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David Eisenberg and Goncalo Abecasis Named 2013 ISCB Award Winners
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award and Overton Prize Award. This year's winner of the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award is David S. Eisenberg of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Overton Prize Award winner is Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
The ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award recognizes preeminent members of the computational biology community who have made major contributions to the field of computational biology through research, education, and service. David Eisenberg exemplifies these qualifications. Eisenberg is professor of chemistry and biochemistry and biological chemistry at UCLA, as well as HHMI Investigator and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics. He studies protein interactions by X-ray crystallography, bioinformatics, and biochemistry, with an emphasis on amyloid-forming proteins. This recently recognized protein state offers opportunities to understand cells in health and disease, and in synthesizing new materials and in understanding processes as diverse as biofilms and corrosion.
Eisenberg has published over 300 papers, he has been cited nearly 50,000 times, and holds half a dozen patents. His numerous awards and accolades include the Harvey Prize in Human Health in 2008, the UCLA Seaborg Medal in 2004, the Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society in 2000, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute of Medicine.
ISCB established the Overton Prize in memory of G. Christian Overton, a major contributor to the field of bioinformatics and founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors, who died unexpectedly in 2000. The Overton Prize is awarded annually to an emerging scientist, in the early to middle stage of their career, who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution to the field of computational biology through research, education, and/or service. ISCB is pleased to honor Goncalo Abecasis, Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, with this award.
Abecasis has been instrumental in the development of computational and statistical approaches for the analysis of human variation and disease. His work focuses on the use of linkage disequilibrium derived from high-throughput data in order to map complex disease susceptibility genes. Methods developed by Abecasis enabled construction of the first chromosome-wide linkage disequilibrium map in humans, provided graphical tools for exploring haplotypes of interest, and provided software for variant calling which was used in the 1000 Genomes Project. Work in his lab is facilitating the identification of genes involved in diabetes, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and other age-related traits.
Abecasis has demonstrated an immense talent for identifying important challenges in modern, high-throughput biology, and has developed excellent computational and statistical methods to address these. He has produced many notable papers, with more than 150 well-quoted articles. Among his many awards and honors, Abecasis is the recipient of the University of Michigan School of Public Health Research Excellence Award in 2008 and was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 2005. He was presented with the Fulker Award in 2000 from the Behavior Genetics Association.
In naming Abecasis as the 2013 Overton Prize Award winner, ISCB recognizes not only the outstanding contributions of Abecasis, but also the importance of the field of statistical genetics and its important relationship to computational biology and bioinformatics.
ISCB will present the Senior Scientist Award and Overton Prize Award at its 21st Annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference, which takes place with the 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013) in Berlin, Germany, July 19-23, 2013. Eisenberg and Abecasis will present their work in keynote talks at ISMB/ECCB 2013.
Full bibliographical articles highlighting the award recipients will be available in the ISMB/ECCB 2013 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year.
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The 5th Annual RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with
DREAM Challenges is just two weeks away! We are very excited that this year's
meeting will offer a very strong program featuring:
See the complete agenda here.
Online registration closes on
Wednesday November 7. It will still be possible to register on-site, but we
recommend that you register now.
Click here to register.
When we
decided in 2008 to combine the RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Systems Biology, the
RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Regulatory Genomics, and the DREAM Project into one
event, our goal was to facilitate conversation among researchers with expertise
in both computational and experimental sciences about the latest approaches for
dissecting regulatory networks and modeling biological processes. The response
has been truly remarkable, and this year's program reflects the increasing
maturity of the field.
We're looking forward to a very impressive set of
presentations and hope that you will be able to join us.
Best wishes,
Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Conference Chairs
December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
Dear ISCB
Members and Colleagues,
The 10th
Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is now less than two months
away. Over the last decade this conference series has grown into an
international program with a spotlight on regional development in the
computational biosciences. Invited and accepted presenters represent a broad
spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and
medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know
your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find
synergies that can drive our field forward.
EARLY REGISTRATION DATE IS APPROACHING: Be sure to take
advantage of early registration rates while they last. If you are not a current
member consider joining ISCB now
for immediate additional savings on your conference registration to this and any
other ISCB conference. Please note that accepted presenters must register at
applicable conference attendee rates by November 6 in order to give a
presentation at Rocky 2012.
Register Here Now
Early Registration Deadline: November 8,
2012
ACCOMMODATIONS SELLING OUT: The
conference has moved to the new Viceroy Snowmass Hotel this year. A special
group rate has been negotiated for Rocky 2012 attendees: $105 single or $140
double occupancy, plus tax. As rooms are booking up fast be sure to book yours
before these special rates are no longer accessible. You must enter the group
code of Rocky2012 to secure rooms at the special rate (if linking to the online
hotel booking form from the conference website, double check that the correct
code auto fills - if it fills as ISCB2012 please manually correct it as that
code is an error and may not result in presenting the deeply discounted group
rate).
Access Full
Hotel Details Here
Until November 8th the Rocky conference offers a special Academic Retreat
package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free
student registration. Forward this invitation to your colleagues and
collaborators and come for a lab retreat in addition to attending for the great
science and networking.
We look forward to your participation!
Sincerely,
The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team
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!
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: March 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 hope you will consider
submitting today. Please also help spread the word by sharing this with your
colleagues and collaborators. We very much look forward to welcoming you to
Pittsburgh next May!
Sincerely,
Bruce Aronow, Elodie Ghedin, and
Russell Schwartz
GLBIO 2013 Conference Chairs
ISMB/ECCB 2013 Call for Special Sessions, Proceedings, Tech Track