20 Years ISMB - 15 Years ISCB (ISCB Newsletter - Summer 2012)

Dear Members and Colleagues,

We are pleased to submit to you our annual ISMB Focus Issue newsletter, which includes features on some of the most important ISCB activities and initiatives of this past year.

You are invited to access the full newsletter online at www.iscb.org/images/stories/newsletter/newsletter15-1/index.html

Or, you may prefer to download the PDF newsletter at www.iscb.org/images/stories/newsletter/newsletter15-1/ISCB-newsletter-15-1.pdf

As a preview, the Table of Contents for this newsletter includes the following articles:

  • A Letter to ISCB Members & Colleagues (from President Burkhard Rost and Executive Officer BJ Morrison McKay)
  • Officer and Student Council Elections (please note the elections closing date has changed since this was written: now July 25th)
  • Spotlight on ECCB12
  • Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2012
  • Student Council Symposium Highlights
  • Overton Prize: Ziv Bar-Joseph
  • 2012 ISCB Sr. Scientist Award: Gunnar von Heijne
  • Announcing ISMB/ECCB 2013 Berlin
  • News from ISCB Student Council
  • FASEB Updates
  • Introducing Stacy Slagor
  • PLoS Computational Biology Overview
  • A Report of the Curriculum Task Force
  • Bioinformatics Journal Update
  • NIGMS Celebrates 50 Years
  • ISCB Continues to Advocate for Open Access
  • GLBIO 2012 Highlights
  • Call for Proposals to Organize ISCB-Asia 2013
  • ISCB Community Conferences & x-Meetings
  • Upcoming Conferences & Events

Happy reading to you!

Sincerely,

BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer