Call for ISCB Fellows Nominations: deadline April 30th

Dear ISCB Member,

Nominations for the 2012 ISCB Class of Fellows is now open. If you know of a member that you believe has earned his or her place among ISCB's Fellows through exceptional and exemplary contributions to the field of computational biology/bioinformatics, please nominate today. Since 2009 the leadership of the International Society for Computational Biology has been honoring our most distinctive members as Fellows, and this is your chance to name our 2012 Class of Fellows.

Information about the ISCB Fellows program, nomination requirements, and selection criteria can be found at www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows

The nomination form is available at www.iscb.org/fellow-nomination (as only members can nominate, login is required; if you are not a current member please join today!).

The nomination deadline is April 30, 2012.

Thank you for your considerate nomination!

Sincerely,
Alfonso Valencia, Chair, ISCB Fellows Committee

Congratulations to 2012 ISCB Overton Prize Winner

January 31, 2012 - The International Society For Computational Biology (ISCB) has awarded the Overton Prize for outstanding accomplishment to Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

The Overton Prize is awarded annually to an early to mid-career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology. In recognition of the award, Bar-Joseph will give a keynote address at the Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology in July, to be held this year in Long Beach, California (ISMB; www.iscb.org/ismb2012).

Bar-Joseph gained a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 where he also discovered the challenge of analysing high-throughput biological data using computational techniques. Since then, he has developed important techniques using machine learning for integrating multiple biological data sources in ways that infer dynamic regulatory networks. He has also pioneered the search for biological solutions to complex computational problems, such as how to build robust distributed networks efficiently.

"We have all been impressed by the quality of his scientific contribution and the novelty of the approaches he has developed,” says Alfonso Valencia, chair of the ISCB awards committee.

Burkhard Rost, president of the ISCB, has been hugely impressed by Bar-Joseph's work. "It's stunning how he is able to handle such a diverse set of technical methods,” he says. "He's a perfect example of a new generation of scientists.”

Bar Joseph says he is honoured to be receiving the award: "I know many of the past winners and it's an amazing group.”

For more information about the Overton Prize and its past recipients, please visit www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/overton-prize.

>> Return to List of Overton Prize Recipients

GLBIO 2012 CFP & Registration

Dear ISCB Members, Colleagues, and Past GLBIO Attendees,

We invite you to participate in the The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference , taking place in Ann Arbor, Michigan this coming May.

ALL CALLS FOR PRESENTATIONS CLOSE IN JUST 10 DAYS!

Oral Presentation Information & Abstract Submission Form Deadline: Jan 20, 2012

Special Sessions Information & Proposal Submission Form Deadline Jan 20, 2012

Tutorial Sessions Information & Proposal Submission Form Deadline Jan 20, 2012

Poster Information & Abstract Submission Form Deadline: Mar 15, 2012

REGISTRATION IS ALSO OPEN:

Online Registration Information and Form Early Regsitration Deadline: April 15, 2012

GLBIO topic areas include Algorithm Development and Machine Learning, Bioimaging, Databases and Ontologies, Disease Models and Epidemiology, Evolution and Comparative Genomics, Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Population Genomics, Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks, Protein Structure and Function, Sequence Analysis, and Text Mining.

This year's keynote presentations will cover a broad range of interesting topics. Keynote Speakers for 2012 are: Howard Cash of Gene Codes, Michael Lynch of Indiana University, Mercedes Pascual of the University of Michigan, and Russell Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University.

We look forward to receiving your submission before the deadline, and to welcoming you to Ann Arbor in May!

Sincerely,

Your GLBIO 2012 Steering/Organizing Committee

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 17^th

* Early registration deadline: February 3^rd

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VizBi 2012, Mar 6-8, Heidelberg, Germany

3^rd annual Visualizing Biological Data conference, hosted by EMBL

http://vizbi.org/2012

* Poster submission deadline: February 26^th

* Early registration deadline: January 29^th

* 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

16^th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

http://recomb2012.crg.cat/

* Highlights submission deadline for previously published papers: January 13^th

* Early registration discount deadline: January 31^st

* 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

10^th Anniversary includes 12 parallel tracks and 16 pre-conference workshops

http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com

* Early registration discount period ends January 27^th

* 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

http://bsb2012.facom.ufms.br

* ISCB members receive approximately 14% registration discount

* Full Paper submission period: January 19^th through March 19^th

* Short Paper submission period: January 19^th through June 25^th

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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

http://www.eccb12.org/home

* Workshop and Tutorial proposals deadline: January 15^th

* 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 18^th annual event

http://psb.stanford.edu/CallForSessionProposals.html

* Call for 2013 Session proposals deadline: February 15^th

Jan 06:  CSHALS 2012 Last Call for Posters and Early Registration

Jan 06:  ISCB Latin America 2012 - Last Call for Abstracts - Deadline: Jan 13, 2012

Nov 23: Last Call for ISCB Awards Nominations – Overton Prize and Accomplishment by a Sr. Scientist Award

Nov 22: ISCB Latin America 2012 – Register Now and Save

Nov 21: ISCB Latin America 2012 Last Call for Oral Abstracts

Nov 01:  GLBIO 2012 Early Bird Registration is Open