Bioinformatics Education and Citizen Science

Marc Baaden, CNRS - UPR 9080 / IBPC
Melissa Burke, Australian BioCommons
Darlene Cavalier, Arizona State University
Phillip Compeau, Carnegie Mellon University
Selene Fernandez-Valverde, Advanced Genomics Unit / Langebio, Cinvestav
Firas Khatib, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Pietro Michelucci, Human Computation Institute
Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Verena Ras, University of Cape Town
Antoine Taly, CNRS
Celia van Gelder, DTL
Allegra Via, National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM)

Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes

Mohammed Alser, ETH Zurich
Jean-Marc Aury, CEA/GENOSCOPE
Marc Baaden, CNRS - UPR 9080 / IBPC
Özgün Babur, Oregon Health and Science University
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich
Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Edward Braun, Univeristy of Florida
Michael R. Brent, wustl
Alessandra Carbone, Sorbonne Université
Sriram Chandrasekaran, University of Michigan
Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University
Miklós Csürös, University of Montreal
Jo Dicks, Public Health England
Damien Eveillard, LS2N, Nantes University, France
Anthony Fodor, UNC Charlotte
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University
Dominik Heider, Philipps-University of Marburg
Zamin Iqbal, European Bioinformatics Institute
Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo
Chirag Jain, Indian Institute of Science
Flora Jay, LRI/CNRS
Andre Kahles, ETH Zurich
Christoph Kaleta, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Emre Karakoc, University of Washington
Larisa Kiseleva, OIST
Peter Koo, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Koslicki, Penn State University
Benjamin Langmead, Johns Hopkins University
Ruibang Luo, The University of Hong Kong
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles
Tristan Mary-Huard, INRAE
Manja Marz, Uni Jena
Siavash Mirarab, The University of Texas at Austin
Thilo Muth, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Niranjan Nagarajan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Kay Nieselt, Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Eric Pelletier, CEA / Genoscope
Nico Pfeifer, Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland
Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki
Sven Rahmann, Saarland University
Bernhard Renard, Robert Koch Institute
Hugues Richard, Robert Koch Institute
Guillem Rigaill, INRAe
Miguel Rocha, Centre for Computer Science and Technologies (CCTC) - University of Minho
Jared Simpson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Johannes Soeding, MPI BPC
Giltae Song, Pusan National University
Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University
Mahito Sugiyama, National Institute of Informatics
Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw
Oznur Tastan, Sabanci University
Todd Treangen, Rice University
Yatish Turakhia, University of California San Diego
Max von Kleist, Freie Universität Berlin

Biomedical Informatics

Volkan Atalay, Middle East Technical University
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University
Alan Boyle, University of Michigan
Karel Brinda, INRIA/IRISA Rennes
Tiffany Callahan, Columbia University
Tolga Can, Colorado School of Mines
Hannah Carter, University of California San Diego
Qingyu Chen, NIH
George Dasoulas, Harvard University
Natalie Davidson, MSKCC
Jeroen Deridder, Delft Bioinformatics Lab
Viraj B Deshpande, Illumina Inc.
Tunca Doğan, Hacettepe University
Huan He, Harvard Medical Schoool
Carl Herrmann, University Heidelberg
Yepeng Huang, Harvard University
Kexin Huang, Harvard University
Wolfgang Huber, EMBL
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside
Qiao Jin, National Institutes of Health
Lars Kaderali, University Medicine Greifswald
Andre Kahles, ETH Zurich
Gurmeet Kaur, NIH
Shilpa Kobren, Harvard University
Roland Krause, University of Luxembourg
Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa
Jake Lever, University of Glasgow
Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine
Jianzhu Ma, Peking University
Tom Michoel, University of Bergen
Katerina Nastou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
William Stafford Noble, University of Washington
Layla Oesper, Carleton College
Zhengqing Ouyang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Arzucan Ozgur, Bogazici University
Gaurav Pandey, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Aditeya Pandey, Northeastern University
Theodore Perkins, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Owen Queen, Harvard University
Gerald Quon, University of California, Davis
David Rocke, University of California, Davis
Marcel Schulz, Goethe University
Michelle Scott, University of Sherbrooke
Fritz Sedlazeck, Baylor College of Medicine
Ron Shamir,
Vishakha Sharma, Stevens Institute of Technology
Claudia Solís-Lemus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw
Jaclyn Taroni, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Shubo Tian, Florida State University
Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre BSC
David Ashley Van Valen, California Institute of Technology
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova
Susana Vinga, Universidade de Lisboa
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik
Yijie Wang, Indiana University Bloomington
Xuan Wang, Virginia Tech
Zhenqin Wu, Stanford university
Yu Xia, McGill University
Vicky Yao, Rice University
Xiang Zhang, Harvard University
Ruochi Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Jing Zhang, University of California, Irvine
Zhongming Zhao, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Shanfeng Zhu, Fudan University
Ralf Zimmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Equity-focussed Research

Titipat Achakulvisut, Mahidol University, Thailand
Natalie Davidson, ETH Zürich

Evolutionary, Comparative, and Population Genomics

Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University
Edward Braun, Univeristy of Florida
Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University
Miklós Csürös, University of Montreal
Viraj B Deshpande, Illumina Inc.
Ingo Ebersberger, Goethe University
Tsukasa Fukunaga, Waseda University
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University
Carl Herrmann, University Heidelberg
Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo
Flora Jay, LRI/CNRS
David Koslicki, Penn State University
Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke
Elodie Laine, Sorbonne Université - Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (LCQB, CNRS-SU)
Benjamin Langmead, Johns Hopkins University
David Liberles, Temple University
Salem Malikic, Cancer Data Science Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Paul Medvedev, The Pennsylvania State University
Siavash Mirarab, The University of Texas at Austin
Erin Molloy, University of Maryland, College Park
Kay Nieselt, Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Emmanuel Noutahi, Valence Discovery
Aida Ouangraoua, Université de Sherbrooke
Akanksha Pandey, Kronos Bio. Inc.
Fabio Pardi, LIRMM - CNRS
Tal Pupko, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Janani Ravi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Elena Rivas, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
Claudia Solís-Lemus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Giltae Song, Pusan National University
Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University
Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier
Eric Tannier, INRIA
Olivier Tremblay-Savard, University of Manitoba
Tandy Warnow, the university of illinois at urbana-champaign
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore

General Computational Biology

Kiyoshi Asai, The University of Tokyo
Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University
Özgün Babur, Oregon Health and Science University
Mukul S. Bansal, University of Connecticut
Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Luca Bonomi, Vanderbilt University
Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Melissa Burke, Australian BioCommons
Pablo Chacon, IQFR-CSIC
Mengjie Chen, the University of Chicago
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri Columbia
Thomas Dandekar, Dep. of Bioinformatics, University of Wüerzburg
Noah Daniels, The University of Rhode Island
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford
Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder
Gang Fang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dario Ghersi, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jesse Gillis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mikel Hernaez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna
Farhad I Hormozdiari, Google Health
Flora Jay, LRI/CNRS
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside
Lars Kaderali, University Medicine Greifswald
Christoph Kaleta, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Lukas Käll, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Emre Karakoc, University of Washington
Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Kelley, Calico Life Sciences
Miran Kim, Hanyang University
Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
Benjamin Langmead, Johns Hopkins University
Dominique Lavenier, CNRS / IRISA
Jake Lever, University of Glasgow
Qunhua Li, The Pennsylvania State University
Yunan Luo, Georgia Institute of Technology
François Major, University of Montreal
William Majoros, Duke University
Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki
Guillaume Marçais, CMU
Tobias Marschall, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Arnaud Mary, LBBE
Paul Medvedev, The Pennsylvania State University
Páll Melsted, University of Iceland
Siavash Mirarab, The University of Texas at Austin
Thilo Muth, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Leelavati Narlikar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
William Noble, University of Washington
Ibrahim Numanagic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yaron Orenstein, Bar-Ilan University
Zhengqing Ouyang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Aditeya Pandey, Northeastern University
Laxmi Parida, IBM
Nico Pfeifer, Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki
Sven Rahmann, Saarland University
Ben Raphael, Princeton University
Guillem Rigaill, IPS2
Miguel Rocha, Centre for Computer Science and Technologies (CCTC) - University of Minho
David Rocke, University of California, Davis
Hannes Luc Röst, ETH Zurich
Cenk Sahinalp, National Cancer Institute
Md Abul Hassan Samee, Baylor College of Medicine
Tamar Schlick, NYU
Marcel Schulz, Goethe University
Vishakha Sharma, Stevens Institute of Technology
Yang Shen, Texas A&M University
Anne Siegel, IRISA -- CNRS
Rohit Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marta Szachniuk, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw
Haixu Tang, Indiana University Bloomington
Oznur Tastan, Sabanci University
Tristan Mary-Huard, INRAE
Yatish Turakhia, University of California San Diego
Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre BSC
Celia van Gelder, DTL
Susana Vinga, Universidade de Lisboa
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik
Xuan Wang, Virginia Tech
Joshua Welch, University of Michigan
Sebastian Will, Ecole Polytechnique
Vicky Yao, Rice University
Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University
Yun William Yu, University of Toronto
Simone Zaccaria, UCL Cancer Institute
Alex Zelikovsky, GSU
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
Xiang Zhang, Harvard University
Ralf Zimmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Genome Privacy and Security

Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University
Luca Bonomi, Vanderbilt University
A. Ercument Cicek, Bilkent University
Prashant Emani, Yale University
David Froelicher, MIT
Xiaoqian Jiang, UTHealth at Houston
Miran Kim, Hanyang University
Can Kockan, Indiana University Bloomington
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University
Seth Neel, University of Pennsylvania
Apostolos Pyrgelis, EPFL
Jean Louis Raisaro, Lausanne university hospital (CHUV)
Cenk Sahinalp, National Cancer Institute
Sean Simmons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haixu Tang, Indiana University Bloomington
Yun William Yu, University of Toronto

Genome Sequence Analysis

Mohammed Alser, ETH Zurich
Jean-Marc Aury, CEA/GENOSCOPE
Vikas Bansal, University of California San Diego
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University
Valentina Boeva, Institut Cochin/INSERM/CNRS
Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Alan Boyle, University of Michigan
Michael R. Brent, wustl
Cédric Chauve, Simon Fraser University
A. Ercument Cicek, Bilkent University
Ivan Costa, RWTH Aachen University
James C Costello, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft Bioinformatics Lab
Dan DeBlasio, University of Texas at El Paso
Viraj B Deshpande, Illumina Inc.
Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder
Ingo Ebersberger, Goethe University
Mohammed El-Kebir,
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, University of Washington
Farhad I Hormozdiari, Google Health
Zamin Iqbal, European Bioinformatics Institute
Chirag Jain, Indian Institute of Science
Andre Kahles, ETH Zurich
Emre Karakoc, University of Washington
Mikhail Kolmogorov, National Cancer Institute
Dennis Kostka, University of Pittsburegh
Benjamin Langmead, Johns Hopkins University
Dominique Lavenier, CNRS / IRISA
Heewook Lee, Arizona State University
Kjong Lehmann, UK Aachen
Claire Lemaitre, INRIA
Heng Li, Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Antoine Limasset, CNRS
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside
Ruibang Luo, The University of Hong Kong
William Majoros, Duke University
Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles
Guillaume Marçais, CMU
Tobias Marschall, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Arnaud Mary, LBBE
Paul Medvedev, The Pennsylvania State University
Páll Melsted, University of Iceland
Jean Monlong, University of California, Santa Cruz
T. M. Murali, Virginia Tech
Niranjan Nagarajan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Kay Nieselt, Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Ibrahim Numanagic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yaron Orenstein, Bar-Ilan University
Hatice Osmanbeyoglu, University of Pittsburgh
Laxmi Parida, IBM
Mihaela Pertea, Johns Hopkins University
Mihai Pop, University of Maryland
Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki
Ben Raphael, Princeton University
Tobias Rausch, EMBL Heidelberg
Bernhard Renard, Robert Koch Institute
Miguel Rocha, Centre for Computer Science and Technologies (CCTC) - University of Minho
Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki
Gryte Satas, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University
Marcel Schulz, Goethe University
Fritz Sedlazeck, Baylor College of Medicine
Ron Shamir, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Mingfu Shao, Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Jared Simpson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Avi Srivastava, New York Genome Center
Krister Swenson, CNRS, Université de Montpellier
Todd Treangen, Rice University
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik
Tandy Warnow, the university of illinois at urbana-champaign
Yun William Yu, University of Toronto
Simone Zaccaria, UCL Cancer Institute
Alex Zelikovsky, GSU
Shaojie Zhang, University of Central Florida

Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function

Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University
Jessica Andreani, CEA / I2BC
Kiyoshi Asai, The University of Tokyo
Marc Baaden, CNRS - UPR 9080 / IBPC
Pedro Ballester, Cancer Research Centre of Marseille
Nir Ben Tal, Tel-Aviv University
Asa Ben-Hur, Colorado State University
Sebastian Böcker, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Richard Bonneau, New York University
Dongbo Bu, Insitute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher J F Cameron, Yale University
Frederic Cazals, INRIA
Pablo Chacon, IQFR-CSIC
Isaure Chauvot de Beauchene, CAPSID team, CNRS, LORIA
Jianlin Cheng, University of Missouri Columbia
Thomas Dandekar, Dep. of Bioinformatics, University of Wüerzburg
Noah Daniels, The University of Rhode Island
Justas Dapkunas, Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford
Tunca Dogan, Hacettepe University
Dario Ghersi, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Attila Gursoy, Koc University
Nurit Haspel, University of Massachusetts Boston
Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna
Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki
Liang Huang, Oregon State University
Lukas Käll, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University
Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Arizona State University
David Koes, University of Pittsburgh
Lukasz Kurgan, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elodie Laine, Sorbonne Université - Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (LCQB, CNRS-SU)
Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa
Yu Li, CUHK
Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine
Jianzhu Ma, Peking University
François Major, Université de Montréal
William Majoros, Duke University
Pier Luigi Martelli, University of Bologna
Thilo Muth, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
William Noble, University of Washington
Kliment Olechnovic, Vilnius University
Aida Ouangraoua, Université de Sherbrooke
Dmitri Pervouchine, Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology
Vladimir Reinharz, Université du Québec à Montréal
Elena Rivas, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
Cenk Sahinalp, National Cancer Institute
Thomas Schiex, INRAE
Tamar Schlick, NYU
Michelle Scott, University of Sherbrooke
Yang Shen, Texas A&M University
Rohit Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marta Szachniuk, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Nelle Varoquaux, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institut fuer molekulare Genetik
Max Ward, University of Western Australia
Sebastian Will, Ecole Polytechnique
Yu Xia, McGill University
Jianyang Zeng, Tsinghua University
Xiuwei Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Regulatory and Functional Genomics

Anaïs Baudot, CNRS
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zurich
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University
Valentina Boeva, Institut Cochin/INSERM/CNRS
Michael R. Brent, wustl
Christopher J F Cameron, Yale University
Stefan Canzar, Penn State
Sriram Chandrasekaran, University of Michigan
Mengjie Chen, the University of Chicago
Maria Denisovna Chikina, University of Pittsburgh
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft Bioinformatics Lab
Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder
Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles
Gang Fang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Caroline C. Friedel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ivan Costa, RWTH Aachen University
Julien Gagneur, Technical University of Munich
Mikel Hernaez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Herrmann, University Heidelberg
Farhad I Hormozdiari, Google Health
Wolfgang Huber, EMBL
Ignacio Ibarra Del Río, Structural and Computational Biology Unit. EMBL Heidelberg
Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Kelley, Calico Life Sciences
Ekta Khurana, Cornell University
Peter Koo, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Dennis Kostka, University of Pittsburegh
Arjun Krishnan, Michigan State University
Kjong Lehmann, UK Aachen
Qunhua Li, Penn State University
Maxwell Libbrecht, University of Washington Genome Sciences
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside
Yunan Luo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shaun Mahony, The Pennsylvania State University
Serghei Mangul, University of California, Los Angeles
Emily R. Miraldi, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Yves Moreau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leelavati Narlikar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune
Yaron Orenstein, Bar-Ilan University
Zhengqing Ouyang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Theodore Perkins, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Nico Pfeifer, Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Andreas Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University
Yuri Pritykin, Princeton University
Xiaoning Qian, Texas A&M University
Gerald Quon, University of California, Davis
Sven Rahmann, Saarland University
Magnus Rattray, The University of Manchester
Tobias Rausch, EMBL Heidelberg
Md Abul Hassan Samee, Baylor College of Medicine
Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University
Manu Setty, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rohit Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Avi Srivastava, New York Genome Center
Oznur Tastan, Sabanci University
David Ashley Van Valen, California Institute of Technology
Yijie Wang, Indiana University Bloomington
Wyeth Wasserman, The University of British Columbia
Joshua Welch, University of Michigan
Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University
Xiuwei Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ruochi Zhang, Broad Institute
Sai Zhang, Stanford University
Martin Zhang, Harvard University
Jing Zhang, University of California, Irvine

Systems Biology and Networks

Anaïs Baudot, CNRS
Jan Baumbach, University of Hamburg
Serdar Bozdag, University of North Texas
Mike Calderwood, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Tsinghua University
Stefan Canzar, Penn State
Hannah Carter, University of California San Diego
Maria Denisovna Chikina, University of Pittsburgh
A. Ercument Cicek, Bilkent University
Evan Cofer, Princeton University
James C Costello, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Yasha Ektefaie, Harvard Medical School
Jason Ernst, University of California, Los Angeles
Fabian Fröhlich, Harvard University
Julien Gagneur, Technical University of Munich
Jesse Gillis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Attila Gursoy, Koc University
Pietro Hiram Guzzi, UMG
Fereydoun Hormozdiari, University of Washington
Trey Ideker, University of California San Diego
Mehmet Koyutürk, Case Western Reserve University
Arjun Krishnan, Michigan State University
Mathieu Lavallée-Adam, University of Ottawa
Michelle Li, Harvard University
Maxwell Libbrecht, University of Washington Genome Sciences
Antoine Limasset, CNRS
Arnaud Mary, LBBE
Paul Medvedev, The Pennsylvania State University
Tom Michoel, University of Bergen
Yves Moreau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
T.M. Murali, Virginia Tech
Chad Myers, University of Minnesota
Khalique Newaz, University of Hamburg
Layla Oesper, Carleton College
Hatice Osmanbeyoglu, University of Pittsburgh
Loïc Paulevé, CNRS/LaBRI, Bordeaux, France
Natasa Przulj, ICREA; Barcelona Supercomputing Center; University College London
Teresa Przytycka, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH
Xiaoning Qian, Texas A&M University
Ben Raphael, Princeton University
Magnus Rattray, The University of Manchester
Camilo Ruiz, Stanford University
Ron Shamir, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Leen Stougie, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
Mahito Sugiyama, National Institute of Informatics
Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre BSC
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova
Esti Yeger-Lotem, Ben Gurion University
Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University
Lin Zhang, University of Toronto

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PerMedCoE is Europe's HPC/Exascale Centre of Excellence for Personalised Medicine that leverages clinical and omics data to revolutionise disease treatment at an individual level. By optimising core applications and integrating them with new HPC/Exascale platforms, the project allows for the simulation of cell-level models for personalised treatments. Through comprehensive use cases, training, and collaboration with the biomedical consortia, this EU-funded Center of Excellence bridges the gap between molecular and organ-level simulations

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At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.

