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UPCOMING DEADLINES & NOTICES

  • Last day to upload ANY/ALL files to the virtual platform (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions*
    GLBIO 2025
    May 5, 2025
  • Last day to register
    BiGEvo 2025
    May 9, 2025
  • Abstract acceptance notifications sent (for talks and/or posters)
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 13, 2025
  • Conference fellowship invitations sent (for talks and/or psoters)
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 13, 2025
  • CAMDA extended abstracts submission deadline (for talks and/or posters) (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions*
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 15, 2025
  • Late-breaking poster submissions deadline (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions*
    ISMB/ECCB 2025

    May 15, 2025
  • Deadline for submission
    INCOB 2025
    May 17, 2025
  • Last day for tutorial registration, if not sold out (You have until 23:59 CDT)
    BiGEvo 2025
    May 19, 2025
  • Early acceptance notifications from
    INCOB 2025
    May 19, 2025
  • Conference fellowship application deadline (You have until 23:59, Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions*
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 20, 2025
  • Tech track acceptance notifications sent
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 20, 2025
  • Late-breaking poster notifications sent
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 22, 2025
  • CAMDA acceptance notifications sent
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 22, 2025
  • Conference fellowship acceptance notification
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 26, 2025
  • Presentation schedule posted
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 28, 2025
  • Confirmation of participation notices sent
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    May 28, 2025
  • Final acceptance notification
    INCOB 2025
    June 1, 2025
  • Draft Tutorial materials due for review (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth)
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 5, 2025
  • Tech track payments due
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 10, 2025
  • Presenter registration deadine (for talks and/or posters)
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 13, 2025
  • Confirmation of participation for submission deadline (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions*
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 13, 2025
  • Virtual platform uploads open
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 17, 2025
  • Deadline for Early Bird Registration
    INCOB 2025
    June 21, 2025
  • Final tutorial materials due for posting (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth)
    ISMB/ECCB 2025
    June 25, 2025

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Volunteer - GLBIO 2017Click here for announcement and application (pdf).




The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium is pleased to announce a call for Student Support Staff for its 12th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology) (GLBIO 2017), the conference will be held May 15-17, 2017 at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods, and development of long-term relationships and networking opportunities, for researchers within the region, as well as from around the world.

As a member of the Student Support Staff, you will receive valuable first-hand experience at an academic association conference, recognition on the conference website and a certificate of appreciation as well as a 50% discount in registration fees.

JOB DESCRIPTION

AT registration:
• Assist in registration process as needed.
• Make sure each registrant receives registration handouts.

IN educational sessions:
• Monitor session rooms, alerting conference manager of any AV or emergency needs during session.
• Checking badges for entrance to session rooms.
• Counting attendees in each educational session.

Other conference opportunities:
• Numbering poster boards to include monitoring hanging up and taking down of poster boards by presenters.
• Assist attendees in locating various events throughout the conference.

Only a small number of students will be selected to participate on this team. Apply today by completing the application and emailing it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Thank you,

Bel Hanson
Operations and Programs Manager
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.iscb.org

Email completed application, by April 17, 2017 to: Bel Hanson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


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Join us for Salsa Night!


Alhambra Palace, Flamenco Dancers Credit: ©Choose Chicago
Alhambra Palace, Flamenco Dancers
Credit: ©Choose Chicago
 
Alhambra Palace
 
Alhambra Palace
 
Alhambra Palace

Tuesday evening we invite all attendees to join the GLBIO Program Chairs for a fun night of Salsa Dancing at Alhambra Palace.  

Doors open at 7pm with lessons and dancing begins
at 9pm and goes until after midnight!

•    Special admission discount for GLBIO 2017 participants
•    All those with a GLBIO Conference badge will have the cover charge waived.

Have dinner in the restaurant beforehand.  
•    Grab some friends and make a reservation.
•    In the Special Request area of the reservation put GLBIO.
•    Please make your dinner reservations by May 7th to ensure the restaurant is able to accommodate us.

*This is an ON OWN event.  Attendees are responsible for all expenses.


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SPONSORS


- GOLD LEVEL SPONSOR -

Department of Computer Science , College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
















- COPPER LEVEL SPONSORS -



Elsevier


Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.


University of Notre Dame

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin Madison


- EXHIBITOR -


Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University of Science and Technology



- LUNCH N' LEARN -

IU School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)


 Loyola University Chicago


Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan


Russ College of Engineering and Technology, Ohio University


Biostatistics & Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin Madison


University of Toledo


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GETTING TO & AROUND UIC


Directions to UIC

Parking

Parking at UIC

Parking and Directions to Specific Buildings

Bike Stations

A DIVVY bike station is located at SSB at Racine and Harrison in addition to several other DIVVY bike stations across campus.

Also, a bike rack for locking bicycles is located at the main entrance of SSB.


Source:  https://admissions.uic.edu/book-visit/directions-parking-and-places-stay


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SUBMISSIONS


Wrigley Building, Magnificent Mile
Wrigley Building, Magnificent Mile
Credit: ©Choose Chicago
 
Chicago's Lakefront Trail
Credit: ©Choose Chicago

All Submissions for GLBIO: Click here for Easychair

Submissions are invited for full papers, short papers, and posters at the 12th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology). This is an invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality original research papers for presentation at GLBIO 2017. Authors of papers that are accepted to the conference will present their papers at the conference (longer talks for full papers, shorter talks for the short papers). GLBIO 2017 does not have a conference proceedings, but accepted full papers will be considered by PLOS One for inclusion in a special issue devoted to GLBIO 2017.

