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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
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