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Volume 15, Issue 1

A Letter to ISCB
Members & Colleagues

 
Officer and Student Council Elections

Spotlight on ECCB12
 
Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2012
 
Student Council
Symposium Highlights


Overton Prize:
Ziv Bar-Joseph

 
2012 ISCB Sr.
Scientist Award:
Gunnar von Heijne


Announcing
ISMB/ECCB 2013 Berlin


News From ISCB Student Council

FASEB Updates

Introducing
Stacy Slagor

 
PLoS Computational
Biology
Overview

A Report of the Curriculum Task Force

Bioinformatics Journal Update

NIGMS Celebrates
50 Years


ISCB Continues to Advocate for Open Access

GLBIO 2012 Highlights

Call for Proposals to
Organize ISCB-Asia 2013


ISCB Community
Conferences and
x-Meetings

 
Upcoming Conferences & Events

ISCB Conferences

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

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ISCB CO-SPONSORED & AFFILIATED EVENTS
2012 Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2012)
Brazil - MS - Campo Grande
Hosted By: Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
Aug 15, 2012 - Aug 17, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 14%
http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br/
RECOMB-BE: Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics Education
Russia - St. Petersburg
Hosted By: Algorithmic Biology Lab at St. Petersburg Academic University
Aug 26, 2012 - Aug 26, 2012
http://bioinf.spbau.ru/be2012
RECOMB-AB: Satellite Conference on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology
Russia - St. Petersburg
Hosted By: Algorithmic Biology Lab at St. Petersburg Academic University
Aug 27, 2012 - Aug 29, 2012
http://bioinf.spbau.ru/ab2012/
ECCB12 – 11th European Conference on Computational Biology
Switzerland - Basel
Hosted By: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & Biozentrum University
of Basel
Sep 09, 2012 - Sep 12, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 100 EUR
http://eccb12.org
InCoB2012: 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics
Thailand - Bangkok
Hosted By: National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network
Oct 03, 2012 - Oct 05, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
http://incob2012.org/
Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Oct 09, 2012 - Oct 11, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 10%
www.bio-itworldexpoeurope.com
BioVis 2012: 2nd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
United States - WA - Seattle
Hosted By: IEEE Visweek
Oct 14, 2012 - Oct 15, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 20%
Restrictions: Discount varies by reg type
www.biovis.net
3rd Annual PhD Symposium in Computational Biology & Innovation
Ireland - Dublin
Hosted By: University College Dublin
Dec 05, 2012 - Dec 07, 2012
ISCB Member Discount: 10%
www.ucd.ie/phdsymposium/
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2013
United States - HI - Kohala Coast
Hosted By: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)
Jan 03, 2013 - Jan 07, 2013
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
http://psb.stanford.edu/
RECOMB 2013: 17th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
China - Beijing
Hosted By: Tsinghua University
Apr 07, 2013 - Apr 10, 2013
ISCB Member Discount: 10% or greater
http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/recomb2013

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OTHER CONFERENCES & EVENTS OF INTEREST
Resources for Computational Drug Discovery
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Joint EMBL-EBI/Wellcome Trust Course
Jul 02, 2012 - Jul 06, 2012
http://registration.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/display_info.asp?id=288
Pharmacogenomics
Italy - Sicily - Lipari Island
Hosted By: Lipari School on BioInformatics and Computational Biology
Jul 07, 2012 - Jul 14, 2012
http://lipari.cs.unict.it/LipariSchool/Bio/
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Dengue Fever Dynamics and Control
United States - TN - Knoxville
Hosted By: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Jul 23, 2012 - Jul 24, 2012
www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_dengue
Society of Mathematical Biology 2012 Annual Meeting & Conference
United States - TN - Knoxville
Hosted By: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jul 25, 2012 - Jul 28, 2012
http://nimbios.org/SMB2012/
Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2012)
United States - IL - Chicago
Hosted By: Galaxy Project
Jul 25, 2012 - Jul 27, 2012
http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012

Protist 2012
Norway - Oslo - Oslo
Hosted By: ISEP and ISOP
Jul 29, 2012 - Aug 03, 2012
www.protist2012.com

