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Volume 11, Issue 1

President’s Letter

SCS4 Highlights

ISCB Honors
David Haussler
& Aviv Regev

The ISMB Organization
& Future Vision

PLoS Computational Biology Overview

11th Israeli Bioinformatics
Symposium Report

Taking a Stand on Software Sharing

ISCB Members Speak Out on US Entry Visa Issues

ISCB’s New Software
Sharing Statement

Announcing
ISMB/ECCB 2009

ISCB Student Council

Post Your Events with ISCB

MentorNet Report Card: Year Two

Calling all Leaders!

Become an ISMB Reporter

In Memory of
Kamalakar-Rao Mettani

FASEB Update

Announcing
Rocky ‘08

Key Dates for Key Conferences

Conferences & Events

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Upcoming Conferences and Events

ISCB Annual Conferences
Rocky ‘08
Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CO - Snowmass/Aspen
Dec 05, 2008 - Dec 07, 2008
ISCB Member Discount: 75 USD
http://www.iscb.org/rocky08

ISMB/ECCB 2009
Sweden - Stockholm
Jun 27, 2009 - Jul 02, 2009
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2009

ISMB 2010
United States - MA - Boston
Jul 10, 2010 - Jul 14, 2010

ISCB Co-Sponsored Events
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2009
United States - HI - Kohala Coast
Jan 05, 2009 - Jan 09, 2009
ISCB Member Discount: 75 USD
http://psb.stanford.edu/
EMBnet Conference 2008 20th Anniversary Celebration -
Leading Applications and Technologies in Bioinformatic
s
Italy - Martina Franca (Puglia)
Hosted By: Italian EMBnet National Node
Institute for Biomedical Technologies - CNR
Sep 18, 2008 - Sep 20, 2008
ISCB Member Discount: 50 Euros
http://www.embnet.org/
EMBnet20thAnniversary
ECCB’08 (European Conference on Computational Biology)
Italy - - Cagliari
Hosted By: ECCB
Sep 22, 2008 - Sep 26, 2008
ISCB Member Discount: 100 Euros
http://eccb08.org/
ISCB Affiliated Events
Translational Bioinformatics
United States - CA - San Francisco
Hosted By: The American Medical Informatics
Association in Partnership with ISCB
Mar 15, 2009 - Mar 17, 2009
ISCB Member Discount: 200 USD
Restrictions: Discount available before Jan 11 2009
100 USD Discount Jan 11 until Feb 29 2009
http://www.amia.org/meetings/
InCoB: The 7th International
Conference on Bioinformatics
Taiwan - Taipei
Hosted By: Center for Systems and Synthetic
Biology, Natioanl Yang-Ming University
Oct 20, 2008 - Oct 23, 2008
ISCB Member Discount: 15%
http://incob.binfo.org.tw/

Other Conferences & Events of Interest
BIT’s 1st Annual World Summit of Antivirals-2008 (WSA-2008)
China - Yunnan - Kunming
Hosted By: BITlifesciences
Jul 20, 2008 - Jul 26, 2008
http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wsa2008
Society for Developmental Biology
67th Annual Meeting
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: Society for Developmental Biology
Jul 26, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008
http://www.sdbonline.org/2008Mtg/webpage.htm
Programmatic Access to Proteomic Resources
United Kingdom - Hinxton, Cambridge
Hosted By: EMBL-EBI
Jul 28, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson
11th International Congress on Amino Acids,Peptides and Proteins
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Prof. Gert Lubec
Aug 03, 2009 - Aug 07, 2009
http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/ICAAP09/
3SBSS: 3 S Biology Summer School (Systems, Synthetic, Semantic)
Italy - Trento
Hosted By: Centre for Integrative Biology,
University of Trento
Aug 18, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008
http://www.3sbiology.org/
IB 2008 - 5th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics
Germany - Wittenberg
Hosted By: MLU Halle-Wittenberg and IPK
Gatersleben
Aug 20, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008
http://www.imbio.de/conference/index.php
International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics
Germany - Wittenberg
Hosted By: Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
Aug 20, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008
http://www.imbio.de/conference/
8th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
United States - NV - Las Vegas
Hosted By: held in conjunction with ACM KDD 2008
Aug 24, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/biokdd08/
Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference
Ireland - Cork
Hosted By: University College Cork, Ireland
Aug 24, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
http://www.abic.ca/abic2008/index.html
CSB 2008 - Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CA - Stanford
Hosted By: Life Sciences Society
Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008
http://csb2008.org/
ICNC’08-FSKD’08
China - Shandong - Jinan
Hosted By: Shandong University, China
Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn
Interactions and Pathways
United Kingdom - Hinxton, Cambridge
Hosted By: EMBL-EBIAug 26, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson

