Expo Sponsorship

Digital $750

• Virtual Exhibit Booth presence at conference of choice including description, logo, one on one appointment setting, demo video, up to three (3) additional resource downloads
• One (1) free virtual conference registration with access to sessions
• Tailored Conference Attendee Analytics of your choice

Recruiter Digital $1000

• Registration to online platform
• Virtual presence at conference of choice including description, logo, one on one appointment setting, informational video, up to three (3) additional resource downloads
• Up to ten (10) job postings to conference jobs board
• Online access to interview rooms
• Unlimited access to resume repository

Experiential Sponsorship

For those looking for a higher level of exposure and reach.

Recruiter - $1500

All Recruiter Digital Expo benefits plus:

• Onsite exhibit package (2x3 meter space, table, chairs, waste basket, power)
• One (1) free onsite conference registration
• 20-minutes dedicated open presentation time within virtual platform outside scheduled breaks at conference
• Unlimited Job Postings on conference jobs board

Gigabyte - $1500

All Digital Expo plus the following:

• Onsite exhibit package (2x3 meter space, table, chairs, waste basket, power)
• One (1) free onsite conference registration
• Pre-recorded Demo within virtual platform (up to 15-minutes)
  
• Sponsor listed in conference program app with organization's name & description
• Entry in ISCB Nucleus Solutions Emporium

Terabyte - $2000

All Digital Expo plus the following:

• Onsite exhibit package (2x3 meter space, table, chairs, waste basket, power)
• Two (2) free onsite conference registrations
• 20-minute presentation within Technology Track
  
• Sponsor listed in conference program app with organization's name & description
• Entry in ISCB Nucleus Solutions Emporium
• 2 Conference specific push notifications

Zettabyte - $3500

All Digital Expo plus the following:

• • Onsite exhibit package (2x3 meter space, table, chairs, waste basket, power)
  • Two (2) free onsite conference registrations inclusive of Presidential Reception Access if selecting ISMB
  • 20-minute presentation within Technology Track
  • Sponsor listed in conference program app with organization's name & description
  • Entry in ISCB Nucleus Solutions Emporium
  • 4 Conference specific push notifications
  • Unlimited Job Postings on conference jobs board
  • Exhibit Booth at conference of choice
  • Additional ISCB Newsletter advertisement, or online banner

Pre- and post- conference registration list (participants who have given permission only)

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RSGDREAM 2022 Health and Safety Protocols

We encourage you to monitor this page to stay abreast of the latest updates on health and safety protocols for RSGDREAM 2022. The conference organizer reserve the right to alter these protocols as appropriate at any time as its leadership continues to assess the situation.

The safety of conference participants is the conference organizers’ top priority, and we believe the most effective way to ensure the safety of all attendees is for them to be vaccinated and boosted if eligible and able against COVID-19. Please note that proof of vaccination will be required for all in-person conference participants prior to traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Participants should be aware that, while the conference organizers will make every effort to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission on site, it is possible that attendees will come in contact with people in airports, hotels, and around the conference facility who could potentially carry the virus, which is why attendees are required to be fully vaccinated for their own safety, as well as the safety of others.

Entry into the United STates (USA) may require measures beyond those that are stated by the conference to meet safe protocols to gain access to the country for international travelers.  As it’s required to abide by USA entry requirements, please be sure to consult https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html well in advance of your travels. 

The conference organizers are also required to adhere to all state and local regulations and restrictions as imposed by local governments.  You are encouraged to review the local regulations and restrictions that are in place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/News/Blog/Detail/corona-virus-update).

Participants understand that it is their responsibility to review and ensure compliance with any stated country guidelines both for coming into the USA and departing the USA to return to their country of origin.  Costs associated with travel are the responsibility of the participant.

