Live-steaming (and rebroadcast) of the ISMB/ECCB 2019 Distinguished Keynotes

ISCB proudly presents the live video-casting of the ISMB/ECCB 2019 keynote speakers. ISCB members who are unable to attend the flagship conference can watch the keynotes complimentary. Nonmembers can register for the ISMB/ECCB 2019 live broadcast for $250 USD.

Plan to Watch!

ISCB will be live broadcasting the keynotes daily at the scheduled program time and will re-broadcast the presentation at 6:00 PM CET. The ISCB Distinguished Keynote on Sunday, July 21 and presentation of the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award and keynote will be broadcasted at its programmed time with no re-broadcast. Registration to this event gives access to both the live broadcast and the rebroadcast of the sessions.

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Live Broadcast Schedule

Sunday, July 21, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm CEST

Nikolaus Rajewsky

Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Berlin-Buch, Germany

Presentation Title: Principles of gene regulation in space and time by single-cell analyses.

Monday, July 22, 8:30 am - 9:30 am CEST

William Stafford Noble

Department of Genome Sciences; Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Presentation Title: Traveling across spaces: the power of embedding genomic and proteomic data into a latent space

Rebroadcast time: 6:00 PM CET

Tuesday, July 23, 8:30 am - 9:30 am CEST

Alexis Battle

Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science
John Hopkins University
Baltimore, United States

Presentation Title: Modeling the complex impact of common and rare genetic variation on gene expression

Rebroadcast time: 6:00 PM CET

Wednesday, July 24, 8:30 am - 9:30 am CEST

Christophe Dessimoz

SNSF Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Associate Professor, University College London, United Kingdom
Group leader, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics

Presentation Title: Challenges and rewards of benchmarking – how to cope with a biased, incomplete, or even entirely missing ground truth

Rebroadcast time: 6:00 PM CET

Thursday, July 25, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm CEST

Bonnie Berger

Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States

Presentation Title: Biomedical Data Sharing and Analysis at Scale

COSI Tracks & Other Abstracts

• 3D-SIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics
• BIOINFO-CORE
• Bio-Ontologies
• BioVis: Biological Data Visualizations
• BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
• CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
• CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry
• Education: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Education and Training
• EvolCompGen: Evolution & Comparative Genomics
• Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation
• General Computational Biology
• HitSeq: High-throughput Sequencing
• JPI: Junior Principal Investigators
• Microbiome
• MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology
• NetBio: Network Biology
• RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics
• IRB: Integrative RNA Biology
• SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
• TransMed: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications
• VarI: Variant Interpretation

COSI Organizer Information Page

• COSI Track Benefits
• Abstract Submission Process
• Poster Prize Nomination from COSIs Process
• Talk Times
• General FAQ
  
  Last update: April 15, 2019

COSI TRACK BENEFITS

• Speaker Funding- $1000 per COSI day to support travel of invited speakers.  This can also be used to purchase additional registrations.
• Registration Allowance of 3375 CHF.  This represents 5 full conference registrations at the member rate.  It is an allowance this year as some COSIs wanted the option to split up the registrations into two-day passes.   Steven will provide details in late March on how to access the registration. IMPORTANT: If you know who will receive complimentary or discounted registration please ensure the individual does not register until they receive instructions from Steven.  PLEASE provide your list of names and email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 15.
• Attendee Commissions - At the end of the conference, ISCB will calculate the COSI commissions.  Commissions are based on the number of registrations that identified your group as their main COSI. *Reduced and complimentary registrations do not count towards COSI commission attendance numbers
• Unrestricted use of escrow funds to support COSI track speakers or additional events
• Full allocation of any sponsorship raised by COSI to COSI escrows

