ISCB ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPDATES
ROCKY ’07
**** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS CLOSING SOON!*****
*/5th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (Rocky '07) /*
*/November 30 – December 2, 2007… Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado /*
*/SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 8, 2007 /*
***_http://www.iscb.org/rocky07/presentation.htm_***
Just days remain before the chance to submit your abstract to Rocky '07 disappears. Make your plans now to attend this educational andcommunity building event in the majestic setting of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, just as the 07/08 ski season kicks off. All scientifically valid submissions are guaranteed a slot in the agenda or a spot in theposter session, and skiers and non-skiers alike will appreciate all that Aspen/Snowmass have to offer during the extended midday breaks. For four years running, attendees have come from all corners of the globe for this annual conference, many to return again for each year of theconference – make sure you are among them in 2007 by submitting yourabstract today and registering for the conference at the same time.
*CALL FOR ISCB ANNUAL AWARD NOMINEES*
*/2008 Overton Prize and Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award/*
***_www.iscb.org/iscb_awards_nomin/nomin_form.php_***
ISCB is now seeking nominations for the 2008 Overton Prize (applicable to an early career scientist) and the 2008 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award (recognizing long term career achievement). The winners of both awards will deliver keynote talks at ISCB’s annual meeting, ISMB2008, in Toronto, Canada. These are international awards and nominations from all regions are encouraged. Please visit the URL above for links to more details about each award and its past winners, as well as to access the nomination form itself. All nominations will be treated confidentially. Self nominations are discouraged.
*RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Regulatory Genomics*
*/October 11 – 13, 2007 … MIT/Broad, Cambridge/Boston,Massachusetts/*
***_http://compbio.mit.edu/recombreg07/_***
Next week the 4th Annual RECOMB Satellite Meeting on Regulatory Genomics will convene at MIT/The Broad Institute. As a newly affiliatedconference of the ISCB, we encourage all members of our community notcurrently registered to make last minute plans to attend this topicalevent focused on a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. Nineimpressive keynotes, 27 oral presentations, and three poster sessionsmake up the Thursday-Saturday agenda.
*SAVE THESE DATES FOR 2008…*
*/C-SHALS: Conference on Semantics in Healthcare andLife Sciences/*
*/March 5-7, 2008 … Marriott Boston Cambridge Hotel, Cambridge,Massachusetts/*
***_www.iscb.org/cshals2008_***
Comprehensive conference details to be posted soon for this first time ISCB conference!
*/ISMB 2008: 16th Annual Conferenceon Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/*
*/July 19 – 23, 2008 … Toronto, Canada/*
***_www.iscb.org/ismb2008_***
A new website will be unveiled within days to include keynotes, committees, agenda at a glance and all the upcoming calls for participation.
*/ECCB 2008: 7th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology/*
*/September 22 – 26, 2008 … Cagliari, Sardinia-Italy/*
***_http://www.eccb2008.org/_***
Conference details including keynote speakers, provisional program, key dates, submission guidelines, registration rates, newsletter subscription information and more are all up to date on the conference website.
*Survey Results Now Online for ISMB/ECCB 2007 in Vienna*
***_www.iscb.org/ismb/survey_result.php_***
Over 1800 attended ISMB/ECCB 2007 in Vienna this past July and nearly 40% of them completed the online conference evaluation survey. If you were among the survey takers and want to see how your answers contributed to the overall ratings, or if you are just curious as you evaluate your plans for attending in 2008, please visit the URL above. ISCB and the annual conference steering committees take the survey results seriously, and we would like to thank each delegate that took the time to share thoughts and impressions via the survey. (Five iPodNanos were awarded through a random drawing of survey takers – to see the list of winners check out the announcement on the home page of theconference site at _www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/_ - the survey is also viewable from that page.).
