ISCB Newsletter 9-2

ECCB 2006
As of this writing some 500 scientists are expected to arrive in Eilat, Israel, by January 21, 2007 for the 5th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology. Israel enjoys a strong bioinformatics community, as evidenced by the accomplishments of ISCB’s affiliated regional group, Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (www.weizmann.ac.il/ISBCB/), which holds the annual Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium (IBS) and has drawn as many as 600 attendees.

For 2006 IBS is hosting ECCB and the conference organizers look forward to
providing you with new approaches, new and renewed contacts, and a fresh dose of inspiration to apply toward your research efforts.

Registration is still open at www.eccb06.org/new_pages/registration

Rocky ‘06
ISCB is pleased to present the 4th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (Rocky ’06), December 1 – 3, 2006 in Snowmass, Colorado.
The ‘Rocky’ conference series consists of invited keynote presentations by noted
scientists within and outside the Rocky Mountain region, flash presentations from submitted abstracts, a poster session, and networking opportunities on and off the slopes of the spectacular Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Travel fellowship funding for minority and underrepresented students is available through the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program (https://ns2.faseb.org/marc/travel1.html). Additional fellowships may become
available through corporate sponsorships.

All levels of sponsorship opportunities are available, and registration is open to
delegates from near and far. Full information can be found at www.iscb.org/rocky06

RECOMB Satellite Conferences on: Systems Biology
and Computational Proteomics
December 1 – 3, 2006 is also the date for the 2nd annual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Systems Biology; in conjunction with the biannual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Proteomics. Both events are taking place on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, and ISCB is partnering in the overall organization of the combined conferences.

The scientific program includes invited talks and platform presentations selected from submitted abstracts. This year, papers accepted to the conference will be
fast-tracked, along with their reviews, for publication in the journal Molecular Systems Biology (Nature/EMBO). All other papers will comprise the conference
proceedings in a special issue of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (Springer).
The call for abstracts is now open, and full conference details are available at chianti.ucsd.edu/recombsysbio06/