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The Royal Society journals Journal of the Royal Society Interface and Interface Focus regularly publish high-quality cross-disciplinary research at the boundary between the physical and life sciences, including computational and systems biology. We welcome research, reviews, and proposals for themed issues from scientists working in these areas. Both sides of the boundary are considered equally, and Journal of the Royal Society Interface and Interface Focus are some of the only journals to cover this exciting new territory. https://royalsociety.org/journals/

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The SFBI is the French Bioinformatics Society. Its mission is to promote interdisciplinary research in France at the interface between Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics. By collaborating with the other French bioinformatics actors (GDR-BIM and IFB), SFBI brings together the whole French community. SFBI organizes every year the French Bioinformatics conference called JOBIM. By setting up networks, SFBI also supports training, the professional insertion of young bioinformaticians, research projects and educational innovation.

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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an internationally recognized non-profit organization, dedicated to biological and biomedical data science. Its data scientists are passionate about creating knowledge and solving complex questions in many fields, from biodiversity and evolution to medicine, by providing essential databases and software platforms as well as bioinformatics expertise and services to academic, clinical, and industry groups.  https://www.sib.swiss/

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a top-ranked Pediatric Cancer Hospital and a world-renowned basic and translational science research institute with over 200 faculty members. St. Jude offers a highly collaborative research and training environment that includes state-of-the-art facilities and resources. Postdoctoral research fellows will receive a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a professional development allowance. To find out more about our research facilities and benefits for postdocs, click here.

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Founded in 1975, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology is the oldest and largest school of its type in the world. We offer the most comprehensive selection of gerontology degree programs found anywhere, a variety of outstanding research opportunities and a challenging yet supportive academic environment. As a small school rooted in a world-class research university located in the heart of one of the most important cities on earth, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology—and its research and services arm, the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center—are home to today’s leaders in the field, and to tomorrow’s. Our program studies the human lifespan by exploring the biological, psychological, sociological, political, medical and business dimensions of adult life. The curriculum is aimed at equipping future professionals in the field of aging with the specific skills and knowledge necessary to respond effectively to the needs of an aging population.

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X-omics is a National Roadmap Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, partially funded by NWO with a budget of 40 million euro. X-omics aims to establish a multi-omics research infrastructure across the Netherlands, by combining technologies in the field of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and data analysis, integration & stewardship. With this infrastructure biomedical problems can be solved using an integrated approach. Two major goals are:

1. Advance X-omics technologies far beyond state-of-art,
2. Realize an integrated X-omics infrastructure.

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Exhibitor Info

Please read the following information carefully and ensure that you have reviewed your Sponsor/Exhibitor Listing at https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-exhibitors-sponsors/exhibitors If you have questions contact:

Steven Leard
ISMB Conference Director
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ISMB/ECCB 2023 is a table top-display exhibition held in Forum 3, lower level of the Centre de Congrès de Lyon located at: 50 Quai Charles de Gaulle, 69006 Lyon, France.

Virtual Exhibit Booth details

Find details to begin your planning for the virtual booth at:
https://help.junolive.com/exhibitors-speakers/getting-started-for-exhibitors

Attend one of the training sessions for virtual exhibitors offered by JUNO at:
https://help.junolive.com/exhibitors-speakers/attend-a-live-training-session

• Audio Visual and Additional Equipment
• Badges
• Carpet
• Catering
• Conference Venue & Location
• Damage to Premises
• Delivery Information / In-house Transport (Shipping Instructions)
• Demonstrations
• Exhibitor After Hours Access
• Exhibitor Package
• Exhibition Schedule
• Helium Balloons
• Hotel Accommodation
• Indemnification
• Internet
• ISMB Exhibitor Rules
• Lead Generation
• Leaflet Distribution
• Security

Audio Visual and Additional Equipment

If you require AV rental or additional equipment please see the catalogue and order form available.
Orders can be made directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you have questions contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Catalogue: Click to download
Order Form: Click to download

Badges

Exhibitors who are participating in Lyon should collect their name badges from the ISMB/ECCB 2023 Conference Registration located in the Hall Terreaux as shown on the PDF

The registration desk will be staffed during the following hours:

Carpet

The exhibit hall does not include carpet. Carpet can be ordered from the conference venue, GL Events, at a cost of €12.00 (before tax) per square meter. The display space is 2.5m wide x 2.5m deep.  This recyclable carpet can be ordered by contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  All carpets are Dark Mottled Grey

Catering for Exhibitors

If you require catering please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Please note NO outside food or beverages can be brought into the exhibit hall.

Conference Venue and Location

Centre de Congrès de Lyon located at: 50 Quai Charles de Gaulle, 69006 Lyon, France.

Options for getting to Lyon are available here:
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-general-info/faq#airport

Damage to Premises

No nails, screws or other fixtures may be driven into any part of the premises including the floors. Should any damage occur, the Exhibitor would be invoiced for repair charges incurred.

Delivery Information / In-house Transport

Deliveries have to be done the set up day (23rd July) and the Exhibitors must be present during the delivery on its booth or must be represented.

Exhibitors can hand carry in their display and materials at no cost or can be delivered on July 23 and delivered by the conference staff, GL Events, at no cost on July 23. Exhibitors must be present (or their representative) for the delivery to their booth between 12:00 and 16:00. 

Deliveries can be made in advance of July 23 but are charged by GL Events at €150,00 +VAT per day.

If you require a company to assist with customs clearance and deliver you may wish to consider using the Lyon Congress Centre's preferred provider: Clamageran” https://www.clamageran-expositions.fr/en

DELIVERY - REMOVAL
All packages must be delivered during set-up time with a package label (see below), directly to the exhibitor or the organizer, and recovered during dismantling, with the exception of ordered services.

All packages left at the end of the dismantling will be thrown away.

Lyon Convention Centre is not responsible for deliveries and removal of exhibitor packages, and is not a transport contractor. There is no loading dock, please arrange for a truck with tailgate.

