Career Fair will take place Friday, July 12th from 4pm - 6pm in the Exhibition Area.

Click HERE for the digital ISMB Jobs Board or scan the QR code at the ISCB booth 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 Compass Newsletter

Career Compass is a monthly newsletter that features tips on navigating the career search.  You can have your job posted within the newsletter for an additional fee per position.  Positions will remain in the newsletter for three consecutive distributions of the publication.

• $150 USD for members
• $500 USD for non-members

Career Fair Recruiters

• AstraZeneca
• Fulgent Genetics
• Harvard Medical School - Dept Biomedical Informatics
• The Jackson Laboratory
• Ruder Boskovic Institute
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• University of Kansas
• University of Southern California - Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

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3DSIG: Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics

Rafael Najmanovich, University of Montreal, Canada
Douglas Pires, Exscientia, United Kingdom 
R. GOnzalo Parra, Barceolna Supercomputing Center, Spain

Bio-Ontologies

Tiffany Callahan, University of Colorado Denver, United States
Robert Hoehndorf, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

BioInfo-Core

Madelaine Gogol, Stowers Institute, United States
Shannan Ho Sui, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Alberto Riva, Human Technopole, Italy
Brent Richter, Harbinger Health, United States

Bioinformatics in Canada

Aïda Ouangraoua, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Francis Ouellette, Origin Bioinformatics, Canada

BioVis: Biological Data Visualizations

Jan Byška, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Qianwen Wang, Harvard Medical School, United States

BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference

Nomi L. Harris (Chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Karsten Hokamp, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Deepak Unni, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Hervé Ménager, Institut Pasteur, France
Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
Monica Munoz-Torres, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Swapnil Sawant, Phoenix Bioinformatics, United States

CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis

Joaquin Dopazo, Fundación Progreso y Salud, Spain
David P Kreil, Boku University Vienna, Austria
Paweł P Łabaj, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Jagiellonian University, Poland
Wenzhong Xiao, Harvard Medical School, United States

Computational and Systems Immunology

Ferhat Ay, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, United States
Jishnu Das, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States
Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Yuri Pritykin, Princeton University, United States

CompMS: Computational Mass Spectrometry

Wout Bittremieux, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Timo Sachsenberg, University of Tübingen, Germany
Isabell Bludau, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Lindsay Pino, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Marie Brunet, Shrebrooke University, Canada

Education: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Education and Training

Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Wai Keat Yam, International Medical University, Malaysia 

Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research

Casey Greene, University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Alejandra Medina Rivera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

EvolCompGen: Evolution & Comparative Genomics

Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Janani Ravi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Function: Gene and Protein Function Annotation

Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University, United States
Mark Wass, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Ana M. Rojas Mendoza, Centro Andauz de Biologica del Dessarrolo, Spain
Dukka KC, Michigan Technological University, United States

HiTSeq: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications

Can Alkan, Bilkent University,Turkey
Ana Conesa, Spanish National Research Council, Spain; and University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
Francisco M. De La Vega, Stanford University; and Tempus Genomics, United States
Dirk Evers, Dr. Dirk Evers Consulting, Germany
Kjong Lehmann, Centre of Medical Technology, Germany
Christina Boucher, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States

iRNA: Integrative RNA Biology

Michelle Scott, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Athma Pai, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell Medicine, United States
Maayan Salton, Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, Israel

Microbiome

Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Alexander Sczyrba, Bielefeld University, Germany

MLCSB: Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology

Yvan Saeys, Ghent University, Belgium
Maria Brbic, EPFL, Switzerland

NetBio: Network Biology

Anaïs Baudot, CNRS - INSERM - AMU, France
Chad Myers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, United States
Deisy Morselli Gysi, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba - Paraná, Brazil
Scooter Morris, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Martina Summer-Kutmon, Maastricht University, Netherlands

RegSys: Regulatory and Systems Genomics

Shaun Mahony, Penn State University, United States
Anthony Mathelier, University of Oslo, Norway
Alejandra Medina-Rivera, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Lonnie Welch (Ex Officio), Ohio University, United States

SysMod: Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

Shaimaa Bakr, Stanford University, United States
Matteo Barberis, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Chiara Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Reihaneh Mostolizadeh, University of Tübingen, Germany
Bhanwar Lal Puniya, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Meghna Verma, AstraZeneca, United States

Text Mining

Robert Leaman, NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States
Lars Juhl Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Zhiyong Lu, NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States