For the purposes of right of entry to RSGDREAM 2022, a person is considered fully vaccinated:

• Two weeks after receiving the second dose in a two-dose series, or
• Two weeks after receiving a single-dose vaccine, such as the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine; or
• Full course of immunization with any vaccine that has been authorized by the participant’s country of origin
• AND is boosted with a booster shot if person is eligible and able

For those unable to travel or meet the vaccination requirement, the conference offers virtual meeting registration options – https://www.iscb.org/rsgdream2022-register 

How will vaccinations be verified?

Prior to arriving on site, participants electing to attend in-person will be asked to upload proof of vaccination status during registration.  ISCB will accept any Country, Province, or State proof of vaccination image, which is to include COVID vaccine certificate QR codes or a “CLEAR health pass”. 

In addition to all attendees, all ISCB staff working at the meeting will be fully vaccinated; however, ISCB is not legally able to require conference facilities staff to be vaccinated. The conference venue is within the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) that has enforced vaccination among their personnel, this means a high percentage of the personnel is fully vaccinated.

Will the conference require proof of a negative COVID test upon arrival?

The conference will not require proof of a negative COVID test prior to arrival onsite, however, we strongly encourage all in-person participants to test for infection prior to departing for the conference.  As testing times vary world-wide, our suggested test period is no more than 48 hours from the departure of your home.  

Entry requirements are updated often.  Be sure to check the entry requirements well in advance of your departure to the conference and return to your home country.

On-Site Safety Measures

Public health guidance on preventing the transmission of COVID-19 continues to evolve.  The conference will base its on-site protocols on the latest guidance from the US CDC/WHO in addition to local regulations in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

We would encourage attendees to bring their own test kits and test prior to attending the meeting and at regular frequency during the meeting to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. The conference will have a limited number of tests on hand thanks to a generous sponsorship by Akamai.  After the test supply is depleted, we will do our best to provide information on where testing can be conducted.

Air Circulation

The Flamingo Las Vegas is equipped with an air conditioning system installation with continuous maintenance of filters to ensure air security within the venue.

Physical Distancing

Meeting rooms will be set up to accommodate those attendees who prefer more personal space as well as those who prefer to sit closer together, even if physical distancing is not legally mandated at the time of the meeting.

Sanitization

Even though the science now shows that COVID-19 transmission is less likely to occur from touching surfaces touched by multiple persons (i.e., lecterns), staff will clean these regularly to promote healthy sanitation overall. The conference facility will also have sanitization stations throughout the venue.

Protective Masks

The wearing of protective masks is required of all attendees, conference staff, and conference facility workers, regardless of whether or not it is required by law at the time of the meeting. Participants are welcome to bring their own mask of choice. N95 and KN95 (FFP2) masks are strongly preferred. Surgical masks are accepted but known to be less effective.  Cloth masks, gaiters, bandanas, and masks with exhalation valves will not be accepted. Masks will be provided onsite for a donation (suggested $1) should you need one.

Masks must be worn properly (covering both mouth and nose) at all times indoors, except as noted below. The indoor mask requirement applies to all spaces where in-person conference events are being held. Masks are not required outdoors.

Masks may be removed briefly in the following situations:

• When actively eating or drinking*, eating and drinking are prohibited within the session rooms
• When speaking at the lectern (as the distance between the speaker and audience is greater than 6 feet). Speakers should put their masks back on when not actively presenting (i.e., sitting at the head table on the dais).*
• When being photographed or interviewed on camera by registered media or ISCB staff.*

Participants who are not properly masked will be refused admittance to sessions and events and may have their badges revoked.

Symptom Development While Onsite

On-site participants must agree that if they become symptomatic they will immediately get tested for COVID-19 and cease participation in the meeting and all related events. Individuals who test positive will not be permitted to continue attending the meeting in person until a negative test is produced and must follow CDC guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/steps-when-sick.html 

COVID-19 Testing

The conference will not be providing a testing facility onsite at the conference location.  If you are onsite and experiencing symptoms, please contact ISCB (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); we will assist you in any way possible to get a test or direct you to the nearest testing facility.