Abstract Submission Process

• COSIs identify 2 or 3 Abstract Chairs (ACs) from within community to manage the review process. These names will be added to EasyChair as Track Chairs for each COSI.
• COSI Area Chairs will be responsible for identifying a review / program committee to review the abstracts for both talk and poster presentation within their COSI. ACs will add these names to COSI track within EasyChair.
• Each COSI is responsible for reviewing abstracts submitted to their area as either:
  • Poster only
  • Talk and poster (abstracts in this category if not accepted as a talk should be reviewed for a poster).
• Ideally each abstract should have a minimum of two (2) reviews and ideally three (3).
• COSI abstracts chairs are encouraged to quickly review the abstracts that are submitted to their COSI. If the abstract is not topical, please let Steven Leard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) know and he can transfer the abstract to the appropriate COSI suggested by your COSI. We recognize abstracts may cross COSI themes. In the event that an abstract could fit in multiple theme, it will be considered first to the COSI for which the author has designated submission. If not selected for oral, it may be considered for another COSI track.
• COSI Area Chairs responsible for notifying acceptances for talks and posters within COSI track. (Sample acceptance below)
• ISCB will write accepted presenters with a request to confirm participation (early and late submitters) and COSIs can search that status of presentation accepts at: https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismbeccb2019/easychair/submitterdecisionreport
• Selected Abstract talks will be presented by COSI track and run in parallel at the conference.
• The length of a talks are in units of 20 minutes (should includes time for questions).  Oral presentation times for abstracts are announced by the COSI track organizers.
• COSI Area Chairs responsible for reviewing Late Posters to their COSI (opens April 15, closes, May 15) within individual COSIs. *Acceptance notifications sent May 23.
• COSI Area Chairs responsible for recommending top 3 posters (submitted as part of early submission process) to your COSI. Details to be sent to Poster Chairs (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by May 24 for consideration of ISMB poster prizes.
• The poster display schedule is available at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2019-submit/abstracts#postersdisplay Poster numbers will be available by May 31, 2019.

Sample EasyChair Accept Letter:

ISMB/ECCB 2019 Acceptance Notification (adapt for acceptance of talk and/or poster)

Congratulations your submission has been accepted for a talk and/or poster at ISMB/ECCB 2019 as part of the XXX COSI.

• COSIs will provide their detailed talk schedule in late May.- Posters will be presented as noted at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2019-submit/abstracts#postersdisplay
• One author must be registered and present the talk and/or poster at the conference. You can register at https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2019-registration Early registration ends on June 20 so register early and save!
• The submission presenter will receive an email by ISCB no later than May 10 requesting an online confirmation that the submission will be presented and confirming the name of the presenter. Please confirm your participation by May 17. If you have not received your confirmation request email by May 12 write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• If you have an accepted talk or poster at ISMB/ECCB 2019 you will receive in a separate email an invitation to apply for a travel fellowship - You should expect the email no later than May 10.  Details on travel fellowships are available at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2019-general/travel-fellowship
• Many talks at ISMB/ECCB 2019 are audio/video recorded for the purpose of developing an archival library of ISCB/ISMB presentations to share the history, growth and development of the science. Selections published on the ISCB website are presented as a synchronized audio and slide presentations for viewing. Before viewing presentations, individuals must electronically sign and agree that no part of any presentation will be downloaded, distributed, changed or altered in any manner and that the presentation offered is for information only. Please complete (no later than June 1, 2019) the permission form is available at: https://www.iscb.org/submissions/permissionForm/
  
  

Examples of recordings from are available at: https://www.iscb.org/iscb-multimedia

We suggest that you book your conference hotel as soon as possible - details are available at: https://www.iscb.org/hotels

Signed by:
XXX COSI organizers and email for contact about COSI program

Abstract Submission Keydates

Poster Prize Nominations from COSIs

COSIs, Thank you for nominating posters to be ultimately evaluated for overall conference poster prizes! Your work is important to help achieve ISCB’s goal of promoting excellence in the work of trainees. 

To ensure representation of all fields of research, we ask each COSI to nominate 3 abstracts to be evaluated during ISMB/ECCB for a total of 6 conference-wide poster prizes. (There are an additional prize for best posters in Structure and Function Prediction.)  

Please nominate posters based on their likelihood of describing important, standalone units of work and the clarity and flow of the written abstract.  Note: Exclude from consideration any poster that is not being presented by a trainee (student, postdoc, etc). No problem if this is not clear at this stage though. The final prizes may only be awarded for trainee presentations.

Nominations should be sent by May 24, 2019 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  When sending your nominees please include your COSI name + 2019 Poster Prize Nominations in the subject line. Please include the easychair assigned submission number and poster title for your nominees in the body of the email.