TransMed: Translational Medicine Informatics & Applications

Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Maria Secrier, University College London, United Kingdom
Irina Balaur, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Irene Ong, Universtiyt of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Bosdriesz Evert, VU Amsterdamn, Netherlands
Heba Sailem, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mansoor Saqi, Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

VarI: Variant Interpretation

Emidio Capriotti, University of Bologna, Italy
Hannah Carter, University of California, San Diego, United States
Antonio Rausell, Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases, France

General Computational Biology

Gary Bader, University of Toronto, Canada
Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University, United States

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Rosa Aghdam,School of Biological Sciences, Institute of fundamental sciences (IPM)
Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze,EMBL Heidelberg
Omar Ahmed,Johns Hopkins University
Kyle Akers,Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Mohammad Al Olaimat,University of North Texas
Jarno Alanko,University of Helsinki
Nico Alavi,Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Blessy Antony,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Faisal Bin Ashraf,University of California, Riverside
Shamim Ashrafiyan,Goethe University Frankfurt
Jennifer Asmussen,Baylor College of Medicine
Behrooz Azarkhalili,Sharif University of Technology
Fatemeh Baghdadi
Tavor Baharav,Stanford University
Ali Tugrul Balci,University of Pittsburgh
Philip Baldassari,Temple University
Sean Bankier,University of Bergen
Sina Barazandeh,Bilkent University
Márcia Barros,Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
Jakub Bartoszewicz,Hasso Plattner Institute
Fritz Bayer,ETH Zürich
Emmanuelle Becker,IRISA / University of Rennes 1
Fatemeh Behjati Ardakani,Uniklinikum and Goethe University Frankfurt
Eugeni Belda,Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
Caroline Belser,Genoscope
Philipp Benner,Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Jamie Bennett,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Evi Berchtold,Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rupa Bhowmick
Ben Bimber,Oregon Health & Science University
Luka Borozan,J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Mathematics
Aritra Bose,IBM
Matthew Brendel,Cornell University
Helene Bret,CEA saclay
Galadriel Brière,AMU - I2M - MMG
Diyue Bu,Indiana University Bloomington
Doruk Cakmakci,McGill University
Kai Cao,Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Arnab Chakrabarti,RWTH Aachen University
Sakshar Chakravarty,University of California, Riverside
Hanrong Chen,Genome Institute of Singapore
Nae-Chyun Chen,Exai Bio
Shuyang Chen,University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karishma Chhugani,University of Southern California
Uthsav Chitra,Princeton University
Yongin Choi,University of California, Davis
Saket Choudhary,University of Southern California
Carolina Chung
Davide Cirillo,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Andrew Cirincione,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ivan Costa
Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington,McGill University
Fernando Hugo Cunha Dias,University of Helsinki
Fabiola Curion,Technical University of Munich, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Pawel Czyz,ETH Zurich
Raghuram D R,University of Bielefeld
Alister D'Costa,Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Ning Dai,Oregon State University
Supratim Das,Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Pune
Fernando Miguel Delgado Chaves,Institute for Computational Systems Biology
France Denoeud,Genoscope, CEA/Université Paris-Saclay
Alice Descoeudres,Gene center LMU Munich
Aboud Diab,Simon Fraser University
Diego Diaz,University of Chile
Yi Ding,Stanford University
Meleshko Dmitrii,enter for algorithmic biotechnologies, SPbSU
Natnatee Dokmai,Indiana University Bloomington
Gabriel Dolsten
Daria Doncevic
Sergio Doria,BSC
Yoann Dufresne,Institut Pasteur
Jorge Duitama,Universidad de los Andes
Kai Dührkop,Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Shane Elder,Carnegie Mellon University
Li Fang,Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peiyuan Feng,Tsinghua University
Mathew Fischbach,University of MInnesota
Yilei Fu,Rice University
Qiang Fu,Sciensano
Lara Fuhrmann,ETHZ
Yang Gao,Zhejiang University
Carlos Garcia-Hernandez,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Johannes Gawron,ETH Zürich
Ali Ghaffaari,Bielefeld University
Krzysztof Gogolewski,Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw
Daniel Gonçalves,IDMEC/IST
Assaf Gottlieb,School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth
Ellie Haber,Carnegie Mellon University
Armin Hadziahmetovic,LFE Bioinformatik LMU
Maryam Haghani,Computer science department, VirginaTech
Tom Aharon Hait,Tel Aviv university
Yuhan Hao,New York Genome Center
Ananth Hari,University of Maryland
Lincoln Harris,University of Washington
Austin Hartman,New York Genome Center
Michael Hartung,University of Hamburg
Ramin Hasibi,University of Bergen
Arshia Hassan,University of Minnesota
Dennis Hecker,Goethe University Frankfurt
Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh,Institute of Computational Biology - Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
