Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
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Eugene (Gene) Myers
Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award |
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award and Overton Prize. Eugene (Gene) Myers of the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics is this year's winner of the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award, and Dana Pe'er of Columbia University is the recipient of the Overton Prize.
The ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award honors respected leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics for their significant contributions to these fields through research, education, and service. Gene Myers is being honored as the 2014 winner for his outstanding contributions to the bioinformatics community, particularly for his work on sequence comparison algorithms, whole-genome shotgun sequencing methods, and for his recent endeavors in developing software and microscopic devices for bioimage informatics.
Since 2012, Myers has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and the Klaus-Tschira Chair of the Systems Biology Center. Myers has also held professorships at the University of Arizona and the University of California at Berkeley, was a vice president at Celera Genomics during the human genome sequencing effort, and was a group leader at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute prior to moving to Dresden. Myers has published numerous papers on bioimaging and bioinformatics, and is a co-author of the manuscript first describing the BLAST algorithm, which is one of the most highly cited scientific publications of all time. Myers has served on numerous editorial boards of leading journals and has been the recipient of several honors, including election to the National Academy of Engineering (2003), the ACM Kannellakis Prize (2002), and the International Max Planck Research Prize (2004).
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Dana Pe'er
Overton Prize |
ISCB instituted the Overton Prize in 2001 to honor the untimely loss of G. Christian Overton, a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics research and founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors. The Overton Prize recognizes early- or mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics that are recognized for their accomplishments in these fields through research, education, and service. Dana Pe'er is being awarded the 2014 Overton Prize for her cutting-edge research that applies computational methods to complex data to understand the organization and function of molecular networks in cells at a holistic systems level.
Pe'er is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. She has published several high-impact papers that exemplify her ability to tackle a wide array of biological questions using computational approaches. Her studies on cancer genomics have provided insight into malignancy and have created a framework for future studies that may lead to personalized cancer therapies. Pe’er serves on the editorial board of Cell, and has received several prestigious awards, including the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, NIH Directors New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, Stand Up To Cancer Innovative Research Grant and a Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering.
ISCB will present the Senior Scientist Award and Overton Prize Award at its 22nd Annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB), which takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, July 11-15, 2014. Myers and Pe’er will present their work in keynote talks at ISMB 2014.
Full bibliographical articles profiling the award recipients will be available in the ISMB 2014 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year, as well as the ISCB Society Pages in PLOS Computational Biology and OUP Bioinformatics.
| KEY DATES Paper/oral and Poster Submissions Open -->27 Jan 2014 Submissions Close -->14 Mar 2014 Author Acceptance Notifications -->06 Apr 2014 Early registration opens -->10 Feb 2014 Early registration closes -->28 Apr 2014 Online registration closes -->26 May 2014 www.iscb.org/ngs2014 |
The Next Generation Sequencing Conference 2014 (NGS 2014) is a dedicated meeting on cutting-edge approaches to the processing and analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. This three-day conference (two-day main meeting with one day tutorial) will bring together some of the best researchers from around the world, honor the late Fred Sanger, and provide opportunities for presentation of YOUR latest research developments. Sizeable space will be dedicated to emerging and future trends in high-throughput sequencing and their associated computational challenges.
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| February 07, 2014 | Early Registration Closes | |
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| ISCB MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Feb 07, 2014 |
Feb 08 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $200 | $300 |
| Post Doc | $325 | $425 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $375 | $475 |
| Corporate | $575 | $675 |
| NON MEMBER REGISTRATION FEES | Until Feb 07, 2014 |
Feb 08 – Feb 28, 2014 |
| Student | $300 | $400 |
| Post Doc | $475 | $575 |
| Academic/Non-profit/Government | $575 | $675 |
| Corporate | $775 | $875 |
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Captivating Program to be Presented at CSHALS!
February 26 - 28, 2014
Boston, MA
There is still time to join us for the 7th Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, CSHALS.
Four stellar keynote speakers, a tutorial on Enterprise and Scientific Data Sharing using Callimachus, four technology talks, and 18 paper presentations including poster viewing round out the two and half day program.
Join some of the leading researcher in the semantics tools arena to network, collaborate, and learn!
*Travel fellowship may still be available
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Boston, Massachusetts
July 11 – 15, 2014
4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis)
URL: www.biovis.net
Date: July 11-12, 2014
BioVis 2014 is the premier venue that brings together the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities to explore the application of visualization research to life science problems and to demonstrate the state of the art in the field. Highlights include
Call for Participation in the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization at ISMB 2014. Papers are due March 1 and posters are due by May 24, 2014
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The Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG)
URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
The mission of the Automated Function Prediction Special Interest Group (AFP-SIG) is to bring together computational biologists, experimental biologists, and biocurators who are dealing with the important problem of gene and gene product function prediction, to share ideas and create collaborations.
