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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
Don't miss your opportunity to submit a paper or poster to the
ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference
on Bioinformatics! Travel Fellowship applications are also 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.
Paper submissions: due by November 16th
Poster abstracts: due by December 12th
Travel Fellowship applications:
due by December 12th
Please visit
the
conference submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper
or poster today.
A limited number of Travel Fellowships will be made
available exclusively to students and post docs from African research
institutions whose paper or poster submission is accepted. Travel Fellowship
applicants must first submit a paper or poster before submitting a Travel
Fellowship application. Note that the poster submission deadline is the same as
for TF, so be sure not to wait until the last minute and possibly miss the
deadline!
Early registration is scheduled to open in three weeks. All
early registrants will benefit from discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB
members will enjoy significant additional savings.
Please submit your
paper or poster (or both!) today. Feel free to share this mail with your
colleagues and collaborators to encourage their participation as well. 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
Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
Don't miss your opportunity to submit a paper or poster to the ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics! Travel Fellowship applications are also 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.
Paper submissions: due by November 16th
Poster abstracts: due by December 12th
Travel Fellowship applications: due by December 12th
Please visit the conference submission guidelines and follow the links to submit your paper or poster today.
A limited number of Travel Fellowships will be made available exclusively to students and post docs from African research institutions whose paper or poster submission is accepted. Travel Fellowship applicants must first submit a paper or poster before submitting a Travel Fellowship application. Note that the poster submission deadline is the same as for TF, so be sure not to wait until the last minute and possibly miss the deadline!
Early registration is scheduled to open in three weeks. All early registrants will benefit from discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy significant additional savings.
Please submit your paper or poster (or both!) today. Feel free to share this mail with your colleagues and collaborators to encourage their participation as well. 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
Dear ISCB and ASBCB Members and Colleagues,
The poster submission deadline for the ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013 Conference on Bioinformatics is coming up on December 12, 2012. Be sure to submit your poster by this date to be eligible to apply for a travel fellowship. The conference is being held in Tunis, Tunisia, March 13th -15th, 2013, and registration is now open.
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.
Poster Abstracts: due by December 12th
Click above to access the conference submission guidelines and then follow the links to submit your poster.
Student Travel Fellowship Applications: due by December 12th
Follow the link above to access the Travel Fellowship application form. A limited number of Travel Fellowships will be granted exclusively to students and post docs from African research institutions whose paper or poster submission is accepted. Travel Fellowship applicants must first submit a paper or poster before submitting a Travel Fellowship application.
Early Registration: deadline February 6th, 2013
Click above to access the registration page with pricing and workshop options. All early registrants will benefit from discounted prices, and all ISCB and ASBCB members will enjoy significant additional savings.
Come one, come all! Please share this mail with your colleagues and collaborators to encourage their participation as well. We look forward to seeing you in Tunisia in March!
Yours sincerely,
Alia Benkahla
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Chair
Dan Masiga
ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference Program Committee Chair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David Eisenberg and Goncalo Abecasis Named 2013 ISCB Award Winners
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award and Overton Prize Award. This year's winner of the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award is David S. Eisenberg of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Overton Prize Award winner is Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
The ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award recognizes preeminent members of the computational biology community who have made major contributions to the field of computational biology through research, education, and service. David Eisenberg exemplifies these qualifications. Eisenberg is professor of chemistry and biochemistry and biological chemistry at UCLA, as well as HHMI Investigator and director of the UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics. He studies protein interactions by X-ray crystallography, bioinformatics, and biochemistry, with an emphasis on amyloid-forming proteins. This recently recognized protein state offers opportunities to understand cells in health and disease, and in synthesizing new materials and in understanding processes as diverse as biofilms and corrosion.
Eisenberg has published over 300 papers, he has been cited nearly 50,000 times, and holds half a dozen patents. His numerous awards and accolades include the Harvey Prize in Human Health in 2008, the UCLA Seaborg Medal in 2004, the Stein and Moore Award of the Protein Society in 2000, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute of Medicine.
ISCB established the Overton Prize in memory of G. Christian Overton, a major contributor to the field of bioinformatics and founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors, who died unexpectedly in 2000. The Overton Prize is awarded annually to an emerging scientist, in the early to middle stage of their career, who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution to the field of computational biology through research, education, and/or service. ISCB is pleased to honor Goncalo Abecasis, Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, with this award.
Abecasis has been instrumental in the development of computational and statistical approaches for the analysis of human variation and disease. His work focuses on the use of linkage disequilibrium derived from high-throughput data in order to map complex disease susceptibility genes. Methods developed by Abecasis enabled construction of the first chromosome-wide linkage disequilibrium map in humans, provided graphical tools for exploring haplotypes of interest, and provided software for variant calling which was used in the 1000 Genomes Project. Work in his lab is facilitating the identification of genes involved in diabetes, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and other age-related traits.
Abecasis has demonstrated an immense talent for identifying important challenges in modern, high-throughput biology, and has developed excellent computational and statistical methods to address these. He has produced many notable papers, with more than 150 well-quoted articles. Among his many awards and honors, Abecasis is the recipient of the University of Michigan School of Public Health Research Excellence Award in 2008 and was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences in 2005. He was presented with the Fulker Award in 2000 from the Behavior Genetics Association.
In naming Abecasis as the 2013 Overton Prize Award winner, ISCB recognizes not only the outstanding contributions of Abecasis, but also the importance of the field of statistical genetics and its important relationship to computational biology and bioinformatics.
ISCB will present the Senior Scientist Award and Overton Prize Award at its 21st Annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference, which takes place with the 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013) in Berlin, Germany, July 19-23, 2013. Eisenberg and Abecasis will present their work in keynote talks at ISMB/ECCB 2013.
Full bibliographical articles highlighting the award recipients will be available in the ISMB/ECCB 2013 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year.
About ISCB
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The 5th Annual RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with
DREAM Challenges is just two weeks away! We are very excited that this year's
meeting will offer a very strong program featuring:
See the complete agenda here.
Online registration closes on
Wednesday November 7. It will still be possible to register on-site, but we
recommend that you register now.
Click here to register.
When we
decided in 2008 to combine the RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Systems Biology, the
RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Regulatory Genomics, and the DREAM Project into one
event, our goal was to facilitate conversation among researchers with expertise
in both computational and experimental sciences about the latest approaches for
dissecting regulatory networks and modeling biological processes. The response
has been truly remarkable, and this year's program reflects the increasing
maturity of the field.
We're looking forward to a very impressive set of
presentations and hope that you will be able to join us.
Best wishes,
Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Conference Chairs