**Please notes poster only submissions to the General Computational Biology category are reviewed by the Poster Chairs.

Talk Times

Monday, July 22 / Tuesday, July 23 / Wednesday July 24

10:15 am - 10:20 am (welcome & start)
10:20 am - 10:40 am (Time Slot 1)
10:40 am - 11:00 am (Time Slot 2)
11:00 am - 11:20 am (Time Slot 3)
11:20 am - 11:40 am (Time Slot 4)
11:40 am - 12:00 pm (Time Slot 5)
12:00 am - 12:20 pm (Time Slot 6)
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm (Time Slot 7)
Lunch (and ISCB Town Hall (July 22), CompBio Ignite talks (July 23 and July 24)
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm (Time Slot 8)
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm (Time Slot 9)
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm (Time Slot 10)
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm (Time Slot 11)
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm (Time Slot 12)
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm (Time Slot 13)
Break
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm (Time Slot 14)
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm (Time Slot 15)
5:20 pm - 5:40 pm (Time Slot 16)
5:40 pm - 6:00 pm (Time Slot 17)
Posters (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)


Thursday, July 25

8:35 am - 8:40 am (welcome & start)
8:40 am - 9:00 am (Time Slot 1)
9:00 am - 9:20 am (Time Slot 2)
9:20 am - 9:40 am (Time Slot 3)
Break
10:15 am - 10:20 am (re-start)
10:20 am - 10:40 am (Time Slot 4)
10:40 am - 11:00 am (Time Slot 5)
11:00 am - 11:20 am (Time Slot 6)
11:20 am - 11:40 am (Time Slot 7)
11:40 am - 12:00 pm (Time Slot 8)
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm (Time Slot 9)
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm (Time Slot 10)
Lunch / Career Fair / Poster session over lunch (COSIs wishing to do so -- notify This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if doing so.)
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm (Time Slot 11)
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm (Time Slot 12)
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm (Time Slot 13)
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm (Time Slot 14)
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm (Time Slot 15)
3:40 pm - 4:00 pm (Time Slot 16)
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm (Time Slot 17)
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm (Time Slot 18)
4:40 pm Grab and Go Break to: Closing Keynote (5:00 pm)
Awards and Closing (6:00 pm - 6:20 pm)

General FAQ

Q: Can I submit more than one abstract?
A: Yes, but although having the same person deliver more than one talk is permitted, it is not encouraged. Also, although a poster presenter may present two posters (one in Poster Session A and one in Poster Session B), we encourage labs to involve multiple presenters.

Q: Can previously accepted work be considered for a poster?
A: Yes, we do ask that you note the year the work was published and provide the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) during the submission process.

Q: What is the size for a poster?
A: Details are posted at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2019-submit/abstracts#postersize

Abstract Submissions

INFORMATION

More details available soon.

Award Winners

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper
F1000 Poster Award
RCSB PDB Poster Prize

With Support From:

Harun Mustafa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Scalable Annotated Genome Sequence Graphs

Anne Hartebrodt, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Distributed privacy-aware data normalization

Hamim Zafar, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Single-cell Lineage Tracing by Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Mutations With Transcriptomic Data

Mariia O. Bilous, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
A network-based approach for visualization and simplification of single-cell RNA sequencing data

Hamed Khakzad, University of Zurich, Switzerland
TX-MS: Targeted chemical cross-linking Mass Spectrometry can determine quaternary protein structures directly in complex samples

Marc Jan Bonder, EMBL, Germany
Genetic regulation across 1,300 human induced pluripotent stem cell lines

RCSB and PDB Poster Prize

João Rodrigues, Stanford University, United States
pdb-tools: a dependency-free cross-platform swiss army knife for PDB files

Career Fair

Career Fair will take place Thursday, July 25th from 12:40pm - 2pm in the Exhibition Area.

Click HERE for the digital ISMB Jobs Board and visit the physical boards near R1 & R2 in the Exhibit Hall. 

Attending the Career Fair

• Conference attendees participating in the Career Fair must upload their resume into the ISCB Career Center (https://careers.iscb.org/) resume repository and will have a 'Talent' ribbon on their conference badge.
  • Sign-up is allowed on-site to attend the Career Fair but attendees MUST stop by the ISCB Booth and sign up.

