ASOCIACIÓN ARGENTINA DE BIOINFORMÁTICA Y BIOLOGÍA COMPUTACIONAL
http://a2b2c.org.ar/
Contact:
Fernan Aguero, President, A2B2C
Emails:
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Tel: +54
11 4006-1500 ext 2110
Fax: +54 11 4006-1559
Address:
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas
Universidad de San Martin
25
de Mayo y Francia,
San Martin, B 1650 HMP,
Argentina
Leadership Structure:
Executive Board composed of 1) President; 2) Vicepresident; 3) Secretary; 4)Treasurer; 5) four Trustees and Auditing Commitee
- Mode of election or selection of leaders:
Candidates are proposed and voted at an Annual General Meeting. Only Active
members are allowed to cast a vote. The vote is secret.
- Frequency of election:
The Vicepresident, Secretary and Treasurer are elected every two years. The
former Vicepresident is automatically promoted to President after two years.
The
Trustees are elected every three years.
Goals and brief history:
The A2B2C was founded in 2009 to promote
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Argentina. The newly founded
association would fill a noticeable gap in the agenda of many other scientific
societies in the country. The goals of the A2B2C are to foster education and
training of students in bioinformatics, to provide venues for interaction
between its members (scientific meetings, workshops), and to work at many levels
to raise awareness of bioinformatics in the agenda of national funding agencies,
universities (grad curricula), etc.
Past and planned activities:
Annual Meeting: 2009 (University of Quilmes, Argentina), 2010
(University of Quilmes, Argentina), 2011 (Catholic University of Cordoba,
Argentina), 2012 (University of Entre Rios, Argentina), 2013 (planned:
University of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina)
Workshops:
"Protein Function: Evolutionary and Complex Networks
Approaches", May 30th --June 2nd, 2011. Dr. Anna Pachenko (NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA);
Dr. Olivier Lichtarge (Baylor College of Medicine, USA), Dr. Steve Horvath
(Department of Biostatistics, UCLA, USA) and Dr. Gary Bader (The Donelly Center,
University of Toronto, Canada).
Comparative Analysis and Classification
of Protein Structures, 16-17 Dec 2010. Dr. Manfred J. Sippl, University of
Salzburg, Austria.
Introduction to Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis,
November 16-18 2010. Dr. Olivier Poch, Universite de Strasbourg, France.
Membership:
Organization Members: 120
Members who are
ISCB Members: 12
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SOCIEDAD IBEROAMERICANA DE BIOINFORMÁTICA - IBEROAMERICAN SOCIETY
www.soibio.org/
Contact:
Dr. Javier De Las Rivas
Bioinformatics and Functional
Genomics Group
Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL)
Campus Miguel
de Unamuno s/n
E37007 - Salamanca - SPAIN
tel: 34 923 294819
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Leadership Structure:
- Executive Board (4 members: President, VicePresident, Secretary,
Treasurer)
- Delegates for each country (at present 11 members)
- Members of different Committees (See:
www.soibio.org/en/Committees):
- Admissions And Membership Committee
- Education And Training Committee
- Outreach Committee
- Scientific Colaboration Committee
- Infrastructure Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee
- Students Committee
- Mode of election or selection of leaders:
Geographical Area Included:
IberoAmerica (21 countries):
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela
Goals and Brief History:
See:
http://www.soibio.org/en/aboutSoIBio and
http://www.soibio.org/en/scope
- SoIBio (Iberoamerican Society for Bioinformatics) is an international
scientific society, founded in 2009 following the previous work and
experience of the RIB (Iberoamerican Network for Bioinformatics) which was,
from 2002 to 2008, a joint collaborative project of several research groups
from Iberoamerica working in the new field of Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology.
- SoIBio aims to promote research and development on Bioinformatics in the
large international region of Iberoamerica. As such it looks to help either
individuals or national societies or groups that want to work in this field,
both at academic and professional level. To do so, SoIBio facilitates
transnational exchange, collaboration, formation and development for issues
and topics related to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. It is also a
platform to interact and collaborate with other international societies and
networks that work in the same field: European Molecular Biology Network
(EMBnet); Asian-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet); International
Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
- SoIBio is open to all, either from the academic or the professional
world, interested in promoting research and development of Bioinformatics in
Iberoamerica. To become a member, the only requirements are the support of
one or two members of SoIBio and to fulfill the registration in this
website. A small fee is asked to academic or professional staff. The
registration as a member is free for students and postdoctoral people.
Membership:
Organization Members: 140
Members who are
ISCB Members: 25
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