Call for Proposals: Special Interest Groups and Satellite Meetings at ISMB 2016!

ISMB 2016 Special Interest Groups and Satellite Meetings -
Call for Proposals!

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 9, 2015

We invite you to submit a proposal to organize a Special Interest Group (SIG) or Satellite Meeting (SM) at ISMB 2016 conference, which will be held at the Swan and Dolphin Hotel, Orlando, United States, July 8 - 12, 2016.

SIG and Satellite Meetings will be held during the two days prior to the main conference: Friday and Saturday, July 8 and July 9. On the first day, SIGs will be held in parallel with the Student Council Symposium; on the second day, with the conference Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions (AKES).

Proposals should indicate a preference for which days its meeting will be held if submitting a one-day only proposal; the organizers will try to respect these preferences but do not guarantee that all SIGs will receive their preferences.

ISCB Announces Results of the 2015 Officer Elections 

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the results of the recent officer elections. Members of the society elected the following as incoming officers beginning January 21, 2016:

Treasurer – Bruno Andre Gaeta, Ph.D., University of New South Wales, Australia. Bruno is a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics and Program Director (Bioinformatics) with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.  His research interests are in the engineering of computer methods and software to better understand the immune system and especially the basis for the "memory" of the immune system and vaccines. Bruno is a current member of the ISCB Board of Directors and serves as co-chair to the ISCB Affiliated Groups Committee.

Vice President – Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, USA. Terry Gaasterland is a Professor of Computational Biology and Genomics at UCSD, and the Director of the Scripps Genome Center. Terry is currently developing and using computational methods to analyze genome and transcriptome sequence data and gene expression data to gain biological insights into an organism and making predictions about molecular processes. She is a current member of the ISCB Board of Directors and returning as an elected Vice President.



This year's election also included ISCB Student Council leadership. The ISCB Board of Directors is pleased to announce the elected young professionals who will lead the ISCB Student Council (SC) in 2016.

• Chair – Pieter Meysman, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Vice Chair – Alexander Junge, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Treasurer – Jakob Jespersen, Broad Institute, United States
• Secretary – Farzana Rahman, Unviersity of South Wales
• Student Council Representative to ISCB Board of Directors - Jigisha Anupama Darbha, Dublin, Ireland.

For additional information on ISCB's annual nominations and elections procedures please see http://iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors/nomination-election-procedures.

The next call for nominations of directors, officers and student council leaders will open February 2016, for terms beginning in January 2017.

Call for Submissions: The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges 2015

Submit Your Research and be a Part of RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

This multidisciplinary conference brings together both computational and experimental researchers from across the world to discuss recent discoveries about genomic and molecular regulatory networks as well as innovative, integrative methods for developing a systems-level understanding of biological activity.

Abstract Submission deadline: September 18
Poster Submission deadline: October 9

TOPIC CATEGORIES:

• Network Visualization and Analysis
• Modeling and recognition of regulatory modules and motifs
• Epigenomics, chromatin state
• Non-coding chromatin state establishment, maintenance, and role in development
• Regulatory non-coding RNAs
• Co-transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational regulation
• Regulatory networks
• Genetic, molecular, and phenotypic variation and human disease
• Cellular signatures of biological responses and disease states
• Mathematical modeling and simulation of biological systems
• Methods for systematic validation of high-throughput biological predictions
• Single-cell biology, proteomics, signaling
• Metabolomics
• Ensemble approaches
• Translational systems biology

ISMB/ECCB 2015 Daily Digest

Day 2 - Monday, July 13, 2015


The second official day of ISMB/ECCB 2015 opened with greetings from the ECCB by Anna Tramontano and an enticing look at ECCB 2016’s meeting location in The Hague, Netherlands by Jaap Heringa. Conference co-chair Janet Kelso introduced keynote speaker Eileen Furlong, who gave a talk titled “Genome regulation during embryonic development.” The day’s sessions were packed with great talks across all theme areas, and two special sessions on translational medicine informatics and data complexity that drew a lot of interest from conference delegates.
 
During the open business meeting, ISCB president Alfonso Valencia and other members of the  executive committee and board highlighted the society’s endeavors to serve its members in multiple areas, including member services, meetings, and publications. ISCB Student Council members also spoke about their activities and recognized the student attendees to whom they awarded travel fellowships. The meeting finished with an opportunity for attendees to share their comments and ideas about different ways ISCB can serve its membership.
 
Conference co-chair Desmond Higgins introduced the day’s second keynote speaker and Dubliner Kenneth Wolfe, who presented a talk titled “Reversible DNA rearrangement as a switch for cell type in yeasts.” The keynote was followed by another successful poster session in the exhibit hall and the second day closed out with an evening out at the Guinness Storehouse. 

ISMB/ECCB 2015 Daily Digest

Day 1 - Sunday, July 12, 2015

ISCB president Alfonso Valencia opened ISMB/ECCB 2015 officially on Sunday, July 12 to a packed auditorium at the Convention Centre Dublin with an overview of ISCB’s activities during the last year. Desmond Higgins, honorary conference chair and Dublin local, also welcomed delegates to his hometown, and Burkhard Rost, ISCB past-president, introduced the opening keynote speaker, Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt. Levitt captivated the audience with his talk titled, “Fun With Large Structures and Masses of Sequence,” and shared his perspective of the early days of computational biology as well as his current work on the organization of chaperonin subunits.
 
Concurrent sessions started after the keynote address and have been organized by themes this year (Genes, Proteins, Systems, Disease, and Data) to make identifying relevant talks easier for attendees.
 
The 2015 class of ISCB Fellows was honored prior to the second keynote address. Rolf Apweiler, Cyrus Chothia, Julio Collado-Vides, Mark Gerstein, Desmond Higgins, Thomas Lengauer, Michael Levitt, and Burkhard Rost were conferred Fellow status for their outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. Bonnie Berger, chair of the ISCB nominating committee introduced the second keynote speaker, Curtis Huttenhower who is the winner of the 2015 Overton Prize that recognizes the outstanding accomplishments an early career scientist in computational biology or bioinformatics. Huttenhower gave a talk titled, “Understanding microbial community function and the human microbiome in health and disease” and shared results from the diverse microbiome research projects coming out of his lab.
 
The first official day of ISCB/ECCB 2015 ended with a lively poster reception in the exhibit hall, where delegates talked science and browsed the latest offerings of exhibitors.

UPCOMING CONFERENCE DEADLINES

Art and Science Submissions Close 14-June-15 Online Registration Closes 26-June-15

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ISCB Buzz:  ISCB Mourns the Loss of John Wooley, Exciting Program at ISMB/ECCB 2015, AKES, Conference Jobs Board & More!

ISCB Mourns the Loss of John Wooley
Dr. John Wooley shaped policy at the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy to pave the way for massive growth and transformation in the field of computational biology. He passed away in April after prolonged cancer. After decades spent launching new initiatives in computational biology that pushed forward discoveries, innovation, and national programs in genomics, protein structure, crystallography, and systems biology, Dr. Wooley served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.

Exciting Program line-up at ISMB/ECCB 2015!
"The Conference program looks spectacular!  There has been a massive growth in the area of translational Bioinformatics with its own Special Session on July 13th as well as many talks within the Disease theme of the conference.  It is wonderful to see the promise of Computational Biology to improve health coming to the fore." - Alex Bateman, Conference Co-Chair

Workshops AKA AKES!
New for 2015!  The Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions provide interactive educational and knowledge exchange opportunities!

ISMB/ECCB 2015 Conference Jobs Board
Look no further!  Recruit - Job search - Network all in on place at the ISMB/ECCB 2015 Career Fair, connecting employers with job seekers in computational biology and bioinformatics!

