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Day 2, July 14, 2020 Highlights & Recap
ISMB 2020 - July 13 - 16, 2020
Day 2: Highlights & Recap
 
What a day! Thomas Lengauer kicked off the day after the morning welcome with the presentation of the ISCB Outstanding Contributions Award to Judith Blake, PhD, Professor, The Jackson Laboratory. Congratulations!


Highlights

The conference continued right into the science with the awarding of the ISCB innovator Award to the second keynote of the conference's Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her dynamic presentation focused on Computational modeling of tumor immunity.
Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The day then dove right back into the many sessions, tracks and channel options.


NIH/ODSS Special Track
The NIH/OD Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) held a full day of cutting edge research presentations and plenty of intense and interactive discussions.

Lunch & Learn
F1000Research held the first Lunch and Learn of the conference focusing on Innovative Open Access publishing for software tools and beyond. The talk give an introduction to the F1000Research publishing platform, how the open publishing model works and how we’ve collaborated with various Bioinformatics communities to ensure the platform is somewhere easy and effective to publish articles on software.

Virtual Poster Hall
Be sure to peruse the Virtual Poster Hall. All posters were pre-recorded along with a PDF of the poster to view. If you have questions about specific posters, review the schedule for when presenters will be available for live Q&A here.

Bioinformatics Bazaar
Don't forget to visit the Bioinformatics Bazaar, the conference attendee grab bag of crowd-sourced products, services, and tools.

Jobs Board
Looking for that perfect candidate? Looking for a job? Look no further than the ISMB 2020 Jobs Board.
 
OnDemand Talks - How to access
Below is a quick how to video to help you access all the on-demand content.
 

ISMB2020 - On Demand Content Tutorial
How to access OnDemand content

 
 
Cheat-Sheet Section

To access any session of your choice, please go to "Watch Now" and select the Channel for that specific Track. When in doubt, always refresh (F5)!
 
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See you all tomorrow for another exciting and engaging day!