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Volume 16, Issue 1
A Letter to ISCB
Members & Colleagues


Officer and Student
Council Elections --
The Choice is Yours


New Face at ISCB

Travel Fellowship
Campaign


Fostering Relationships and Increasing Global Awareness

ISCB's Junior PI Initiative

Student Council
Symposium Highlights


Bioinformatics &
Nucleic Acids Research


PLOS Computational
Biology
Overview


Senior Scientist Award: David Eisenberg

Meet the 2013 Class
of  Fellows

Overton Prize:
Goncalo Abecasis


Latest News from ISCB on the Society Pages

FASEB Activities

Bioinformatics Update


Career Corner

Announcing GLBIO 2014

Mark Your Calendar for ISMB 2014

FASEB Comments on the NIH Data Initiative

News from ISCB
Student Council


Upcoming Conferences & Events

ISCB Conferences
 
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

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ISCB CONFERENCES
ISCB-ASIA/TBC
October 2 - 4, 2013
JW Marriott Hotel, Seoul, Korea
www.iscb.org/iscb-asia2013
Translational Bioinformatics Conference (TBC) will aim to highlight the multi-disciplinary nature research field and provide an opportunity to bring together and exchange ideas between translational bioinformatics researchers. TBC puts its initial emphasis on promoting translational bioinformatics research activities initiated in Asia-Pacific region

RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenge
November 8 - 12, 2013
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
www.iscb.org/recomb-regsysgen2013
The conference will present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. It will feature keynote presentations, oral presentations, and poster presentations.

ROCKY 2013
December 12 - 14, 2013
Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado
www.iscb.org/rocky2013
11th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference offers an opportunity to focus on regional development in the computational biosciences. Representing a broad spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and medical libraries from around the world, the meeting is a chance to get to know your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find synergies that can drive our field forward.

CSHALS 2014
February 26 - 28 2014
Boston, MA
www.iscb.org//cshals2014
CSHALS is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs. With an expanded scope that includes the emerging field of data science, CSHALS is the place to be in 2014!

GLBIO 2014
May 16 - 18, 2014
Cincinnati, OH
www.iscb.org/glbio2014/
Hosted by: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
The 4th GLBIO provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods. An important goal for the conference is to foster long term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology.

ISCB-Latin America
October 2014
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The conference will feature an exceptional slate of keynote speakers and provide a forum for the dissemination of the latest developments in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics research conducted around the world and regionally.
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ISCB AFFILIATED CONFERENCES
INCoB2013 - 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics
September 20 - 22, 2013
Jiangsu, Taicang, China
Hosted by: Taicang Center for Translational
Bioinformatics (TCTB), Center for Systems
Biology (CSB), Soochow University, Asia-
Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet)
ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent
http://ictbi.imed-cn.org/incob2013/

IEEE BioVis 2013
October 13 - 14, 2013
Atlanta, GA, United States
Hosted by: Vis 2013
http://biovis.net

NETTAB 2013 on Semantic, Social, and Mobile Applications for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Laboratories
October 16 - 18, 2013
Lido of Venice, Italy
Hosted by: Next Generation Bioinformatics
(NGB)
ISCB Member Discount: 30 EUR
www.nettab.org/2013/

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2013
November 3 - 7, 2013
Recife, PE, Brazil
Hosted by: Federal University of Pernambuco,
Brazil
ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent
http://bsb2013.cin.ufpe.br/

Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe
December 4-6, 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
www.ClinicalGenomicsInformatics.com

4th Annual PhD Symposium in Computational Biology & Innovation
December 5 - 6, 2013
Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by: University College Dublin
ISCB Member Discount: 15 percent
http://bioinfo-casl.ucd.ie/phdsymposium/

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2014
January 3 - 7, 2014
Kohala Coast, HI, United States
Hosted by: Pacific Symposium on
Biocomputing
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
http://psb.stanford.edu/