Call for Editors -- ISCB Community Journal
ISCB is seeking scholars interested in serving as volunteer editors for the ISCB Community Journal. If you are interested, please submit your nomination using our online system.  If you have a colleague who may enjoy serving as a volunteer editor for ISCB, please feel free to forward this information.


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The Conference program looks spectacular! There has been a massive growth in the area of translational Bioinformatics with its own Special Session on July 13th as well as many talks within the Disease theme of the conference. It is wonderful to see the promise of Computational Biology to improve health coming to the fore." - Alex Bateman, Conference Co-Chair

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Register now for the Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions (AKES) Registration Deadline:  05 June, 2015 AKES 01: Applied Knowledge Building networks for translation: how to use DREAM challenges and the Synapse platform as a research strategy AKES 02: Cytoscape 3 App Development: Variations on a theme -- "Hello World" AKES 03: Bioinformatics software testing and quality assurance AKES 04: Open-access, cloud-based, individual-level clinical trials data - sharing, dissemination and analyses AKES 05: Using Biological Cyberinfrastructure to Scale Science and People – Applications in Data Storage, HPC, Cloud Analysis, and Bioinformatics Training AKES 06: How to navigate a bioinformatics career path

The 2015 ISCB Spring Newsletter

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The ISCB Spring Newsletter

Click through the exciting updates within the community and learn more about ISCB's new initiatives in the 2015 Spring Newsletter.

Mark your calendars to join us at these prestigious and exciting conferences!
Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO 2015) Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA May 18 - 20, 2015	Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2015 and 14th European Conference on Computational Biology Dublin, Ireland July 10 – 14, 2015 The Flagship Meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology	SAVE THE DATE! RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA November 16 - 18, 2015

F1000Research to publish new ISCB Community Journal online

Journal will provide dedicated channel for ISCB conference research; ISCB holds open Call for Editors

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and F1000Research are pleased to announce the formation of an innovative partnership to produce the ISCB Community Journal - a new, dedicated, digital channel on the F1000Research publishing platform.

The ISCB Community Journal will be launched on F1000Research this summer to provide the ISCB’s growing membership and conference attendees with an affordable, open publishing platform for research presented at official and affiliated ISCB conferences.

Scientists who belong to the ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) or who attend its Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings will also be able to take advantage of the new channel.

The initiative will enable ISCB to support the publication of research in a range of formats in one centralised channel for the first time.  Articles based upon the research presented at official and affiliated conferences will be published using F1000Research’s immediate publication and transparent peer review model, without limitation on article size, type, or perceived impact.

ISCB conference attendees will also be able to share and publish the academic posters and slides that are presented at each conference and host them in one easily searchable domain.

Diane E. Kovats, Executive Director, ISCB, said: “F1000Research’s platform offers a viable alternative to traditional scholarly society journals."

 “A lot of high-quality and valuable science that is shared at conferences, including posters and slide presentations, never gets published, and essentially becomes ‘lost’ research. In the digital age, it should be possible to share all the science presented at conferences quickly and easily.”

Michael Markie, Associate Publisher of F1000Research, said: “There is always a treasure chest of research that is presented at academic conferences that never sees the light of day. This research often contains early findings, in order to obtain feedback or to identify potential collaborators. All this research takes significant time, effort and cost, but may be viewed by only a small number of conference participants before the work disappears. This represents a huge waste of funding and researcher time, leads to studies being needlessly repeated, and slows scientific progress.”

Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000Research, said: “We are delighted to be collaborating with the ISCB on creating and publishing their innovative ISCB Community Journal. F1000 and the ISCB have always shared closely aligned goals in wanting to find ways to enable the rapid dissemination of all types of research outputs. It is particularly fitting that our first society channel is with the ISCB.”

For more information on the ISCB Community Journal, read the F1000Research blog http://blog.f1000research.com/2015/04/30/f1000research-to-publish-the-iscb-community-journal