Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
The Nomination Period for officers is now open!
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is encouraging members to submit nominations for the Society's Officer positions of President-elect and Vice President; Board of Directors; and the Student Council Leadership positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and Representative to the ISCB Board. Nominations are submitted at www.iscb.org/nominate (you must login to your membership record to access the nomination form). In all cases, self-nominations will not be accepted.
If you know of excellent candidates that meet the eligibility requirements below, please be sure to submit your nomination(s). Details of the positions, procedures and timeline are available on the ISCB website at: http://www.iscb.org/leadership-nominations-and-elections.
In order to be eligible to be an Officer candidate, a person must be an ISCB member in good standing, must have served as a Director for at least one (1) year at any time during the history of the Society leading up to the start date of becoming an Officer (first term Board members, therefore, meet the eligibility requirements for election to an Officer position), and be willing to perform the duties as stated in the Executive Officer Responsibilities. He/she must pledge to make every reasonable effort to attend the weekly Executive Committee teleconferences, the bi-monthly Board of Director teleconferences, and, at their own expense, the face-to-face Annual Board Meeting held in conjunction with the ISMB conference.
In order to be eligible to be a Director candidate, a person must be an ISCB member in good standing, and must pledge to make every reasonable effort to attend the bi-monthly Board of Director teleconference meetings, and, at their own expense, the face-to-face Annual Board Meeting held in conjunction with the ISMB conference.
Nominations for Board of Directors will be accepted through April 12, 2013.
Nominations for Society Officers and Student Council Leaders will be accepted through June 9, 2013.
Election of the Officers and Student Council Leaders will take place via online voting by the membership in July 2013, including availability to a dedicated voting booth at the ISMB conference.
We are looking forward to an active participation by the ISCB membership in the nominations and election process, and we thank you in advance for your qualified nominations.
Respectfully,
Scott Markel and Anna Tramontano
Co-Chairs, ISCB Nominations Committee
Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
Thank you for your patience as we worked to relocate the ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics. The Conference Steering Committee and ISCB Leadership is pleased to report that we have successfully relocated the conference.
The conference will take place March 13-15, 2013 (original dates) 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
To view the entire program, visit www.iscb.org/iscbafrica2013-program/agenda
We look forward to seeing you in Casablanca!
Sincerely,
Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair
Diane Kovats
Executive Director, ISCB
| ISMB/ECCB 2013 Upcoming submission opportunities/deadlines: |
| Posters (including a new "Education" area): March 22 |
| Student Council Symposium: April 16 |
| Late Poster: April 19 |
| Technology Track: April 26 |
| Art & Science Exhibition: May 13 |
| The ISMB/ECCB 2013 Conference will be held July 21-23 at the ICC Berlin, Germany. |
| ISMB/ECCB 2013 Registration opens April 01 |
Dear Colleague,
ISMB/ECCB 2013 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology.
The poster submission deadline is this Friday, March 22!
< learn about poster submission here >
Don't miss this chance to share your research in Berlin!
Posters submitted may cover any area of computational biology. We also encourage submission of purely experimental work and experimental posters should be submitted to the category most accurately reflecting the area of this work and will be displayed accordingly. Posters must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2012.
Submitted posters will be reviewed by the poster selection committee and notification of acceptance will be provided to the corresponding author no later than Monday, April 12, 2013.
We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.
Sincerely,
Burkhard Rost, Anna Tramontano, Martin Vingron, Conference Co-chairs, ISMB/ECCB 2013
2013 Overton Prize and 2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award
www.iscb.org/iscb-awards
Nomination deadline: November 30, 2012
ISCB's annual awards are the most prestigious international awards designated exclusively to researchers in the field of computational biology/bioinformatics, and you are invited to submit nominations for the 2013 Overton Prize and the 2013 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award.
The Overton Prize is awarded to an early career scientist, generally within ten years post-degree, and the Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award is in recognition of highly significant, long-term career achievement. The winners of both awards will deliver keynote talks at ISCB's annual meeting, ISMB/ECCB 2013, in Berlin, Germany.
Nominations from all regions of the world are encouraged, and the selection of award winners will be made by an international panel of current and past members of the ISCB Board of Directors. The nomination form, list of past winners with links to their bios, and a link to the full policies and procedures of these ISCB awards, are all accessed at the above URL.
Please consider nominating your highly accomplished peers and senior researchers who have helped to advance our field in significant and meaningful ways, and then proceed to the nomination form to ensure they are considered for these prestigious awards.
Thank you,
Alfonso Valencia
Chair, ISCB Awards Committee
Dear colleagues,
The discussions at the next summit of the European Union heads of state or government, which is scheduled for 22 and 23 November, will be decisive in determining the EU research budget for the next seven years. Several Member States are demanding severe cuts on the total EU budget and research will have to compete with other policy priorities.
This is a time when we, the scientific community, should act together and make our case to protect research funding, including that of the European Research Council (ERC), from cuts. Decisions will be prepared in discussions among politicians at the national level. All of us must look for opportunities to affect these decisions and send a strong signal to the heads of state or government.
An open letter signed by European Nobel laureates has been published in top European newspapers. The impact of this letter will be increased if it is followed by a mobilization of the national scientific communities. To keep the momentum going, an online petition has been launched:
www.no-cuts-on-research.eu
I would like to ask you to sign it and to encourage all your colleagues to do likewise. Note that in the past, less than 30 000 scientists signed the largest petition for a European scientific cause compared to the hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions from other groups of society. We must do better than that.
This action is coordinated by the Initiative for Science in Europe (
Best regards,
Anna Tramontano, Steering Committee Chair of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
Anna Tramontano
Department of Physics
Sapienza University of Rome
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
00185 Rome
Tel: +39 06 49914550
e-mail:
URL: www.biocomputing.it