STORAGE
For security reasons, empty package storage is forbidden in the exhibition and delivery areas of Lyon Convention Centre. You can order this service from Lyon Convention Centre (ref SEV - 3cbm at the most per exhibitor) or outsource to an external contractor.

Click to download pdf

Demonstrations

Demonstrations and other special activities must be located so that crowds will be comfortably contained within the contracted display space and not blocking any of the aisles. Distracting activities are subject to adjacent exhibitor and ISCB approval. Exhibitors may not play loud music on their stand.

Exhibitor After Hours Access

Exhibitors are allowed access to their stands during set up and tear down hours as well as one hour prior to and one hour after official opening hours. Exhibitors requiring access beyond these times, must receive approval from an ISCB representative.

Exhibitor Package

Your display package includes:

• Display space (2.5m wide x 2.5m deep), one electrical (power) socket, table, waste bin, two chairs. The table dimensions are: L.120 x l.70 x h.70 cm
• Wireless internet available in exhibit area - if you require a dedicated internet connection please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  

Exhibition Schedule

Installation

Sunday, July 23: Noon—4:00 pm

Display Hours

Dismantling / Exhibitor Move out:

Thursday, July 27: 2:00 pm

Schedule at a glance:
https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismbeccb2023/schedule/schedule.php

General Conference Information

General Information on ISMB/ECCB 2023 is available by visiting: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2022-general/faq 

If you require additional information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Helium Balloons

Helium balloons are not permitted.

Hotel Accommodation

The ISMB/ECCB organizers through ISMB's official housing partner bNetwork are able to offer a variety of accommodation options including some adjacent the congress centre.

Full details on booking are available at: https://iscb2023.bnetwork.com

Indemnification

It is understood that the exhibitor assumes entire responsibility for and agrees to protect, indemnify, defend and save ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon and their respective consultants, agents, directors, employees, licensees and assigns them harmless from and against all claims, losses and damages to persons or property, governmental charges of fines and attorney's fees arising out of or caused by exhibitor's installation, removal, maintenance, occupancy or the use of or part thereof negligently or otherwise, excluding any such liability caused by the sole negligence of ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon, or its employees and agents.

The exhibitor shall indemnify the ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon, against, and hold it and its representatives harmless from complaints, suits or liabilities resulting from negligence of the exhibitor in connection with the exhibits use of display space. ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon shall have no liability for loss, damage or theft, through any cause, of goods, hand carried items, exhibits, or other materials owned, rented or leased by the exhibitor. Personal effects, souvenir handouts and other small, easily removed valuable items should not be left unattended. In no event will ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon have any liability for incidental, consequential, special, indirect or punitive damages for any harm arising from, or related to, the use of exhibit space under the contract agreement.

Internet

Complimentary wifi is available in the exhibit area - however if you require a dedicated internet connection for demonstrations, etc please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ISCB Exhibitor Rules and Regulations

Please review the ISCB Exhibitor and Technology Track guidelines for presentations available here. 

Leaflet Distribution

Leaflets may not be distributed from anywhere other than the exhibition stand without receiving prior permission from the Organizers. Leaflets displayed or distributed at any other point throughout the venue, without prior permission, will be removed and destroyed by the Organizers.

Lead Generation

No lead generation technologies are offered at ISMB/ECCB 2023. The conference platform allows delegates to network and exhibitors can use access the platform and this method of networking.

Security

ISMB does not provide security in the exhibit area during off-hours. Exhibitors are encouraged to remove any valuable items from the exhibit area each evening. Please note that ISCB, ISMB, ECCB and the Centre de Congrès de Lyon are not responsible for missing or lost articles at the conference.

ISMB/ECCB 2023 - Travel Fellowship Application
Update: Notifications to be sent May 31

Fellowship Committee:
Wisdom Akurugu, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Priscila Grynberg, Embrapa, Brazil
Anne-Christin Hauschild, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany
Kana Shimizu, Waseda University, Japan

• Funding Information
• Travel Fellowship Application Overview
• Travel Fellowship Key Dates
• Maximum Award Amounts
• Application Process
• Eligibility Requirements
• Eligible Expenses
• Award Notification
• Travel Fellowship Contact
• Travel Fellowship Contributors

FUNDING INFORMATION:

ISCB is pleased to offer travel fellowships, including registration waivers for virtual participants, to ISMB/ECCB 2023 for students and postdoctoral fellows to present a talk or poster at the conference in Lyon, France. Funding sources for Travel Fellowships are very limited and we regret that we are not able to fund all applicants. The conference organizers are committed to providing support to as many eligible applicants as possible. Travel Fellowship consideration is based on membership and accepted work to ISMB/ECCB 2023.

Travel Fellowship Application Invitations are sent directly to eligible individuals after acceptance of a scientific submissions to Proceedings, Abstracts, and/or Posters.

TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION OVERVIEW:

1. The submitting author will be sent the invitation and is responsible for getting the invitation to the presenting author if the work is not being presented by the submitting author;
2. Applicant must be a current member of ISCB prior to submitting an application. The membership must be valid through December 31, 2023;
3. Applicant must be listed as an author and be the presenter of an accepted Oral or Poster presentation (excluding accepted Late Posters) in order to be eligible to apply for travel fellowship funds through ISMB/ECCB 2023
4. All applicants must attend all four (4) conference days and secure additional funding from other sources in order to be able to cover the full costs of attending the conference;
5. The deadline to submit a fellowship application is May 19, 2023, by 5:00 EDT. No exceptions will be made.

MAXIMUM AWARD AMOUNTS

The maximum fellowship award is determined based on geographical location of applicant and upon submission of appropriate receipts. Please note that funded applicants will only be able to cover approximately 50% of the expense of travel and registration fees with these fellowship amounts. Thus all applicants must seek and secure additional funding sources (e.g., from your home institution/university, or grant funding). For ISMB/ECCB 2023 maximum awards are as follows:

Application Process

Application is by invitation-only, sent automatically via email to the submitting author of an accepted Proceedings, Abstracts (previously late-breaking and highlights), and Posters (excluding accepted Late Posters) submissions. This invitation email will arrive after notification of acceptance of one of these submission types as a separate. IF YOU HAVE AN ACCEPTED PRESENTATION AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN INVITATION BY END OF DAY MAY 12 – PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AND THEN CONTACT US IF AN INVITATION IS NOT THERE: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Each invitation will include a travel fellowship application URL to link to an application. The application URL must be submitted by the presenting author only, if he or she meets the qualifying requirements. If the submitting author is not the presenting author, it is the responsibility of the submitting author to forward the invitation to the presenting author if he or she meets the eligibility requirements. Each application URL can only be used one time and no application will be accepted after the deadline of May 19, 2023.