If you wish to be tested by a laboratory or clinic, or If your travels home require a documented laboratory result, visit SNHD's website to find a testing location.

For travel requirements, you may also consider purchasing Abbott BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test through eMed.  Most airlines will accept this tele-health verified self-administered test. Please be sure to check with your airline prior to purchasing.  Abbott BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test can be found at https://www.emed.com/airline-travel and other retail providers.

What happens if I test positive onsite?

Participants who test positive for COVID-19 onsite, must follow the Southern Nevada Health District Guidelines (https://covid.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/for-cases/). They will not be allowed to attend sessions in person until a negative test can be produced, although they will still have access to the virtual platform.

Information on individuals who test positive, including the name of the individual testing positive and the session in which the individual participated, will be provided to staff overseeing the COVID-19 testing and response efforts. This will enable staff to follow up with these individuals to provide information on policies for isolating while on site, facilitate safe and comfortable quarantine arrangements, and provide information on local health care options as needed. While aggregate information about the number of positive cases will be made available to other attendees, the identity of individuals who test positive will be kept confidential.

Unfortunately, a formal contact tracing system is not available. The conference organizers will, however, make aggregate data available to attendees via the conference app about the number of positive cases reported at the meeting on a daily basis so they can make informed decisions about their participation. The identity of individuals who test positive will be kept strictly confidential.

COVAC GLOBAL

While the conference is taking numerous precautions to alleviate the risk to meeting attendees, the possibility of testing positive during the meeting, and therefore needing to quarantine in place may factor into the decision to attend the conference. To help address these concerns, we recommend COVAC GLOBAL, a leading provider of medical evacuation services, to offer in-person attendees the option to purchase its COVID-19 Evacuation and Repatriation service. For those who purchase this service in advance, COVAC GLOBAL will arrange for medical transport – via private jet – back to your home to complete your quarantine at no additional expense, should you be diagnosed with COVID-19 while at the conference.

International Attendees

International attendees should always check current travel restrictions to the USA per the CDC by visiting: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/international-travel-during-covid19.html before planning your travel, to make sure you will be able to enter the USA. In addition, please monitor local regulations at the origin destination to ensure that you will be able to return from the USA.

Conference Refund Policy

We understand the continued volatility of the ongoing pandemic. In the event a registered participant cannot travel due to a positive test result prior to departing for the conference, the conference organizers will partially refund the participants registration fee to still allow the participant access to the virtual platform.  Participants who are still unable to participate in the conference virtually may request a full refund. Full refund requests must be made prior to the start of the conference and be accompanied by positive COVID-19 testing documentation. The conference will not accept refund requests after 8:00 AM Pacific Time, November 7, 2022.

Conference COVID Waiver

Upon registration to the conference, the conference will require all in-person participants to sign the following waiver:

I understand that travel and gathering involves risk of sickness, including sickness from COVID-19. I (and on behalf of my guest(s)) waive and release ISCB and RECOMB and its sponsors and exhibitors, and their employees and agents, from and against claims, liabilities and expenses arising from injury, sickness or death from contraction or spread of COVID-19 or other communicable disease due to travel to or attendance at RSGDREAM 2022.

I will take necessary precautions while at the event including, but not limited to, engaging in appropriate social distancing, wearing a mask when requested and/or required, minimize face touching, frequently washing hands and avoiding risky environments such as overcrowded bars or restaurants. I agree to not attend any conference related event if I feel ill or had recent exposure to a COVID-19 case. This waiver and release is binding on me and my heirs and successors.

