCSB and PDB Poster Prize

Fergus Boyles, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Learning from the ligand: improving binding affinity prediction using molecular descriptors

Art & Science Award

FIRST PRIZE

Ruth Callaway, Swansea University, Biosciences, United Kingdom
Mondrian‘s Sum of Squares

SECOND PRIZE

Alaa Abi Haidar, University of Pierre and Marie Curie
dEYEversity

THIRD PRIZE

Marwan Abdellah, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
In Silico Brainbow

ISMB 2018 Conference Highlights

Career Fair

Career Fair will take place Monday, July 9th from 12:45pm - 2pm in the exhibit hall.

Conference attendees participating in the Career Fair have uploaded their resume into the ISCB Career Center (https://careers.iscb.org/) resume repository and will have a 'Talent' ribbon on their conference badge.
- Sign-up is allowed on-site to attend the Career Fair but attendees MUST stop by the ISCB Booth or the TF desk and sign up.
Institutions/Exhibitors participating in the Career Fair will have star balloons on their exhibit booth/recruiter tables. Additional institutions that are recruiting will have a table in the Power Pod (booths 6 and 7) next to the Jobs Board.
- Recruiters participating in the Career Fair will have available positions posted on the jobs board and/or additional opportunities at their tables and will have a 'Talents Seeker' ribbon on their confernece badge.
Please stop by the ISCB booth to see Bel Hanson or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions.

Scientific Events in Chicago

CAGI 5 Conference July 5 - 7
March for Science Summit - July 6 - 8
Chicago Genomics and Data Science Hackathon July 11 - 13, 2018

CAGI 5 Conference July 5 - 7

Website: https://genomeinterpretation.org/content/5-conference

The aim of the CAGI 5 Conference will be to disseminate the results of the most recent CAGI experiment and assess our collective ability to make accurate and meaningful predictions of phenotypes from genomic information. CAGI data providers, assessors, and selected predictors will give the majority of the talks at the conference, with significant time allocated for discussions.

Fellowships are available, and in previous years we were able to provide support to most eligible applicants. To be eligible for fellowship support you must be a student or postdoc and a US citizen or permanent resident. We may also be able to support some members of under-represented groups, including those with disabilities, regardless of citizenship. All eligible participants are strongly encouraged to apply for a fellowship and are likely to receive support.

March for Science Summit - July 6 - 8

Website: https://www.marchforscience.com/summit

S|GNS (Science | Government, Institutions & Society) Summit is a network-wide meeting for emerging and established leaders across fields to share knowledge, build community, and develop their skills as science advocates, educators, and organizers.

Chicago Genomics and Data Science Hackathon July 11 - 13, 2018

From 11-13 July 2018, the NCBI will help out with a Data Science hackathon on the Northwestern School of Medicine Campus in Downtown Chicago! The hackathon will focus on genomics as well as general Data Science analyses including text, image and sequence processing. This event is for researchers, including students and postdocs, who have already engaged in the use of large datasets or in the development of pipelines for analyses from high-throughput experiments. Some projects are available to other non-scientific developers, mathematicians, or librarians.

The event is open to anyone selected for the hackathon and willing to travel to Chicago. Please note that this follows directly on the heels of the ISMB 2018 meeting.

Working groups of five to six individuals will be formed into five to eight teams. These teams will build pipelines and tools to analyze large datasets within a cloud infrastructure. Example subjects for such a hackathon include:

A machine learning tool for observing structural changes in time course light microscopy.
Novel virus discovery
Automated systematic review methodology.
Splitting BLAST databases on the cloud
Data mapping tool that assists users with mapping their data to CDEs
Disease clustering from literature based on limited training data (phenotypic information)
Variants from RNAseq (including single cell)
Graphical User Interface for Gene Expression calculated on the fly from raw data

Please go to http://ncbi-hackathons.github.io to propose projects, and to access the sign-up form when available (likely in mid-March)