A wide definition and inclusion of bioinformatics/computational biology will be considered, and topics of interest include the following:

  • Algorithms & Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics Education
  • Biostatistics
  • Cheminformatics
  • Clinical & Health Informatics
  • Data Science
  • Databases, Ontologies & Biocurtion
  • Disease Models & Molecular Medicine
  • Epidemiology & Biodiversity
  • Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics
  • Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics
  • Genome Informatics
  • Image Analysis
  • Metagenomics & Microbiome Informatics
  • Macromolecular Structure & Function
  • Network Biology
  • Phylogenetics/Phylogenomics
  • Proteomics & Metabolomics
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Systems Modeling
  • Text Mining & Natural Language Processing
  • Visualization

 
Key dates: Click here

Conference website: www.iscb.org/glbio2017

Submission website: Click here

Special Sessions:  Authors can request consideration by special sessions in Easychair.  Please carefully review the information below before submitting in Easychair.

Sessions that will consider Full papers and Short papers
3D Genome Organization in Gene Regulation
Host-Microbiome Intractions: data analysis, modeling, and applications
Multi-scale Modeling of Microbial Communities
Phylogeography of Viruses

Sessions that will consider Short papers only
Bioinformatics Education
Biological Data Visualization
Challenges and opportunities in precision medicine

Other Sessions
Analyzing your data in PATRIC: Assembly, annotation, SNPs, RNA-Seq, with a suite of comparative genomic and transcriptomic tools
Bench-and-Computational Matching

Full Paper and PLOS ONE Submission Information


Full Papers for Oral Presentation submissions to GLBIO 2017 should be prepared using PLOS ONE format.  Submission are done through Easychair and the deadline is February 1, 2017.

Authors of all full papers that are accepted for oral talks at the conference will have the option of being considered for publication in a
PLOS ONE Collection devoted to the conference. Prior to submission to PLOS ONE, authors who decide to proceed with this option are expected to address the reviewers’ comments received during the GLBIO review process. Then, such revised papers will be subject to additional peer review by the journal, where members of the PLOS ONE Editorial Board who are also members of the GLBIO Program Committee will handle the papers and, where possible, invite the same reviewers that have participated in the GLBIO review process.

The two best submissions to the Collection, [as judged by the Program Committee], will be highlighted on the PLOS Collections page and lead authors will be interviewed about their work for the
PLOS Collections Blog. Interviews will be featured on the PLOS Collections page. The authors will also have the option to take part in a PLOS Science Wednesday Ask Me Anything on Reddit. 

Note that last year (for GLBIO 2016), the average time to publication for the GLBIO papers submitted to PLOS ONE was about half the overall PLOS ONE average.

Authors are responsible for any fees or expenses in regards to the
PLOS ONE publication of their paper. For more information see: http://collections.plos.org/s/finances-for-special-collections.

Short Papers for Oral Presentation


Short Papers for Oral Presentation submissions to GLBIO 2017 should be a page in length (approximately 600 words) and have no figures.  Submission deadline in Easychair is March 13, 2017.

All accepted short papers will have the chance to publish their work in the ISCB Community Journal and will be contacted after acceptance about this opportunity.

Poster Information


Abstracts for Poster submissions to GLBIO 2017 should be half a page in length (approximately 300 words) and have no figures.  Submission deadline in Easychair is March 27, 2017 for Posters and April 17, 2017 for Late Breaking Posters.

We also encourage all participants to submit their posters and slides (for free) to The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) conference channel in the ISCB Community Journal.

Poster Display Size: - When preparing accepted posters please note that your poster should not exceed the following dimensions: 46 inches wide by 45 inches high. There will be 2 posters per side on the each poster board.

Printing Offer - Graphicsland Inc. is offering a 10% discount on your poster printing with the code GLBIO17. www.makesigns.com/conference/4541/glbio-great-lakes-bioinformatics-conferenceHave your poster mailed to you or delivered right to UIC!

For any GLBIO questions, please contact: Bel Hanson, ISCB Conference Manager, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


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KEY DATES


Subject to change without notice.

   
Full Length Papers for Oral Presentations
   
February 1, 2017 Full Paper Submission Deadline
   
March 8, 2017 (in PM) Author Notification
 
Abstracts for Oral Presentations
   
March 13, 2017 Abstract Submission Deadline
   
March 31, 2017 (in PM) Acceptance Notification
 
Posters
   
March 27, 2017 Poster Submission Deadline
   
April 14, 2017 (in PM) Poster Acceptance Notification
 
Late Breaking Posters
   
April 17, 2017 Late Poster Submission Deadline
   
April 28, 2017 (in PM) Late Poster Acceptance Notification
   
Registration
   
January 6, 2017 Registration Opens
   
April 7, 2017 (5:00 pm Eastern) Early Registration Discount Cut-off date
   
May 1, 2017 (5:00 pm Eastern) Online Registration Closes
May 15, 2017 Late Registration begins onsite

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CONTACT


Belinda (Bel) Humes Hanson
Operations and Programs Manager
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.iscb.org


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