RSGDREAM 2022 Tutorial Program

Virtual Tutorials: (All times PST) Presented through the RSGDREAM conference platform

• Tutorial VT1: Interpreting deep neural network in genomics
• Tutorial VT3: GVViZ &PAS:  Integrated bioinformatics and mobile applications for gene-disease data annotation, expression analysis, and visualization for translational research

Virtual Presentation - Presented through the ISMB conference platform
Tuesday, November 8, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

Organizer(s):
Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University
Ofir Yaish, Ben-Gurion University

Deep-learning applications in genomics have become instrumental in modeling molecular phenomena and enabling predictions to new molecules and DNA, RNA, and amino-acid sequences. Still, interpreting deep neural networks is a key open problem, especially in bioinformatics, where model interpretability is a requirement in any study to improve our understanding of the underlying molecular mechanism. In the tutorial, the participants will be acquainted with the state-of-the-art and most efficient techniques to interpret deep neural networks in genomics, both on the theoretical level and the practical level. They will understand the analytics behind different interpretation techniques, both classic and new, and their respective advantages and limitations. In addition, they will gain hands-on experience in running the most advanced techniques on a real bioinformatic application and will be able to apply them to their own research following their participation in the tutorial.

Learning Objectives for Tutorial:
The field of genomics has seen a flood of deep neural network applications in recent years. Deep neural networks have been outperforming many classic machine-learning techniques, and hence are being widely used in many bioinformatics applications. While their prediction performance is unprecedented, many researchers still see them as black-boxes, which limit our ability to understand and decipher biological phenomena on the molecular level. In this tutorial, we will cover the main techniques in interpretability of deep neural networks in genomics. We will start with interpretability techniques of classic methods, such as sequence logos, and show how they apply to one-dimensional sequence kernels in convolutional neural networks. We will move to new and highly efficient techniques based on gradient calculations, and present their performance in various tasks. We will conclude with a presentation of a motif finding algorithm to detect re-occurring local patterns in interpretability maps. Moreover, we will dedicate at least one hour to a hands-on exercise on state-of-the-art interpretability techniques. In the conclusion of the tutorial, the participants will be acquainted with the state-of-the-art and most efficient techniques to interpret deep neural networks in genomics, both on the theoretical level and the practical level. They will understand the analytics behind different interpretation techniques, both classic and new, and their respective advantages and limitations. In addition, they will gain a hands-on experience in running the most advanced techniques on a real bioinformatic application, and will be able to apply them to their own research following their participation in the tutorial.

Intended audience and level:
The level is similar to a graduate-level course, including the level of mathematical derivation and programming examples that will be presented through the tutorial. The course is indented to participants with a computational background and knowledge on and experience with applying deep neural networks to genomic data.

Maximum Participants: 100

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Virtual Presentation - Presented through the ISMB conference platform
Tuesday, November 8, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

Organizer(s):
Zeeshan Ahmed, Rutgers Institute for Health & Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Habiba Abdelhalim, Rutgers Institute for Health