Matthias Heinig,Max-Planck-Institute for molecular genetics
Demetrius Co-Review Hernandez,The University of Texas at El Paso
Quang Minh Hoang,Carnegie Mellon University
Ermin Hodzic,Simon Fraser University
Nils Hoffmann
Jan Hoinka,NCBI, NIH
Tanja Holstein,Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung
Liang Hong,The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yuhui Hong,Indiana University
Rob Hooft,Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences
Kangcheng Hou,University of California, Los Angeles
Dewei Hu,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
Hongru Hu,University of California Davis
Jian Hu,Emory University
Ruifeng Hu,UTHealth-Houston
Zhihang Hu,CUHK
Tianyang Huang
Alissa M. Hummer,Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Linh Huynh,UCD
Martin Hölzer,Robert Koch Institute
Junichi Iwakiri,The University of Tokyo
Laurent Jacob,CNRS
Shani Jacobson,Tel Aviv University
Elham Jafari,INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Aleksander Jankowski,University of Warsaw
Anupama Jha,University of Washington
Minxue Jia,University of Pittsburgh
Markus Joppich,Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Akshay Juyal,Georgia State University
Sandeep Kambhampati,Harvard University
Mostafa Karimi,Amazon.com
Nikoletta Katsaouni,Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration
Panagiotis Katsonis,Baylor College of Medicine
Farah Zaib Khan,Australian Biocommons
Mariyam Khan,University of Bergen
Parsoa Khorsand,University of California, Davis
Bryce Kille,Rice University
Yejin Kim,University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Alexandra Kolodyazhnaya
JungHo Kong
Tomasz Kosciolek,Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Thomas Krannich,Robert Koch Institute
Fleming Kretschmer
Gregory Kucherov,CNRS/LIGM
Halil Ibrahim Kuru,Bilkent Universtiy
Doyoung Kwak,Texas A&M
Zlatko-Salko Lagumdzija,University of Maryland College Park
Kaari Landry,University of Manitoba
Sanghoon Lee
Yoonkyu Lee,University of Minnesota
Ingoo Lee,School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego
Yipin Lei,Silexon
Marta Lemanczyk,Hasso-Plattner-Institute at University of Potsdam
Hagai Levi,Tel Aviv University
Dongshunyi Li,Carnegie Mellon University
Gang Li,University of Washington at Seattle
Guangyuan Li,Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Hechen Li,Georgia Institute of Technology
Heng Li
Heng Li,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
Mengzhen Li,Case Western Reserve University
Pengyuan Li,IBM Research
Ruoxin Li,University of California, Davis
Shuang Li,Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Wei Vivian Li,University of California, Riverside
Weiling Li,Weill Cornell Medicine
Xiang Li,Pennsylvania State University
Yan Chak Li,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Zhijian Li,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Shaoheng Liang,UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Zhirui Liao,Fudan University
Jeanine Liebold,Universität Hamburg
Arnaud Liehrmann,Université Paris-Saclay
Dawei Lin
Lynn Lin,Duke University
Xing Liu,BGI-Shenzhen
Xinhao Liu,Princeton University
Ziyu Liu,Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Xinyang Liu
Junyan Lu,University Hospital Heidelberg
Adriaan Ludl,Universitet i Bergen
Marcus Ludwig,Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Xiang Ge Luo,ETH Zurich
Xiao Luo,Bielefeld University
Cong Ma,Princeton University
Wenjing Ma,Emory University
Xiaojun Ma,University of Pittsburgh
Sita Sirish Madugula
Hugo Magalhães,Heinrich Heine University, Institute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics
Andreas Maier,Institute for Computational Systems Biology (Cosy.Bio) - University of Hamburg
Muhammad Ammar Malik,University of Bergen
Noel Malod-Dognin,University College London
Astrid Manuel,University of Texas Health Science Center
David Marciano,Baylor College of Medicine
Sergei Margasyuk,Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology
Alexander Martinez Fundichely,WCM
Nuno Martinho,IST-IBB
Zachary McCaw,Harvard University
Alan Medlar,University of Helsinki
Katarina Mihajlovic,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Marianna Milano,università magna graecia catanzaro
Gutama Ibrahim Mohammad,University of Bergen
Fatemeh Mohebbi,Georgia State University
Amirsadra Mohseni,University of California, Riverside
Yasser Mohseni Behbahani,Sorbonne Université
Arnau Montagud,Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Pablo Monteagudo,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Cecile Moulin,INRAE
Marcin Możejko,University of Warsaw
James Nagai,Institute for Computational Genomics, RWTH University Hospital
Sayyed Ahmad Naghavi Nozad,Bilkent University
Sourena Naser Moghaddasi,University of Victoria
Seyednami Niyakan,Texas A&M University
Esmaeil Nourani,Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
Daniel Novikov,Georgia State University
Robert Nowak,Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Computer Science
Yannek Nowatzky
Melania Nowicka,Freie Universiteat Berlin
Iker Nuñez,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Johan Nystrom-Persson,JNP Solutions
Felix Offensperger
Cerag Oguztuzun,Case Western Reserve University
Sofiane Ouaari,University Tübingen
Mhaned Oubounyt,chonbuk national university
Xinhai Pan,Georgia Institute of Technology
Suman Pandey
Sungjoon Park,UC San Diego
Tae Yoon Park,Princeton University