Deadline for Submitting Abstracts: April 18, 2014
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BioLINK SIG: Supporting Bioscience through Text Mining
URL: http://biolinksig.org/biolink-2014/
Date: Friday, July 11 (General BioLINK SIG meeting) & Saturday, July 12 (Special session, joint with BioOntologies: Phenotype Day)
We hope to attract research to this SIG meeting that directly integrates text mining into computational methods addressing biological problems, and will dedicate part of the workshop specifically to the role of text mining for automated function prediction and genetic variant interpretation.
Submissions Deadline: April 11, 2014
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Bio-Ontologies Special Interest Group meeting
URL: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/
Date: July 11 and July 12
The Bio-Ontologies SIG is a forum to present the most innovative research in the application of ontologies and the organisation, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biomedicine and the life sciences.
We invite three types of submissions. Short papers (4 pages), Posters and Flash updates (1 page), deadline: April 11, 2014
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The 15th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2014)
URL: www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2014
Date: July 11-12, 2014
BOSC covers the wide range of open source bioinformatics projects that have been successfully developed and adopted by the community, and encompasses the growing movement of Open Science, with its focus on transparency, reproducibility, and data provenance.
Deadline for submission of abstracts for talks: April 4 and Deadline for submission of abstracts for posters: May 15
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HitSEQ: High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms & Applications
URL: http://hitseq.org/
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
HiTSeq provides a forum for in depth presentations of novel algorithms, analysis methods, and applications in multiple areas of biology that HTS is transforming.
Full paper submission deadline: April 6, 2014
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Integrative RNA Biology - SIG (IRB-SIG)
http://www.irbgroup.org/irb-sig-14/
Date: July 11, 2014
In this meeting we aim to bring computational experts attending ISMB together with world experts in the fields of RNA processing and non-coding RNAs to discuss recent advances in RNA biology and related computational and experimental methodology.
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Mass Spectrometry SIG (MS-SIG)
URL: http://igenomed2.stanford.edu/BeyondProteomics_2014/
Date: July 12, 2014
MS-SIG aims to bring together experts from the global research community to discuss current progress and challenges in the field of mass spectrometry based proteomics and computational biology.
Abstract submission deadline is March 14, 2014 and May 12, 2014
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NetBio SIG
URL: http://nrnb.org/netbiosig/
Date: July 11, 2014
The meeting will provide a unique meeting space for tool developers and users in the field of network biology. Through these complementary lenses, the meeting will bring into focus the current state of the field, its future promise and how to get there.
Submission deadline is April 22, 2014
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New Challenges in Computational Single Cell Biology
URL: www.imsb.ethz.ch/researchgroup/mclaassen/Events/ISMB_SIG_CSCB_2014
Date: July 12, 2014
This workshop features keynotes from invited speakers, presentations selected from the submitted abstracts and poster presentations to share the latest results on single cell driven biology, cutting edge technology development and mathematical modeling approaches.
Call for abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. The best accepted abstracts will be invited for oral presentation.
Abstract submission Deadline is April 30, 2014
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Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group - RegGenSIG
URL: http://light.ece.ohio.edu/~reggen/2014/
Date: July 12, 2014
RegGenSIG is a collaborative community of scientists who convene to solve difficult research problems in all areas of computational regulatory genomics.
Submit abstracts to
Extended abstracts for oral presentation are due by April 20, 2014, and 250 word abstracts for poster presentations are due by May 18, 2014
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VarI-SIG
URL: http://varisig.biofold.org
Date: July 12, 2014
The primary goal of the VarI-SIG is to outline and discuss the recent advances in the methodology for the annotation and analysis of genomic variation data.
Poster and Presentation Proposal deadline April 6, 2014
Satellite Meetings (SMs)
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3Dsig: Structural Bioinformatics & Computational Biophysics
URL: http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca/3dsig14
Date: July 11 & 12, 2014
3Dsig, a Satellite Meeting of the ISMB/ECCB conference, focused on structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics and has become the largest meeting in this growing field. This year we are celebrating our 10th meeting and highlighting the 2013 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt & Arieh Warshel, the pioneers of the field.
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2014
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CAMDA: Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis
URL: http://www.camda.info/
Date: Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12 2014
CAMDA presents an open-ended data analysis challenge format which focuses on big heterogeneous data sets that are increasingly produced in several fields of the life sciences.
Call for submissions deadlines: Extended Abstract Proposals: May 20, 2014, Abstract for Posters: May 25, 2014, Full papers: Aug 25, 2014
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| Early registration opens -->14 Feb 2014 Submissions Close -->14 Mar 2014 Author Acceptance Notifications -->06 Apr 2014 Early registration closes -->28 Apr 2014 Online registration closes -->26 May 2014 |
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| Early Registration - Valid until 28 April 2014 |
ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 205 | 375 |
| Student | 125 | 275 |
| Early Registration - Valid AFTER 28 April 2014 |
ISCB Member | Non-Member |
| Professional (including Postdoc) | 255 | 425 |
| Student | 175 | 325 |
| *All prices listed in Euro | ||
June 2-4, 2014
Barcelona, Spain
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
NGS2014 invites submissions for paper presentations and posters.
Papers reporting on original research in all areas of high-throughput sequencing are sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Submit your research now!
Deadline: 14 March 2014
