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Volume 10, Issue 1

President's Letter

ISMB Honors
Temple F. Smith

Overton Prize:
Eran Segal

Third Student Symposium

Sharing Software
and Data

Announcing
ISMB 2008

ISCB at 10 Years

Announcing
ECCB 2008

ECCB 2006
Conference Report


FASEB Update


MentorNet
Report Card

Announcing
Rocky '07

PLoS CB: Ten Simple
Rules Series


Key Dates for Key Conferences

Post your Events & News

Upcoming Conferences
& Events

News from the Field

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Upcoming Events and Opportunities of Interest

ISCB Annual Conferences
Rocky ‘07
Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
United States - Colorado - Aspen/Snowmass
Dates: Nov 30, 2007 through Dec 02, 2007
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
Event URL: www.iscb.org/rocky07
ISMB 2008
Toronto - Ontario - Canada
Dates: Jul 19, 2007 through Jul 23, 2007

ISCB Member Discount: Up to 200 Euros
Event URL: www.iscb.org/ismb2008


ISCB Co-Sponsored Events
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
Restrictions: excluding student and HK registrations.
Event URL: www.apbionet.org/incob07/
ISCB Member Discount: 75 USD
Event URL: http://psb.stanford.edu/
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~recomb08
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: http://eccb08.org/

ISCB Affiliated Events
Probabilistic Modelling in Computational Biology meeting affiliated with ISMB/ECCB 2007
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Boku University Vienna
Dates: Jul 26, 2007 through Jul 26, 2007
Event URL: http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/PMCB/
WABI’07 - 7th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: University of Pennsylvania
Dates: Sep 08, 2007 through Sep 09, 2007
ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: www.wabi07.org

Other Conferences & Events of Interest
QA-gen Workshop: Quantitative Approaches for Knowledge Discovery
and Decision Support in the Post Genomic Era

United Kingdom - Sheffield
Hosted By: University of Patras, Sheffield Halam University
and University of Ioannina
Dates: Jul 22, 2007 through Jul 23, 2007
Event URL: www.iccs.info/qa_gen.php
The Applied Computational Genomics Course
Canada - AB - Edmonton
Hosted By: The Bioinformatics Platform
Dates: Jul 25, 2007 through Jul 31, 2007
Event URL: www.gcbioinformatics.ca/training
Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology
(MCCMB’07)

Russia - Moscow
Hosted By: Moscow State University
Dates: Jul 27, 2007 through Jul 30, 2007
Event URL: mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2007/
7th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
(BIOKDD07)

United States - CA - San Jose
Hosted By: Dr. Jake Chen
Dates: Aug 12, 2007 through Aug 12, 2007
Event URL: bio.informatics.iupui.edu/biokdd07/
CSB2007
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: Life Sciences Society
Dates: Aug 13, 2007 through Aug 17, 2007
Event URL: www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2007/index07.html
CSB 2007 Workshop on Alternative Splicing
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: Life Sciences Society
Dates: Aug 17, 2007 through Aug 17, 2007
Event URL: http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/CSB2007Workshop/
Workshop on System Biology for Microbial Genomes
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: Life Sciences Society
Dates: Aug 17, 2007 through Aug 17, 2007
Event URL: www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2007/index07.html
Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2007 - BSB 2007
Brazil - RJ - Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro
Hosted By: Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dates: Aug 29, 2007 through Aug 31, 2007
Event URL: http://bsb2007.inf.puc-rio.br/
International Conference On Mathematical Biology 2007 (ICMB07)
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
Hosted By: Universiti Putra Malaysia & The Malaysian Mathematical Science Society
Dates: Sep 04, 2007 through Sep 06, 2007
Event URL: www.inform.upm.edu.my/icbm07/
PBC 2007 - Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
Poland - Gdansk
Hosted By: Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Dates: Sep 09, 2007 through Sep 12, 2007
Event URL: http://pbc.pcz.pl/
The BioExec Institute 2007
United States - CA - Berkeley
Hosted By: Prescience International, Deloitte, & UCB CED
Dates: Sep 09, 2007 through Nov 13, 2007
Event URL: www.prescienceintl.com/bioexec.html

4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop
Belgium - Ghent
Hosted By: University of Ghent, Belgium
Dates: Sep 10, 2007 through Sep 12, 2007
Event URL: www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/bab/conf/ib07/

Fall 2007 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology
United States - OH - Columbus
Hosted By: Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Dates: Sep 11, 2007 through Sep 14, 2007
Event URL: www.mbi.ohio-state.edu/postdocworkshop/fwyrmb2007.html
RECOMBCG’07 - Fifth Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on
Comparative Genomics

United States - CA - La Jolla
Hosted By: University of California, San Diego
Dates: Sep 16, 2007 through Sep 18, 2007
Event URL: http://casb.ucsd.edu/recombcg07
RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: University of California,
San Diego, La Jolla
Dates: Sep 18, 2007 through Sep 20, 2007
Event URL: http://casb.ucsd.edu/recombccb07
2007 2nd VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: VLDB 2007
Dates: Sep 23, 2007 through Sep 23, 2007
Event URL: http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/VLDB07/
MLSB 2007 - International Workshop on Machine Learning in
Systems Biology