Recruiting at the Career Fair

• Institutions/Exhibitors participating in the Career Fair will have a blue identifier on their exhibit booth/recruiter tables. Additional institutions that are recruiting will have a table in the Exhibit Hall near the Jobs Board.
  • Recruiters participating in the Career Fair will have available positions posted on the jobs board and/or additional opportunities at their tables and will have a 'Talents Seeker' ribbon on their conference badge.
• Please stop by the ISCB booth to see Bel Hanson or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions.

Career Fair Recruiters

Reviewers

Proceedings Reviewers

Sanne Abeln, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barbosa Da Silva Adriano, University of Luxembourg - LCSB, Luxembourg
Max Alekseyev, George Washington University, United States
Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University, Sweden
Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute, United States
Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University and Bilkent University, Turkey
Francisco Azuaje, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Luxembourg
Chris Bailey-Kellogg, Dartmouth College, United States
Irina Balaur, European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), Lyon, France
Brunilda Balliu, Stanford University, United States
Peter Banda, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nuno Bandeira, University of California San Diego, United States
Vikas Bansal, University of California San Diego, United States
Yoseph Barash, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Adriano Barbosa, QMUL, United Kingdom
Jan Baumbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Gurkan Bebek, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University, Canada
Tim Beissbarth, University Medicine Göttingen, Germany
Asa Ben-Hur, Colorado State University, United States
Takis Benos, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Elsa Bernard, Institut Curie - Centre de recherche - BDD, France
Debswapna Bhattacharya, Auburn University, United States
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University, Canada
Isabell Bludau, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Nils Blüthgen, Charite, Germany
Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Valentina Boeva, Institut Cochin/INSERM/CNRS, France
Richard Bonneau, New York University, United States
Karsten Borgwardt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Christina Boucher, University of Florida, United States
Philip Bourne, University of Virginia, United States
Alan Boyle, University of Michigan, United States
Serdar Bozdag, Marquette University, United States
Edward Braun, Univeristy of Florida, United States
Michael R. Brent, wustl, United States
Jan Brezovsky, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Benedikt Brors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
C.Titus Brown, University of California, Davis, United States
Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
João Carriço, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Hannah Carter, University of California San Diego, United States
Mark Chaisson, University of Washington, United States
Nyasha Chambwe, Institute for Systems Biology, United States
Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jake Chen, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri Columbia, United States
Rayan Chikhi, CNRS, France
Maria Chikina, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
Leonid Chindelevitch, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Olivia Choudhury, IBM, United States
A. Ercument Cicek, Bilkent University, United States
Peter Clote, Department of Biology, Boston College; Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique and Univ Paris-Sud XI, United States
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
Phillip Compeau, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Ana Conesa, Genomics of Gene Expression Lab, Spain
James Costello, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Miklos Csuros, University of Montreal, Canada
Xuefeng Cui, Tsinghua University, China
Aedin Culhane, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Felipe da Veiga Leprevost, University of Michigan, United States
Thomas Dandekar, University of Würzburg, Germany
Susmita Datta, University of Florida, United States
Xavier de La Cruz, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Spain
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Viraj Deshpande, Illumina Inc., United States
Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Ingo Ebersberger, Goethe University, Germany
Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Eran Elhaik, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ray Enke, James Madison University, United States
Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Dirk Evers, Molecular Health GmbH, Germany
Gang Fang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
Piero Fariselli, University of Padova, Italy
Petko Fiziev, Illumina, United States
Anthony A. Fodor, UNC Charlotte, United States
Peter Freddolino, University of Michigan, United States
Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, United States
Caroline C. Friedel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Fabian Fröhlich, Harvard University, United States
Andreas Futschik, Department of Statistics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Olivier Gevaert, Stanford University, United States
Dario Ghersi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States
Soumyabrata Ghosh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
David Gibbs, Institute for Systems Biology, United States
David Gifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Jesse Gillis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
David Gomez-Cabrero, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Department of Epimediology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Alexandra Graf, FH Campus Wien, Austria
Ananth Grama, Purdue University, United States
Casey Greene, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Ivo Grosse, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Wei Gu, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), Luxembourg
Alexey Gurevich, Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Russia
Gamze Gursoy, Yale University, United States
Faraz Hach, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Prostate Centre, Canada
Matthew Hahn, Indiana University Bloomington, United States
Md Nafiz Hamid, Iowa State University, United States
Xiaoke Hao, Hebei University of Technology, China
