ISCB Newsletter 8-3

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Volume 8, Issue 3

President's Letter

Rost To Become
Next ISCB President

Rocky'05 Bioinformatics
Conference Colorado
in December

Update on
PLoS Computational Biology

Putting Students
in the Spotlight

Call for 2006
Awards Nominations

ISMB 2006 in Brazil

New ISCB Membership Site
Now Open

ISMB 2006
Call for Tutorials

RECOMB 2006 Registration Opening This Week

ISMB 2005 SIGs Recap

Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 2005
A Prelude to ECCB’06

Advertising & Corporate Membership Opportunities

Post Your News, Events
and Degree Programs
on ISCB Website

Upcoming Events
& Conferences

News from the Field

Acknowledgements and Contributors

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Upcoming Conferences & Events

ISCB Annual Conferences

Rocky ’05 - Rocky Mountain Regional Bioinformatics Conference
United States - CO - Aspen/Snowmass
Dates: Dec 09, 2005 through Dec 11, 2005

ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD
Event URL: http://www.iscb.org/rocky05

ISMB 2006 – Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Call for Tutorials open now through Jan 9, 2006
Call for Papers and Posters will open Jan 13, 2006
Conference Registration will open March 15, 1006
Brazil - Ceara - Fortaleza
Dates: Aug 06, 2006 through Aug 10, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: http://www.iscb.org/ismb2006

ISCB Co-Sponsored Conferences & Affiliated Conferences

Joint RECOMB Satellite Workshops on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics
United States - CA - La Jolla
Hosted By: University of California, San Diego and Calit2
Dates: Dec 02, 2005 through Dec 04, 2005

Event URL: http://research.calit2.net/recomb-workshop05

PSB - Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006
Registration Now Open Now
United States - HI - Wailea, Maui
Hosted By: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Dates: Jan 03, 2006 through Jan 07, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 75 USD
Event URL: http://psb.stanford.edu/

The Fourth Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
Registration Now Open Now
Taiwan - Taipei
Hosted By: Bioinformatics Society, Taiwan
Dates: Feb 13, 2006 through Feb 16, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10% Off
Event URL: http://binfo.ym.edu.tw/apbc2006/

RECOMB 2006
Registration Now Open Now
Italy - Venice Lido
Hosted By: DEI - University of Padova
Dates: Apr 02, 2006 through Apr 05, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 40 USD
Event URL: http://recomb06.dei.unipd.it

Life Sciences Conference + Expo 2006
United States - MA - Boston
Hosted By: Bio-IT World
Dates: Apr 03, 2006 through Apr 05, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 25% Off (members must enter discount code BTR234)
Event URL: http://www.lifesciencesexpo.com

World Pharmaceutical Congress 2006
Registration Now Open Now
United States – PA – Philadelphia
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Dates: May 22, 2006 through May 25, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10% Off
Event URL: http://commerce22.datapipe.com/chidb/2006/wpc/reg.asp

Structure Based Drug Design
United States – MA – Boston
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Dates: Jun 15, 2006 through Jun 16, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10% Off
Event URL: http://www.healthtech.com/2006/sbd/index.asp

Beyond Genome 2006
Registration Now Open Now
United States – CA – San Francisco
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Dates: Jun 19, 2006 through Jun 21, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10% Off
Event URL: http://www.beyondgenome.com/

Profiling PCR and Beyond
United States – VA – Arlington
Hosted By: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Dates: Jun 26, 2006 through Jun 28, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: 10% Off
CHI URL: http://http://www.healthtech.com/

ECCB 2006 – 5th European Conference on Computational Biology and 9th meeting of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Israel - Eilat
Dates: Sep 10, 2006 through Sep 13, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: TBA
Event URL: http://www.eccb06.org/

Other Conferences & Events of Interest

The 2005 International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
China - Beijing
Hosted By: China Computer Federation
Dates: Nov 30, 2005 through Dec 03, 2005
Event URL: http://www.bioinformatics.uwaterloo.ca/~j3xu/CI6016/CI6016-BIOINFO-CFP.htm

First Argentine School of Mathematics and Biology
Argentina - La Cumbre
Hosted By: University of Córdoba
Dates: Dec 01, 2005 through Dec 10, 2005
Event URL: http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/biomat/school/

