Nov 23: Last Call for ISCB Awards Nominations – Overton Prize and Accomplishment by a Sr. Scientist Award
Jan 06: ISCB Latin America 2012 - Last Call for Abstracts - Deadline: Jan 13, 2012
Jan 06: CSHALS 2012 Last Call for Posters and Early Registration
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues:
Welcome to 2012! As you map out your conference calendar for this New Year, in addition to ISCB's signature conferences (see www.iscb.org/iscb-conferences), be sure to consider participating in these affiliated conferences of our Society. Each one offers a unique mix of scientific content with themes essential to computational biologists and bioinformaticists. Scroll down for details on upcoming key dates and opportunities for the following events.
MCBIOS 2012, Feb 17-18, at Univ of Mississippi, USA
MidSouth Computational Biology Society's annual meeting – themed "Making Sense of the Omics Data Deluge”
http://mcbios.org/content/2012-mcbios-conference
* Oral and Poster presentations deadline: January 17th
* Early registration deadline: February 3rd
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VizBi 2012, Mar 6-8, Heidelberg, Germany
3rd annual Visualizing Biological Data conference, hosted by EMBL
* Poster submission deadline: February 26th
* Early registration deadline: January 29th
* Virtual registration also an option for participation by streaming video and chat
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AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 2012, Mar 19-21, San Francisco, USA
Part of the American Medical Informatics Association's joint summits on translational science; followed by the Summit on Clinical Informatics
http://amia.org/jointsummits2012/tbi-call-for-participations
* ISCB members are eligible for a 10% registration discount
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RECOMB 2012, Apr 21-24, Barcelona, Spain
16th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
* Highlights submission deadline for previously published papers: January 13th
* Early registration discount deadline: January 31st
* Additional 10% discount for ISCB members
* Poster submissions site opening February 7th
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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2012, Apr 24-26, Boston, USA
10th Anniversary includes 12 parallel tracks and 16 pre-conference workshops
http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com
* Early registration discount period ends January 27th
* ISCB members receive an additional 10% registration discount
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Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2012, Aug 15-17, Campo Grande, Brazil
Organized by the comp bio special interest group of the Brazilian Computer Society
* ISCB members receive approximately 14% registration discount
* Full Paper submission period: January 19th through March 19th
* Short Paper submission period: January 19th through June 25th
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ECCB 2012, Sep 9-12, Basel, Switzerland
Hosted by the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and in conjunction with the SIB annual meeting
* Workshop and Tutorial proposals deadline: January 15th
* Subscribe to the conference newsletter via the URL above for alerts on open calls, deadlines, and program updates.
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PSB 2013, Jan 4-8, Hawaii, USA
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing's 18th annual event
http://psb.stanford.edu/CallForSessionProposals.html
* Call for 2013 Session proposals deadline: February 15th
Dear ISCB Members, Colleagues, and Past GLBIO Attendees,
We invite you to participate in the The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference , taking place in Ann Arbor, Michigan this coming May.
ALL CALLS FOR PRESENTATIONS CLOSE IN JUST 10 DAYS!
Oral Presentation Information & Abstract Submission Form Deadline: Jan 20, 2012
Special Sessions Information & Proposal Submission Form Deadline Jan 20, 2012
Tutorial Sessions Information & Proposal Submission Form Deadline Jan 20, 2012
Poster Information & Abstract Submission Form Deadline: Mar 15, 2012
REGISTRATION IS ALSO OPEN:
Online Registration Information and Form Early Regsitration Deadline: April 15, 2012
GLBIO topic areas include Algorithm Development and Machine Learning, Bioimaging, Databases and Ontologies, Disease Models and Epidemiology, Evolution and Comparative Genomics, Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Population Genomics, Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks, Protein Structure and Function, Sequence Analysis, and Text Mining.
This year's keynote presentations will cover a broad range of interesting topics. Keynote Speakers for 2012 are: Howard Cash of Gene Codes, Michael Lynch of Indiana University, Mercedes Pascual of the University of Michigan, and Russell Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University.
We look forward to receiving your submission before the deadline, and to welcoming you to Ann Arbor in May!
Sincerely,
Your GLBIO 2012 Steering/Organizing Committee