Eligibility Requirements

1. Applicant must be a current ISCB member whose membership does not expire prior to December 31, 2023. Applications will not be accepted from non-members; pending memberships do not qualify and must be paid in full prior to submission of an application.

2. Applicant must be listed as an author or co-author on the original submission of an accepted ISMB/ECCB 2023 Proceedings paper, Abstracts, or Poster (excluding accepted Late Posters), and, per the requirements of the funding agencies, the funded applicant must be the presenting author of the work. (Submitters to the "Call for Late Posters" are not eligible for fellowship funding.)

3. Applicant must be registered in a degree program (undergraduate or graduate) or as a *postdoctoral research fellow at an accredited educational institution at the time of the conference; early career researcher (low - Upper-Middle Economic countries); post docs and employees of any US federal agency are ineligible for funding using US federal funds - currently we have only US federal funds for this travel fellowship program. (*The period of eligibility for a PostDoc is five (5) years from the time of their PhD completion date).

4. Applicant must be prepared to register for ISMB/ECCB 2023 by June 12, 2023, and plan to attend all four conference days. If attendance at the conference is dependent on receipt of travel fellowship funds, please do not register until after the notification of travel fellowship funding. Any funded applicant failing to register for the conference by June 12, 2023 will automatically forfeit the funds so that another applicant can be awarded from among the original pool of applicants.

5. Applicant must be able to pay all expenses of attending the conference up front, including conference registration fee (as noted in #4 above), travel, accommodations and meals. Travel Fellowship funding will be provided via the ISCB payment system (bill.com) via secure electronic funds transfer (wire or ACH) approximately 6-8 weeks after the conference. 

Eligible expenses

Eligible expenses toward travel fellowship funds include registration for ISMB/ECCB 2023, Student Council Symposium or Tutorials, transportation (air or land transportation from home region to conference city), hotel accommodations and a maximum of €250.00 in meal expenses. In order to receive the full-awarded amount, receipts for registration, transportation, and hotel accommodations are required that equal or exceed the awarded amount are required.

Notification

Applicants will be notified no later than May 31, 2023 of the funding status. In some cases applicants may be notified they are on a wait list for funding, which means that ISCB is fully expecting but still awaiting the formal confirmation of our grant award from one or more granting agency, and that awarding of those funds will not be possible until the grant needed to fund the travel fellowship is confirmed. Any wait listed applicant that is eventually awarded funds will be offered the opportunity to register at the early registration rate, therefore, please do not register for the conference if your attendance is fully dependent on being awarded a travel fellowship as any cancellation of an applicant's registration will be subject to the full regular registration cancellation policy.

Funded applicants will be required to present evidence of their eligibility status (such as student identification card) when signing in with the Travel Fellowships Desk to record their attendance. In all cases, funds will be mailed to funded applicants after the conference per the details noted in Eligibility Requirements #5 above.

Contacts

Questions regarding fellowships should be addressed to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The information on this page is subject to change without notice, and all changed information will be considered final for the purposes of awarding and funding ISMB/ECCB 2023 Travel Fellowships.

Contributors

The Travel Fellowships are made possible by generous donations from:

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ISMB/ECCB 2023 Posterpalooza

Virtual poster programme
Wednesday, July 19 and Thursday, July 20, 2023
Start time: 2:00 PM CEST (8:00 am EDT)

• All posterpalooza presenters must upload their poster details between June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 7. No extensions. Upload includes MP4 poster presentation video (5-7 minutes), poster description annd PDF of poster.

Overview:

This virtual event is designed to kick off the conference with a dedicated time to highlight the posters being presented.  Posterpalooza will feature flash talks from our poster presenters and well as the opportunity to connect with the authors.   Each day, the event kicks off with a welcome from ISCB CEO, Diane Kovats.  Flash talks will start at 2:10 PM CEST and poster presenters will be standing by until 5 PM CEST.

To embrace the truly global aspect of the conference and ISCB, poster presenters will be asked to indicate within the virtual platform their available times on July 19 and 20 to discuss their research. Those looking to engage with our poster authors, may schedule a time by clicking on the “Connect with Presenter” feature on the individual poster pages. Participants may also engage with the authors using the chat feature.

ISMB/ECCB 2023 Posterpalooza is an open-access virtual event. You do not need to be registered for the conference to take part in this specific component of the scientific programme. Please do keep in mind that access to the posters, authors, and commenting tools are limited to ONLY July 19 and 20 for those who are not registered for the conference.

Registration for Posterpalooza ONLY is available here: https://iscb.swoogo.com/ismbeccb2023-posterpalooza

Here’s what you need to know…

Connecting to the Platform

1. Open a Chrome browser, while the platform will work on any internet browser Chrome is the best. 
2. Go to https://iscb.junolive.co/ismb2023/Home
3. Log into the platform in the upper right-hand corner. Remember you must use the email address you used during REGISTRATION.
4. Take a moment to complete your profile.  
   1. Click on Icon in upper right-hand corner
   2. Click My Information
   3. BE SURE TO OPT IN to the question “Allow members to contact me”
   4. Click Save

Access the Flash Talks

To access the flash talks, navigate to the Scientific Programme.  The poster flash talks have been organized into thematic groups based on the research area.   To enter the “room”, click on the session title.  Once you are in the “room” the talks will start automatically at the designated start time.  

If you are having issues joining, please conduct a hard refresh of the browser.  If that does not work, we are standing by to assist.  Drop a message in the chat or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

During the Flash Talks, feel free to use the comment features to chat with one another.  To see who else is in the room, scroll own and click on the people icon directly below the player. 

Accessing the Posters

You can access the posters two ways:

• Directly from the Flash Talk Session, scroll down and the posters associated with that research area are linked to the session

OR 

• Via the Virtual Poster Hall – icon on homepage and title in on the top browser bar, click the title or icon and browse the posters at your leisure

Accessing the Authors

We have asked the authors to be standing by for questions and conversation on Wednesday, July 19 and Thursday, July 20 from 2:10 – 5:00 PM CEST.  You can connect with the author by:

1. Clicking on the connect with presenter icon located on the poster page
   1. This will launch a page where you can message or schedule a time to connect!
2. Using the comment feature on the poster page
3. Find the author in the Collaboration Hub – People, this area allows you to search for those participating in the meeting and send a message or set up a time to chat.