Joint CC3D/SBW User Training Workshop in Multiscale, MultiCell Tissue Modeling
United States - NC - Durham
Hosted By: The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
Jul 30, 2012 - Aug 03, 2012
www.compucell3d.org
The 26th Annual Symposium of The Protein Society
United States - CA - San Diego
Hosted By: The Protein Society
Aug 05, 2012 - Aug 08, 2012
www.proteinsociety.org/symposium
BIOKDD 2012 : The 11th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
China - Beijing
Hosted By: The 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Aug 12, 2012 - Aug 12, 2012
http://bio.informatics.iupui.edu/biokdd12/
Protein Interactions and Networks
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
Aug 19, 2012 - Aug 25, 2012
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/index.htm
SSMBio 2012: International Summer School in Methods in Bioinformatics
Spain - Tarragona
Hosted By: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics from Rovira i Virgili University
Aug 27, 2012 - Aug 31, 2012
http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssmbio2012
TACC 2012: Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry
Italy - Pavia
Hosted By: University of Pavia, Italy
Sep 02, 2012 - Sep 07, 2012
www.tacc2012.org
First International Workshop on Hybrid Systems and Biology
United Kingdom - Newcastle upon Tyne
Hosted By: Co-located with CONCUR 2012
Sep 03, 2012 - Sep 03, 2012
http://hsb2012.units.it/
6th Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology
Switzerland - Basel
Hosted By: Workshop at ECCB2012
Sep 08, 2012 - Sep 09, 2012
http://mlsb.cc
AIMM2012 - Annotation, Interpretation and Management of Mutations
Switzerland - Basel
Hosted By: European Conference on Computational Biology
Sep 09, 2012 - Sep 09, 2012
www.unbsj.ca/sase/csas/data/aimm2012/index.html
Joint Conference of the South African Bioinformatics and Genetics Societies
South Africa - Western Cape - Stellenbosch
Hosted By: University of Stellenbosch
Sep 10, 2012 - Sep 12, 2012
http://genetics.cmc-uct.co.za/
WABI 2012: Workshop on Algorithms for Bioinformatics
Slovenia - Lubljana
Hosted By: University of Lubljana, Slovenia
Sep 10, 2012 - Sep 12, 2012
http://algo12.fri.uni-lj.si/?file=wabi
3nd International Conference on Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine
United Kingdom - UK - Belfast
Hosted By: Queen’s University Belfast
Sep 20, 2012 - Sep 21, 2012
www.bio-complexity.com/QUB12/QB_ConfIndex.html
BIOCOMP BG 2012: International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Bulgaria - Varna
Hosted By: University of Plovdiv and GRC
Sep 20, 2012 - Sep 21, 2012
http://biocomp.bio.uni-plovdiv.bg/
EG VCBM: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine
Sweden - Östergötland - Norrköping
Hosted By: Norrköping Visualization Center C
Sep 27, 2012 - Sep 28, 2012
www.vcbm.org
TPNC 2012: 1st International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
Spain - Tarragona
Hosted By: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics - GRLMC from University Rovira i Virgili
Oct 01, 2012 - Oct 05, 2012
http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/
BIBM12: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: Drexel University
Oct 04, 2012 - Oct 07, 2012
www.ischool.drexel.edu/ieeebibm/bibm12/
CSBW: The 2012 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop
United States - PA - Philadelphia
Hosted By: BIBM 2012
Oct 04, 2012 - Oct 04, 2012
www.cs.odu.edu/~lchen/CSBW.htm
ACM BDB 2012: International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedicine
United States - FL - Orlando
Hosted By: University of Florida
Oct 07, 2012 - Oct 10, 2012
www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2012/
UC Berkeley BioExec Institute - Creating Value
United States - CA - Berkeley
Hosted By: UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education
Oct 09, 2012 - Oct 10, 2012
http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/bioexec-institute
TBC 2012: Translational Bioinformatics Conference
Korea, Rep - Jeju island
Hosted By: Translational Bioinformatics Conference
Oct 14, 2012 - Oct 17, 2012
www.snubi.org/TBC2012/
Systems Biology Europe
Spain - Madrid
Hosted By: Select Biosciences
Oct 16, 2012 - Oct 17, 2012
http://selectbiosciences.com/conferences/index.aspx?conf=SBE2012
RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - Nietrói
Hosted By: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
Oct 17, 2012 - Oct 19, 2012
www.uff.br/recombcg
Indian Lab Automation
India - Mumbai
Hosted By: Select Biosciences
Oct 30, 2012 - Oct 31, 2012
http://selectbiosciences.com/conferences/index.aspx?conf=ILA2012
Proteomics Bioinformatics
United Kingdom - Cambridge - Hinxton
Hosted By: Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
Nov 05, 2012 - Nov 09, 2012
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/Workshops/WTX054153.htm
UC Berkeley BioExec Institute - Managing Value
United States - CA - Berkeley
Hosted By: UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education
Nov 07, 2012 - Nov 08, 2012
http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/bioexec-institute
PRIB 2012
Japan - Tokyo
Hosted By: IAPR
Nov 08, 2012 - Nov 10, 2012
http://prib2012.org/
NETTAB 2012 on "Integrated Bio-Search"
Italy - Como
Hosted By: Polytechnic of Milan
Nov 14, 2012 - Nov 16, 2012
www.nettab.org/2012/
UC Berkeley BioExec Institute - Growing Value
United States - CA - Berkeley
Hosted By: UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education
Dec 06, 2012 - Dec 07, 2012
http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/bioexec-institute
13th Research Centers in Minority Institutions International Symposium on Health Disparities
Puerto Rico - San Juan
Hosted By: University of Puerto Rico, Universidad Central del Caribe, and Ponce School of Medicine
Dec 10, 2012 - Dec 13, 2012
www.rcmibiennial.org
ICDM 2012: Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare
Belgium - Brussels
Hosted By: Xiao-Li Li, See-Kiong Ng,
Jason T.L. Wang
Dec 10, 2012 - Dec 10, 2012
www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html
Epigenomics Session at PSB 2013
United States - Hawaii - The Big Island
Hosted By: PSB
Jan 03, 2013 - Jan 07, 2013
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/epigenomics2013

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