Saeid Parvandeh
Antoine Passemiers,KU Leuven
Yesha Patel,University of Southern California
Eric Pederson,University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kerui Peng,University of Southern California
Xingang Peng,Tsinghua University
Rafael Peres da Silva, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mauricio Perez,Genome Institute of Singapore - A*STAR
Mihaela Pertea
Nadia Pisanti,University of Pisa
Daniel Platt,IBM
Miguel Ponce de Leon,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Stephanie Portillo
Niklas Probul,Computational Biology
Guillermo. Prol Castelo
Taneli Pusa,Aalto University
Yue Qin,University of California San Diego
Yutong Qiu,Carnegie Mellon University
Daniele Raimondi,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Félix Raimundo,Google
Suraj Rajendran,Weill Cornell Graduate School
Koushul Ramjattun
Nimrod Rappoport,Tel Aviv University
Milong Ren
Shaogang Ren,Texas A&M Unviersity
Yihui Ren
Jubair Ibn Malik Rifat,University of North Texas
Sarah Robinson,University of Oxford
Sandra Romain,INRIA
Stefano Roncelli,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
Cynthia Ronkowski,University of Southern California
Krishna Roskin,Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Kevin Rupp,ETH Zurich
Ben Rush
April Sagan
Bikram Sahoo,GSU
Justin Sanders,University of Washington
Nicolae Sapoval,Rice University
Sinem Sav,EPFL
Castrense Savojardo,University of Bologna
Leah Schaffer,University of California, San Diego
Johannes Schlüter,Universität Bielefeld
Lancelot Seillier,RWTH Aachen University Clinic
Saleh Sereshki,University of California Riverside
Kishwar Shafin,Google LLC
Mina Shaigan,Institute for Computational Genomics, RWTH University Hospital
Pramesh Shakya,University of Central Florida
Elham Shamsara,Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen
Nitesh Kumar Sharma,University of Southern California
Jim Shaw,University of Toronto
Yihang Shen,Carnegie Mellon University
Yoshihiro Shibuya,Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Neda Shokraneh,Simon Fraser University
Moustafa Shokrof,University of California Davis
Hantao Shu,Tsinghua University
Li Shuya,Tsinghua University
Juliana Silva Bernardes,UMR 7238 CNRS Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative
Haris Smajlovic,University of Victoria
Johannes Soeding,Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nataliya Sokolovska,Sorbonne University, INSERM, NutriOmics
Arda Soylev,Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Ana Stanescu,Department of Computer Science, University of West Georgia
Benjamin Strober,Havard School of Public Health
Alexander Strzalkowski,Princeton University
Yiqi Su,Virginia Tech
Hong Su
Junhao Su,University of Hong Kong
Amanda Sun
Paulina Szymczak,University of Warsaw
Ichigaku Takigawa,Hokkaido University
Nure Tasnina,Virginia Tech
Haotian Teng,Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Teo,A*STAR GIS
Goro Terai,The University of Tokyo
Tingzhong Tian,Tsinghua University
Yatish Turakhia,University of California San Diego
Petri Törönen,University of Helsinki
Varun Ullanat,Harvard Univeristy
Jens-Uwe Ulrich,Hasso Plattner Institute, University Potsdam
Ali Burak Unal,University of Tuebingen
Texas University,texas a&m university
David van Bruggen,Harvard University
Yashu Vashishath,University of North Texas
Mariia Vlasenok,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Lucy Vost,University of Oxford
Lacey Walker
Sarah Walker
Fangping Wan,Tsinghua University
Zhiyu Wan,Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chen Wang
Hanchen Wang,Genentech & Stanford
Kun Wang
Wen Wang,University of Minnesota
Xingyan Wang,Penn State College of Medicine
Yihe Wang,University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Weidong Wang
Lucia Williams,Montana State University
Roland Wittler,Bielefeld University
Cas Wognum,Universiteit Utrecht
Sarah Wright
Yue Wu,UCLA
Stefan Wuchty,Univ. of Miami
Alexandros Xenos,Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
Guanjue Xiang,Data science department, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Fangxiong Xiao
Lei Xie,Hunter College, The City University of New York
Chencheng Xu,Tsinghua University
Junyan Xu,National Cancer Institute
Chenling Xu,Triplebar
Duo Xu,Cornell University
Chao Yan,Vanderbilt UNIVERSITY
Hua-Ting Yao,Ecole Polytechnique
Melih Yilmaz,University of Washington
Kaan Yorgancioglu,Case Western Reserve University
Yuning You,Texas A&M University
Zheng Yuan,Alibaba DAMO Academy
Elizabeth Yuu,Hasso Plattner Institut
Carme Zambrana,Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Xiaofei Zang,Pennsylvania State University
Qiuhai Zeng
Haowen Zhang,Georgia Institute of Technology
Ran Zhang,University of Washington
Richard Zhang
Xiang Zhang,University of Minnesota
Xinru Zhang
Yang Zhang,Carnegie Mellon University
Yanlin Zhang,McGill University
Yujie Zhang,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ziqi Zhang,Georgia Institute of Technology
Liang Zhao,University of South Carolina
Xiaoyu Zhao,UCSD
Zhengqiao Zhao
Liang Zhao,University of South Carolina
Zhenxian Zheng,Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
Jingtian Zhou,UCSD
Qinghui Zhou,University of Victoria
Tianming Zhou,Carnegie Mellon University
Tianshuo Zhou,Oregon State University
Rui Zhu,Indiana University
Yingying Zhu,UTA
Houxiang Zhu,University of Chicago
Licheng Zong
Ozan Özışık,Yildiz Technical University
Hakime Öztürk,Boğaziçi University

