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Volume 8, Issue 1
President’s
Column
2005 Membership Registration
Don’t Delay!
ISMB 2005
Bound To Be the Best Yet
SIG Meetings
Kick-Off ISMB 2005
ISCB Thanks Sun
for Continued Support
KEY DATES
RECOMB, ISMB, ECCB
Calling All Leaders!
PLoS Computational Biology
Exciting Open Access Journal
Student Council
Announcements & Updates
Travel Fellowships Offered
Deadlines Approaching Fast
Public Affairs
Immigration Workshop
April 16, 2005 in San Diego
RECOMB 2005 Highlights
ECCB 2005
SCCB Computational Biology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
News from the Field
Events & Opportunities
ACCESS
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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International Society for Computational Biology.
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Research in Computational Molecular Biology, is preparing to roll
out the red carpet for its ninth year in a row of delivering a well
organized conference at the intersection of computer science and
biology. The RECOMB series focuses on theoretical advances in computational
biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine.
The origins of the conference came from the mathematical and computational
side of the field, and there remains to be a certain focus on computational
advances. However, the effective use of computational techniques
to biological innovation is also an important aspect of the conference.
The 2005 conference will be held on the campus of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and over 700 attendees are expected to participate.
ISCB is pleased to once again sponsor travel fellowship
funds to enable a select number of student and post doc members
to attend RECOMB this year. The travel fellowship application deadline
is March 15 and members wanting to be considered for ISCB funding
must apply through the application form at http://www.iscb.org/travel_fellowship_form.php.
Applying directly through the RECOMB site is also recommended as
travel fellowship resources are very limited, although not all applicants
are guarantee funding and no applicant will be funded by both organizations.
For the first time ever, ISCB is also sponsoring the Treasure Hunt
Ice-Breaker which is an Orienteering Event similar to the one that
has become so popular as an icebreaker at the annual ISMB conference
series. You and your orienteering team will have one hour to find
control locations marked on a map of the MIT campus. For the nerdly
amongst you, this is the NP-complete Prize Collecting Traveling
Salesman problem, which has a respectable and fascinating literature,
and may have applications in bioinformatics. For more information
on the sport of orienteering visit the International Orienteering
Federation at www.orienteering.org.
The meeting features eight impressive keynote speakers and 39 selected
papers to be presented from the 217 submissions received. Poster
submission deadlines have just recently closed so the final number
of posters is not yet known, but if 2004 is any indication there
should be over 300 highly interesting posters demonstrating the
enormous scope of research work in this field.
See the related Key Dates article in this
newsletter for important upcoming dates to watch for, and visit
http://www.broad.mit.edu/recomb2005/index.html
for full conference information, including online registration.
Early registration closes April 4, 2005, and pre-registration closes
May 1st. So, sign up now to make plans to join 700 of your colleagues
at of the premier international computational biology conferences
around.
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