Key Dates for ISCB Affiliated Conferences
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues:
Welcome to 2012! As you map out your conference calendar for this New Year, in addition to ISCB's signature conferences (see www.iscb.org/iscb-conferences), be sure to consider participating in these affiliated conferences of our Society. Each one offers a unique mix of scientific content with themes essential to computational biologists and bioinformaticists. Scroll down for details on upcoming key dates and opportunities for the following events.
- MCBIOS
- VizBi
- AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
- RECOMB
- BioIT-World Conference & Expo
- Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics
- ECCB
- PSB (2013)
MCBIOS 2012, Feb 17-18, at Univ of Mississippi, USA
MidSouth Computational Biology Society's annual meeting – themed "Making Sense of the Omics Data Deluge”
http://mcbios.org/content/2012-mcbios-conference
* Oral and Poster presentations deadline: January 17th
* Early registration deadline: February 3rd
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VizBi 2012, Mar 6-8, Heidelberg, Germany
3rd annual Visualizing Biological Data conference, hosted by EMBL
* Poster submission deadline: February 26th
* Early registration deadline: January 29th
* Virtual registration also an option for participation by streaming video and chat
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AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 2012, Mar 19-21, San Francisco, USA
Part of the American Medical Informatics Association's joint summits on translational science; followed by the Summit on Clinical Informatics
http://amia.org/jointsummits2012/tbi-call-for-participations
* ISCB members are eligible for a 10% registration discount
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RECOMB 2012, Apr 21-24, Barcelona, Spain
16th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
* Highlights submission deadline for previously published papers: January 13th
* Early registration discount deadline: January 31st
* Additional 10% discount for ISCB members
* Poster submissions site opening February 7th
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Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2012, Apr 24-26, Boston, USA
10th Anniversary includes 12 parallel tracks and 16 pre-conference workshops
http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com
* Early registration discount period ends January 27th
* ISCB members receive an additional 10% registration discount
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Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2012, Aug 15-17, Campo Grande, Brazil
Organized by the comp bio special interest group of the Brazilian Computer Society
* ISCB members receive approximately 14% registration discount
* Full Paper submission period: January 19th through March 19th
* Short Paper submission period: January 19th through June 25th
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ECCB 2012, Sep 9-12, Basel, Switzerland
Hosted by the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and in conjunction with the SIB annual meeting
* Workshop and Tutorial proposals deadline: January 15th
* Subscribe to the conference newsletter via the URL above for alerts on open calls, deadlines, and program updates.
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PSB 2013, Jan 4-8, Hawaii, USA
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing's 18th annual event
http://psb.stanford.edu/CallForSessionProposals.html
* Call for 2013 Session proposals deadline: February 15th
