Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Nomination deadline: November 30, 2012
ISCB's annual awards are the most prestigious international awards designated
exclusively to researchers in the field of computational biology/bioinformatics,
and you are invited to submit nominations for the 2013 Overton Prize and the
2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award.
The Overton Prize is awarded to an early career scientist, generally within ten
years post-degree, and the Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award is in
recognition of highly significant, long-term career achievement. The winners of
both awards will deliver keynote talks at ISCB's annual meeting,
ISMB/ECCB 2013, in Berlin,
Germany.
Nominations from all regions of the world are encouraged, and the selection of
award winners will be made by an international panel of current and past members
of the ISCB Board of Directors. The nomination form, list of past winners with
links to their bios, and a link to the full policies and procedures of these
ISCB awards, are all accessed at the above URL.
Please consider nominating your highly accomplished peers and senior researchers
who have helped to advance our field in significant and meaningful ways, and
then proceed to the nomination form to ensure they are considered for these
prestigious awards.
Thank you,
Alfonso Valencia
Chair, ISCB Awards Committe
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).
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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 and Colleagues, and Past ISMB and ECCB Conference
Attendees,
Following this year's separate and highly successful ISMB in
Long Beach, California, and ECCB in Basel, Switzerland, we are pleased to
announce these calls for participation for next year's joint
ISMB/ECCB 2013, taking place July
21-23 in Berlin, Germany.
>>
Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be
accessed here <<
The Special Sessions run throughout the
ISMB/ECCB conference in parallel to all other tracks. Specifically, Special
Sessions are sought on "hot topics" of emerging themes that most attendees are
not currently approaching with desired proficiency. Proposals should be of
topics not covered in previous Special Sessions at ISMB or ISMB/ECCB meetings,
but that nonetheless importantly influence bioinformatics and computational
biology. If you are interested in organizing a Special Session at ISMB/ECCB
2013, please link to the details of the call and submission form above, and be
sure to submit your proposal by the October 26th deadline.
>>
Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be
accessed here <<
Submissions are also being solicited for
the Proceedings Track. These are original research papers that, if selected,
will be presented as talks and published in the conference proceedings in an
open access, online-only section of a regular issue of Bioinformatics. Papers
should be submitted in their final form; poor quality submissions or
insufficiently prepared papers are very often rejected. ISMB Proceedings result
in fully citable articles, indexed by Medline and ISI. We encourage you to
submit an unpublished paper of your very best work for consideration by January
7th.
>> Full details of the call and a link to the submission form can be accessed here <<
The Technology Track provides an
opportunity for organizations to showcase their software and/or hardware that is
relevant to the bioinformatics-molecular biology community. To apply for a
Technology Track presentation slot, organizations must complete an online form
by April 26th. Accepted Tech Track applicants are required to make a payment
based on the organization's status as a non- or for-profit enterprise. This
payment is in addition to the conference registration fees required of all
attendees, including presenters in each of the parallel tracks.
On behalf
of the ISMB/ECCB 2013 Steering and Scientific Organizing Committees, we look
forward to seeing you in Berlin next July!br>
Sincerely,
Michal
Linial, Special Sessions Chair
Nir Ben-Tal, Proceedings Track Chair
Rodrigo Lopez, Technology Track Chair
Dear Colleague:
Learn about the activities and impact of the NIH Common Fund’s National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) at a meeting on November 8-9, 2012 in the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), Ruth L. Kirschtein Auditorium. The meeting will be opened by Dr. Francis Collins. In addition Dr. James Anderson will present opening remarks about the NIH Common Fund. Registration is not required; see http://meetings.nigms.nih.gov/meetings/ncbc/ for an agenda and details.
Please share this information with colleagues who may be interested in attending.
Program Summary: The National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBCs) are intended to be part of the national infrastructure in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology. The consortium portal is www.ncbcs.org. There are eight Centers that cover biophysical modeling, biomedical ontologies, information integration, tools for gene-phenotype and disease analysis, systems biology, image analysis, and health information modeling and analysis. The centers create innovative software programs and other tools that enable the biomedical community to integrate, analyze, model, simulate, and share data on human health and disease. Each Center has Cores that are focused on (i) biomedical computational science and (ii) driving biological projects (DBPs) with the intent to drive the interaction between computational and biomedical computational science. There are numerous efforts in education and training that emanate from the Centers and there is an annual all hands meeting. In addition to the Centers, the NIH and other government agencies have a number of funding announcements that are summarized in the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) Funding Page. This also includes a program for Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing. Under the collaborations program, over the course of the program 225 applications for funding have been reviewed at NIH and 33 have been awarded.
This meeting is the culmination of the Year of Outreach which has so far included a special session at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) meeting 2012 in Long Beach on July 16 that focused on NCBC accomplishments. In addition, a set of special articles was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
The main goal of the meeting is to showcase not only the research, training, and outreach in biocomputational science but also highlight the impact that the program has on other researchers and users. The impact of this meeting is expected to be the lasting connections that are built up between programs in biomedical computing and computational biology at NIH.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide travel funds for this meeting. The meeting will not be videocast.
On behalf of the NCBC Project Team,
Peter Lyster, PhD, Program Director, Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, NIH/NIGMS
December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
THE EARLY REGISTRATION DATE FOR ROCKY 2012 EXPIRES IN LESS THAN TWO DAYS! The 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is now just weeks away, and early registration expires this week. With a spotlight on regional development in the computational biosciences, this conference has grown into an international program over its ten year history. 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
Until November 8th the Rocky conference also offers a special Academic Retreat package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free student registration. Gather your colleagues and collaborators and come for a lab retreat in addition to attending for the great science and networking.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS SELLING OUT: Rocky 2012 will be held at the new Viceroy Snowmass Hotel, and a special group rate has been negotiated for attendees: $105 single or $140 double occupancy, plus tax. These rates are available until our contracted block of rooms is full, or November 14th, whichever comes first. You must enter the group code of Rocky2012 to secure rooms at the special rate.
Access Full Hotel Details Here
Please forward this mail to anyone you think should know about this conference. All participants are welcome, and we look forward to your participation!
Sincerely,
The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team