Call for Proposals to Organize the
ISCB-Asia 2012 Meeting

If you have experience organizing scientific meetings in Asia and would like to put a group together to co-organize the next ISCB-Asia, we would welcome your proposal. Please see the Call for Proposals at http://tinyurl.com/6xwo6us and start working on that proposal right away. Although the deadline may seem far away, September 1st will be here before we know it!

The motivation for this Call for Proposals was initiated several years ago when ISCB set out to expand services to our global membership by organizing or partnering in the organization of meetings in regions outside the European-North American rotation of ISMB. In a relatively short amount of time we have held African meetings in Bamako, Mali (www.iscb.org/iscbafrica2009), and in Cape Town, South Africa (www.iscb.org/iscbafrica2011), both in partnership with the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (www.asbcb.org), an ISCB Affiliated Regional Group. In 2010 we organized a South American meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay (www.iscb.org/iscb-la2010), with Santiago, Chile scheduled for next year's event in that region of the world (www.iscb.org/iscb-latinamerica2012), and Brazil already designated for the 2014 meeting in this series (location and additional details still to be confirmed). Finally, our first Asian meeting, the InCoB/ISCB-Asia Joint Conference 2011 (www.incob2011.org), is fast approaching in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 30 - December 2, 2011.

With the aim of continuing these successful regional meetings, ISCB is now soliciting applications for the co-organization of our next meeting in the ISCB-Asia series, specifically for 2012. See the full CFP and let us hear from you by September!