Mark your calendar today and join us for GLBIO 2012 Conference, May 15 – 17, 2012 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Web site: www.iscb.org/glbio2012

Previous GLBIO Conferences GLBIO 2011 OCCBIO 2010 OCCBIO 2009 OCCBIO 2008 OCCBIO 2007 OCCBIO 2006 About GLBIO Conferences The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference began in 2006 as the Ohio Conference on Computational Biology (OCCBIO) hosted by the Ohio Bioinformatics Consortium (www.ohiobioinformaticsconsortium.org). In 2010 the ISCB Board of Directors voted to make this an official conference of the ISCB, with an expanded regional scope that included a new name: GLBIO. An important goal of this regional conference is to foster long-term, collaborative relationships among informatics and life sciences researchers and educators from academia, government, and industry, spanning the North American Great Lakes region including the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the U.S, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Researchers from all parts of the world are welcome and encouraged to participate, especially those looking to form collaborations with key labs in the Great Lakes region. GLBIO provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing approaches, research findings, and educational experiences regarding computational investigations of biological problems. This meeting is not only for experts in bioinformatics, but also for faculty, students and staff who make substantial use of bioinformatics tools in their work, or would like to expand their use of these tools that are vital to increasing the understanding of living systems. The annual meeting includes invited keynote presentations, oral presentations selected from peer reviewed abstract submissions, tutorial workshops, special sessions, and poster presentations. About the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium (GLBC) strives to enhance educational opportunities and research infrastructure throughout the region, to make the Great Lakes a world leader in bioinformatics and to facilitate new discoveries in data-intensive biological research. The consortium’s annual research meeting, GLBIO, is currently the primary focus of the GLBC. This meeting serves as an annual opportunity for education through tutorials and from presentation of new research. The meeting also serves as an informal communication and networking forum for the professional development of consortium members. We believe that by bringing together the Great Lakes bioinformatics community on a regular basis, many new initiatives will be born. Based on our experience with similar initiatives, we have defined specific goals, including development of regional research centers and creation of a scholarship and training program.