Topic: ISCB Town Hall
Date: Monday, July 15, 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: 518

Description:
Join us at the ISCB Town Hall meeting on Monday, July 15, 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM to learn more about the latest programs, initiatives, and conferences. This is also your chance to help shape the future of ISCB by providing feedback and suggestions.

The Town Hall will close with a celebration of achievement with the announcement of the Wikipedia Competition Award winners, Student Council Symposium award winners, a celebration of the 2024 Class of Fellows, and announcement of the incoming Board of Directors.

Links within this page: Opening reception with Exhibitors | Success Circles | Explore Montreal | Yoga at ISMB | Bioinformatics.ca 25th Anniversary | BioInfo-Core Social Event | BioVis Informal Dinner | CAMDA Dinner | CompMS Social Event | iRNA Dinner | SysMod Social Event | Women in Computational Biology Meetup

Opening Reception with Exhibitors

Date: Friday, July 12, 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Location: 517c (Level 5) Palais des Congrés de Montréal

Join us for the Opening Welcome Reception in 517ab (Level 5) at the Palais des Congrés de Montréal following the opening keynote. Visit with conference exhibitors and join delegates in this informal and fun networking event. The opening reception is open to all registered delegates.

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Success Circles

Date: Sunday, July 14, 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: 517c (Level 5) Palais des Congrés de Montréal
Cost: $10

Join us for an exciting and innovative networking experience at ISCB's Success Circles event! Success Circles is a unique take on traditional thought-leader sessions, designed to foster meaningful connections and facilitate knowledge sharing among attendees. Attendance is limited and registration, at a cost of $10.00, is required. Learn more by visiting https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024/programme-schedule/success-circles 

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Explore Montreal

Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
Time: 18:00
https://experience.mtl.org/en/iscb2024

As the scientific programming and networking end on Saturday, we invite you to embark on a journey of exploration and discovery in this captivating city.

Montreal, with its rich history, cultural diversity, and dynamic nightlife, offers a tapestry of experiences waiting to be unraveled. Take this opportunity to immerse yourself in the unique charm of this city on your night off.

🌃 Explore the Old Port: Wander through the cobblestone streets, enjoy the stunning waterfront, and soak in the historic ambiance of Old Montreal.

🎨 Art and Culture: Dive into the city's artistic scene by visiting world-class museums, galleries, and theaters. Montreal's cultural landscape is sure to leave you inspired.

🍽️ Culinary Delights: Indulge your taste buds in Montreal's renowned culinary scene. From classic French cuisine to diverse international flavors, there's something for every palate.

🕺 Nightlife Extravaganza: Dance the night away in Montreal's vibrant nightlife. Discover trendy bars, live music venues, and perhaps try your luck at the city's famous casinos.

🌌 Mont Royal Lookout: For a breathtaking view of the city lights, hike up Mont Royal and witness Montreal's skyline illuminated under the stars.

Feel free to create your own adventure, and make the most of your night in Montreal. We guarantee it will be a memorable experience that adds an extra dash of excitement to your conference stay. Not sure what to do? Let Tourisme Montreal help by visiting https://www.mtl.org/en/what-to-do

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Serene Stretch Symposium - Yoga at ISMB 2024

Date: July 13-16, 2024
Time: 07:30 - 08:00
Location: Palais des Congrés de Montréal, Level 2, Hall Viger
Cost: $20

Start the day with an invigorating morning yoga class to feel energized and relaxed for the scientific programme. Classes are suitable for beginners. $20 provides a travel mat and a guaranteed spot all four days and you can sign-up while registering for ISMB 2024!

You may also join complimentary, ensure you bring your own yoga mat or towel.

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Celebrating 25 years of Bioinformatics.ca

Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
Time: 18:00
Location: 710a
Cost: $50

Join us in celebrating 25 years of delivering workshops and building up bioinformatics across Canada. Attendance is open to everyone especially if you are an alumnus, but space is limited and registration is required.  You can register while registering for ISMB 2024 for $20 or you can register here for the celebration only for $50.

Come connect or reconnect with us, and help us embark on the next 25 years!

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BioInfo-Core Social Event

Date: Monday, July 15, 2024
Time: 19:30
Location: 3 Brasseurs
                732 Ste-Catherine Ouest,
                Montréal, QC, H3B 1B9
Cost: Pay your own way

Join us for an evening of socializing and dining with fellow Bioinfo-Core community members in a relaxed atmosphere. We look forward to seeing you there!

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BioVis Informal Dinner

Date: Sunday July 14, 2024
Time: 19:00
Location: 104 Saint-Paul East
    https://pangeamtl.com/
Cost: pay your own way

There is no entrance fee, but everyone is expected to pay for their own food and drinks.  The event is an invitation to join us in a pleasant environment to talk with our invited speakers and other people interested in BioVis COSI topics over a dinner. An opportunity to sign-up to join will be available during the registration process.

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CAMDA Dinner & Drinks (al fresco! outdoors but covered)

Date: Monday, July 15, 2024
Time: 18:30
Location: Marché des Éclusiers
Cost: $79
Capacity: 95 people

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CompMS Social Event

Date: Monday, July 15, 2024
Time: 7 pm
Location: 3 Brasseurs
Cost: $15

3 Brasseurs
1255A Crescent St, Montreal, Quebec
H3G 2B1, Canada

An opportunity to add this event to your schedule will be available during the registration process.

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iRNA Dinner

Date: Saturday, July 13th
Time: 19:00
Location: Bistro-Brasserie Les Soeurs Grises
Cost: $65 USD
Capacity: 50 people (sign up early!)

Members of the iRNA community are invited to join the iRNA keynote speakers for scientific exchange and informal discussions over local cuisine and drinks at Bistro-Brasserie Les Soeurs Grises. The dinner will be a 3-course sit down meal, with drinks included at dinner, followed by our traditional iRNA quiz to test your knowledge and get to know Montreal!