France - Evry
Hosted By: IBISC / GIGA
Dates: Sep 24, 2007 through Sep 25, 2007
Event URL: http://mlsb07.ibisc.fr
Summer School "Methods from Mathematics and Computer Science for Pattern Recognition in Biology"
China - Shanghai
Hosted By: PICB Shanghai
Dates: Sep 30, 2007 through Oct 13, 2007
Event URL: www.picb.ac.cn/pattern07
2nd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition In Bioinformatics
(PRIB 2007)

Singapore
Hosted By: School of Computer Engineering, NTU
Dates: Oct 01, 2007 through Oct 02, 2007
Event URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/prib/prib07/
Biology without Borders
Italy - Trento
Hosted By: The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology
Dates: Oct 02, 2007 through Oct 05, 2007
Event URL: www.cosbi.eu/events/bwb07.php
Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
United States - IL - Evanston
Hosted By: CBB program at Northwestern University
Dates: Oct 06, 2007 through Oct 06, 2007
Event URL: http://cbb.cs.northwestern.edu/MSCBB
IEEE BIBE 2007 (IEEE 7th International Symposium on BioInformatics
and BioEngineering)

United States - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Boston
Hosted By: IEEE Computer Society, the Biological and Artificial Intelligence Society
Dates: Oct 14, 2007 through Oct 17, 2007
Event URL: www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/
2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
(DMB 2007)

United States - CA - Silicon Valley
Hosted By: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT-BIBM 2007 & IEEE GrC 2007
Dates: Nov 02, 2007 through Nov 05, 2007
Event URL: http://dmb07.swbio.org/
BIBM 2007
United States - CA - San Jose
Hosted By: IEEE CS
Dates: Nov 02, 2007 through Nov 07, 2007
Event URL: www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/thu/bibm/index.php.htm
Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop
United States - CA - San Jose
Hosted By: IEEE
Dates: Nov 04, 2007 through Nov 04, 2007
Event URL: www.cs.nmsu.edu/%7Exqin/bioworkshop/bioworkshop.htm
Search and Knowledge Building for Biological Datasets
United States - CA - Los Angeles
Hosted By: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Dates: Nov 26, 2007 through Nov 30, 2007
Event URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sews4/
ISSNIP International Workshop on Biomedical Informatics
Australia - Vic - Melbourne
Hosted By: Melbourne, Australia
Dates: Nov 28, 2007 through Nov 30, 2007
Event URL: www.issnip.org/2007/symposia/bi2007/index.html
The 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2007)
Singapore
Hosted By: Limsoon Wong
Dates: Dec 03, 2007 through Dec 05, 2007
Event URL: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~giw2007
International Workshop on Web Data Integration and Mining
for Life Sciences

France - Nancy
Hosted By: LORIA in conjunction with WISE 2007 conference
Dates: Dec 03, 2007 through Dec 03, 2007
Event URL: www.loria.fr/~malika/WebDIM4LS-CFP.html
2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 2007
Singapore
Hosted By: Jong C. Park and Limsoon Wong
Dates: Dec 06, 2007 through Dec 07, 2007
Event URL: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/

2007 International Symposium on Computational Models
for Life Sciences
Australia - QLD - Gold Coast
Hosted By: Bioinformatics Applications Research Centre at James Cook University and the HCNR-Centre for Bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School
Dates: Dec 10, 2007 through Dec 12, 2007
Event URL: www.it.jcu.edu.au/~pham/CMLS07/CMLS07.htm

2007 Workshop on Machine Learning Methods in Biomedicine
and Bioinformatics

United States - Ohio - Cincinnati
Hosted By: The Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’07)
Dates: Dec 13, 2007 through Dec 15, 2007
Event URL: www.ittc.ku.edu/MLBB/
CAMDA07
Spain - Valencia
Hosted By: CIPF
Dates: Dec 13, 2007 through Dec 14, 2007
Event URL: http://camda.bioinfo.cipf.es/
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: from Molecules to Cells to Organisms
United States - Hawaii - The Big Island
Hosted By: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Dates: Jan 04, 2008 through Jan 08, 2008
Event URL: http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-multiscale.html
Genetic Analyis: Model Organisms to Human Biology 2
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: Genetics Society of America
Dates: Jan 05, 2008 through Jan 09, 2008
Event URL: www.genetics-gsa.org/genetics/g-gsa/meetings-mohb.shtml
The Sixth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2008)
Japan - Kyoto
Hosted By: Kyoto University
Dates: Jan 14, 2008 through Jan 17, 2008
Event URL: http://sunflower.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/apbc2008/index.html
BIOSIGNALS 2008 - International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
Portugal - Madeira
Hosted By: Funchal, Madeira
Dates: Jan 28, 2008 through Jan 31, 2008
Event URL: www.biosignals.org/
Bioinformatics Track @ ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2008
Brazil - Ceará
Hosted By: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Dates: Mar 16, 2008 through Mar 20, 2008
Event URL: www.cs.iupui.edu/~bioin/
WATOC 2008
Australia - NSW - Sydney
Hosted By: World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
Dates: Sep 14, 2008 through Sep 19, 2008
Event URL: www.watoc2008.com/

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