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CSHALS 2013 Call for Participation

Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

The ISCB Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs. With an expanded scope that includes the emerging field of data science, CSHALS 2013 should be part of your plans for 2013!

Topics covered by CSHALS 2013 span the continuum between standards development and big data workflows - the scope between Life Science data representation and its analysis. To find out more about CSHALS topics follow the link here.

This is YOUR invitation to participate:

>> CALL FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS IS NOW OPEN <<

Call for Oral Presentations closes November 30, 2012

Call for Poster Abstracts closes January 11, 2013


Conference registration will open at the end of October. We look forward to your participation!

Sincerely,
The CSHALS 2013 Organizing Committee

ISCB Executive Officer Position Announcement – Applications Now Being Accepted

 

JDG ASSOCIATES, LTD.


EXECUTIVE OFFICER

JDG Associates has been retained by the International Society for Computational Biology to conduct the search for its Executive Officer position.

 

Client
Founded in 1997, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. The ISCB communicates the significance of the science to the larger scientific community, governments and the public at large. Representing over 3000 members in over 70 countries, ISCB works to impact government and scientific policies, provide high quality publications and meetings, and distribute valuable information about training, education and employment in the field. ISCB is a growing scientific society in a growing scientific field. A member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) community, ISCB has a $2M annual budget, a staff of three, and a contingent of contractors. For more information please visit www.iscb.org.

Position Summary
Reporting to the President, the Executive Officer is responsible for efficiently and effectively running the day-to-day operations of the Society and implementing the strategic initiatives and policy decisions of the Executive Committee (EC) and the Board. The EO also provides professional management services and continuity; supports the Society’s elected and appointed volunteer leadership; liaises among staff, leadership, and members; monitors Society activities; provides a record of institutional memory; and directs the administration of the Society.


Principal Responsibilities

Strategic and Governance Support

  • Advise EC and Board on non-profit best practices; adherence to Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, and other governing documents; and any needed changes to governing documents.
  • Provide organizational and administrative support to the EC and to the Board, including logistical arrangements when appropriate, meeting agenda, appropriate documentation and drafting meeting minutes for approval.
  • Work with the EC to develop and execute a strategic, long term plan for a sustainable society.

Meeting Management

  • Work with meeting consultants, organizing committees and fund raisers in the development and successful implementation all meetings and conferences
  • Work with organizing committees and other stakeholders on financial planning, scheduling and logistics of all meetings.
  • Provide data and analysis to assist the board in selecting meeting venues.

Committees, Task Forces, Affiliates, and Special Interest Groups

  • Promote strategic affiliations with allied organizations and special interest groups (SIGs)
  • Facilitate communications among the EC, the Board, SIGs, standing committees and task forces, and affiliates to achieve goals in addition to encouraging those groups be more productive and effective.

Membership Management

  • Using various marketing strategies, manage the membership recruitment and retention process including creating new programs that will enhance member value proposition.

Marketing, Communications, and Fund Raising

  • Work with the EC and the Director of Corporate Relations and Development to produce and execute a development strategy. Secure Federal grants, administer the funds, and fulfill reporting requirements.
  • Develop a social media plan utilizing appropriate platforms.

General Administration

  • Work with EC, accountant and Treasurer to prepare the annual budget and annual audit. Ensure the Board is fully informed on the financial state of the organization, including provision of quarterly financial reports.


Requirements

Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred; an advanced degree in a scientific field relevant to the Society is a plus. Senior management experience in a professional society with experience in the areas of meetings, membership, publications, fundraising, marketing, outreach, and board governance/support is required. Experience with international scientific, engineering or medical societies is preferred. Must be an effective verbal and written communicator and able to give presentations to a diverse range of audiences. Negotiation, conflict resolution, problem solving and strategic thinking skills are essential as are strong financial management and budgeting skills. Travel up to 20%, including international.

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JDG Associates, Ltd.
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ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 - Call for Papers and Posters

Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,

A reminder that submissions for the ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics are now being accepted. This is the third joint meeting of ISCB and ASBCB, and takes place from March 13th -15th in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting will include topics of general interest in bioinformatics, with a special focus on the bioinformatics of African pathogens, vectors, and human genetics. We especially welcome abstracts on the bioinformatics of diseases relevant to Africa, and with the new Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative the genetics focus is particularly relevant and timely.