Authors will receive a notification via email and the notices within the platform when someone is wishing to connect with them. 

Tips and Tricks

Virtual Audience, we all need a break and caffeine fix. When a session ends, take a breather, but please remember to join a new session from the schedule!

Slides not changing? Refresh or try a different browser.

Unable to screen share while virtually presenting? Security upgrades can prevent screen sharing for unregistered apps - try adding the web browser to the list of permitted apps.

Updates happen - for best experience, please re login to browser at the start of every day and session!

If you are unable to connect, log out and login with a magic link (not password).
For the best virtual experience,  we recommend using the latest version of Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/).

Awards - ISMB/ECCB 2023

Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award
Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper
RCSB PDB Poster Prize
Royal Society of Chemistry Best Poster Prize

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Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

The Outstanding Student Paper Award is given to the student who presents the most thought-provoking or original paper at the Conference, as judged by our panel of experts.

This award is given in memory of Ian Lawson Van Toch, a 23 year old Medical Biophysics graduate student at the University of Toronto who passed away in August 2007. Ian was fortunate to have already discovered his passion for computational biology and how it can - and will - lead to quantum breakthroughs in cancer research. This passion was sparked when Dr Igor Jurisica hired Ian to work in his lab at the Ontario Cancer Institute as a researcher during the summer of 2006. That introduction blossomed into a mentoring relationship that is so vital to helping young students launch their careers.

Our thanks go to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation who has sponsored this award since 2008.

Past recipients of this special award include:

• ISMB/ECCB 2023 - Cassandra Burdziak, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
• ISMB 2022 - Quentin Garrido, Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris, LIGM, France
• ISMB/ECCB 2021 - Jamshed Khan, University of Maryland
• ISMB 2020 - Yannik Schälte, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
• ISMB/ECCB 2019 - Torsten Gross, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt University, Germany and
  Dinithi Sumanaweera, Monash University, Australia
• ISMB 2018: Rani Powers, University of Colorado, United States
• ISMB/ECCB 2017: Kymberleigh Pagel, Indiana University, United States
• ISMB 2016: Yaron Orenstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
• ISMB/ECCB 2015: Farhad Hormozdiari, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
• ISMB 2014: Andrey D. Prjibelski, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia
• ISMB/ECCB 2013: Wyatt Clark, Indiana University, United States
• ISMB 2012: Deniz Yorukoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
• ISMB/ECCB 2011: Sara Berthoumieux, Inria, France
• ISMB 2010: Keren Yizhak, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• ISMB/ECCB 2009: Manfred Claassen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• ISMB 2008: Lucas Ward, Columbia University, United States

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COSI Organizer Information Page

• Last update: May 21, 2023
  
  
• COSI Track Benefits
• Abstract Submission Process
• Live/Virtual Platform Talks
• Abstract Sharing Tool
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  Schedule Overview:
  https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismbeccb2023/schedule/schedule.php
  
  

 COSI Track Benefits

• COSIs receive four (4) complimentary registrations. Complimentary discount codes* will be issued to COSI organizers by March 30, 2023.
  
  *(Please note the code does not allow a non-member to receive the complimentary ISCB membership and will not work if the free membership is chosen.)
  
  
• Speaker Funding- $1000 per COSI day to support TRAVEL of invited speakers. Speakers who will not be presenting in-person may not take advantage of funding.  COSIs may choose to use their escrow funding to give stipends, honoraria, purchase additional registrations, etc.
• Attendee Commissions - At the end of the conference, ISCB will calculate the COSI commissions. Commissions are based on the number of registrants identifying your group as one of their COSIs of interest. A registrant may select up to four COSIs if purchasing a full conference registration. A set commission rate is applied to each paid registrant and shared based on total percentage to the COSI.
  
• Unrestricted use of your COSIs escrow funds to support COSI track speakers or additional events
• Any sponsorship raised by a COSI goes to that COSI's escrow. Note: COSIs are responsible for fulfilling any benefit promised to a COSI-only sponsor. Sponsors wishing to participate in the exhibit hall, for example, would need to pay the conference exhibitor fees.

Key Dates

Process:

• Each COSI manages the decision and notification process for abstracts submitted to that COSI.
• Each COSI identifies 2 or 3 Abstract Chairs (ACs) from within their community to manage the review process for their COSI. These names will be added to EasyChair as Track Chairs for each COSI.
• COSI Abstract Chairs are responsible for identifying a review / programme committee to review the abstracts for both talk and poster presentation within their COSI. ACs will add the programme committee names to their COSI track within EasyChair.
• Authors may submit abstracts for consideration as:
  • Poster only
  • Talk and poster (abstracts in this category if not accepted as a talk should be considered for a poster).
• Ideally each abstract should get a minimum of two (2) reviews and preferably three (3).
• COSI Abstracts Chairs are encouraged to quickly review the abstracts that are submitted to their COSI. If a submitted abstract is not relevant to your COSI please let Steven Leard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) know as quickly as possible and he can transfer the abstract to a more appropriate COSI. Please identify the COSI  you suggest is most appropriate to receive the transfer.
• No later than May 4, COSI Abstract Chairs must report their tentative talk/poster acceptance decisions to ISCB, so that submissions that are not accepted for a talk by the primary COSI can be made available for consideration by other COSIs.
• COSI Abstract Chairs are responsible for notifying  the authors of all abstracts submitted to their COSI by May 11 (via EasyChair)
  
  
  • See Draft Acceptance Letter below.
  • Notifications to authors should state whether the abstract was accepted for a longer talk (of a specified time), a shorter talk, a poster, or rejected.
  • Each presenter will need to sign a form (sent by ISCB) to register for the conference and provide permission allowing their talk to be available through the ISCB Nucleus platform.

• Talks should be scheduled in 20-minute time slots (running in parallel with other conference tracks), with time for questions included. (Typically, if a talk is chosen for a 20-minute slot, the author should be asked to prepare a 15-minute talk, with 5 minutes allocated for Q&A)
• Late Posters: COSI Area Chairs are responsible for reviewing Late Poster submissions to their COSI (opens April 24, closes May 18). *Acceptance notifications sent May 25.
• COSI Area Chairs may wish to recognize a top talk and/or poster. If doing so, the COSI is responsible for awarding their own prizes.  The name of the prize winner name, affiliation and poster title should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than 3:00 pm CEST on Thursday July 27 so the award can be recognized during the closing ceremonies.
  
  

• COSI Track Schedule

  • COSIs should provide their detailed track schedule (including titles, authors, and start/end times) by May 31, 2023 using the template provided by ISCB.
  • Track schedules will be made available on the conference website and through the online ISCB Nucleus platform.

  
  COSI Invited Talks

  • With limited exceptions for health reasons, all invited talks are expected to be in-person.
  • COSI Track Chairs must provide ISCB a list of confirmed invited speakers (name, affiliation, email) no later than May 31. All presenters must be registered for in-person attendance.

  
  Posters

  • All abstracts accepted for poster presentation will receive instruction on how to enter their poster to the ISCB Nucleus platform.
    • ISCB will use the abstract, title, author list, as entered in EasyChair.
    • Each poster entry will include PDF of poster and a recording of the poster presentation.
    • Posterpalooza at ISMB/ECCB 2023.  Poster presenters must upload their poster details between June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 7. No extensions. Upload includes MP4 poster presentation video (5-7 minutes), poster description annd PDF of poster.
       
      https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-programme/posterpalooza

   
  Presentations

• All talks should be presented in-person, if possible, with limited exceptions for health reasons (see section below on Live/Virtual Platform Talks).
  

• All talks, including 5-7 minute poster talks, should be pre-recorded by the presenting author and submitted via the ISCB Nucleus platform
  
  
  Communication with Presenters

  • ISCB will handle the communications with all presenters on how to upload talks and use the ISCB Nucleus platform if presenting virtually.
  • All presenters must be registered for the conference. You can allocate your four (4) complimentary passes as you wish or cover additional passes from your COSI escrow.
  • ISCB also has a fellowship programme  that grants a limited number of free ISMB/ECCB registrations (in-person or virtual). Fellowships are prioritized based on career level and income status of the applicant's  country of residence.

  
  Logistics and Track Execution

  • COSIs are responsible for monitoring their tracks on their scheduled day(s).
  • COSI session moderators are required to monitor Q&A from both in-person and virtual audience and to ensure programme remains on schedule
    
    • We suggest assigning 2-3 individuals to share the work of monitoring each session.

Live/Virtual Platform Talks

For a variety of reasons, ISCB/ECCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue.  Of course, we understand that some presenters will have good reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB/ECCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems.  If research is accepted for oral presentation and the speaker is unable to present in-person, ISCB/ECCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 15, 2023. Speakers will be asked during confirmation of participation to confirm their in-person participation. If unable to participate they will need to request a waiver by writing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In-person presenters will use the provided podium computer (PC) to present slides. Video of the presenter is captured with in-room webcam placed on mic stand in front of podium. Audio and slides are captured through in-house AV system.  A volunteer technical moderator (VTM) is responsible for ensuring the image, slides and sound are transmitted/available through the ISCB Nucleus platform to virtual participants. Meeting rooms will also be serviced by a volunteer room assistant who will support the VTM, AV staff and virtual platform technicians.

A COSI session moderator will be responsible for introducing speakers, keeping talks on-time and moderating questions from the live and virtual audiences.

All presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the ISCB Nucleus platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.

Draft Acceptance Letter:

Congratulations your submission [title] has been accepted for a talk and/or poster  <specify which> at ISMB/ECCB 2023 as part of the XXX COSI. Detailed talk schedules will be available early June and will be posted on the conference programme pages at 

Please take a moment to review these details:

• All talks are expected to be presented in-person, with limited exceptions for personal reasons. Speakers who are unable to attend the conference in-person, and wish to present virtually instead, must request a waiver by writing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than May 15. For more information see: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-submissions/abstracts
• One author must be registered to present the talk and/or poster for the conference. Registration instructions are available at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-register 
• Presenters must be registered by June 16. Your registration ID is required to link your participation with talks and /or posters.
• Presenters of posters and talks will receive a confirmation of participation link that must be completed no later than June 16. This will be emailed directly to you from ISCB.
• ISCB is pleased to offer a limited number of fellowships to support registration and/or travel to any ISCB member in good standing with an accepted talk and/or poster, with priority going to members from low or middle-income countries as well as students and postdoctoral fellows to attend ISMB/ECCB 2023. 

  Travel Fellowship Application Invitations are sent directly to eligible individuals after acceptance of a scientific submissions to Proceedings, Abstracts, and/or Posters.

• While all talks will be presented live, all presenters will also be required to upload a pre-recorded talk for the ISCB Nucleus platform library (deadline TBA). The pre-recorded talk will be made available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless on-demand access to the conference content. Details on recording requirements and deadlines will be available in early June.
• All poster presenters must upload their poster details between June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 7. No extensions. Upload includes MP4 poster presentation video (5-7 minutes), poster description and PDF of poster to the ISCB Nucleus platform to be included in Posterpalooza at ISMB/ECCB 2023. Additional details at: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-programme/posterpalooza
• If you have questions about your presentation please contact the COSI organizers directly.
• For information about conference logistics, including hotels, please see the ISMB/ECCB website. Hotels can be booked at https://iscb2023.bnetwork.com/ 

Abstract Information Sharing tool

For the past several years we have used an Abstract Information Sharing tool to ensure quality submissions might have the opportunity for presentation in an alternate COSI if not selected for a talk within the originating COSI. As Chairs can only see Abstracts in your area the tool is way of sharing basic information on all submissions outside of EasyChair.

As you continue your review process I ask that you update the sharing tool (link below, using the decision column) to let others know the status of your submissions. (for example, a quality talk submission that might only be accepted by your COSI as a Poster could be offered a talk with another COSI). 

The decision column is set up with the following options:

• Accept Talk & Poster - COSI will accept this for a talk and Poster
• Accept Poster Only - COSI will accept this as a Poster only
• Reject - COSI will not accept (e.g. scientifically not sound)
• Available to other COSI - Submission better suited for other COSI

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14Wky4-rZq7mY9Npi9Hp3LmvOCxeOXy-i5kM51IXyOl4/edit?usp=sharing

Please enter your decisions on the sharing tool no later than May 4 (5:00 pm Eastern).  COSI Track Chairs wanting to accept / request a submission from another area need to email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on May 5 to facilitate any abstract moves.

**Remember you must still enter your final decisions in EasyChair and if no other COSI requests a submission be moved from your area you still need to complete the review**