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ISCB Buzz: Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations,
ISCB Member in the News, ISMB/ECCB 2015 Career Fair & More!

Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations - Board of Directors Due 16 April!
If you know of excellent candidates that meet the eligibility requirements, please be sure to submit your nomination(s).

GLBIO 2015 Program Taking Shape!
The ISCB’s Tenth Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference will be held May 18-20 at Purdue University. The event will offer outstanding keynote speakers, tutorials, workshops, oral presentations and posters.

ISMB/ECCB 2015: Call for Late Poster Submissions!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology. Deadline for Late Poster Submissions: April 16! Submit Now!

Professor Thomas Lengauer Receives Hector Science Prize
Prof. Thomas Lengauer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been awarded the Hector Science Prize. The Hector Foundation II herewith honors his achievements in the field of bioinformatics and his commitment to teaching in higher education. The prize of 150,000 euros is awarded annually to outstanding researchers at German universities.

Upcoming Key Dates for ISCB Affiliated Conferences
Don't miss your chance to network, connect and collaborate with your colleagues at these ISCB affiliated conferences! ISCB members enjoy discounts on all of our affiliated conference registration fees.

ISMB/ECCB 2015 - Career Fair!
Looking for a job? Looking for that top candidate in the field? Check out the ISMB/ECCB 2015 Job site, connecting employers with job seekers in computational biology and bioinformatics!

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Upcoming Key Dates for ISCB Affiliated Conferences

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

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RECOMB 2015
Poland - Warsaw
Apr 12 through Apr 15

RECOMB 2015 is the nineteenth in a series of well-established scientific conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in life sciences, proceeding presentations of peer-reviewed research papers in computational biology, and poster sessions on the latest research progress.
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ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2015
United States - MA - Massachuset - Boston
Apr 21 through Apr 23

Join us for the 14th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo being held April 21 - 23, 2015 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the course of three days, researchers from academia and industry will discuss themes of big data, security, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, from the research realm to the clinical arena. Building on the success and popularity of last year’s event, the 2015 Expo plans to unite 3,000+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 32+ countries.
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ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent

GIW/InCoB-Asia 2015
Japan - Tokyo
Sep 09 through Sep 11

GIW/InCoB 2015 is the first joint conference between GIW and IncoB, two prominent international bioinformatics conferences in East Asia with a combined history of 40 years.

Call for Papers & Oral Presentations Deadline: 2015-04-22
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ISCB Member Discount: 15 percent

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016
United States - HI - Kohala Coast
Jan 04 through Jan 08

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Papers and presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2016 marks the 21st anniversary of PSB. PSB 2016 will be held January 4-8, 2016 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Early Registration Deadline: 2015-10-31
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ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD

UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

	Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO 2015) Early Bird Registration Deadline 22-April-2015
	ISMB/ECCB 2015 Tech Track Submissions Close 01-May-2015

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Conference Updates, NIGMS Strategic Plan, Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations, Training at ISMB/ECCB 2015 & National Science Medal Nominations!

ISCB Mourns the Loss of Klaus Tschira, SAP Founder
With a heavy heart, ISCB says goodbye to an impactful scientist Klaus Tschira, SAP Founder. Our sympathies go out to the family during this very difficult time.

Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations!
If you know of excellent candidates that meet the eligibility requirements, please be sure to submit your nomination(s).

GLBIO 2015 Program Taking Shape!
The ISCB’s Tenth Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference will be held May 18-20 at Purdue University. The event will offer outstanding keynote speakers, tutorials, workshops, oral presentations and posters.

Registration is Now Open for ISMB/ECCB 2015!
Register Now and SAVE! ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Join us in Dublin for the World's Premier Conference on Computational Biology!

News from the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced the creation of the new Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research. A generous gift from Raymond and Beverly Sackler and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will endow the prize, to be presented annually beginning this year with an inaugural $400,000 award.

Call for Nominations!
Nominations are currently being accepted for the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The National Medals offer a unique opportunity to showcase the best and brightest minds within your organizations and the outstanding scientists and innovators you work with each and every day.

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Click HERE to download the nomination form (Word document) for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Training at ISMB/ECCB 2015!
New for 2015! The Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions provide interactive educational and knowledge exchange opportunities. These sessions will be held on Saturday July 11 and a participation fee applies.

NIGMS Strategic Plan Now Available!
The new NIGMS strategic plan is designed to serve as a framework to both codify and focus our efforts, while still allowing us the flexibility to pursue untapped opportunities in mission-relevant areas.

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UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

16 April 2015: Late Posters Submissions Closes

01 May 2015: Tech Track Talks Deadline

29 May 2015: Art & Science Submissions Closes

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ISMB/ECCB 2015 Registration Now Open!

Join us in Dublin for the World's Premier Conference on Computational Biology!

ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics.

1500+ Attendees from 50+ Countries
Over 200 Presentations
Over 600 Scientific Posters
Recruitment Opportunities

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UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

	ISMB/ECCB 2015 Highlights Submissions Close 27-February-15
	ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics Online Registration Closes 02-March-15
	Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO 2015) Oral Presentations Close 13-March-15

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ISCB Buzz: Conference Updates, The ISCB Annual Report, Precision Medicine Initiative & The FAceS Project Survey

ISCB Africa 2015 Agenda Now Available!
Join your colleagues for this 3 day conference featuring over 35 research presentations including 5 outstanding keynote speakers! Register today for non-stop networking, training & learning!

ISMB/ECCB 2015 Call for Posters!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology. Submit your poster today to become part of this dynamic conference! Poster Submission deadline is March 12!

Abstract Deadline Approaching for GLBIO 2015
GLBIO is currently soliciting abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the 10th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. This call is an invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of Bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality, original research for presentation at GLBIO 2015.

Hot off the press: The 2014 ISCB Annual Report!
Through the amazing work of volunteers, ISCB is able to continue to be the world's largest international society for computational biology, bringing its members a plethora of opportunities to network and present their science. The 2014 Annual Report highlights the accomplishments of this great organization.

The DREAM9.5 Challenges
We are pleased to announce that the DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge, the first of the DREAM9.5 Challenges is now open for participation. This Challenge focuses on predicting behavioral responses to a panel of odors, and features a first-of-its-kind dataset.

The FAceS Project Survey
As part of the FAceS project (www.faces.wi.tum.de/), the Chair for Strategy and Organization (Prof. Isabell M. Welpe) at the Technische Universität München, Germany, is currently conducting a survey about publication practices and performance measurement in science. To attain representative knowledge about publication practices and performance measurement across different countries and disciplines (e.g., biology), we are particularly interested in your assessment and specifications on this topic. Participation in this survey will take approximately 20 minutes. Participants will be offered the chance to participate in the raffle for an iPad mini. Upon request, we will be happy to send you a summary of the results of the survey.

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Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the Fellows Class of 2015. Fellow status is conferred to ISCB members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. The ISCB Fellows program began in 2009, and 43 members have been conferred with this status to date. Eight fellows have been selected for this year’s Fellows class, and they will be introduced and profiled at the 2015 ISMB/ECCB meeting in Dublin, Ireland in July.

Rolf Apweiler, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Rolf Apweiler
Joint Associate Director and Senior Scientist at European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in the United Kingdom

Cyrus Chothia, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Cyrus Chothia
Emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom

Julio Collado-Vides, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015

Julio Collado-Vides
Head of the Program of Computational Genomics at the Center for Genomics Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in México

Mark Gerstein, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Mark Gerstein
Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Computer Science at Yale University in the United States

Desmond Higgins, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Desmond Higgins
Professor of Bioinformatics at the School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin in Ireland

Thomas Lengauer , ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Thomas Lengauer
Professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany

Michael Levitt, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Michael Levitt
Professor of Computational Structural Biology, and Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, and Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science at Stanford University in the United States

Burkhard Rost, ISCB Fellows Class of 2015 Burkhard Rost
Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair, Bioinformatics and Computational Biololgy, Computer Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany

ISCB Cyrus Chothia, Curtis Huttenhower, and Larry Hunter Named 2015 ISCB Award Winners

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award, Overton Prize, and the inaugural Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award. Cyrus Chothia, Emeritus Group Leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award. This year’s Overton Prize honors Curtis Huttenhower from the Harvard School of Public Health, and Larry Hunter from the University of Colorado School of Medicine is the first recipient of Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award.