Jan Hasenauer, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Sampsa Hautaniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dominik Heider, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
Carl Herrmann, University Heidelberg, Germany
Winston Hide, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, United Kingdom
Steven M. Hill, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Austria
Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki, Finland
Vasant Honavar, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Jae Hoon-Sul, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Farhad Hormozdiari, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard University, United States
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, University of Washington, United States
Heng Huang, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Mathias Humbert, Swiss Data Science Center, ETH Zurich and EPFL, Switzerland
Trey Ideker, University of California San Diego, United States
Francesco Iorio, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Zamin Iqbal, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shantanu Jain, Northeastern University, United States
Lars Juhl Jensen, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Denmark
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside, United States
Xiaoqian Jiang, UTHealth at Houston, United States
Andre Kahles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, United States
Lukas Käll, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Emre Karakoc, University of Washington, Germany
John Kececiogu, University of Arizona, United States
Birte Kehr, Berlin Institute of Health / Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Manolis Kellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, United States
Miran Kim, University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, United States
Sun Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
Larisa Kiseleva, OIST, Japan
David Knowles, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ina Koch, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Computer Science, Molecular Bioinformatics, Germany
Oliver Kohlbacher, University of Tübingen, Germany
Rachel Kolodny, US, Israel
Dmitry Korkin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States
David Koslicki, Oregon State University, United States
Jovana Kovacevic, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University, United States
Roland Krause, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Smita Krishnaswamy, Yale University, United States
Hande Kucuk McGinty, University of Miami, United States
Volodymyr Kuleshov, Stanford University, United States
Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University, United States
Tsung-Ting Kuo, University of California San Diego, United States
Lukasz Kurgan, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States
Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Keren Lasker, Stanford University, United States
Robert Leaman, NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States
Kjong-Van Lehmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mark Leiserson, University of Maryland, United States
Sebastien Lemieux, IRIC / Université de Montréal, Canada
Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Ming Li, Univ of Waterloo, Canada
Yong Li, Illumina Inc., United States
Yue Li, McGill University, Canada
Max Libbrecht, University of Washington Genome Sciences, United States
Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
Kui Lin, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China
Yu-Chen Lo, Stanford University, United States
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, United States
Zhiyong Lu, NCBI, United States
Gerton Lunter, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gang Luo, University of Washington, United States
Yves Lussier, University of Arizona, United States
Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Shaun Mahony, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University, United States
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Fabio Marroni, Università di Udine, Italy
Tobias Marschall, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Pier Luigi Martelli, University of Bologna, Italy
Manja Marz, Uni Jena, Germany
David Mathews, University of Rochester, United States
David Matthews, University of Rochester, United States
Patrick May, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg
Paul Medvedev, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Joao Meidanis, University of Campinas / Scylla Bioinformatics, Brazil
Renee Menezes, VU University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Vilas Menon, Columbia University, United States
Irmtraud Meyer, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin, and Free University, Berlin, Germany, Germany
Irmtraud M. Meyer, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin, and Free University, Berlin, Germany, Germany
Tom Michoel, Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
Tijana Milenkovic, University of Notre Dame, United States
Siavash Mirarab, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Hosein Mohimani, Carnegie Melon University, United States
Yves Moreau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Alexandre Morozov, Rutgers University, United States
Quaid Morris, University of Toronto, Canada
Sach Mukherjee, DZNE, Germany
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University, United States
T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech, United States
Robert F. Murphy, Lane Center for Computational Biology, Joint Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh PhD. Program in Computational Biology, Depts. of Biol. Sciences, Biomed. Engineering & Machine Learning, United States
Shawn Murphy, Harvard University, United States
Chad Myers, University of Minnesota, United States
Niranjan Nagarajan, University of Maryland, Singapore
Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, United States
Leelavati Narlikar, National Chemical Laboratory, India
Kay Nieselt, Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Germany
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, United States
Cecilia Noemi, University of Delaware, United States
Emmanuel Noutahi, InVivo AI, Canada
Ibrahim Numanagic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Claire O'Donovan, EBI, United Kingdom
Layla Oesper, Carleton College, United States
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Yaron Orenstein, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Hatice Osmanbeyoglu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Aida Ouangraoua, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Gaurav Pandey, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, United States
