Genomics calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers: 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research. GENSIPS 2013 will also provide best paper awards to students with outstanding technical contributions.

Papers on original research in computational biology and bioinformatics are solicited. Abstracts for poster presentation are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Deep sequencing data analysis

Methods for analyzing SNP/genotype/epigenetic data

LC/MS data analysis and proteomics

Cancer genomics and cancer drug screening

Functions of microRNA and non-coding RNAs

Differential analysis of molecular regulatory networks

Functional meta-genomics and biomolecular dynamics in microbial communities

Dynamics and control of genetic regulatory networks

Modeling of cancer evolution and intra-tumoral heterogeneity

Modeling of genetic networks and signaling pathways

Travel and best paper awards sponsored by National Science Foundation will be provided to student/post doctoral authors of papers with exceptional quality.

Paper Submission: All submitted papers (up to 4 pages) will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings that will be archived in IEEE Xplore. Authors of papers of exceptional quality will be invited to submit a journal version to a special issue of a high-quality journal.

Important Deadlines

Aug. 2, 2013 Full papers due; proposal for special session due

Sep. 9, 2013 Notification of Acceptance

Oct. 21, 2013 Poster abstract due

Oct. 28, 2013 Camera Ready paper due and early registration

Nov. 17-19, 2013 GENSIPS 2013

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

Call for Abstracts: WIN 2013 Symposium

July 10-12, 2013 Paris, France

Abstact submission deadline extended till June 5, 2013

The WIN 2013 Symposium is the fifth in an annual series of multi-sector, worldwide Symposia dedicated to the advancement of personalized cancer medicine. The theme of WIN2013, taking place July 10-12, 2013, in Paris, France, is:

“Personalized Cancer Therapy: From Innovation to Implementation”

Join leaders from around the world in a collaborative, global forum to learn about and share innovations that represent the most promising advances in personalized cancer care.

Abstracts within the scope of WIN 2013 are welcome. The REVISED  deadline for online abstract submission is June 5, 2013.

Abstract categories for which abstracts are invited, include:

Biomarkers

Diagnostics

Genetics/genomics

Implementation of tools/technologies

Information systems

Personalized care in clinical practice

Proteomics

Other (within the scope of WIN 2013)

Clinical case histories or observational studies in small series of patients, studies of inadequately identified drugs or technologies are unlikely to be accepted for presentation.

Studies presented or published before, in whole or in part, are not a priori excluded from peer review. However, the inclusion of original data increases the likelihood of acceptance for presentation.

Contact

For all matters regarding the WIN 2013 Symposium, please contact the Symposium Secretariat:

Congress by design
P.O. Box 77
3480 DB Harmelen
The Netherlands

Tel. +31 88 089 8101
Fax +31 88 089 8109
Email: win@congressbydesign.com

Call for Papers: 12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '13)

Deadline extended!

In conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13)

12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '13)

August 11, 2013  Chicago, Illinois

We welcome your excellent submissions to the BIOKDD 2013 workshop to be held at Chicago, IL along with ACM SIGKDD 2013.

The goal of this workshop is to encourage KDD researchers to take on the numerous challenges that Bioinformatics offers. This year, the workshop will feature the theme ofBuilding network and predictive models of biological processes and diseases using complex data. This field focuses on the use of computational approaches, especially from data mining and machine learning, and the large amount and variety of biological data being generated. The goal here is to build accurate predictive or descriptive network models of biological processes and diseases. These approaches have revolutionized the new age biology by enabling novel discoveries in basic biology and diseases like cancer and diabetes, as well as the development of therapeutics.We encourage papers that propose novel data mining techniques for areas including but not limited to:

Building predictive models for complex phenotypes from large-scale biological data

Discovering biological networks and pathways underlying biological processes and diseases

Processing of new/next-generation sequencing (NGS) data for genome structural variation analysis, discovery of biomarkers and mutations, and disease risk assessment

Discovery of genotype-phenotype associations

Novel methods and frameworks for mining and integrating big biological data

Comparative genomics

Metagenome analysis using sequencing data

RNA-seq and microarray-based gene expression analysis

Genome-wide analysis of non-coding RNAs

Genome-wide regulatory motif discovery

Structural bioinformatics

Correlating NGS with proteomics data analysis

Functional annotation of genes and proteins

Chemo-informatics: Drug discovery, Virtual screening and Combinatorial chemistry

Knowledge discovery in clinical data and electronic medical records

Special biological data management techniques

Information visualization techniques for biological data

Semantic webs and ontology-driven biological data integration methods

Privacy and security issues in mining genomic and health databases

Papers should be at most 9 pages long, single-spaced, in font size 10 or larger with one-inch margins on all sides. ACM proceedings format is highly recommended. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through CMT at the following link: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BIOKDD2013