Over the last few decades, genomics has led in changing our views on conducting biomedical research, studying diseases, and understanding diversity in our society across the human species. Investigating disease-causing genes can support finding the root causes of uncertainties in patient care. Although approaches that combine clinical and genomic information are becoming increasingly common, scientists and health care providers still are faced with the daunting challenge of identifying what genes may be relevant to the part of the body or biological system they are studying, and how variants may impact health in unique ways for each patient. Independent, and timely high-throughput next generation sequencing data analysis is still a challenge for non-computational biologists and geneticists. We are focused on helping researchers, medical practitioners, and pharmacists in having a broad view of genetic makeup that may be implicated in the likelihood of developing certain diseases. We emphasize that automated, user-friendly, and interactive genomics data analysis, visualization, and sharing should be an indispensable component of modern era, as it has potential to bridge the gap between algorithmic approaches and the cognitive skills of users and investigators.
In this tutorial, we present two bioinformatics applications (GVViZ and PAS), which are designed, developed, and freely available to support translational research and precision medicine. GVViZ is a user-friendly, cross-platform, and database application for RNA-seq-driven variable and complex gene-disease data annotation, and expression analysis with dynamic heat map visualization. It can assimilate patients’ transcriptomics data with public, proprietary, and our in-house developed gene-disease databases to query, easily explore, and access information on gene annotation and classified disease phenotypes with greater visibility and customization. Our gene-disease databases are globally accessible through PROMIS-APP-SUITE (PAS), and consists of authentic and actionable genes, SNPs, and classified diseases and drugs data collected from different clinical and genomics databases worldwide. PAS is a smart phone application, integrating ICD (9 and 10) and NDC codes, and sets of over 50,000 genes, over million SNPs, over 200,000 gene-disease combinations. PAS is designed to simplify navigation across the landscape of gene annotation resources by an efficient mobile record search engine, which is based on standardized genes and related diseases to help explore multi-purpose clinical and genomics concepts in meaningful ways. The performance of GVViZ and PAS have been tested and validated in-house with multiple experimental analyses.
The execution of GVViZ and PAS is based on a set of simple instructions that users without a computational background can follow to design and perform customized data acquisition and analysis. It utilizes processed RNA-seq data, and robustly visualize patterns and problems that may give insight into a patient’s genomic profile, unravel genetic predisposition, and uncover genetic basis of multiple disorders. Experts in clinics and researchers in life sciences can use GVViZ to visualize and interpret the transcriptomics data, making it a powerful tool to study the dynamics of gene expression and regulation. With the successful deployment in clinical settings, GVViZ and PAS has the potential to enable high-throughput correlations between patient diagnoses based on clinical and genomics data.

Learning Objectives:

• Genomics and transcriptomics, and of role RNA-seq driven data processing, gene expression analysis and interpretation.
• Understanding the importance of data visualization, and mapping and rendering large RNA-seq datasets.
• Learning using GVViZ platform for the automated gene-disease data annotation, expression analysis, and dynamic heat map visualization.
• Learning using PROMIS-APP-SUITE (PAS) to access and explore information about authentic genes (protein-coding and noncoding), mutations, gene-disease relationships, and classified diseases and drugs and their codes.
• Training to how to download, configure, use, and customize GVViZ and PAS applications, and model genomics databases.

Intended audience and level:
This tutorial will be aimed to the audience of any level (e.g., beginner, experience, advanced knowledge), mainly interested in learning about automated and integrated gene-disease data annotation, expression analysis, and visualization for translational research.

We will expect and equally appreciate presence of computational and non-computational scientists, bench scientists, bioinformaticians, biologist, geneticists, clinicians, and most importantly graduate and undergraduate students of life and medical sciences.

Maximum Participants: 50

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Workshop and Tutorial Submissions

We invite scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, specifically those aligned with regulatory and systems genomics, to submit high-quality proposals for half-day tutorials or workshops to take place in-person or virtually as part of the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges 2022.

The Workshop and Tutorial sessions aim to provide an opportunity to discuss current and emergent topics on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to include platforms and software. These sessions need to be 4 hours or less and will take place on November 7 or 8.

Workshop and tutorials will be held in either a virtual training environment or in-person onsite at the Flamingo Las Vegas Resort. In-person workshops or tutorials will take place on Tuesday, November 8 in the AM and online workshops and tutorials will take place on Monday, November 7 in the AM or PM or Tuesday, November 8 in the AM. Workshop and tutorial leaders, submitting for virtual presentation, should be prepared to teach using online tools such as Zoom.

Guidelines for Proposals

Proposals should contain the necessary information for reviewers to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each proposed event should have one or more designated organizers and a program. The proposal should contain the following information:

• Title
• Description of the aim or aims of the workshop/tutorial
• Why is it relevant for the community
• Proposed schedule
• Provide the names and affiliations of the organizers
• The length of the proposals should be 500 words including all sections.
• Onsite submissions should be prepared to note any equipment needs associated to successful execution of the tutorial

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Proposal Submission

Please submit using the online form at the link below.

Deadline for Submissions: May 18, 2022
Notifications of decision: June 6, 2022

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL HERE

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