Fabio Pardi, LIRMM - CNRS, France
Laxmi Parida, IBM, United States
Lee Parsons, University of Minnesota, United States
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, ohio state university, United States
Robert Patro, Stony Brook University, United States
Giulio Pavesi, University of Milan, Italy
Itsik Pe'Er, Columbia University, United States
Jian Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Sabine Peres, LRI Paris-Sud 11 University, France
Theodore Perkins, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Dmitri Pervouchine, Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology, Russia
Thang Pham, VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Alexander Pico, Gladstone Institutes, United States
Yann Ponty, CNRS/LIX, Polytechnique, France
M. Pop, University of Maryland, United States
Victoria Popic, Stanford University, United States
Natasa Przulj, Computer Science Department, United Kingdom
Teresa Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, United States
Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Miguel Angel Pujana, IDIBELL, Spain
Tal Pupko, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel, Israel
Predrag Radivojac, Northeastern University, United States
Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, United States
Ben Raphael, Princeton University, United States
Magnus Rattray, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Antonio Rausell, Institut Imagine - INSERM UMR-1163, France
Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany
Vladimir Reinharz, Center for Soft and Living Matter, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Bernhard Renard, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
Boris Reva, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
Davide Risso, Cornell University, United States
Alberto Riva, Bioinformatics Core, ICBR, University of Florida, United States
Elena Rivas, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI, United States
Manuel Rivas, Stanford University, United States
Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
David Rocke, University of California, Davis, United States
Kirsten Roomp, LCSB, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Anguraj Sadanandam, Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), United Kingdom
Surya Saha, Boyce Thompson Institute, United States
Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Javier Santoyo, Edinburgh Genomics, United Kingdom
Mansoor Saqi, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, United Kingdom
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Alexander Schoenhuth, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael Schroeder, TU Dresden, Germany
Max Schubach, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Germany
Marcel Schulz, Goethe University, Germany
Veit Schwämmle, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Maria Secrier, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Nigam Shah, Stanford University, United States
Mingfu Shao, Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Hagit Shatkay, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, United States
Tal Shay, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nathan Sheffield, University of Virginia, United States
Li Shen, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Sean Simmons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Saurabh Sinha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Johannes Soeding, MPI BPC, Germany
Giltae Song, Pusan National University, South Korea
Erik Sonnhammer, Stockholm University, Sweden
Alexis Stamatakis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Maureen Stolzer, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany
Pavel Sumazin, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, United States
Eric Tannier, INRIA, France
Oznur Tastan, Sabanci University, Turkey
Stefano Toppo, University of Padova, Italy
Ali Torkamani, Scripps Research Translational Institute, United States
Silvio Tosatto, University of Padova, Italy
Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba, Canada
Iosif Vaisman, George Mason University, United States
Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre BSC, Spain
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova, Italy
Pierangelo Veltri, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, University of Catanzaro, Italy
Allegra Via, National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), Italy
Enrique Vidal, CRG, Spain
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik, Germany
Slobodan Vucetic, Temple University, United States
Hao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Joy Wang, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Wei Wang, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Zhong Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; The Joint Genome Institute, United States
Tandy Warnow, the university of illinois at urbana-champaign, United States
Mark Wass, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Chaochun Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zasha Weinberg, University of Leipzig, Germany, Germany
Joachim Weischenfeldt, Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC), Denmark
Bart Westerman, VU, Netherlands
Sebastian Will, University of Vienna, Austria
Phillip Wilmarth, Oregon Health and Science University, United States
Haim Wolfson, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Haim J. Wolfson, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
David J. Wu, University of Virginia, United States
Yu-Wei Wu, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Yu Xia, McGill University, Canada
Jinbo Xu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, United States
Makoto Yamada, RIKEN AIP, Japan
Esti Yeger-Lotem, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Peng Yu, Texas A&M University, United States
Noah Zaitlen, University of California San Francisco, United States
Haoyang Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Jianyang Zeng, Tsinghua University, China
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Weixiong Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Yang Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Deyou Zheng, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
Chengsheng Zhu, Rutgers University, United States
Ralf Zimmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Marinka Zitnik, Stanford University, United States
Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Birds of a Feather (BoF) - ISMB/ECCB 2019

