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Call for Special Sessions Proposals - ISMB 2016!



Deadline: December 4, 2015

Special Sessions aim at introducing ISMB attendees to relevant "hot" topics that influence computational biology and bioinformatics.  Do you have an exciting idea?  Submit your proposal now!

Submit to ISMB 2016!


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10 November

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10 November
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ISCB Buzz: ISCB Buzz: Awards Nominations, Conference Updates, Wikipedia Competition, Ebola Award & More!

Conference Updates!
Book your hotel now at a discounted rate before its too late! The RSG Hotel Discount Expires 2 November!



ISCB Members in the News!
Congratulations to Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

ISCB Awards are Open!
Nominate a deserving scientists today for one of four prestigious ISCB Annual Awards. The Nomination period is Open! Deadline is December 2, 2015. Click here for more information.

Call for Submissions!
Submissions are being requested for the new ISCB Fight Against Ebola Award. ISCB will award the winning submission at ISMB 2016. Deadline for submissions is April 10, 2016. To submit click here.

Nominate a Fellow!
Honoring our distinguished researchers, Nominations for the ISCB Fellows Program is open. The deadline to nominate a Fellow is December 2, 2015. See the Fellows page for details.

ISCB Wikipedia Competition
The competition is open to all students and trainees aims to improve content of Computational Biology articles in Wikipedia. Deadline for entry into the competition is January 11, 2016. Click here to learn more.



Discounted room rate expires
Monday, 2 November 2015.

The Sheraton Philadelphia
Downtown Hotel
201 North 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Join us for the RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference with DREAM Challenges 2015!

Online Registration Deadline: November 10!

The leading conference on regulatory genomics and systems biology featuring 10 renown keynote speakers, 46 talks, over 100 posters, DREAM Challenges and hackathons
- View the program -

Keynotes - Talks - Register Today!


 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Larry Gold, PhDLarry Gold, PhD
Kirk E. Jordan, PhDKirk E. Jordan, PhD
Karin Verspoor, PhDKarin Verspoor, PhD

Welcome to ROCKY 2015!ROCKY 2015: Early Registration Deadline Coming up Fast!

Become part of the 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference!


Early Registration Deadline: November 10, 2015
Register now for Rocky 2015 and Save! Join your colleagues for a productive opportunity to meet other researchers, students and industrial users of bioinformatics technology!

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Plan an Off-site Retreat & SAVE!

Academic Retreat Deadline: November 10, 2015
Academic Retreats with colleagues provide the perfect opportunity to roll your conference attendance funds into a very affordable academic group retreat experience in the spectacular setting of the Colorado Rocky Mountains --- during ski season!rs of bioinformatics technology!

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Can’t Miss Scientific Program Just Released- RECOMB/ISCB
Regulatory & Systems Genomics Conferences

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

BONNIE BERGER

MIT

JAMES (JAY) BRADNER
Harvard University

TUULI LAPPALAINEN
Columbia University

ANDRE LEVCHENKO
Yale University

WILLIAM STAFFORD NOBLE
University of Washington

STEVE QUAKE
Stanford University

MICHAEL SHEN
Columbia University

OLGA TROYANSKAYA
Princeton University

LESLIE VOSSHALL
The Rockefeller University

JULIA ZEITLINGER
The University of Kansas School of Medicine
Click here for Keynote Speakers page

Join us for the leading conference on regulatory genomics and systems biology, RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference with DREAM Challenges 2015!

Register before 23 October and SAVE!

10 renown keynote speakers, 46 talks, over 100 posters, DREAM Challenges and hackathons - View the program -

When: November 15 - 18, 2015

Where: Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel

KeynotesTalks - Register Today!

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CONFERENCE HOTEL

The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel
201 North 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Room Rate: $149 per night
Discounted room rate will expire on Monday, 2 November 2015.

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SPONSORS

GOLD
Gold Sponsor:  Sanofi
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BRONZE

Bronze Sponsor:  Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Med at Mt Sinai

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General Sponsor - AstraZeneca

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 International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)

Don't Miss these Important Deadlines for
Upcoming ISCB Conferences!

Call for Abstracts (Oral and Poster) is Open Register for Rocky 2015
Poster Submission deadline:
October 9, 2015
Submission deadline:
October 9, 2015
The RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges is soliciting poster submissions on the following topics:

  • 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

Learn more about submissions here.

The Rocky 2015 Conference will provide opportunities for short "flash" presentations (10 minute talks) and poster 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.

Learn more about submissions here.
Full Listing of ISCB Conferences

 





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.


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
PARTICIPATE IN THE DREAM CHALLENGES
This conference will also feature the ninth annual meeting of the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM). We invite the scientific community to participate in this year’s DREAM Challenges, which have been designed to focus attention on important questions related to human health. Learn more about the DREAM Challenges.

 

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:

Bruno Andre Gaeta, Ph.D.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.

Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D.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.



ISCB Student CouncilThis year's election also included ISCB Student Council leadership. The ISCB Board of Directors is pleased to announce the elected yo
ung 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.


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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