ISCB Affiliated Conferences Announcements & Updates

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

ISCB members are not lacking in opportunities to further their knowledge and refine their skills through meetings. In addition to official ISCB conferences, many others related to the many specialized topics of our field abound, and it may be hard to know which could provide the best return on your investment. Each of the following ISCB affiliated conferences were reviewed by ISCB's conferences committee to ensure a quality plan by reputable organizers. We encourage your attendance at any that may be of interest. Each offers unique learning opportunities for you and your colleagues to further advance the understanding of our science and the communities we serve. ISCB members are offered a special discounts just for being a member.

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2012, Aug 15-17, Campo Grande, Brazil

Organized by the comp bio special interest group of the Brazilian Computer Society
http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br
Short Paper submission deadline: June 25^th

RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Bioinformatics Education and on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology,
Aug 26 (BE) and Aug 27-29 (AB), 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia

http://bioinf.spbau.ru/be2012 and http://bioinf.spbau.ru/ab2012
Early registration and visa voucher deadline: July 2^nd

ECCB'12 (European Conf on Comp Bio), Sep 9-12, Basel, Switzerland

Hosted by the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and in conjunction with the SIB annual meeting
http://www.eccb12.org/home
Highlights papers submission deadline: July 1^st
Early registration deadline: August 1^st

InCoB 2012 (Int'l Conf on Comp Bio), Oct 3-5, Bangkok, Thailand

Hosted by the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network
http://incob2012.org
APBioNet travel grant application deadline: April 1^st
Early bird registration deadline: August 31^st

Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo - Oct 9-11, Vienna, Austria

Hosted by Cambridge Healthtech Institute
www.bio-itworldexpoeurope.com
Early registration deadline: July 20^th
Poster submission deadline: September 7^th

BioVis: 2nd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization -
October 14-15, Seattle, United States

www.biovis.net
Contest entry submission due: July 27^th
Poster submission deadline: July 11th (extended from June 27th)

RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges
- November, 12-16, San Francisco, United States

Conf on Reg and Sys Genomics: http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu
Proceedings papers submission deadline: August 1^st
Oral presentation and Poster submission deadline: September 14^th
DREAM Challenges: www.the-dream-project.org

PhD Symposium in Computational Biology & Innovation - December, Ireland

http://bioinfo-casl.ucd.ie/phdsymposium
Abstract deadline: September 28^th

PSB 2013 - January 3-7, Big Island of Hawaii, United States

http://psb.stanford.edu
Paper submission deadline: July 31^th
Travel award application opens August 1^st with deadline of October 8^th
Poster abstract submission open August 1^st with deadline of November 28^th

RECOMB 2013 - April 7-10, Beijing, China

http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/recomb2013
Call for papers opens September 3^rd with deadline of October 7^th
Poster abstract submission open August 1^st with deadline of November 28^th