Network Biology
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory
Aug 27, 2008 - Aug 31, 2008
http://www.cshl.edu/meetings.html

First ENFIN Advanced Course on Methods for Protein Function Prediction
United Kingdom - Hinxton, Cambridge
Hosted By: ENFIN at EMBL-EBI
Sep 01, 2008 - Sep 03, 2008
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson
Systems Biology of Cancer - Signaling Networks, Modeling and Clinical Implications
Israel - Rehovot
Hosted By: Weizmann Institute of Science
Sep 02, 2008 - Sep 03, 2008
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/SBC08
Biomedical Informatics without Borders: Enabling Collaboration to Strengthen Research and Care
United States - MD - Bethesda
Hosted By: National Cancer Institute
(NCI-US) and National Cancer Research Institute
(NCRI-UK)
Sep 02, 2008 - Sep 03, 2008
http://www.cancerinformatics.org.uk/
Genomic Perspectives to Host Pathogen Interactions
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
Sep 03, 2008 - Sep 06, 2008
http://www.cshl.edu/meetings.html
1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain
Sweden - Stockholm
Hosted By: INCF - International
Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
Sep 07, 2008 - Sep 09, 2008
http://www.neuroinformatics2008.org
German Conference on Bioinformatics
Germany - Dresden
Hosted By: Biotec, Dresden
Sep 09, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008
http://www.gcb2007.de
Genome Informatics
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
Sep 10, 2008 - Sep 14, 2008
http://www.cshl.edu/meetings.html
2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology
Belgium - Brussels
Hosted By: MLSB
Sep 13, 2008 - Sep 14, 2008
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/services/stochastic/mlsb08
WATOC 2008
Australia - NSW - Sydney
Hosted By: World Association of
Theoretical and Computational Chemists
Sep 14, 2008 - Sep 19, 2008
http://www.watoc2008.com/
X-Meeting 2008
Brazil - BA - Salvador
Hosted By: Brazilian Association for
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Sep 14, 2008 - Sep 16, 2008
http://xmeeting.cpqrr.fiocruz.br
Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine
Italy - Rome
Hosted By: The Institute of Systems
Analysis and Computer Science (IASI) , CNR,
Rome - Italy
Sep 15, 2008 - Sep 17, 2008
http://euro-cbbm.ku.edu.tr/RomeConference/homepage.htm
WABI 2008 - 8th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Germany - Karlsruhe, Germany
Hosted By: ALGO 2008
Sep 15, 2008 - Sep 19, 2008
http://algo2008.org
Structure-Based Drug Design
Hungary - Budapest
Hosted By: Informa Life Sciences
Sep 16, 2008 - Sep 17, 2008
http://www.informa-ls.com/structure
International Conference on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
India - Bangalore City
Hosted By: Century Foundation,
Bangalore, India
Sep 18, 2009 - Sep 20, 2009
http://www.cenfoundindia.org
Computational Systems Biology and Dose Response Modeling Workshop
United States - NC - Research Triangle Park
Hosted By: The Hamner Institutes for
Health Sciences
Sep 22, 2008 - Sep 26, 2008
http://www.thehamner.org/docs/CSB-DRM-08.pdf
Integrated Approaches to Brain Complexity
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
Oct 01, 2008 - Oct 04, 2008
http://www.cshl.edu/meetings.html
The 9th International Congress on Cell Biology (ICCB)
South Korea - Seoul
Hosted By: the Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology
Oct 07, 2008 - Oct 10, 2008
http://www.iccb2008.org/
Eurobio Paris 2008
France - Paris
Hosted By: Paris, France
Oct 07, 2008 - Oct 09, 2008
http://www.eurobio2008.com/

Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
Australia - Melbourne
Hosted By: Monash University
Oct 15, 2008 - Oct 17, 2008
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib08/

BIOT 2008
United States - TX - Arlington
Hosted By: University of Texas at Arlington
Oct 17, 2008 - Oct 18, 2008
http://www.biotconf.org
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Symposium (BIOT-2008)
United States - TX - Arlington
Hosted By: University of Texas at Arlington
Oct 17, 2008 - Oct 18, 2008
http://www.biotconf.org/
Protein Design and Evolution for Biocatalysis
Spain - Sant Feliu de Guixols
Hosted By: European Science Foundation (ESF)
in partnership with European
Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Oct 25, 2008 - Oct 30, 2008
http://www.esf.org/conferences/08255
Joint RECOMB Regulatory Genomics/RECOMB Systems Biolgy/DREAM3
United States - MA - Cambridge
Hosted By: The Broad Institute of
MIT and Harvard
Oct 29, 2008 - Nov 02, 2008
http://compbio.mit.edu/recombsat/
2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and BIomedicine
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: IEEE CS
Nov 07, 2008 - Nov 09, 2008
http://www.cis.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm08/about/bibm-about.asp
Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: IEEE
Nov 07, 2008 - Nov 07, 2008
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/%7Exqin/bioworkshop/2008/Bioworkshop.html
German Conference on Chemoinformatics
Germany - Goslar
Hosted By: German Chemical Society - CIC devision
Nov 09, 2008 - Nov 11, 2008
http://www.gdch.de/gcc2008
4th EMBO Conference: From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology
Germany - Heidelberg
Hosted By: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Nov 15, 2008 - Nov 18, 2008
http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/conf_82
GIW 2008 - 19th International Conference on Genome Informatics
Australia - Queensland - Gold Coast
Hosted By: Bioinformatics Australia
Dec 01, 2008 - Dec 03, 2008
http://www.mlaa.com.au/giw2008
Rat Genomics and Models
United Kingdom - Cambridge
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust/Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
Dec 03, 2008 - Dec 06, 2008
http://www.cshl.edu/meetings.html
Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis
-- CAMDA 2008

Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Boku University Vienna
Dec 04, 2008 - Dec 06, 2008
ISCB Member Discount: 10 EUR
Restrictions: Discount for student members
http://camda.bioinfo.cipf.es/
eScience 2008 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
United States - IN - Indianapolis
Hosted By: Indiana University
Dec 07, 2008 - Dec 12, 2008
http://escience2008.iu.edu/
2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: The Seventh International Conference
on Machine Learning and Applications
(ICMLA’08)
Dec 11, 2008 - Dec 13, 2008
http://bio.informatics.indiana.edu/MLBB08/
NIH Summit: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities
United States - MD - National Harbor
Hosted By: NIH
Dec 16, 2008 - Dec 18, 2008
http://www.ncmhd.hig.gov
The Seventh Asia Pacific BioinformaticsConference
China - Beijing
Jan 13, 2009 - Jan 16, 2009
http://apbc2009.org/
International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
Portugal - Porto
Hosted By: BIOSTEC 2009
Jan 14, 2009 - Jan 17, 2009
http:// www.biostec.org/
Bioinformatics Track @ ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC) 2009

United States - Hawaii - Honolulu
Hosted By: ACM SIGAPP
Mar 08, 2009 - Mar 12, 2009
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~bioin/