Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Also in
progress: ISCB Officer and Student Council Leader Nominations - deadline June 3,
2012
As a reminder, the International Society for Computational Biology is
encouraging members to submit nominations for the Society's Board of Directors;
the Officer positions of Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary; and the
Student Council Leadership positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer,
and SC Rep to the ISCB Board. Nominations are submitted at
www.iscb.org/nominate (you must
login to your membership record to access the nomination form). In all cases,
self nominations will not be accepted.
If you know of excellent candidates that meet the eligibility requirements
below, please be sure to submit your nomination(s) right away.
Nominations for Board of Directors will be accepted through April 6, 2012.
Election of Board members will take place during the annual ISCB Board of
Directors meeting in July 2012.
Nominations for Officers and Student Council Leaders will be accepted
through June 3, 2012. Election of the Officers and Student Council Leaders
will take place via online voting by the membership in July, 2012, including
availability to a dedicated voting booth at the ISMB conference.
Each nomination requires the name, affiliation, and email address of the
nominee, along with an assurance that the nominee meets the qualifications
and is willing to stand for election for the position in question. The
nomination must also include a few sentences of justification that makes the
strongest case possible for the nominee.
Full information regarding the 2012 nominations/elections timeline, call for
nominations, and Director and Officer responsibilities can be found at
www.iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors/nomination-election-procedures.
We are looking forward to an active participation by the ISCB membership in
the nominations and election process, and we thank you in advance for your
qualified nominations.
Respectfully,
Dietlind Gerloff, Scott Markel, and Anna Tramontano
Co-Chairs, ISCB Nominations Committee
Dear ISCB Members, Colleagues, and Past GLBIO Attendees:
The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference is ISCB's annual event focused on providing an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods within the North American Great Lakes region. The conference fosters long-term relationships, provides networking opportunities for researchers from within the region, and creates a collaborative environment for participants from around the world. The 2013 program has been retooled with new elements that will increase the opportunities to present research at many different stages of development. GLBIO will kick off with tutorials and include a full program of keynotes, selected original research presentations, highlights of published works, flash presentations and posters. Your participation is encouraged!
Registration is now open at: www.iscb.org/glbio2013-register and early registration pricing is available through April 14, 2013.
In addition, all Calls for Presentations are now open:
Original Research Papers (Proceedings) Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Highlight Presentations (previously published papers) Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Flash Presentations (abstracts) Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Poster Presentations (abstracts) Deadline: Mar 22, 2013
GLBIO topic areas include: Algorithm Development & Machine Learning; Databases and Ontologies; Text Mining & Natural Language Processing; Bioimage Analysis; Biological Networks; Chemical Biology; Clinical Informatics & Epidemiology; Disease Models & Molecular Medicine; Evolutionary, Comparative, and Meta-Genomics, Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics; Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics; Personalized Genetics and Genomics: Exome, Genome, Transcriptome; RNA & Protein: Structure, Modification, Localizations, Interaction, Function.
This year's keynote presenters exemplify the diversity of the field within this region: Ivet Bahar of University of Pittsburgh; Ziv Bar-Joseph of Carnegie Mellon University (and recipient of the 2012 ISCB Overton Prize); Jing Li of Case Western Reserve University; and Isidore Rigoutsos of Thomas Jefferson University.
We look forward to your participation! Please help spread the word by sharing this information with your colleagues and collaborators.
Sincerely,
Bruce Aronow, Elodie Ghedin, and Russell Schwartz
GLBIO 2013 Conference Chairs
La Jolla, USA and Munich/Saarbruecken, Germany - The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) announced today their letter to the Presidents of the European Commission, European Council and European Parliament stressing the importance of basic scientific research and the need to exempt this research from budget cuts. The organization, which represents over 3000 member scientists worldwide, supports research using advanced information technology to better understand complex biological systems and processes. This interdisciplinary scientific field is at the core of current scientific progress in many fields. The Society points out that the dominant scientific revolutions happening around the world today are precisely in this intersection of information technology and biology.
The Society advocates against devastating funding cuts to critical basic research. The letter stresses the fact, agreed upon in the scientific community, that project based research alone cannot produce the fundamental breeding ground necessary for breakthrough progress and creation of new economic market segments. It goes on to comment on the competitive nature of scientific research, and the unnecessary loss to the excellence developed throughout the laboratories of Europe should funding for basic research be cut. The Society urges the European Union to look to the success of national members in maintaining funding for critical scientific research, and do the same.
The full content of the letter can be viewed at www.iscb.org/images/stories/active-campaign/2012-Nov20-EC-letter-to-EU-urging-funding-basic-science.pdf
ISCB encourages its members and colleagues to share this Press Release and write immediately to their elected representatives to express their views on the importance of appropriate funding for basic scientific research.
About ISCB
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. The Society serves over 3,000 members from more than 70 countries.
Press Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lengauer, Vice President, ISCB,
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Rost, President, ISCB,
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
Don't miss your chance to network, connect and collaborate with your colleagues at these ISCB affiliated conferences! Registration discounts are available for ISCB members.
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RECOMB 2013, Apr 7-10, 2013, Beijing, China
17th annual international conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology. The conference aims at bridging the computational, mathematical, statistical ad biological sciences.
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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2013, Apr 9-11, 2013, Boston, USA
11th annual Cambridge HealthTech Institute conference includes 12 parallel tracks. The Expo plans to unite 2,500+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 30+ countries. The Expo provides the perfect venue to share information and discuss enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and the drug development process.
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Bio-IT World Asia 2013, May 28-30, 2013, Singapore
The conference will showcase the innovative and disruptive technologies in the field of big data processing and analytics, genomics, molecular diagnostics and translational informatics that have a direct or indirect impact on improving the efficiency of clinical research, healthcare delivery and drug discovery.
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Cambridge HealthTech Institute (CHI) Structure-Based Drug Design Conference, June 19-21, 2013, Boston, MA
The 13th annual conference, with Bio-IT World, focusing on developments in insilico technology, as well as experimental approaches useful for accurately predicting and modeling the structures of proteins in structure-based drug design efforts.
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InCoB2013 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics, September 20-22, 2013, Taicang, China
This 12th annual InCoB Conference has an overall objective to provide a platform for experts and budding bioinformaticians to discuss and exchange ideas and thoughts on the development of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region.
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ISCB Asia TBC 2013, October 3-5, 2013, Seoul, Korea
Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2013, brings together computer scientists, biologists, scientists, engineers, physicists, statisticians, and physicians to create a unique intellectual environment.
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IEEE BioVis 2013, October 13-14, 2013, Atlanta, GA
Come to the 3rd Annual conference on Biological Data Visualization
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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Jan 3-7, 2014, The Big Island of Hawaii
This 19th annual conference is a great way to start the new year among colleagues and friends.
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We look forward to seeing you at some of these conferences and events, enjoying a member benefit discount!
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