• The ISCB code of conduct
• Actionable ways to increase diversity in your (scientific) community
• Cancelled - Dos and Don’ts’ checklist for computational training
• Integrative queryable genomics with InterMine
• Welcome to BOSC (the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)
• Bioinformaticians in Aging & Senescence Research
• Open Bioinformatics Foundation Board Meeting
• Cytoscape Roadmap and Feedback

Room: Boston 1/2 Ground Floor) Tuesday July 23 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Lucia Peixoto and Casey Greene, Washington State University, University of Pennsylvania

Overview

In this session we will introduce ISCB members to the recently approved ISCB code of conduct and answer questions regarding this policy as well as received feedback for future policy updates. This is a joint session organized by the Junior PI COSI and the Equity Diversity and Inclusion task-force from ISCB.

Room: Boston 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Malvika Sharan, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL

Overview

In this session, I would facilitate the conversation beyond the fact that diversity is required, not only to improve inclusiveness but for the growth of a community/organization. The discussion will be catalyzed by a few proven solutions developed and adopted by ISCB and other big communities. We will aim to engage conference attendees in in a discussion that will help shape the next steps for ISCB Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) TaskForce.

Room: Shanghai 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Sara El-Gebali, EMBL-EBI

Overview

There is a growing demand in various research fields for computational training and resources to work with open access data. Hence, trainers need to design their training materials as per the need of their audience who might be located in developed or developing countries. I would like to invite participants to create a comprehensive ‘Dos and Don’ts’ checklist when preparing for training sessions for different countries and audiences

Room: Shanghai 3/4 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Yo Yehudi, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Overview

InterMine is an open source biological data integration warehouse which allows biologists and bioinformaticians to access integrated genomic data via web interfaces and APIs. Since there are now over 30 InterMine instances "in the wild", we invite all InterMiners at ISMB to come join us for a meet-and-greet and friendly chat amongst community members.

Room: Delhi (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Monica Munoz-Torres, BOSC

Overview

An opportunity to meet other BOSC community members and share your goals in attending BOSC and your suggestions about how we can make BOSC even better. Whether this is your first BOSC or your 20th, all are welcome!

Room: Kairo 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Michael R. Crusoe, ELIXIR-NL & ELIXIR Interoperability Platform

Overview

Participants will learn about using the latest release of the Common Workflow Language standards (version 1.1) to create and run data analysis workflows in portable and interoperable manner. They can also share their experiences with writing and running CWL with each other. Computer system administrators, programmers, and operators are also welcome!

Room: Osaka / Samarkand (3rd Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Georg Fuellen, Rostock University Medical Center

Overview

Senotherapeutic approaches are among the most promising approaches towards extending lifespan and healthspan, with huge potential societal and economic impact, but a precision medicine approach is needed. Towards establishing the biomarkers from omics and other data, bioinformatics on a large scale is needed, and this BoF is designed to come together and discuss projects and future meetings. You do not have to work on aging/senescence data at the moment; everybody is welcome!

Room: Delhi (Ground Floor) Thursday, July 25 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Heather Wiencko, OBF

Overview

The OBF has a public board meeting roughly once a year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to publicly discuss items relevant to the OBF community. This year we're choosing to hold it during BOSC, in the hope that members of the community will be able to attend. We expect to elect a new board member during this year's meeting, and other agenda items will be published in advance of the meeting on our website: https://news.open-bio.org/

Room: Shanghai 3/4 (Ground Floor) Thursday, July 25 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Scooter Morris, University of California at San Francisco

Overview

The Cytoscape Consortium will be hosting an open public meeting for the community of users, app developers and scripter writers to learn about the latest features and to engage with core developers on the roadmap for the future. If you are new to Cytoscape or a long-time power user, you are welcome to join.