May 19: 2010 ISCB Accomplishment by a Sr. Scientist Award will be given to Chris Sander at ISMB 2010

ISCB Honors Six Members as New Fellows

This month the ISCB Fellows Committee named six members as Fellows of ISCB. Five were selected from among nominations submitted by our membership, plus the 2010 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner, who is automatically bestowed the honor. These distinguished members will be recognized for their contributions to accelerating the pace of computational biology and bioinformatics during the ISMB 2010 conference in Boston. All Fellows will receive a certificate and a pin as a symbol of the inspiring accomplishments that have earned them this distinction.

The 2010 Class of Fellows is:

Russ B. Altman, Stanford University, USA
Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA
Eugene Myers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Research Center, Ashburn, USA
Chris Sander, 2010 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award winner,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Gary Stormo, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre and Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Madrid, Spain

For more information about the ISCB Fellows Program, including past Fellows, please see www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows

Blogging at #ismb2010

Beginning on July 9 a designated blog tech team will trigger the creation of a new blog on the FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/ismb2010) platform shortly before the start of the first presentation in the conference schedule. The feed link will be posted into our online program schedule for all subscribers to easily find.

Anyone can then join that feed to participate in real-time blogging of the talk with colleagues that might be seated on the opposite side of the aisle, or the opposite side of the globe!

Additional details are available here.

Twitter users can use the hashtag #ismb2010 to post updates related to the ISMB 2010 conference. More information about hashtags can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Hash_tags.

Jul 19: Plans Announced for 2nd ISCB-Africa Conference with ASBCB in March 2011

Jul 16: ISCB Institutional Memberships Now Available

Aug 02: Rocky ’10 Call for Presentations Now Open

Aug 30: CSHALS 2011 Call for Oral and Poster Presentations is Open

Jul 09: ISCB Newsletter Issue 13.1 Now Available Online.

Aug 31: ISMB/ECCB 2011 Call for Special Sessions Proposals - deadline Oct 22

Aug 31: ISMB/ECCB 2011 Call for Special Interest Group Proposals - deadline Oct 8