Submissions of papers are due by October 24th, and poster abstracts are due by December 12th. Please visit the conference submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper or poster today.

Pre-conference optional events are planned for March 11th and 12th, including a variety of Training Workshops and Tutorials such as EBI Roadshow training, EMBnet eBioKit workshops, LIRMM and EMBL instructor-led introduction to Phylogeny, and a full day session on deep sequencing. For more details on these events please check the conference website frequently to watch for updates as they become available.

A limited number of travel fellowships will be made available to students from African research institutions. Additionally, a grant proposal has been submitted to a U.S. agency that, if awarded, would help fund American students to attend. Information on eligibility and application procedures will be posted to the conference website as soon as full details are known.  Early registration will be offered at discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy significant savings.

Don't delay in submitting your paper or poster (or both!) today. We hope to welcome you to Tunisia in March!

Yours sincerely,

Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair

Dan Masiga
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Program Committee Chair

Last Call for Highlights

Highlights submission deadline: 30 September 2012

Reminder Call for Posters

Posters submission deadline: 31 October 2012

ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centersin a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.
 

Highlights - deadline is 30 September 2012

Submit your Highlights Paper today: We invite the submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers within the last 12 months (between August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012) on topics including, but not limited to: computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology. Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a co-author to make the presentation).

Poster - deadline is 31 October 2012

Poster abstracts in the same topic areas as Highlights are also invited. Please submit your poster directly to the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site.

Discounted Registration - deadline is 12 November 2012

ISCB members and BGI staff are eligible for special conference registration discounts. All accepted paper and poster presenters must register and pay to attend the conference. If you are not a current ISCB member, consider joining today for instant benefits including discounted registration to this conference.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to Shenzhen in December,

Victor Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair

Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair

Early Registration Closes Soon – RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

November 12-15, 2012

Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay

Redwood City, CA

Early registration closes soon for the fifth annual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges. Members of the International Society for Computational Biology are entitled to special member rates for registration. Register now to take advantage of reduced registration rates.

Over four days, the meeting will feature 15 keynote talks, additional lectures, poster sessions, and discussion of the results of this year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a project designed to identify best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks. Best performers from this year's DREAM challenges will have an opportunity to present their methods.

Now an ISCB official conference, this event is one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the areas of regulatory genomics and systems biology. Over four days, the meeting will feature 15 keynote talks, additional lectures, poster sessions, and discussion of the results of this year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a project designed to identify best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks. Best performers from this year's DREAM challenges will have an opportunity to present their methods.

Keynote speakers include:

  • DREAM
    • Michael Elowitz (Caltech), Stephen Friend (Sage Bionetworks)
  • Systems Biology
    • Markus Covert (Stanford), Dean Felsher (Stanford), Ernest Fraenkel (MIT), Joe Gray (Oregon Health & Science University), Joseph Nadeau (Institute for Systems Biology), Jonathan Weissman (UCSF)
  • Regulatory Genomics
    • Job Dekker (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Angela DePace (Harvard), Joe Ecker (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Yoav Gilad (University of Chicago), Len Pennacchio (Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute), Saurabh Sinha (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website.

We look forward to seeing you in the Bay Area!

Conference Chairs,

Andrea Califano - Columbia University
Manolis Kellis - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sylvia Plevritis - Stanford University
Gustavo Stolovitzky - IBM

Reminder Call for Highlights Papers and Posters
Conference Registration Now Open!

ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centersin a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.

Call for Highlights: We invite the submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers within the last 12 months (between August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012) on topics including, but not limited to: computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology. Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a co-author to make the presentation).

  • Submit your Highlights Paper today.
    • Note the following important dates:
      • Papers published from Aug 31, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012 can be considered for a Highlights Paper submission.
      • Submission deadline: Sep 30, 2012
      • Notification Date: Oct 29, 2012

Call for Posters: Poster abstracts in the same topic areas are also invited. Please submit your poster directly to the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 Posters submission site by the submission deadline of October 31, 2012.