Cyrus Chothia, Emeritus Group Leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award

2015 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award: Cyrus Chothia

The ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award recognizes leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics for their significant contributions to these fields through research, education, and service.

Cyrus Chothia was selected as the 2015 recipient for his groundbreaking work using computation to understand protein structure and function and the evolution of genomes. Chothia is well known for using computation to study protein structure, and his early work showed that relatively simple principles govern the structure of proteins, regardless of the structural complexity. His research has been critical to understanding and classifying proteins based on structural folds, and he has shown that changes to a protein sequence can be accommodated by structural shifts. More recently, Chothia developed computational approaches based on his knowledge of protein structure to understand how gene duplication and recombination between particular domains drives genome evolution. Chothia’s illustrious career includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000. He has mentored numerous students and postdoctoral fellows, and many are now rising leaders in their respective fields. Chothia’s work throughout his career has been instrumental to the birth of the fields of structural bioinformatics and computational genomics.

Curtis Huttenhower, Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health, 2015 winner of the Overton Prize

2015 Overton Prize Winner:
Curtis Huttenhower

The Overton Prize recognizes early or mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics for their accomplishments in research, education, and service. The Overton Prize was instituted in 2001 to honor the untimely loss of G. Christian Overton, a leading bioinformatics researcherand founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors. Curtis Huttenhower is this year’s winner of the Overton Prize for his groundbreaking research on microbial communities, with a focus on the human microbiome.

Huttenhower is an Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has worked on developing novel computational tools to analyze the large, complex datasets associated with microbial communities and NIH Human Microbiome Project. Huttenhower’s research has provided new insights into how microbial communities impact human health and disease. His research potential has been recognized through the receipt of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and an NSF CAREER Award.

Larry Hunter, Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, is the first winner of Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award

2015 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award: Larry Hunter

2015 marks the inaugural recognition of an ISCB member with the Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award for his or her outstanding service contributions toward the betterment of ISCB through exemplary leadership, education, and service. Larry Hunter is the first winner of this award for his instrumental role in the foundation of ISCB as a scientific society.

Hunter is a Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His computational biology research interests include biomedical text mining and knowledge-based computational techniques for analysis of high-throughput data. Hunter began his career as a programmer at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), where he developed a database of researchers interested in artificial intelligence and molecular biology. He invited researchers from this database to a joint NLM-NSF meeting on artificial intelligence in molecular biology in 1992. This meeting developed into the Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology Meeting (ISMB). By 1996, ISMB had emerged as the premier meeting for computational biology research, and members of previous ISMB steering committees concluded that this unique interdisciplinary field needed its own professional society. This group of committee members created the International Society of Computational Biology and elected Larry Hunter as its first president. Hunter has gone on to serve ISCB in many other capacities and continues to be closely involved with ISCB.

ISCB will present the Senior Scientist Award, Overton Prize, and Outstanding Contributions to ISCB at the joint 23rd Annual ISMB/14th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) being held in Dublin, Ireland, July 10-14th, 2015. Chothia, Huttenhower, and Hunter will present keynote talks during ISMB/ECCB 2015.

Full bibliographical articles profiling the award recipients will be available in the ISMB/ECCB 2015 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year, as well as the ISCB Society Pages in PLOS Computational Biology and OUP Bioinformatics.

UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

Highlights Deadline
27-February-2015

Posters Deadline
12-March-2015

LBR Submissions Closes
27-March-2015

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Outstanding SIGs and Satellite Meetings to be held at ISMB/ECCB 2015!

Mark Your Calendar for the SIG & Satellite Meeting line-up at ISMB/ECCB 2015!!

ISMB/ECCB 2015 will hold a number of one and two-day specialized meetings in computational biology. These meetings consist of Special Interest Group Meetings (SIGs) and Satellite Meetings (SMs) and will be held prior to the main conference. A SIG is a one- or two- day focused workshop. It provides a broad and/or deep perspective on developments in a field of research, and is intended as a way to address a topic more extensively than can be done in the main conference.

Satellite Meetings

SIGS (Special Interest Groups)

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UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

	ISMB/ECCB 2015 Highlights Submissions Close 27-February-15
	ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics Early Registration Closes 02-February-15
	Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO 2015) Full Papers Submissions Close 11-February-15

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