Mark Your Calendars: ROCKY 2013 Registration Opens August 10th!

Join us in Colorado for the ROCKY 2013 Conference!

The Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is in its 11th year in the beautiful mountains of Aspen/Snowmass.  The conference brings together scientists and students from around the world for three days of 10-minute flash talks, plenty of time for networking and forming collaborations, and of course, time for some world-class skiing.  This conference is a wonderful opportunity for groups from the same lab to hold a retreat in conjunction with Rocky.  Many students have had the opportunity to give their first live presentation at Rocky and we encourage all to submit an abstract to give a presentation.

Mark Your Calendars: December 12 - 14, 2013!

Scheduled Keynote Speakers:

Gary Bader, PhD

Associate Professor University of Toronto, Canada

Kirk E. Jordan, PhD

 
IBM Distinguished Engineer,
Emerging Solutions Executive & Assoc. Program Director
Computational Science Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Member, IBM Academy of Technology  

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Submit an Abstract for RECOMB/ISCB 2013 Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges!

Submit an Abstract!

Don't miss your chance to be considered for oral presentations and/or poster presentations!

This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion and current research direction, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation.

Topics include:

• Modeling and recognition of regulatory motifs and modules
• Chromatin state establishment, maintenance, and role in development
• Post-transcriptional regulation and small regulatory RNAs
• Regulatory networks, metabolic networks, proteomic networks
• Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
• Phosphorylation, metabolic fluxes, systematic phenotyping
• Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
• Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
• Approaches for aggregation of results arising from different methodologies
• Translational systems biology

If your abstract is accepted, it will be included in an abstract booklet that will be distributed to all conference participants. The abstract booklet will also include abstracts of full-length papers accepted in our partner journals Genome Research, G3: Gene / Genome / Genetics and the Journal of Computational Biology.

Plan to attend one of the premier meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the areas of regulatory genomics and systems biology.

Register now and join us in Toronto!

Conference: November 8 - 12, 2013

ISCB Announces Results of the Officer Elections

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the results of the recent officer elections. Members of the society elected the following as incoming officers beginning January 2014:

• President-elect – Alfonso Valencia, Ph.D., Spanish National Cancer Research Centre. Valencia is an ISCB Fellow and has been involved with the leadership of the organization since its international expansion in 2002.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors, is the chair of the Fellows Committee and Awards Committee, and has been involved in other various leadership roles throughout his volunteer tenure. Valencia brings with him a long list of accolades and management experience.  He will serve as President-elect starting 21 January 2014 and will serve as President beginning in 2015 for a three-year term.

• Vice President – Thomas Lengauer, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Lengauer has been involved with ISCB since the late 1990s.  He is a current member of the Board of Directors and was a key organizer of ISMB 1999 (Heidelberg) and ISMB 2007 (Vienna). Lengauer is also involved and a co-founder of RECOMB and ECCB. He will serve as vice president starting 21 January 2014 for a three-year term.

This year's election also included ISCB Student Council leadership. The ISCB Board of Directors is pleased to announce the elected young professionals who will lead the ISCB Student Council (SC) in 2014.

•     Chair -  Darbha Anupama Jigisha, University of Geneva and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
•     Vice Chair - Umesh Nandal, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam
•     Treasurer - Esmeralda Vicedo, Technical University of Munich
•     Secretary - Tomas Di Domenico, University of Padova, Italy
•     Student Council Representative to ISCB Board of Directors - Avinash Kumar Shanmugam, University of Michigan.

For additional information on ISCB's annual nominations and elections procedures please see http://iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors/nomination-election-procedures.

The next call for nominations of directors, officers and student council leaders will open February 2014, for terms beginning in January of 2015.

ROCKY 2013 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

11th Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
December 12 - 14, 2013
Thursday, 12 December 09:00 to Saturday, 14 December 13:00

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

Make your plans today to attend the Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference!

Now in its 11th year, held in the beautiful mountains of Aspen/Snowmass, this conference brings together scientists and students from around the world for three days of science, networking, and world-class skiing.

Rocky also provides is a wonderful opportunity for groups from the same lab to hold a retreat in conjunction with Rocky.

For more information and to register today visit ROCKY 2013.

Call for Presentations!

Don't miss your chance to present your findings at the Rocky 2013 Conference through 'flash' presentations or posters!

Submissions now being accepted.

Meeting location: Viceroy Hotel Snowmass.

Register now and join us in Colorado!