<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bj Morrison</b> <<a href="mailto:bj@sdsc.edu">bj@sdsc.edu</a>><br>Date: Mar 23, 2007 2:32 PM<br>Subject: ISMB/ECCB 2007 Call for Student Council Symposium Abstracts
<br>To: ISCB Members and Colleagues <<a href="mailto:members@iscb.org">members@iscb.org</a>><br><br></span>
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<p align="center"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">CALL FOR</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <font face="Arial" size="2">STUDEN COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM</font></b></span>
<span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b> <font face="Arial" size="2">ABSTRACTS</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">ISMB/ECCB 2007 ~ Vienna, July 21-25, 2007</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">We invite all students</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">and post docs</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span>
<span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">attending ISMB/ECCB 2007 to consider</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">participating in</font></span><span lang="en-us">
</span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">the pre-conference 3</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><sup><font face="Arial" size="2">rd</font></sup></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
<font face="Arial" size="2"> ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS3). Attendees of the SCS3 are encouraged to submit an abstract for presentation as a poster or for oral presentation if their outstanding submission is selected by the SCS3 program committee.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Submission Deadline:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Friday, June 8, 2007</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Acceptance Date:</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Tuesday, July 3, 2007 </font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">SCS3 Chair</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">: Sarath Chandra Janga</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">**Call for SCS3 Abstracts Submission Site:</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=14" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=14</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">The Student Council Symposium serves as a platform</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">specifically</font>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">for students to present their research in computational biology and related areas</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
<font face="Arial" size="2"> to an audience of your peers</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">. We solicit your original and unpublished contribution for presentation at the symposium from all subfields of computational biology.
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Submission Guidelines</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">
All poster abstracts must be submitted using the conference submission site by the abstract d</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">eadline: Friday, June 8, 2007 (y</font></span>
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">ou have until 11.59 p.m. in the time zone of your choice). Space for posters is limited, and while we will make every effort to accommodate all interested groups, we advise you to submit your poster well before the deadline.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Submissions will not be accepted after June 8, 2007. Posters submitted by the deadline will be notified of acceptance by Tuesday, July 3, 2007.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">You must submit two versions of your abstract: a 50-word summary that will be printed in the program booklet and a 500 word abstract in PDF format that may contain up to two figures, tables or similar constructs with no more than a total of 100 words for captions. This version will be posted on the symposium web site.
</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Abstracts may cover material in any area of computational biology. They must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2006.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">There is a maximum of one</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
<font face="Arial" size="2">SCS3</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">poster per presenting author. The presenting author of a</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us">
<font face="Arial" size="2">n SCS3</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"> poster must be present at the symposium and be available at the poster. Any author may submit</font>
</span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">or have submitted</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">to ISMB/ECCB 2007 tracks as well, including Paper for original work, Highlights for previously published work, PLoS and ISMB/ECCB 2007 Poster for original or previously published work presented as an abstract.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">The ideal poster size should be max. 1.30 m (130 cm) high x 0.90 m (90 cm) wide. Fasteners (Velcro / double sided tape) will be provided at the site, please DO NOT bring tape, tacks or pins.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Oral presentations will be around 20 minutes in length. Detailed instructions will be communicated after the notification date.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">The ISCB Student Council Symposium will not offer tables for laptop computer demos during the poster session. If you would like to demonstrate your software, you are encouraged to submit a
</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"> separate</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">application for ISMB/ECCB 2007 Demonstrations
</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"> using the appropriate submission site</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">.</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">All abstracts will be considered a "personal communication" to the conference attendees. Abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but will appear in the program and on the conference website. However, the organizing committee is trying to raise sufficient funds to publish the abstracts as proceedings in an established computational biology journal.
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Symbol" size="2">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Submitted posters will be reviewed and categorized into the following general areas:
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<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Arrays</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Bioinformatics of Health and Disease</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Biophysics</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Chemical and Pharmaceutical Informatics</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Comparative Genomics</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Databases</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Ecosystems & Ecology</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Evolution</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Function Prediction</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Genomics</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Gene Prediction</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Genome annotation</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Interactions</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Machine Learning</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Multiscale Modeling</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Neuroscience</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Ontologies</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Population Genetics and Variation</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Regulation</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Sequence analysis</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Structural Genomics</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Structure and Function Prediction</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Systems Biology & Networks</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Text Mining</font></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Courier New" size="2">o </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Other -</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Abstracts</font></span><span lang="en-us">
</span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"> that do not fall into the above categories may be considered as well.</font></span>
</p><p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">Poster design and guidelines for oral presentations will be posted following the notification date of</font></span><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us">
<b><font face="Arial" size="2"> July 3, 2007</font></b></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">.</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">All questions pertaining to the ISCB Student Council Symposium should be directed to:</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="mailto:symposium@iscbsc.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">symposium@iscbsc.org</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">
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<p align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2">**</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial" size="2">
Call for SCS3 Abstracts Submission Site:</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=14" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span lang="en-us">
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