LATIN AMERICA BIOINFORMATICS MEETING - ISCB-LA

OCTOBER 28-30, 2014
BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL

By Guilherme Oliveira, Conference Chair

The ISCB-LA organizing committee is pleased to announce the ISCB-Latin America (ISCB-LA) Bioinformatics Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by the Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C) in collaboration with the Brazilian Bioinformatics Symposium (BSB) of the Brazilian Computer Science Society and the Ibero-American Society for Computational Biology (SoIBio). The ISCB-LA meeting will be held October 28-30, 2014, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

The ISCB-LA is an official conference of ISCB that is held every two years. It is international, interdisciplinary forum for discussion of research findings, methods and for networking with researchers of the Latin America region and others worldwide.

The meeting program will include keynote speakers, original paper, flash talks, and poster presentations. On Monday, 27th Oct., an IT workshop will be held to discuss issues related to setting up local infrastructures. Four courses and one workshop for the industry will happen on the 31st Oct. Submissions to offer courses are open until July 17th. The conference will also mark the inaugural sympoisum of the ISCB Latin American Regional Student Group on Monday, 27th Oct.

Renowned keynote speakers addressing that attendees include, Bissan Al-Lazikani (The Institute of Cancer Research, London), Janet Kelso (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Kimmen Sjolander (Berkeley Phylogenomics Group) and Mauro Castro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

The conference is now accepting Poster submissions on the following categories: Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment, Computational aspects, Comparative Genomics, Education, 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 and Systems Biology and Networks.

Submissions for original paper publication are open also open. Original research work will be published in BMC Genomics and there is also a track for a Lecture Notes Series. Selected submissions for the Lecture Notes may also follow a track for publication in BMC Bioinformatics.

There will be ample space for oral presentations selected from these submissions.

ISCB-LA will happen together with the largest bioinformatics community in Latin America. The X-meeting / BSB are regular yearly events in Brazil. These events are now run together and have created strong links among its members in over 10 years of existence. We expect to have over 400 participants. You're your calendar and submit your poster or paper and join us in Brazil!

ATTENTION STUDENTS! A Student Council workshop will be held at the meeting venue on Oct. 27th. The workshop will involve ISCB Regional Student Groups from Brazil and Argentina. This will be a great opportunity to join these local RSGs, create strong links with fellow students and stimulate the formation of other RSGs in Latin America.

If you are interested in supporting the ISCB-LA meeting please look at sponsor tab in our web page or contact the conference chair, Guilherme Oliveira - oliveira@cpqrr.fiocruz.br.

www.iscb.org/iscb-latinamerica2014