Register Today: Conference registration is now open! ISCB members and BGI staff are eligible for special discounts. All accepted paper and poster presenters must register and pay to attend the conference. If you are not a current ISCB member, consider joining today for instant benefits including discounted registration to this conference.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to Shenzhen in December,

Victor Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair

Paul Horton, AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair

REMINDER: Rocky 2012 Call for Abstracts & Early Registration

>> December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA <<


Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,

The 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is fast approaching! Over the last decade this conference series has grown from a small regional event into an international program with a spotlight on regional development in the computational biosciences. Invited and accepted presenters represent a broad spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find synergies that can drive our field forward.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Rocky 2012 Conference provides opportunities for 10 minute flash presentations on current projects from as many attendees as possible. Original presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.

Submitters are given the option to apply for a 10-minute "flash" oral presentation, a poster presentation, or both. We will attempt to accommodate all requests from authors accepted for presentation.

Submit Here Now
Submission Deadline: October 4, 2012
Acceptance Notification: November 2, 2012

EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Take advantage of early registration rates, and ISCB members save even more. If you are not a current member consider joining ISCB now for immediate savings on your conference registration to this and any other ISCB conference. Please note that accepted presenters must register as a conference attendee by November 6 in order to give a presentation at Rocky 2012.

Register Here Now
Early Registration Deadline: November 8, 2012

We look forward to your participation! Please forward this invitation to your colleagues and collaborators - the Rocky conference offers a special Academic Retreat package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free student registration.

Sincerely,

The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team

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ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 - Call for Papers and Posters


Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,

Submissions for the ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics are now being accepted. This is the third joint meeting of ISCB and ASBCB, and takes place from March 13th -15th in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting will include topics of general interest in bioinformatics, with a special focus on the bioinformatics of African pathogens, vectors, and human genetics. We especially welcome abstracts on the bioinformatics of diseases relevant to Africa, and with the new Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative the genetics focus is particularly relevant and timely.

Submissions of papers are due by October 24th, and poster abstracts are due by December 12th. Please visit the conference submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper or poster today.

Pre-conference optional events are planned for March 11th and 12th, including a variety of Training Workshops and Tutorials such as EBI Roadshow training, EMBnet eBioKit workshops, LIRMM and EMBL instructor-led introduction to Phylogeny, and a full day session on deep sequencing. For more details on these events please check the conference website frequently to watch for updates as they become available.

A limited number of travel fellowships will be made available to students from African research institutions. Additionally, a grant proposal has been submitted to a U.S. agency that, if awarded, would help fund American students to attend. Information on eligibility and application procedures will be posted to the conference website as soon as full details are known. Early registration will be offered at discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy significant savings.

Commit to your participation now - submit your paper or poster (or both!) today.

Yours sincerely,

Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair

Dan Masiga
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Program Committee Chair

RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges

November 12-15, 2012

Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay

Redwood City, CA

Please join us for the fifth annual RECOMB Satellite Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges. Now an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology, this event is one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the areas of regulatory genomics and systems biology.

Register now to take advantage of early registration discounts. ISCB members are entitled to special member rates for registration.

Over four days, the meeting will feature 15 keynote talks, additional lectures, poster sessions, and discussion of the results of this year's Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM), a project designed to identify best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks. Best performers from this year's DREAM challenges will have an opportunity to present their methods.

Keynote speakers include:

  • DREAM
    • Michael Elowitz (Caltech), Stephen Friend (Sage Bionetworks)
  • Systems Biology
    • Markus Covert (Stanford), Dean Felsher (Stanford), Ernest Fraenkel (MIT), Joe Gray (Oregon Health & Science University), Joseph Nadeau (Institute for Systems Biology), Jonathan Weissman (UCSF)
  • Regulatory Genomics
    • Job Dekker (University of Massachusetts Medical School), Angela DePace (Harvard), Joe Ecker (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Yoav Gilad (University of Chicago), Len Pennacchio (Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute), Saurabh Sinha (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website.

We look forward to seeing you in the Bay Area!

Conference Chairs,

Andrea Califano - Columbia University
Manolis Kellis - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sylvia Plevritis - Stanford University
Gustavo Stolovitzky - IBM