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Volume 8, Issue 2

President's Letter
Priority on Volunteerism

Welcome to ISMB 2005!

Advertising and Sponsorship
Sponsorship Opportunties

Dr. Ewan Birney
2005 Overton Prize Winner

Dr. Janet Thornton
Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award

Bioinformatics
Books List Online

PLoS Computational Biology
To Launch at ISMB 2005

Student Council Undertakes
Massive Action Plan

ISCB Student Travel
Fellowships Offered

Don't Miss Out!

ISMB 2006
The Beauty of Brazil

Magnificent Madrid to Host
ECCB 2005

REC0MB 2005 Recap

Post Your Events and News
To the ISCB Website

President Elect
Elections Notice

FASEB Update

PSB 2006 Keydates

Student Council Activities
During ISMB 2005

Student Symposium
Prior to ECCB 2005

New Student Council
Leadership Announced

Public Affairs & Policies
Committee Update

Events and Opportunities


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Events and Opportunities of Interest

ISCB Annual Conferences
Rocky05
United States - CO - Snomass
Dec 09, 2005 - Dec 11, 2005
ISCB Member Discount: $50
www.iscb.org/rocky05
ISMB 2006
Brazil - Ceara - Fortaleza
Aug 06, 2006 - Aug 10, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: TBA
www.iscb.org/ismb2006


ISCB Co-Sponsored Conferences
European Conference on Computational Biology
Spain - Madrid
Sep 28, 2005 - Oct 01, 2005

ISCB Member Discount: 30%
www.eccb05.org

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006
United States - HI - Maui
Jan 03, 2006 - Jan 07, 2006

ISCB Member Discount: $75
psb.stanford.edu


ISCB Affiliated Conferences
13th Annual Nucleic Acid-Based Technologies:
Applications Amplified
United States - MD - Baltimore
Jun 27, 2005 -Jun 28, 2005
ISCB Member Discount: 10%
www.healthtech.com/2005/pcr/index.asp
FASEB Summer Research Conference
Italy - Toscana
Aug 03, 2005 - Aug 08, 2005

src.faseb.org

5th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Spain - Eivissa
Oct 03, 2005 - Oct 06, 2005
www.lsi.upc.es
Fifth Virtual Conference on Genomics &
Bioinformatics
United States - VA - Ballston
Oct 25, 2005 - Oct 28, 2005
www.virtualgenomics.org/vcgb/conference_2005.htm

Other Conferences & Events of Interest
Structure and Biophysics
New Technologies for Current Challenges in Biology and Beyond,
a NATO AS1
Italy - Erice, Sicily
Jun 22, 2005 - Jul 03, 2005
smrl.stanford.edu/erice2005/

BioMeet 2005
United States - MD - Gaithersburg
Jun 23, 2005-Jun 23, 2005
www.Perlsource.net/BioMeet.html

IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Bioinformatics
United States - CA - San Diego
Jun 25, 2005 - Jun 25, 2005
www.ittc.ku.edu/BioCVPR/
Workshop on Biological Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
(BioGEC 2005)
United States - Washington DC
Jun 25, 2005 - Jun 26, 2005
www.epistasis.org/biogec2005.html
17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2005)
United States - CA - Santa Barbara
Venue: Bren School, University of California
Jun 27, 2005 - Jun 29, 2005
2005.ssdbm.org
Short Course in Statistical Genetics
Italy - Pavia
Venue: University of Pavia
Jul 04, 2005 - Jul 08, 2005
www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/sabatti/PAVIA/index.html
International Conference on BioMedical Visualisation MediViz05
United Kingdom - London
Jul 06, 2005 -Jul 08, 2005
www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/MediViz05
The DIMACS Bio-Math Connect Institute 2005
United States - NJ - Piscataway
Jul 17, 2005 - Jul 29, 2005
dimacs.rutgers.edu/dci/2005/
Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (MCCMB'05)
Russia - Moscow
Jul 18, 2005 - Jul 21, 2005
mccmb.belozersky.msu.ru/2005/
Data Integration for the Life Sciences 2005
United States - CA - San Diego
Jul 20, 2005 - Jul 22, 2005
www.syncenter.org/dils2005/
MAS*BIOMED
First International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine,
Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics
Metherlands - Utrecht
Jul 25, 2005 - Jul 26, 2005
www.diee.unica.it/biomed05
Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics
Brazil - RS - Sao Leopoldo
Jul 27, 2005 - Jul 29, 2005
www.unisinos.br/simposio/bsb/index.php
2005 IEEE Computational Systems Biology Conference
United States- CA - Palo Alto
Aug 08, 2005 - Aug 11, 2005
conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/
ICEng 05
Special Session on Computer Infrastructure for Systems Biology
United States - NV - Las Vegas
Aug 14, 2005 - Aug 16, 2005
bio.informatics.iupui.edu/bio-05/
Interactome Networks
United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
Aug 31, 2005 - Sep 03, 2005
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.html
SYMBIONIC Course 2005 on Methods, Data Handling and Standards in Neuronal Systems Biology
Italy - Trieste
Aug 31, 2005 - Sep 03, 2005
www.symbionicproject.org/Categories.asp?article_
category_id_start=4&article_category_id=24
Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology
United Kingdom - Cambs - Cambridge
Sep 04, 2005 - Sep 06, 2005
www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/events/therapeutic/
Systems Biology Workshop at ECAL 2005
United Kingdom - Canterbury
Sep 05, 2005 - Sep 05, 2005
www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/sysbio_ecal/
IBC's 12th Annual International Chips to Hits(R) 2005
United States - MA - Boston
Sep 12, 2005 - Sep 15, 2005
www.chipstohits.com/default.asp?source=3050-22
Special Session on Computational Biology at
KES2005
Australia - Melbourne
Sep 14, 2005 - Sep 16, 2005
www.latrobe.edu.au/kes/
Pharmacogenomics 2005
United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire - The
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
Sep 14, 2005 - Sep 17, 2005
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/pharmuk05.shtml
CIBB 2005 - SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS
Italy - Crema
Sep 15, 2005 - Sep 17, 2005
cibb05.disi.unige.it
Third Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Comparative Genomics
Dublin, Ireland
September 18 - Sep 20, 2005
www.gen.tcd.ie/recomb_cg/
BioSapiens-viRgil Workshop on Bioinformatics for Viral Infections
Germany - Bonn
Sep 21, 2005 - Sep 23, 2005
workshop2005.bioinf.mpi-sb.mpg.de/
5th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Spain - Eivissa
Oct 03, 2005 - Oct 06, 2005
www.lsi.upc.es
Workshop: Advances in genome Technology and Bioinformatics
United States - MA - Woods Hole
Oct 04, 2005 - Oct 30, 2005
www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/genome.htm
Short Course on Complex Trait Analysis
United States - ME - Bar Harbor
Oct 05, 2005 -Oct 11, 2005
www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=133
Workshop on Statistics in Genomics and Proteomics
Portugal - Monte Estoril-Lisbon
Oct 05, 2005 - Oct 08, 2005
wsgp.deio.fc.ul.pt
NETTAB 2005 on Workflows management: new abilities for the biological information overflow
Italy - Naples
Oct 05, 2005 - Oct 07, 2005
www.nettab.org/2005
Comparative and Functional Genomics (BITS) Workshop
United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
Oct 27, 2005 - Oct 30, 2005
www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX024428.html
International Workshop on Bioinformatics 2005
China
China - Nankin
Nov 02, 2005 - Nov 05, 2005
www.cs.iupui.edu/~bioin/bioinformatics05/
8th Conference on Computational Genomics
United States - MA - Cambridge
Nov 09, 2005 - Nov 12, 2005
www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=133
ISBMDA 2005
Portugal - Aveiro
Nov 10, 2005 - Nov 11, 2005
www.ieeta.pt/isbmda05
2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology
United States - CA - San Diego
Nov 14, 2005 - Nov 15, 2005
www.cibcb.org
5th Georgia Tech Conference in Bioinformatics
United States - GA - Atlanta
Nov 17, 2005 - Nov 19, 2005
opal.biology.gatech.edu/conference/
The 2005 International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
China - Beijing
Nov 30, 2005 - Dec 03, 2005
www.ict.ac.cn/ci6016/
"Applications of Machine Learning in Medicine" at ICMLA '05
United States - CA - Los Angeles
Dec 17, 2005 - Dec 19, 2005
www.ece.ualberta.ca/~lkurgan/MLMB.htm