ISCB Announces Results of the
2019 Office Leadership Elections

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the results of the recent elections. Members of the society elected the following as Officers beginning January 2020:

Officers
Christine Orengo, President-Elect
Yana Bromberg, Vice President

For additional information on ISCB's annual nominations and elections procedures please see http://iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors/nomination-election-procedures.

The next call for nominations of directors, officers and student council leaders will open February 2020, for terms beginning in January 2021.

ISCB-AFRICA ASBCB 2019
Call for Abstracts for Oral & Poster Presentation!

	September
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Don't Delay -  Submit your research today!

Deadline to submit for oral presentation - September 13, 2019.

ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference welcomes original research and previously published research submissions for oral presentation consideration. Abstracts may cover any area of computational biology, but preferably within one of the topic areas listed below:

• Agricultural Bioinformatics
• AI in genomics and precision medicine
• Bioinformatics Education
• Biomedical Ethics
• Challenging traditional research ecosystems in Africa
• Data governance
• Data for OneHealth
• Drug design and discovery
• Informatics for Biobanks
• Metagenomics
• Open Science and Open Data
• Pathogens genomics
• Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
• General Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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Not ready to present a talk? ISCB-Africa ASBCB 2019 also welcomes poster abstract submissions to be presented at the conference in our poster sessions. More information here!

Deadline to submit for poster only consideration is September 30, 2019.

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ROCKY 2019
Call for Submissions

Submit your research  - Be a part of the premier conference of the Rockies!


The Rocky 2019 Conference will provide opportunities for short "flash" presentations (10 minute talks) and poster presentations on current projects from as many attendees as possible. Original presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.

Please note: All presenters must register as a conference attendee by November 18, 2019 in order to give a presentation at Rocky 2019!

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RSG with DREAM 2019
There's still time! Submit your research!

	SEPTEMBER
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Foster Discussions & Establish Collaborations - Submit your cutting-edge research!

Abstract submission deadline: September 9!

The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics invites abstracts for consideration for oral presentations or participation in a poster session.

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Call for Papers for DREAM Challenge Sessions!



Malaria DREAM Challenge: An open innovation framework for discovery of anti-malarial drug combinations



DREAM Preterm Birth Prediction Challenge: Transcriptomic



Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Drug-Kinase Binding Prediction DREAM Challenge: Catalyzing compound-target interaction mapping
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Special Session on Cancer Systems Biology Submissions!

Regulatory and Systems Genomics 2019 will include an abstract submissions track for a Special Session of Cancer Systems Topics include but are not limited to: regulatory programs and signaling pathways in cancer cells, tumor-immune interactions and the tumor microenvironment, developmental plasticity in tumors and epigenetic analyses, tumor metabolism, genetic and non-genetic sources of heterogeneity, drug response and precision oncology.

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ISCB-AFRICA ASBCB 2019
Call for Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentation!

	Submission Deadlines
	Sept. 13 - Oral Sept. 30 - Poster
	ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
	POSTER ONLY SUBMISSIONS
	KEY DATES
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	CONFERENCE VENUE
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Submit "hot" topics for Special Sessions - Be a part of this dynamic conference.

ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference welcomes original research and previously published research submissions for oral presentation consideration.

Abstract submissions are intended to convey a scientific result that is original work/previously published work, and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. Abstracts may cover any area of computational biology, but preferably within one of the topic areas listed below:

• Agricultural Bioinformatics
• AI in genomics and precision medicine
• Bioinformatics Education
• Biomedical Ethics
• Challenging traditional research ecosystems in Africa
• Data governance
• Data for OneHealth
• Drug design and discovery
• Informatics for Biobanks
• Metagenomics
• Open Science and Open Data
• Pathogens genomics
• Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
• General Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Deadline to submit for oral presentation consideration is September 13, 2019.
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Not ready to present a talk? ISCB-Africa ASBCB 2019 also welcomes poster abstract submissions to be presented at the conference in our poster sessions. More information here!

Deadline to submit for poster only consideration is September 30, 2019.

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RSG with DREAM 2019
Submit your research!

Submit your research to be a part of this premier conference!

Abstract submission deadline: September 9!

The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics invites abstracts for consideration for oral presentations or participation in a poster session. Abstracts may be either original unpublished work or original work that was published or accepted for publication at a high-impact journal between January 1, 2019 and November 1, 2019.

Submit your work and register to attend this engaging conference!

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AFRICA 2019
Call for Special Sessions!

	JULY 2019
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Submit "hot" topics for Special Sessions - Be a part of this dynamic conference.

Special Session Deadline:
TODAY, July 31!

ISCB-Africa ASBCB Conference features a Special Sessions track for emerging research areas. Sessions can be considered as mini-symposia on timely topics, or new emerging area presented by top experts. The proposed topics for Special Session might, for example, cover emerging themes the conference is not currently approaching with the desired proficiency. Some attractive topics include:

• Plant Biology
• Biomedical Data
• Agricultural bioinformatics
• Biomedical Ethics
• Drug design and discovery
• Text Mining
  
  
  

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Dear ISCB Member,

The Polls are open - vote today for President-elect (one-year term followed by three-year term starting in January 2020) and Vice President (three-year term starting in January 2020)!
 


Christine Orengo, PhD Candidate for President-elect	Alex Bateman, PhD Candidate for V.President	Yana Bromberg, PhD Candidate for V.President

Read through the candidate statements at www.iscb.org/cms_addon/nominate/election/iscb_election/elect.php and cast your ballot today!

Logging on to your membership account is required to verify your membership status but your ballot is 100% anonymous.  If you are not a member and want to help shape the future of the society sign up to be a member today!

 

Voting will close on July 25!  
 
Help shape the future of ISCB – Vote today!