ISCB Affiliated Conferences Announcements & Updates

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

ISCB members are not lacking in opportunities to further their knowledge and refine their skills through meetings. In addition to official ISCB conferences, many others related to the many specialized topics of our field abound, and it may be hard to know which could provide the best return on your investment. Each of the following ISCB affiliated conferences were reviewed by ISCB's conferences committee to ensure a quality plan by reputable organizers. We encourage your attendance at any that may be of interest. Each offers unique learning opportunities for you and your colleagues to further advance the understanding of our science and the communities we serve. ISCB members are offered a special discounts just for being a member.

• Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics - August, Brazil
• RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Bioinformatics Education and on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology - August, Russia
• ECCB - September, Switzerland
• InCoB - October, Thailand
• Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo - October, Austria
• BioVis - October, United States
• RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges
  - November, United States
• PhD Symposium in Computational Biology & Innovation - December, Ireland
• PSB 2013 - January, United States
• RECOMB 2013 - April, China

Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics 2012, Aug 15-17, Campo Grande, Brazil

• Organized by the comp bio special interest group of the Brazilian Computer Society
• http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br
  
• Short Paper submission deadline: June 25^th

RECOMB Satellite Conferences on Bioinformatics Education and on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology,
Aug 26 (BE) and Aug 27-29 (AB), 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia

• http://bioinf.spbau.ru/be2012 and http://bioinf.spbau.ru/ab2012
• Early registration and visa voucher deadline: July 2^nd

ECCB'12 (European Conf on Comp Bio), Sep 9-12, Basel, Switzerland

• Hosted by the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and in conjunction with the SIB annual meeting
• http://www.eccb12.org/home
  
• Highlights papers submission deadline: July 1^st
• Early registration deadline: August 1^st

InCoB 2012 (Int'l Conf on Comp Bio), Oct 3-5, Bangkok, Thailand

• Hosted by the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network
• http://incob2012.org
• APBioNet travel grant application deadline: April 1^st
• Early bird registration deadline: August 31^st

Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo - Oct 9-11, Vienna, Austria

• Hosted by Cambridge Healthtech Institute
• www.bio-itworldexpoeurope.com
  
• Early registration deadline: July 20^th
• Poster submission deadline: September 7^th

BioVis: 2nd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization -
October 14-15, Seattle, United States

• www.biovis.net
  
• Contest entry submission due: July 27^th
• Poster submission deadline: July 11th (extended from June 27th)
  

RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges
- November, 12-16, San Francisco, United States

• Conf on Reg and Sys Genomics: http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu
  
• Proceedings papers submission deadline: August 1^st
• Oral presentation and Poster submission deadline: September 14^th
• DREAM Challenges: www.the-dream-project.org
  • Network Topology and Parameter Inference Challenge submission deadline: October 1st
    
  • Sage Bionetworks-DREAM Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge submission deadline: October 15th
    
  • The DREAM-Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life submission deadline: November 1st
    
  • NCI-DREAM Drug Sensitivity Prediction Challenge submission deadline: October 1st
    

PhD Symposium in Computational Biology & Innovation - December, Ireland

• http://bioinfo-casl.ucd.ie/phdsymposium
  
• Abstract deadline: September 28^th

PSB 2013 - January 3-7, Big Island of Hawaii, United States

• http://psb.stanford.edu
  
• Paper submission deadline: July 31^th
• Travel award application opens August 1^st with deadline of October 8^th
• Poster abstract submission open August 1^st with deadline of November 28^th

RECOMB 2013 - April 7-10, Beijing, China

• http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/recomb2013
  
• Call for papers opens September 3^rd with deadline of October 7^th
• Poster abstract submission open August 1^st with deadline of November 28^th

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