Dates:

May 22nd, 2013 Paper Submission Due

June 14th, 2013  Notification of Acceptance

June 24th, 2013  Camera-ready Paper Due

August 11th, 2013 Workshop Presentation

Call for Papers: 1st Annual International Conference on Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Research (CCMR 2013)

December 9-10, 2013 Singapore

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd August 2013 

The Annual International Conference on Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Research (CCMR) aims to be a platform for researchers, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and educators all over the world to present, share and exchange new medicine studies, research results, research analysis, innovations and advances in dealing with heart disorders or cardiovascular disease. The theme tends to be broad to incorporate the overarching perspective within the field of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Papers/topics dealing with Advances in Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Research including but not limited to:

• Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)

• Arrhythmias

• Atrial Fibrillation

• Cardiac Emergencies

• Cardiac Surgeries

• Cardiomyopathy

• Congenital Heart Disease

• Diagnostic Imaging and Biomarkers

• Genomic Medicine

• Heart & Lung Transplant

• Heart Failure

• Hypertension

• Interventional Cardiology

• Lipids and Cardiovascular Risk Management

• Medical Devices in Cardiology

• Vascular Disease

• Vascular Surgery

• Cardiology

• Cardiovascular Medical Research

• Preventive Cardiology

• Diseases of the Aorta

• Cardiac Tumors

• Cardiac rehabilitation

• Community Cardiology

• Resuscitation

• Disorders of the coronary circulation

• Cardiac Arrest

• Disorders of the myocardium (muscle of the heart)

• Disorders of the pericardium (outer lining of the heart)

• Disorders of the heart valves

• Congenital heart defect

• Diseases of blood vessels (vascular diseases)

• Devices used in cardiology

• Diagnostic tests and procedures

CCMR CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF)
10 Anson Road, International Plaza,
Singapore 079903
DID : +65 6327 0166
Fax : +65 6327 0162

For General Enquiries info@cardioresearch-conf.org

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Abstracts: Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 2013 Annual Meeting

November 14-16, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013

Genomics. Proteomics. Informatics. Optimizing Patient Care.

This three-day event will feature more than 25 hours of cutting-edge sessions, a keynote presentation by the AMP 2013 Award for Excellence Recipient, nearly 400 posters, 150 exhibitors, and countless opportunities to interact directly with your colleagues.

The meeting is preceded by one day of Corporate-Sponsored Workshops featuring the latest scientific advances and instrumentation. Corporate exhibits, lunches, and casual social gatherings offer opportunities for networking and further exchange with molecular laboratory professionals. Plan to arrive early to take advantage of this free event.

A special feature of the meeting is the Molecular Pathology Outreach Course, Current Applications of Molecular Pathology: Real Time Updates and Case Studies, a one-day course for pathologists, laboratory directors and technologists who have little experience with molecular pathology testing. Registration for the Molecular Pathology Outreach Course is separate from registration for the scientific sessions.

Call for Abstracts: EMBO Conference Series Cancer Genomics

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany Sunday 3 November - Tuesday 5 November 2013

Registration deadline: Thursday 19 September 2013

Abstract deadline: Thursday 8 August 2013

Topics

Cancer Genetics
Functional Genomics & Epigenomics of Cancer
Systems Biology & Integrated Analyses of Cancer
Cancer Model Systems & Systems Pharmacology
Translation & Clinical Impact of Cancer Genomics

This conference will provide an opportunity to learn about, and keep up-to-date with, the rapidly progressing area of cancer genomics. It will cover presentations from cancer genome projects, the areas of cancer functional genomics, systems biology, cancer mouse models, and the translation and clinical impact of scientific results obtained. The meeting will bring together leading scientists from across these areas for a unique opportunity to interact and stimulate further integration of these efforts.

European Cancer Genomics research is particularly strong in the Heidelberg area, with three International Cancer Genome Consortium (www.icgc.org) projects being currently pursued with significant participation from Heidelberg institutions, including EMBL. As in our 2011 meeting, a large number of renowned speakers will be invited, with a strong representation of overseas speakers. The atmosphere at the conference will make this an exceptional event with cutting edge science, extensive scientific discussions, and ample possibilities for meetings between and after sessions, to facilitate in-depth discussions and new collaborations.