OTHER CONFERENCES & EVENTS OF INTEREST

Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB�13)
July 25 - 28, 2013
Moscow, Russia
Hosted by: Lomonosov Moscow
State University
http://mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2013/index.html

1st International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech
Processing, SLSP 2013
July 29 - 31, 2013
Tarragona, Spain
Hosted by: Research Group on
Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
from Rovira i Virgili University,
http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2013/

Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage
August 6 - 10, 2013
Madison, WI, United States
Hosted by: University of Wisconsin
www.union.wisc.edu/phages/

Protein Interactions and Networks
August 8 - 16, 2013
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hosted by: Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
www.wellcome.ac.uk/hinxton

12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
August 11, 2013
Chicago, IL, United States
Hosted by: 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining
http://home.biokdd.org/biokdd13/

Undergraduate Research Program: Capstone Conference
August 12 - 16, 2013
Columbus, OH, United States
Hosted by: Mathematical Biosciences Institute
www.mbi.osu.edu/eduprograms/upcapstone2013.html

MAGE: Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution
August 23 - 26, 2013
Bromont, QC, Canada
Hosted by: University of Montreal,University of Ottawa, IBM Research, Fields Institute, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~lafonman/MAGE2013/

13th annual Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2013)
September 2 - 4, 2013
Sophia Antipolis, France
Hosted by: INRIA and Campus SophiaTech
http://algo2013.inria.fr/wabi.shtml

Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology (PBC 2013)
September 8 - 11, 2013
Warsaw, Poland
Hosted by: International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
http://pbc.ppam.pl/

Theoretical Approaches to BioInformation Systems - TABIS 2013
September 17 - 22, 2013
Belgrade, Serbia
Hosted by: Institute of Physics - Belgrade
www.tabis2013.ipb.ac.rs

Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics in Modern Medicine
September 19 - 20, 2013
Belfast, NI, United Kingdom
Hosted by: Queen�s University Belfast
www.bio-complexity.com/QUB13/QB_ConfIndex.html

2013 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM-BCB)
September 22 - 25, 2013
Washington, DC, United States
Hosted by: ACM Sigbioinfo
www.cse.buffalo.edu/ACM-BCB2013

Mayo Clinic Individualizing Medicine Conference
September 30 - October 02, 2013
Rochester, MN, United States
Hosted by: Dr. Richard Weinshilboum
http://individualizingmedicineconference.mayo.edu/

EMBO | EMBL Symposium: Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life
October 3 - 6, 2013
Heidelberg, Germany
Hosted by: EMBO - EMBL
www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2013/EES13-03/index.html

IEEE BioVis 2013
October 13 - 14, 2013
Atlanta, GA, United States
Hosted by: Vis 2013
http://biovis.net

RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics
October 17 - 19, 2013
Lyon, France
Hosted by: Universit� Claude-Bernard
Lyon, France
http://rcg2013.sciencesconf.org

NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Analyzing Animal Vocal Communication Sequences
October 21 - 23, 2013
Knoxville, TN, United States
Hosted by: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_vocal

Proteomics Bioinformatics
November 11 - 15, 2013
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hosted by: Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses
www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/Workshops/WTX054153.htm

AAAI Fall Symposium in Discovery Informatics
November 15 - 17, 2013
Arlington, VA, United States
Hosted by: AAAI
www.discoveryinformaticsinitiative.org/dis2013

ICDM-2013 Workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare
December 8, 2013
Dallas, TX, United States
Hosted by: Xiao-Li Li, See-Kiong Ng,
Jason T.L. Wang
www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM2013/BioDM.html

24th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW2013)
December 16 - 18, 2013
Singapore
Hosted by: National University of Singapore
www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~giw2013/

Cancer Panomics: Computational Methods and Infrastructure for Integrative Analysis of Cancer High-throughput "Omics" Data
January 3 - 7, 2014
Big Island, HI, United States
Hosted by: A session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-cp.html

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