Next Generation Tools in Virtual Screening & Lead Identification
United Kingdom - London
Hosted By: Pharma IQ
Dates: Dec 05, 2005 through Dec 06, 2005
Event URL: http://www.iqpc-pharma.com/Gb-2539/ISCB

NIPS Workshop on Computational Biology and the Analysis of Heterogeneous Data
Canada - BC - Whistler
Hosted By: NIPS
Dates: Dec 09, 2005 through Dec 10, 2005
Event URL: http://www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/nipscompbio

Workshop on Learning from Heterogeneous Data
Canada - BC - Whistler
Hosted By: Neural Information Processing Systems Conference
Dates: Dec 10, 2005 through Dec 10, 2005
Event URL: noble.gs.washington.edu/hdata

“Applications of Machine Learning in Medicine and Biology” at ICMLA’05
United States - CA - Los Angeles
Hosted By: IEEE
Dates: Dec 17, 2005 through Dec 19, 2005
Event URL: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~lkurgan/MLMB.htm

5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields
United States - Hawaii - Honolulu
Hosted By: Hawaii International Conferences
Dates: Jan 16, 2006 through Jan 18, 2007
Event URL: http://www.hicstatistics.org

BIFI-2006
Spain - Zaragoza
Hosted By: Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of ComplexSystems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
Dates: Feb 08, 2006 through Feb 11, 2006
Event URL: bifi.unizar.es/events/bifi2006/index.html

First Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing
Canada - ON - Kingston
Hosted By: Queen’s University School of Computing
Dates: Mar 17, 2006 through Mar 19, 2006
Event URL: cscbc2006.cs.queensu.ca

Genomes to Systems Conference, 2006
United Kingdom - Manchester
Hosted By: The Consortium for Post-Genome Science
Dates: Mar 22, 2006 through Mar 24, 2006
Event URL: http://www.genomestosystems.org/

International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature 2006 (KDLL 2006)
Singapore
Hosted By: The 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
Dates: Apr 09, 2006 through Apr 09, 2006
Event URL: bioinformatics.ulster.ac.uk/kdll2006/

EvoBIO 2006
Hungary - Budapest
Hosted By: Budapest
Dates: Apr 10, 2006 through Apr 02, 2006
Event URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio06.html

Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Hungary - Budapest
Hosted By: EvoBIO2006
Dates: Apr 10, 2006 through Apr 12, 2006
Event URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio06.html

Training Course in Biomedical Ontology
Germany - Saarland
Hosted By: National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Dates: May 21, 2006 through May 24, 2006
Event URL: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/06/os2/index.html

Evolution of Biomolecular Structure, Vienna
Austria - Vienna
Hosted By: Theoretical Chemistry, Univ Vienna
Dates: May 25, 2006 through May 27, 2006
Event URL: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/EBSV06/

Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications (Part of ICCS 2006)
United Kingdom - Reading
Hosted By: Dr P. Ramasami
Dates: May 28, 2006 through May 31, 2006
Event URL: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006/

2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA 2006)
United Kingdom - Reading
Hosted By: University of Reading, UK
Dates: May 28, 2006 through May 31, 2006
Event URL: http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/IWBRA/

INFORMS International Meeting - Bioinformatics Cluster
Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Hosted By: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dates: Jun 25, 2006 through Jun 28, 2006
Event URL: http://www.informs.org/Conf/Hongkong06/

EURO XXI 2006, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Stream
Iceland - Reykjavik
Hosted By: EURO, The Association of European OR Societies
Dates: Jul 02, 2006 through Jul 06, 2006
Event URL: http://www.euro2006.org/

3rd International Conference “Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Nanotechnology for Medicine”
Russia - Nov. - Novosibirsk
Hosted By: International Tomographic Center, SB RAS
Dates: Jul 12, 2006 through Jul 16, 2006
Event URL: ibmc.msk.ru/gpbm2006/

The DIMACS Bio-Math Connect Institute 2006
United States - CO - Broomfield
Hosted By: DIMACS / Rutgers University
Dates: Jul 16, 2006 through Jul 28, 2006
Event URL: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/dci/2006/

4th International Workshop on Biological Data Management
Poland - Poland - Krakau
Dates: Sep 04, 2006 through Sep 08, 2006
Event URL: http://www.dexa.org