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Registration Fees (all prices are US dollars)

EARLY REGISTRATION
Applicable Dates:
August 1, 2015 to
Oct. 23, 2015
(5:00 p.m. Pacific)
ISCB Member Non-member
Conference
Registration
Conference
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Academic/Government/Corporate: $500.00 $700.00
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(Student ID may be requested at registration check in)*:
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Please note online registration closes Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Zone. After this time registration will only be available onsite at the conference registration desk at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, beginning on Sunday, November 15 at 2:00 pm.

Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel
201 North 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103


Conference registration fees include:
  • Scientific sessions (Monday, November 16 - Wednesday, November 18)
  • Poster sessions
  • Coffee breaks and lunches (Monday, November 16 through Wednesday, November 18)
  • Conference program booklet
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ISCB MEMBERS: If you are a current member of ISCB, you must use the email address associated with your ISCB membership in order to register at the discounted member rates through the online system. If you do not know the email address you used to register with ISCB, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before proceeding with conference registration.

NONMEMBERS OF ISCB: Nonmembers will be able to join ISCB through the online conference registration system and immediately receive member rates for the RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and System Genomics, with DREAM Challenges. You can either join when you register for the conference or you can join the ISCB here and then immediately register for the conference at the member rates.

ISCB MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL: If your ISCB membership is not current or will expire on or before November 15, 2015, you will be offered an opportunity to renew your membership as part of your registration fees through the online system.
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KEY DATES


Note: The RECOMB / ISCB RSG DREAM conference is no longer including Full Papers in its submission process.

IMPORTANT DATES
Please note the following conference submission deadlines for Abstracts and DREAM Challenges:
Abstract Submission Deadline (oral) September 18, 2015
Abstract Acceptance Notifications October 12, 2015
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Poster Submission Deadline October 9, 2015
Poster Acceptance Notification October 20, 2015
DREAM Challenges Deadlines
DREAM Challenges Submission Deadline
See the DREAM website for details.
Mid September 2015
DREAM Scores Announced and Best Performers Notifications Mid October 2015
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
Discounted room rate expires November 2, 2015
REGISTRATION
Early Registration Opens August 1, 2015
Early Registration Deadline October 23, 2015
Online Registration Closes November 10, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Pacific Time Zone
On site conference registration desk at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel November 15, 2015
2:00 pm

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STEERING COMMITTEE


  • Elise Blaese, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, United States
  • Andrea Califano, Columbia University, New York, United States
  • Manolis Kellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
  • Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center, Yorktown Heights, United States



 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE


PROGRAM CHAIRS:

  • Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States


COMMITTEE:

  • Stein Aerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
  • Mark Biggin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
  • Serdar Bozdag, Marquette University, United States
  • Michael R. BrentWashington University in St. Louis, United States
  • Harmen BussemakerColumbia University,  United States
  • Andrea Califano, Columbia University, United States
  • Barry Demchak, University of California, San Diego, United States
  • Finn Drablos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
  • Dean Felsher, Stanford University, United States
  • Ana T. Freitas, INESC-ID/IST, Technical University Lisbon, Portugal
  • Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
  • Raluca Gordan, Duke University, United States
  • Xin He, University of Chicago, United States
  • Avi Ma'Ayan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
  • Shaun Mahony, Pennsylvania State University, United States
  • Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech, United States
  • Theodore Perkins, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada
  • Alexander Pico, The Gladstone Institutes; University of California, San Francisco, United States
  • Miguel Angel Pujana, IDIBELL, Spain
  • Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
  • Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center, United States
  • Pavel Sumazin, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
  • Wei Wang, University of California, San Diego, United States
  • Weixiong Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis, United States

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RESPOND TO DREAM CHALLENGES


2015 DREAM Challenges, powered by Sage BionetworksDear Colleague,

We are pleased to update you on DREAM9.5 and DREAM10 Challenges.

 DREAM9.5 started in late 2014 and will continue in 2015. The DREAM10 Challenges have started in June 2015 and will continue through 2015. 

Best performers in the other DREAM9.5 and DREAM10 Challenges will be invited to present at the RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges (November 15-18, Philadephia, PA) with partial travel expenses covered by the organizers.
 We also worked with high impact journals to ensure that the methodology developed by the Challenges' best performers will be considered for publication under the challenge-assisted peer review format.


The DREAM9.5 Challenges                                                                

1.  DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge: Status: CONCLUDED

  • Challenge Focus: Predict behavioral responses to a panel of odors
  • For the final results click here
  • Congratulations to Prof. Yuanfang Guan (University of Michigan) and Prof. Richard Gerkin (ASU) for their top performance in this Challenge!
  • Journal Partner: Nature Neuroscience

2.  Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge. Status: ONGOING

  • Challenge Focus: Predict survival for prostate cancer patients based on patients’ clinical variables
  • You can still participate in the Challenge. For more information click here
  • Leaderboard 1 and 2 best performers are listed here.
  • Journal Partner: Nature Biotechnology

The DREAM10 Challenges                                                             

1.  DREAM ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge: Status: ONGOING

  • Challenge Focus: Predict progression and survival of ALS patients
  • Join the Challenge: click here
  • Journal Partner: Nature Biotechnology

2.  AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge: Launch Target: Summer 2015

  • Challenge Focus: Predict the effect of drug combinations in cancer cell lines
  • Learn more and pre-register for this Challenge: click here
  • Journal Partner: Nature Biotechnology

3.  ICGC-TCGA DREAM Somatic Mutation Calling Tumor Heterogeneity Challenge (SMC-Het): Launch Target: Summer, 2015

  • Challenge Focus: Identify the best subclonal reconstruction algorithms and to identify the conditions that affect their performance
  • Learn more and pre-register for this Challenge: click here
  • Journal Partner: Nature Biotechnology


For a list of recent DREAM publications see http://dreamchallenges.org/2014-publications/

To learn more about DREAM Challenges and Sage Bionetworks please go to: http://dreamchallenges.org/ and http://sagebase.org

Sincerely,   
Gustavo Stolovitzky, DREAM Founder and Chair
on behalf of the DREAM9.5 and DREAM10 Challenge Organizers
dreamchallenges.org/


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