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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
Submissions for the
ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics are now being accepted.
This is the third joint meeting of ISCB and ASBCB, and takes place from March
13th -15th in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting will include topics of general
interest in bioinformatics, with a special focus on the bioinformatics of
African pathogens, vectors, and human genetics. We especially welcome abstracts
on the bioinformatics of diseases relevant to Africa, and with the new Human
Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)
initiative the genetics focus is particularly relevant and timely.
Submissions of papers are due by October 24th, and poster abstracts are
due by December 12th. Please visit the conference
submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper or poster
today.
Pre-conference optional events are planned for March 11th and 12th, including a
variety of Training Workshops and Tutorials such as EBI Roadshow training,
EMBnet eBioKit workshops, LIRMM and EMBL instructor-led introduction to
Phylogeny, and a full day session on deep sequencing. For more details on these
events please check the conference website frequently to watch for updates as
they become available.
A limited number of travel fellowships will be made available to students from
African research institutions. Additionally, a grant proposal has been submitted
to a U.S. agency that, if awarded, would help fund American students to attend.
Information on eligibility and application procedures will be posted to the
conference website as soon as full details are known. Early registration will be
offered at discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy
significant savings.
Commit to your participation now - submit your paper or poster (or both!) today.
Yours sincerely,
Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair
Dan Masiga
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Program Committee Chair
Dear ISCB
Members and Colleagues,
The 10th
Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is fast approaching! Over
the last decade this conference series has grown from a small regional event
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.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
The Rocky 2012 Conference provides opportunities for 10 minute flash
presentations on current projects from as many attendees as possible. Original
presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all
areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to
significant problems in biology or medicine.
Submitters are given the
option to apply for a 10-minute "flash" oral presentation, a poster
presentation, or both. We will attempt to accommodate all requests from authors
accepted for presentation.
Submit Here Now
Submission Deadline: October 4, 2012
Acceptance Notification: November 2, 2012
EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Take advantage of early registration rates, and ISCB members save even more. If you are not a current member consider joining ISCB now for immediate savings on your conference registration to this and any other ISCB conference. Please note that accepted presenters must register as a conference attendee by November 6 in order to give a presentation at Rocky 2012.
Register Here Now
Early Registration Deadline: November 8,
2012
We look forward to your participation! Please forward this invitation to your
colleagues and collaborators - the Rocky conference offers a special Academic
Retreat package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a
free student registration.
Sincerely,
The Rocky 2012 Conference
Organizing Team
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in
Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar
von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping
Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special
sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud
and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of
international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the
world's largest sequencing centersin a booming city with easy access from
adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.
Call for Highlights: We invite the submission of talks describing
research published as full journal papers within the last 12 months (between
August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012) on topics including, but not limited to:
computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for
reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA
informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology.
Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like
argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the
field.Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web
site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the
papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the
field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the
relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the
Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than
assign a co-author to make the presentation).
Call for Posters: Poster abstracts in the same topic areas are also
invited. Please submit your poster directly to the
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site by the submission deadline of
October 31, 2012.
Register Today: Conference registration is now open! ISCB members
and BGI staff are eligible for special discounts. All accepted paper and poster
presenters must register and pay to attend the conference. If you are not a
current ISCB member,
consider joining today for instant benefits including discounted
registration to this conference.
We look forward to receiving your
submissions and welcoming you to Shenzhen in December,
Victor Jin, The Ohio State
University - Program Committee Chair
Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference
Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair
November 12-15, 2012
Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay
Redwood
City, CA
Early registration closes soon for the fifth annual RECOMB
Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges.
Members of the International Society for Computational Biology are entitled to
special member rates for registration.
Register now to take
advantage of reduced registration rates.
Over four days, the meeting will feature
15 keynote talks, additional lectures, poster sessions, and discussion of the
results of this year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods
(DREAM), a project designed to identify best practices for predicting the
structure of biological networks. Best performers from this year's DREAM
challenges will have an opportunity to present their methods.
Now an ISCB
official conference, this event is one of the premier annual meetings for
computational and experimental scientists in the areas of regulatory genomics
and systems biology. Over four days, the meeting will feature 15 keynote talks,
additional lectures, poster sessions, and discussion of the results of this
year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a
project designed to identify best practices for predicting the structure of
biological networks. Best performers from this year's DREAM challenges will have
an opportunity to present their methods.
Keynote speakers include:
For more information about the conference,
please visit the
conference website.
We look forward to seeing you in the
Bay Area!
Conference Chairs,
Andrea Califano - Columbia University
Manolis Kellis - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sylvia Plevritis -
Stanford University
Gustavo Stolovitzky - IBM
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centersin a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.
Submit your Highlights Paper today: We invite the submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers within the last 12 months (between August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012) on topics including, but not limited to: computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology. Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a co-author to make the presentation).
Poster abstracts in the same topic areas as Highlights are also invited. Please submit your poster directly to the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site.
ISCB members and BGI staff are eligible for special conference registration discounts. All accepted paper and poster presenters must register and pay to attend the conference. If you are not a current ISCB member, consider joining today for instant benefits including discounted registration to this conference.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to Shenzhen in December,
Victor Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair
Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair