Affiliates Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors Election Results!

ISCB Announces Affiliates Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors Election Results Horton Elected as the ISCB Affiliates Representative to Board of Directors
 
Paul Horton, PhD, has been elected as the newest  ISCB Affiliates Representative to the Board of Directors. Horton is presently the Director of the Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC) in Tokyo, Japan and is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School for Frontier Sciences at Tokyo University. He is an active member of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) affiliate group and has served as an ISCB Board Member, and past ISCB Conferences Committee Chair.

Horton holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has experience in both the academic and tech start-up sectors. Horton’s computational interests include programming, algorithm development, and applications of machine learning. Horton applies his computational approaches to better understanding several biological areas, including subcellular protein localization, motif discovery, genome alignment, and sequence processing.
 
Horton has worked at CBRC since 2003, first as a research team leader, and more recently, as its director. Horton is spearheading CBRC’s plan to make significant and useful contributions to the application of genomic data in medicine and biotechnology.
 
Horton has served the bioinformatics community in numerous capacities, including his work as an ISCB board member and trustee of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics. He chaired the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 conference and has also worked on conference committees for ISMB and other world-class bioinformatics meetings.  He is currently chairing the GIW ISCB-Asia conference, which will be held in December in Tokyo, Japan.  Horton is on the editorial boards of several bioinformatics journals and also advises graduate students at Tokyo University.
 
Horton’s diverse training and research experiences in the United States, Taiwan, and Japan have given him a valuable and unique perspective of the global bioinformatics community, which should serve him well in his new position as the affiliates representative.

ISCB Advances Young Careers!
Meet the young scientists that benefited from your support

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY…LIFE’S A BEACH!
Summer—a time for picnics, beaches, vacation—and the world’s hottest computational biology conferences! Thanks to support from our members, ISCB awarded travel fellowships to 89 students to attend ISMB in Boston, USA, and 9 students to attend ECCB in Strasbourg, France.

YOU CAN HELP YOUNG SCIENTISTS BUILD THEIR SKILLS!
Donate to the ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Campaign and invest in the future of bioinformatics and computational biology! Without the support of travel fellowships, many recipients would not have been able to attend the top conferences in our fields. And, ISCB receives many more deserving applications than we can fund. Your donations help us do more. Your contribution, at any amount, will make a difference for a young scientist!


From posters, to highlights and proceedings talks—for many students, ISMB and ECCB are their first opportunities to present at a major scientific conference.




Watch and hear how attending ISMB 2014 impacted students!

Watch the full interviews to see how ISMB gives young scientists a head start at the ISCB YouTube Channel!  



Summer may be over, but ISCB has exciting conferences planned for Fall 2014 and 2015! Learn more about how you can help young scientists and ISCB at  

ISMB 2014 ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Awardees

ECCB 2014 ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Awardees

 On behalf of the ISCB Board of Directors, we thank you for your support and participation in our Society!

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ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 (Morocco) - Call for Papers and Posters Reopened!

Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,

We have extended the time for submissions of papers and posters, for the upcoming ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics, being held in Morocco!  

Don't miss this opportunity to submit a paper or poster of your work! 

Submissions will be accepted through March 4th.

Paper/poster selection may be determined very close to the start of the conference, however, and financial support is not available.

Conference sessions will be organized within the topic areas listed below. Papers and posters may cover any area of computational biology, and any accepted papers covering an area other than those listed below will be woven into the agena at the most appropriate slots available:

• Host/pathogen systems biology
• Bioinformatics of human genetics
• Molecular epidemiology and evolution
• Functional, structural and comparative genomics
• Database and resource development
• Search and design of vaccines and drugs

The conference will take place March 13-15, 2013 at the Novotel City Center Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco.  Pre-conference workshops will be offered March 11-12 at the Institut Pasteur in Morocco.

Early registration rates will be available through March 1, 2013.

Register (click here) today to take advantage of these discounted rates.

ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics will feature a broad Bioinformatics scope that includes a special focus on infectious diseases relevant to Africa.

Keynote Speakers are

• Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Next Generation Biotechnologies and society: New insights
• Doumbia Seydou, University of Bamako, Mali., Bioinformatics for Public Health in Africa: Challenges and opportunities              
• Jean-Michel Claverie, University of Mediterranée School of Medicine, Open questions about giant viruses 
• Muntaser Ibrahim, University of Khartoum, Genome analysis under thrust of diversity
• Alfonso Valencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Cancer Genome Analysis

To view the entire program, visit http://www.iscb.org/iscbafrica2013-program/agenda

We look forward to seeing you in Casablanca!

Sincerely,

Alia Benkahla,  Conference Chair

Fouzia Radouani,  Conference Co-chair

The Next NGS Challenge 2013 - Register Now for Early Discount!

The Next NGS Challenge Conference, a joint event of the EU COST Action SeqAhead, the EMBnet, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) and the 7FP Project STATegra, is dedicated to the presentation of innovative computational approaches to the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.  The goal of this Conference is to bring together computational biologist and bioinformaticians facing new challenges on high-throughput sequencing and to feature new trends in NGS-based genome research.

The conference will be held in Valencia, Spain, on May 14-16, 2013.

Early registration discount available through March 22!

Register Now!

The Conference will consist of keynote lectures, oral presentations and lively poster sessions, and will be preceded by an EMBnet Workshop on data analysis.

We are proud to announce the participation of the following keynote speakers:

• Ivo Gut, National Centre for Genome Analysis (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain

• Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipig, Germany.

• Leif Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden.

You can find further information at the Conference site: www.thenextngschallenge.org/.

 We look forward to seeing you in Spain!

Ana Conesa, CIPF (Spain)

Chair,  The Next NGS Conference 2013