Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
Dear ISCB
Members and Colleagues,
The 10th
Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference is now less than two months
away. Over the last decade this conference series has grown 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.
EARLY REGISTRATION DATE IS APPROACHING: Be sure to take
advantage of early registration rates while they last. If you are not a current
member consider joining ISCB now
for immediate additional savings on your conference registration to this and any
other ISCB conference. Please note that accepted presenters must register at
applicable conference attendee rates by November 6 in order to give a
presentation at Rocky 2012.
Register Here Now
Early Registration Deadline: November 8,
2012
ACCOMMODATIONS SELLING OUT: The
conference has moved to the new Viceroy Snowmass Hotel this year. A special
group rate has been negotiated for Rocky 2012 attendees: $105 single or $140
double occupancy, plus tax. As rooms are booking up fast be sure to book yours
before these special rates are no longer accessible. You must enter the group
code of Rocky2012 to secure rooms at the special rate (if linking to the online
hotel booking form from the conference website, double check that the correct
code auto fills - if it fills as ISCB2012 please manually correct it as that
code is an error and may not result in presenting the deeply discounted group
rate).
Access Full
Hotel Details Here
Until November 8th the Rocky conference offers a special Academic Retreat
package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free
student registration. Forward this invitation to your colleagues and
collaborators and come for a lab retreat in addition to attending for the great
science and networking.
We look forward to your participation!
Sincerely,
The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team
Dear ISCB Members, Colleagues, and Past GLBIO Attendees,
The Great Lakes Bioinformatics
Conference is ISCB's annual event focused on providing an interdisciplinary
forum for the discussion of research findings and methods within the North
American Great Lakes region. The conference fosters long-term relationships,
provides networking opportunities for researchers from within the region, and
creates a collaborative environment for participants from around the world. The
2013 program has been retooled with new elements that will increase the
opportunities to present research at many different stages of development. GLBIO
will kick off with tutorials, and include a full program of keynotes, selected
original research presentations, highlights of published works, flash
presentations, and posters. Your participation is encouraged!
ALL CALLS FOR PRESENTATIONS ARE NOW OPEN:
Original Research Papers (Proceedings)
Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Highlight Presentations (previously published papers)
Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Flash Presentations (abstracts)
Deadline: Jan 14, 2013
Poster Presentations (abstracts)
Deadline: March 22, 2013
GLBIO topic areas include: Algorithm
Development & Machine Learning; Databases and Ontologies; Text Mining & Natural
Language Processing; Bioimage Analysis; Biological Networks; Chemical Biology;
Clinical Informatics & Epidemiology; Disease Models & Molecular Medicine;
Evolutionary, Comparative, and Meta-Genomics, Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics;
Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics; Personalized Genetics and Genomics: Exome,
Genome, Transcriptome; RNA & Protein: Structure, Modification, Localizations,
Interaction, Function.
This year's keynote presenters exemplify the
diversity of the field within this region:
Ivet Bahar
of University of Pittsburgh;
Ziv Bar-Joseph of
Carnegie Mellon University (and recipient of the 2012 ISCB Overton Prize);
Jing Li of Case
Western Reserve University; and
Isidore
Rigoutsos of Thomas Jefferson University.
We hope you will consider
submitting today. Please also help spread the word by sharing this with your
colleagues and collaborators. We very much look forward to welcoming you to
Pittsburgh next May!
Sincerely,
Bruce Aronow, Elodie Ghedin, and
Russell Schwartz
GLBIO 2013 Conference Chairs
ISMB/ECCB 2013 Call for Special Sessions, Proceedings, Tech Track
January 10, 2012
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
As many of you may be aware, the U.S. House of Representatives has recently been presented with a bill called the Research Works Act (HR 3699) that threatens the current U.S. requirements of public access to federally funded research results. ISCB strongly opposes this bill. Burkhard Rost, ISCB President, and Richard Lathrop, ISCB Public Affairs & Policies Committee Chair, are drafting a letter to the bill's authors that expresses our opposition and emphasizes the importance of the ISCB Public Policy Statement on Open Access to Scientific and Technical Research Literature that was released in 2010.
If you are a member of ISCB and have not yet signed on to our statement, you are invited to do so at your earliest opportunity via the link to current signatories on the policy page noted above.
Thank you,
BJ Morrison McKay, ISCB Executive Officer on behalf of Burkhard Rost, Richard Lathrop, and the ISCB Board of Directors
Aug 04: Rocky 2011 Call for Presentations is open. Deadline: Oct. 07, 2011