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SysMod Social Event

Date: Monday, July 15, 2024
Time: 18:30
Location: Tiradito,
                1076 Rue de Bleury,
                Centre-Ville,
                Montréal, QC H2Z 1N2

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Women in Computational Biology Meet-Up

Date: Saturday, July 13, 2024
Time: 18:30
Location: Lipstick Forest (1st Floor) Palais des Congrés de Montréal

🌟 Hey Science Women! 🌟

We're thrilled to announce a special event just for us – the Women in Computational Biology Meet-Up! 🚀🔬

Join us for a casual and inspiring gathering where we can connect, share our experiences, and empower each other. Whether you're a seasoned researcher, a budding scientist, in academia or industry, this is your chance to mingle with fellow leading women in the field and build some fantastic new connections. We will meet Saturday at 6:30 PM at the Lipstick Forest on the first floor of the Palais Des Congres, and explore Montreal together!

If you are interested, an opportunity to add this event to your schedule will be available during the registration process. Additionally, we have created a forum channel, please join at https://iscb.junolive.co/ISMB24/connect/forum/19819

Mark your calendars, spread the word, and get ready to make some magic happen at the Women in Computational Biology Meeting! 💫 Can't wait to see you there!

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ISMB 2024 was an incredibly successful and memorable event! With over 1,900 participants from various countries, both in-person and online attendance, it was a diverse and engaging experience. The impressive number of talks, panel discussions, and posters shows the depth and breadth of scientific content covered during the conference. The Exhibition Hall, where participants could interact with exhibitors, provided a great opportunity for networking, job exploration and exploring new ideas and technologies. ISMB 2024 wouldn't be possible without the dedication and hard work of volunteers, and it's heartening to see their efforts being acknowledged. Plan now to join us in 2025 in Liverpool, England, July 20-24. ISMB/ECCB 2025 is a highlight of the summer for the scientific community, and the upcoming conference in Liverpool holds promising prospects for further scientific advancement and collaboration.

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper | Wikipedia Winners | Bio-ontologies COSI | BioVis COSI | CAMDA COSI | CompMS COSI | EvolCompGen COSI | HiTSeq COSI | iRNA COSI | NetBio COSI | RegSys COSI | TransMed COSI

Award Winner
Charles Broadbent, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Deciphering High-order Structures in Spatial Transcriptomes with Graph-guided Tucker Decomposition

With Support From:

1st prize (english)
Andrew Thompson
Jue Zhang
Julian Renton
Jonathan Reilly
Jake Costello
Imaging informatics

2nd prize (english)
Menaka Thambiraja
Shricharan Senthulkumar
Comparative genomics

3rd prize (english)
Jonah Fortkamp
Ilias Baktybek
Mihajlo Chonex
Jake Costello
Kyle Reynolds
Orphan gene

1st prize (non-english)
Andres Arrendondo Cruz
Cesar Augusto Aguilar Martinez
Shaday Guerrero Flores
Diana Oaxaca
Mineria genomica

2nd prize (non-english)
Mariela Arias
Grupo de genes metabolicos

3rd prize (non-english)
Jaime Salvador Lopez
Reagrupemiento

Bio-ontologies COSI

Best Paper
Matthew Cannon (Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, United States)
Extracting Clinical Significance for Drug-Gene Interactions using FDA Label Packages

BioVis COSI

Osho Rawal, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Sacha Gnjatic, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
Zeynep H. Gümüş, Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai, United States
PRIMAVO: Precision Immune Monitoring Assay Visualization Online

CAMDA COSI

1st Prize
Patrick Smyth, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada
Using Gradient Boosting to Predict Health States from Composition and Function of the Gut Microbiome

2nd Prize
Zuzanna Karwowska, Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Microbiome time series data reveal predictable patterns of change

3rd Prize
Nelly Selem Mojica, Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas UNAM, Mexico
Integrating Taxonomic and Functional Features for Gut Microbiome Health Indexing

CompMS COSI

Best Talk
Lincoln Harris
Imputation of cancer proteomics data with a deep model that learns jointly from many datasets

Best Poster
Justin Sanders
A transformer model for de novo peptide sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data

EvolCompGen Awards

Best Long talk
Abigail Bunkum
SPICE: Probabilistic reconstruction of copy-number evolution in cancer

Honourable Mention
Mathieu Gascon
Simultaneously Building and Reconciling a Synteny Tree

Best Short talk
Evan Brenner
Predicting pathogen preferences and host adaptation by leveraging microbial genomics and machine learning

Honourable Mention
Felix Langschied
Evolutionary dynamics of microRNAs pinpoint innovations in the gene regulatory network of vertebrates

Best Poster
Camila Castillo-Vilcahuaman
Genomic Characterization of Bartonella Species Associated with Carrion's Disease: Insights into Evolution and Virulence

