The 2008 Annual Awards of the ISCB have been Announced:

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

CONFERENCE HOST UNIVERSITY AND GOLD SPONSOR:

Purdue University
Vice President, Office of Research
Bioinformatics Core

SILVER SPONSORS:

Indiana University
University Information Technology Services
Department of Biology
School of Informatics and Computing

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University of Michigan, Dept of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

BRONZE SPONSORS:

The Research Division
of Ohio University
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Eck Institute for Global Health
Complex Networks Lab
University of Notre Dame

EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE SPONSOR:

Cincinnati Childrens’s Hospital Medical Center
Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati

POSTER AWARDS SPONSOR:

Faculty of 1000

BEST PAPER AWARD SPONSOR:

Springer

INDUSTRY SPONSOR:

University of Michigan Bioinformatics Core
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PerkinElmer

GENERAL SPONSOR:

Purdue University
Agricultural Research

David Haussler is honored with the ISCB 2008 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. He will be presented with his award and deliver the closing keynote talk at ISMB 2008 in Toronto. See Haussler's bio on the conference website at www.iscb.org/ismb2008/keynotes_details.php#haussler.

Aviv Regev named as the ISCB 2008 Overton Prize winner. She will also be presented with her prize and deliver a keynote talk at ISMB 2008 in Toronto. See Regev's bio on the conference website at www.iscb.org/ismb2008/keynotes_details.php#regev.

For more information about these ISCB awards, including past recipients, please see www.iscb.org/ssaa.shtml and www.iscb.org/overton.shtml respectively.