ISCB Buzz: Recorded Talks,
FASEB Bioart, Wikipedia Winners
& Soft Skills!

Conference Updates
	Register Now for ISCB-LA & Save! Belo Horizonte, Brazil October 28 - 30, 2014
	Abstract Submission Deadline: September 12! San Diego, California, USA November 9 - 14, 2014 Cytoscape Workshop to be held Prior to RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference - Join Cytoscape in San Diego for their workshops which are being held prior to RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference. ISCB members will enjoy a $25 discount when attending the workshops!
	Mark your Calendars for ROCKY 2014! Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado December 11 - 13, 2014
	Registration Open for GIW ISCB-Asia 2014! Tokyo, Japan December 15 - 17, 2014
	Submissions are Now Open for ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference 2015! Dar es Salaam, Tanzania March 09 - 11, 2015
ISMB 2014 Recorded Talks
ISMB 2014 Conference Talks Now Available The full listing of ISMB 2014 conference presentations currently available on the website. To view the presentations you have to either be a member of the ISCB and need to be logged into your user account or have attendeed the ISMB 2014 conference.
FASEB Bioart Competition
BioArt: Scientific Image & Video Competition The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is pleased to announce its third annual BioArt competition. Each day, scientific investigators product thousands of images and videos as part of their research, but very few are ever seen outside the laboratory. We are looking for visually compelling, high resolution submissions from federally-funded researchers and/or FASEB constituent society members. Images & videos can be submitted through August 30! For more information, please visit: www.faseb.org/bioart.
2014 Wikipedia Competition
ISCB Congratulates 2014 Wikipedia Competition Winners At During the ISMB conference in July, we announced the winners of this year's Wikipedia Competition. ISCB conducted an international competition to improve the coverage of the Wikipedia on any aspect of computational Biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission is to further the scientific understanding of living systems through computation and to communicate this knowledge to the public at large.
Soft Skills
Soft Skills: An important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. in this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.
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ISCB-LA: Submit Flash Talks and Posters - Deadline is Friday!

Last call to submit your latest research for presentation at ISCB-Latin America X-Meeting!

Flash Talks and Posters Submission Deadline:  FRIDAY, August 15!

Submit your research for presentation at the third International Society for Computational Biology Latin America X-Meeting on Bioinformatics with BSB and SoiBio (ISCB-Latin America) and join 450 other top-notch researchers and students from around the globe.

Don't miss your opportunity to become part of this unique and exciting conference! 

Submission Topics:

• Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment
• Computational aspects
• Comparative Genomics
• Education --The examination of how different models of learning and educational programming in bioinformatics (e.g. tutorials, workshops, courses and e-learning) can be used to impact the understanding and use of bioinformatics across different audiences.
• Epigenetics
• Functional Genomics
• Genome Organization and Annotation
• Genetic Variation Analysis
• Metagenomics
• Pathogen informatics
• Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
• Protein Structure and Function Prediction and Analysis
• Proteomics
•  Sequence Analysis
•  Systems Biology and Networks

ISCB Announces Results of the 2014 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 2015:

• Secretary – Scott Markel, Ph.D., Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA, USA. Scott Markel is the Principal Bioinformatics Architect in BIOVIA's Research and Development group. He is the current Secretary for ISCB and will continue in that role.  Markel is also the chair of the Publications Committee, led the ISCB executive director search task force, and is on the editorial board for both PLOS Computational Biology and OUP Bioinformatics.
  
  
• Vice President – Bonnie Berger, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), USA. Bonnie Berger is Professor of Applied Mathematics, and on the faculty of the Computation and Biology group at the MIT-CSAIL. She is also an affiliate member of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and MIT's Computer Science and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi). Berger is an ISCB Fellow, currently serves on ISCB board of directors, serves as the chair of the Awards Committee, and chaired ISMB 2014.
  
  
• Vice President – Christine Orengo, Ph.D., University College London, United Kingdom. Christine Orengo is a professor of Bioinformatics at the University College London.  She was recently elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).  Orengo is the co-chair of the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) Committee and played an instrumental role in developing the program.  She is also the co-chair of the Conferences Committee and serves as a current member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.

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 2015.

• Chair – Pieter Meysman, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Vice Chair – Alexander Junge, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Treasurer – Jakob Jespersen, Broad Institute, United States
• Secretary – Tomas Di Domenico, University of Padova, Italy
• Student Council Representative to ISCB Board of Director – Jigisha Anupama Darbha, India

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 2015, for terms beginning in January 2016.

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The ISCB Fall 2014 Newsletter

Click through the exciting updates within the community and learn more about ISCB's new initiatives in the 2014 Fall Newsletter.