Honourable Mention
Henry Secaira-Morocho
Multi-copy phylogenetic marker genes increase the accuracy of species tree in prokaryotic species

HiTSeq Award

Best Poster
Nicolas Jacquin
K-mer Walking: An Efficient Reference-Free Algorithm for Flanking Sequence Reconstruction

Best Presentation (tie)
Vikram Shivakumar, John Hopkins University
Sigmoni: classification of nanopore signal with a compressed pangenome index

Rija Zaidi, University College London
Accurate and robust bootstrap inference of single-cell phylogenies by integrating sequencing read counts

iRNA Award

Best Poster (tie)
Carmelle Catamura (UC Berkeley, USA)
Designing de novo splicing with deep learning for allele-specific silencing of disease genes

Roman Sarrazin-Gendron (McGill, Montreal)
Assembling a database of heterogeneous RNA 3D loop modules from conserved substructures

Roni Cohen-Fultheim (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Largescale genome-wide quantification of A-to-I RNA editing in Alu elements

NetBio COSI

Best Talk
Merel Kuijs, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
GraphCompass: Spatial metrics for differential analyses of cell organization across conditions

Best Poster - Method
Emily Bozich, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Protein interaction network topology predicts in vitro synergy comparable to approaches trained with experimental data

Best Poster - Case-study/Application
Bahareh Parcheh Bafi, MCPHS, United States
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Uncover SPI1 Regulatory Targets Important in Breast Cancer

Best Poster - Resource
Davide Buzzao, Stockholm University (DBB), Sweden
FunCoup 6: advancing functional networks across species with directed links and improved user experience.

RegSys COSI

Best RegSys Talk (student)
Emily Maciejewski
Cross-species and tissue imputation of species-level DNA methylation samples across mammalian species
 
Best RegSys Talk (postdoc/other)
Melanie Weilert
Chromatin accessibility is driven by intra-nucleosomal pioneer cooperativity that includes low affinity motifs
 
Best RegSys Poster (student)
Pedro Tomaz da Silva
DNA language models reveal the architecture of nucleotide dependencies in genomes”
 
Best RegSys Poster (postdoc)
Océane Cassan
Automated and genome-scale exploration of the cis-regulatory code involved in neuronal differentiation

TransMed COSI

Best Oral Presentation
Rawan Shraim, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Drexel University, US
A computational approach for the high-throughput identification of cancer-specific antigens for immunotherapeutic development
 
Best Poster Presentation
Christian Anderson, Lowy Medical Research Institute, US
Phenomics Analysis of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2: Unveiling Correlations, Prognostic Indicators, and Subtypes in Disease Progression

Links within this page: 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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ISCB recognizes that many of our members have personal care responsibilities that can present a challenge to attending scientific conferences, and hence interfere with career advancement. We also recognize that you know best how to care for your own dependents and what their needs are.

Accordingly, ISCB offers Dependent Care grants in the amount of $600 USD to as many eligible candidates as allowed by available funding to be used towards expenses that will facilitate the member’s attendance at ISMB 2024.

Candidate eligibility

• Be an ISCB member in good standing (active membership at the time of the application and during the conference).
• Have a submission accepted for presentation at ISMB 2024 in which the candidate is the presenting author. Any presentation is eligible, but priority will be given to members presenting talks.
• Be a primary caregiver (the one that cares more than 50% of the time) of a child or dependent adult at the time of the conference OR be an individual that requires caregiving assistance on a daily basis
  
  • Alternatively, the award can be used if the member needs caregiving assistance during the conference
• Priority will be given to applicants who have a demonstrated need and/or are in early stages of their academic careers (e.g., graduate students, postdocs), as well as ISCB members working in non-high-income countries.

Eligible expenses include (but are not limited to) providing airfare for your child or for a caregiver to accompany you and attend functions with you if needed, costs for childcare at home while you are away (be it professionally provided or costs related to having a relative fly to provide care), or extra help paying for on-site care. Awardees can spend this money as they think best.

Applicants will be asked to provide:

• Career stage (undergraduate student/graduate student/postdoctoral researcher/non-tenured faculty/tenured faculty/unemployed).
• Age of dependents, if applicable.
• Description of role as caregiver for a dependent adult, child, or relative; or needs for personal assistance.
• A brief justification of the need for this award and how the award will be used (300 words max).

Payments will be sent promptly following the completion of the meeting after the awardee submits proof of attendance.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2024
Notifications will be sent by June 7, 2024

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